It occurs to me, i probably should have done these all as one thread, as opposed to one thread per episode. Sorry for the extra clutter on the board, folks.

Alright then, this week's episode is up and running over here.

This go we're taking a look at

The impossible neon level - Killer_king7878
The Insides of a Monster - jjj-20
The Mine of Nueva Talucha - effevu
Four Seasons - I6v6I
Soul Remnance - blackbird31468

Had a really good time with this one; both with the levels, and kitting things together. Hope y'all have the same fun with the watching. One thing i wanted to point out, though. My memory got fudged a bit when i was recording the outro. With Four Seasons, i had the first play and recording that i didn't use, cause loading ate 2and a half minutes of it, the 2nd, which did get used, though dThermo and a lost connection kept me from finishing the level (though that was well past the 3 minute point). The third time i tried, the level had been take down (though it appears it's back up on lbp.me again now). It's a little thing, but the numbers in the level recording and the outro might not match up, is all; i don't want anyone confused. And now, time to get ready to go out. There's still blossoms on the trees, and the weather is actually beautiful for once; rained just about all last week, y'know.

Have a great day, and thanks for all the support!

Great, I will play all those levels.

Thank you waffleking23,

great reviews as always! And I think that its good that you didn't post your reviews in only one thread but in different threads! I'm looking forward to episode 22!

Many greetings, Jürgen^^

Thank you both! Hope you find something to your liking this week. Soul Remnance was the real stand out, but i think they've all got something going for them.

@Jurgen On the one hand, it makes it easier to find particular reviews, but on the other...it makes me nervous when i look in the Review forum and 70% of the posts are from me. Heh, i suppose it is a bit late in the game's life cycle for a vocally active community, though.

Episode 22's in the works as we speak! Would've had it done already, but then i had one idea, and it became two, and so on...next thing i knew, i was hip deep in building a new set.

You are right. I should probably create reviews here. Would be cool.

Beep beep bwa?

Heyo folks, this week's Tuesday Takeaway will be a bit late, i'm still in the midst of getting this Friday's episode ready to go. Murphy's Law has been in full effect this week. We will, definitely, have a Takeaway, it'll just be Wednesday (or, Entropy forbid, Thursday). Sorry for the delay.

Hope you're all having a great day, though!

As an aside, we learned putting in a large enough number of lights will totally tank the frame rate in Create Mode. It's a real pain in the rump.

Beep beedeebee, it's...well, it's the Wednesday Takeaway!

The impossible neon level - Killer_King7878
i ended up appreciating this one a lot more my third time through. Still think it could stand to be a bit speedier, and some of the camera angles are a mite bit janky. There's a lot of cleverness shown in the different properties of the neon blocks, though, and i came to like how clean everything looked. There's a particularly cool set of shattering blocks about 3/4s the way through. One oddity, though, is there's no scoreboard to end the stage, just one of those story stage endboards. i don't quite see the purpose of having so many point bubbles if you can't compare how you've done. Still this is a fun one, and deserves well more plays than it's gotten.

The Insides of a Monster - jjj-20
Playing through again didn't really change my mind much. Still really love the environment, there're all sorts of weird details and animated bits. While similar in theme to Bottom of the Beast, i think it's got a different enough agenda; much more about showing off, with gameplay de-emphasized (though certainly present). Also bees, who doesn't love bees? The dimness is a point against, but perhaps that couldn't have been helped. This one ends on a scoreboard, but given the paucity of points, the storymode endboard may have been a better choice.

The mine of Nueva Talucha - effevu
There's something nice and nostalgic about this one. It may lack a little polish, and you could argue the sets were a bit overlarge; but in the end, it was a fun one. There's a nice variety of gameplay elements, and the revolver ends up getting a good workout by the end. The enemies could stand to be slightly less tanky, but that's not an unforgivable point. Like i said in the video, this one is pretty long, even when you know the badic layout of the level, so you'll want to keep that in mind.

Four Seasons - I6v6I
Did i say the last one was long? 'Cause it ain't got nothin' on Four Seasons. If there were less going on in this one, i'd say it was well too long; and even with all its charm, i was getting a touch antsy by the end. Some of that was loading, though, of which there is a lot of here. Unavoidable, i'm sure, there's no way this one is anything but dThermo, and even with that, all the materials and logic used must have being explodinating the thermo. All that aside, there is an awful lot of great in this one. Charm, great environments, some challenging(ish) gameplay (particularly in Autumn), some nice touches like the homemade loading screens. Give yourself a lot of time and check this one out.

Soul Remnance - blackbird31468
We already gushed about this one in the episode, and if that didn't sell you, i don't know what will. i think you're right, Adder, to say levels need to catch the player pretty quick, and this one really does the job. It's great all round, and should be played.

Ok, that's us for the week. A day late, but hopefully not a dollar short. We've finally got the next episode's intro and levels recorded. i may give the intro a rerecord tonight, though. It took about 3hours of poking at this morning to get most of the kinks out, and then i blew my lines about a dozen times before getting a take that was smoothish. i don't if you'd be able to tell, but i feel like frustration was starting to creep into my delivery.

Thanks for being understanding this week. Hope you're all well, and y'have a great day!

Thank you for sharing! I will try all the levels!

Happy to do it, this has all been a lot of fun for me. i hope you find something that stikes your fancy in this batch, i think we lucked into a pretty good set.

Also, i'd love to see your reviews. Its always good to learn how other folks approach things, and what they look for.

Have a great day

Hi waffleking23, you are the "lbp review man", so its only natural that 70% of the reviews in the forums are from you!

When I played some levels I can create reviews. I think thats great.