Other Dream

Good day everyone!



Danivador here, I randomly look up new adventure maps and test them to be able to give an honest opinion about them, and help creators.



Warning for other people in the comment section! This critique contains spoilers from the map!




I played your map, and I have mixed emotions.
- The idea is great, I like mysterious maps that try to confuse the player with unique features and stories.
- The design was good too, the simple black and white color mix is still interesting after a lot similar maps and games.
The way the path appears before the player is also interesting, you never see what you step on, only when you're already on it.
- The puzzles were also pretty good, I liked the one where you had to watch a youtube video and use the code to open the door, the anti-dropper part was also interesting.
- However the beginning was very confusing (at least it was for me), I struggled with the parkour part for almost 10 minutes, and even had to disable the resource pack to understand what's going on. It wasn't bad, but when the little lights gone out I fell down a lot of times, and it was annoying because I always had to wait out the transition before the parkour course.
- The door labyrinth part was also a little strange, I found the exit, but it was just luck, I was unsuccesful understanding the mechanic, but it can be my mistake, I'm not used to logical maps.
- The weakest point in my opinion was the ending. The story finally started to kick in, and then bamm, it's over. I'm not saying that making 2 separate parts for a map is a bad thing, but the timing wasn't the best here. The ending just felt so anticlimactic in this situation, we barely even got introduced to the story, and it already ended. It also felt a little short this way, I feel like that the map was a little rushed at the end, because the creator wanted it to go online, and this is what happened because of it.

Still, it was a very interesting map, and enjoyable to play, not super great, but I liked it. I hope that this constructive criticism will help you, and I also hope that you won't find it offensive, my goal was to assist you.
If I have to rate the map in this current state, then I would say it's a 6.5/10.
If it was a little longer, and more story was added then it would be a 7.5 or 8 out of 10.

This is it, thank you for reading, and I hope that it'll help you.

Have a nice day everyone!

- Danivador out