Right then, coming back around again!

https://youtu.be/RCjAeMTQZnM

This time we're having a look at:

Eagle's Egg - ZHAiMR-0101
Sky jump - Nightfall - SaltyCalf12345
Meet the Boulders - mirjanneke
"Antonio's Magic Dimension - goldsackboy
In And Out - DocSilence

Looks like we finally got a mirjanneke level on the show, which is something i'd wanted to do for awhile now, so that's cool. All of the levels were pretty fun this time, which i always appreciate. Hopefully there'll be at least one in there that catches your eye. As always, thanks for all the support, and have a great day!

Behind the Curtains Stuffs
Got a fair whack of work done the last few days. i might have mentioned in the last LBsP post that we're half wrapped up on episode 005, i should be a bit further along on it, but seeing as we got 2 or 3episodes of LBsP done, i'm fairly ok with that. i've been reading through the old run of Hellraiser comics, and that's been nostalgic as heck.  Ahh...aside from all that, yeah, pretty quiet closing out the year it looks.

Great episode!

I have seen that you don't use tags on your videos. You can edit your videos information on your phone after it's uploaded on the PS4.
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I didn't like In and Out. Cool design, nice music, but horrible gameplay for me personally. I don't like it, when the level kills you, because you don't know what happens next. It gets frustrating real quick.

The rest was quite cool for me.
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Hey, you think you could play BWZ3 Beta in a LBsP or R15F after I updated it?

To be honest, i'm not 100% sure what tags do, or how to use them. Are they something that i would want on the video?

i can see where you're coming from with In and Out, and usually i would agree with you. In levels where you're expected to have more control over your movement, i tend to find not knowing what hazards are coming up to be quite annoying. For some reason, these type of levels get a pass for me. Maybe it's the absurdity of dying the same way so many times in rapid succession, maybe it's the idea that you're supposed to die a lot until you memorize the layout, i'm not sure. i don't think i'd want to play that style all the time, but it does amuse me every now and then.

i'd be happy to take a look at BW-beta on LBsP, though it might be a bit, i've got a couple of things on my plate right now. Which one is that, by the way? Is it the one with the zombies? Something completely different?

Thanks as always for all your support, it's meant a lot. Have a great day now!

Just a quick heads up to folks, this week's Tuesday Takeaway will actually be a Wednesday Takeaway. We're going to be heading up to Amanohashidate tomorrow, which should be neat, but is also like three and a half hours from Osaka, so we've got to leave pretty early in the morning.

Hope you all have a good New Year's Day, or at least one with the smallest hangover you'll have this year (which, i suppose could be taken as a blessing or a curse).

Video tags are important for the search algorithm of YouTube. You add tags like 'LBP3' or 'Community Levels' and people who search for that might find your video.
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Yes, it's the Battle with Zombies level. I need to update it though and after that there's green light for you. It doesn't need to be played immediately, but the next few weeks it would be cool.

Have a great time rollin' through Osaka!

That's really good to know about the tags, mdkd! Thanks for the heads up!

Woop woop, Wednesday Takeaway!

Eagle's egg - ZHAiMR-0101

It's solid enough i suppose, but sometimes it feels like a lot of the Swoop levels are hitting the same notes. i suppose there's not an awful lot to do with Swoop, but then i think about DiamondDiancie's Swoop's Dreamland, or Thinga-ma-jig's Swooper. It's not impossible to make a Swoop level that stands out. There's not too much to say about this one, though i still found the environment nice enough (though let's keep our grabbable floor materials non-grabbable, yes?), and the sponge keys still break.

Sky jump - Nightfall - SaltyCalf12345

Every now and then i find one of these blocky environment levels that really work for me like this one. The material choices are well-done, and i like that the focus is kept on gameplay throughout. There's nothing excessively stressful to it, but the pace is nice and smooth, and i never really felt like i'd been stopped in my progress. The music is really nice too. Even through things are simple, i found myself having a really good time even on my...ehh...5th playthrough?

Meet the Boulders - mirjanneke

i'm really glad i finally got to show off one of mir's levels, but i have to be honest and say that this is not my favourite of hers. The pacing is just a touch too sluggish, and the lack of musical change really starts to wear after awhile. Still, it is nice that the characters are differentiated in ability, and the level doesn't lack for charm. It's just too long for me to really feel like going back to again.

"Antonio's Magic Dimension" - goldsackboy

i found myself liking this one a lot more this go around. i'm still a little salty about the constantly changing climbable materials, but generally they're not switching up during potentially lethal set pieces. The environment is a good example of weird, but not truly random, there is a cohesion to how things are put together and presented that i appreciate. The adventure board killed me at the end again, which...i'm not sure what's going on with that. It's not the first time it's come up. Though, this time i did notice that the death actually happens after the results are logged, so the level is completable in a sense.

In and Out - DocSilence

Hmm...this one got picked for Level of the Day today. How...interesting. But pleasing, because i really did like this one. These types of levels really do benefit from a number of replays, and i ended up getting myself to third on the leaderboards, though i was still making some pretty stupid mistakes. The one issue that seemed to come up was the pipes, they really do seem to steal your momentum at times, which can make nailing the following jumps impossible. Don't know if i remembered to mention in the episode, but the music is really good as well.

So, that's the that for episode 004, i guess. Some solid quality this go about. Hope there was a level that stood out for you. Thanks as always for the support, and have a great day!

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Amanohashidate was really cool. i kind of wish my camera wasn't borked, there were a few times where i could see a really nice picture just waiting to be taken. The going-to and coming-back weren't nearly as tiresome as they could have been, because i recently picked up Isaac on the Switch.

Oh Entropy...i picked up Isaac on the Switch. i should probably get my head examined, but it is just too good, and really benefits from being handheld.

Umm...what else? Finally got to watch season one of American Gods (was a really quick localization, as these things usually go). i think i liked it. It's hard to judge fairly, because the book is so close to my heart. For the most part i thought the changes were fairly well handled, but for the switch to Wednesday's plan as revealed in the finale (in the book it seems more, let's whack the New Gods before they whack us). Czernobog was excellent, though very different from how he read in my mind. Anansi was cool too, and i really wish the two of them had gotten more focus. i appreciated the expansion on Laura and Mad Sweeny, and was surprisingly taken with Salim. Will be interested to see how things go in Season two.

Ahh....we will be really busy with finishing up episodes 005 and 006 today and tomorrow. Like, so busy.

Thanks for the hard work, I appreciate it!