A two word title! Rarity!

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This week we're looking at:

Ruined Fortress - bak3rman_nz
Toggle and the incredible Magnaticator - makeimi
The rose and the residence where time stopped - baile-flamenco
The drawn world - ZitanCarol
Switch Central - peng_10-

It's really weird having a gap week again. i mean, i remember doing the episode, but it's all kind of dreamlike. i guess that'll make the Tuesday replay that much more necessary, though that's not a bad thing at all.
Still, the set's a fun one, and only the Toggle level presented issues, hopefully one of you lovely folks will be able to tell me where i was screwing up there.

Production asides: this one got put together before the PiP conversation, so we won't see the results of that until next week. Also, this may be before i did a second tweaking on the mic, so my voice may be a little soft again, sorry about that. We've got next week's episode in the can, and i'm getting more underway with the week after's set (i'm trying to kit up small pieces that i can use in the future, so it's easier to put things together in the end).

As always, thanks for all the support! It's a ball bringing these out to y'all, and i hope you're finding something interesting and fun. Take care, and have a great day!

Beep beep, Tuesday Takeaway!

Ruined Fortress - bak3rman_nz

My feelings didn't change too much here. The retro-esque, semi-Donkey-Kong-ish game play is fun, the architecture is great. The music is solid, though i don't think the track fits the theme. i still feel bak3rman could've pushed this one just a bit more, and it would be a "finished" level. i did find the lack of point bubbles a bit odd, though.

Toggle and the incredible Magnaticator - makeimi

So...i actually managed to beat this one here and...it really raises an issue that gets on my nerves a bit. So, the bit where i got stuck? Well you could pull the cage open by grabbing on the speaker and pulling. Why would a person even think to do that off-hand? Do people generally yank on speakers? Is that a thing that is done? Ok, i'm half kidding, but really; particularly in super-crufted levels, every extra bit of deco, or detail, will make any new element that much less noticeable as a gameplay element as opposed to more cruft. If something is an obviously grabbable bit, and the player misses it, that's on them; if you need them to grab something that's never otherwise grabbable, and they miss it, that's kind of on you. The rest of the level...i does have a lot of charm, but it is quite long, and i felt my self wanting to see the end of it before the end of it, to be perfectly honest.

The rose and the residence where time stopped - baile-flamenco

This one charmed me from the get-go, and continued to do so everytime i went back to it. Even though playing once will give you the general tools you need to clear all the puzzles, i found my technique refining a bit more each go, so i could get through more efficiently (and more importantly without dying). i loved the weird Jhorror creatures towards the end, though i'm not familiar with Frog Girl. This is a solid example of making a puzzler fun enough to go back to again.

The Drawn World - ZitanCarol

This was a really cool level, that gets tripped up a bit by the hitbox on the power-up tool. The background is, i still think, too bright to get the full effect of what you're doing. All that aside, the third playthrough really made things click for me; enough so that i found myself wishing this had been spun out into a full adventure, 'cause i'd really gotten the hang of the PaintBrush by that point.

Switch Central - peng_10-

This one's a straight-up joy to look at and play through, but it can be really tricky, and a touch frustrating to actually play through. It doesn't help that it's not particularly difficult to break. Even still, i love non-standard uses of common tools, and this is a great example of that.

So...Yeah, except for the Toggle level, not much change. It's a fun set, and all of them are worth a play. Hope you give them a go and find something you like.

Behind the curtain stuff: Principal filming and secondary filming is finished except for the Outro. That, along with the editing, ought to be wrapped up tomorrow (i hope), which will leave us with a for real, for real, completely free Thursday (huzzah!). As a head's up for this Friday's R15F, it got super dinged for copyright, and there's a possibility there may be ads in it. That wasn't by choice on my end, though hopefully it won't come up at all (fingers crossed).

Thanks for all the support and have a great day!