Closed Fontaine - Insane

[YOBittu]

Map Name - Fontaine (French for fountain)

Username - YOBittu

Warp - /plot h YOBittu

Difficulty - Insane (Or might be expert, please double check when reviewing)

Jumps - 114

Checkpoints - 4

Images -

 

[GamersDecision]

Hey YOBIttu!
I'm here to give you my review of the map. I am not a map judge and just a casual player who wanted to check out this map. My opinion doesn't affect whether or not this map gets accepted, I'm just trying to give helpful advice. Firstly I think this level is sadly going to be REJECTED and here's why!

The theme of your map is NOT GREAT since there is already a map with the exact same theme. (FountainPK) There might even be more and I might be missing them, but I'm not sure if there are others.

The build of your map is GREAT. It is very well done and appealing to look at. It is much better than the fountain in FountainPK. Good job on that!

The parkour of your map is NOT GREAT. It has slight variation with fences, slabs, stairs but there could be much more variation. Try to implement different jump styles through your whole map. The difficulty does fit the Insane category, but there's a problem with it. The jumps are NOT HARD ENOUGH. The reason this level is difficult is because of the amount of checkpoints. 4 is very low for an Insane map. There's also an exploit in the level that allows you to skip all the way to the top of the fountain, since one of the water streams is not blocked.

I wish you the best of luck in getting your map accepted though! :)

 

[YOBittu]

Alright ok I blocked the two streams, and I made it slightly buffed. But I still don't know what else to include to make the parkour varied. It already has about 15 different parkour elements (iron bars, ice neos, iron trapdoors,etc). Thx again!

 

[GamersDecision]

You could put jumps like these as well!
- Water
- Heads
- Enchantment Tables
- Brewing Stands
- Pistons (but not with redstone mechanics.)
- Doors
- Trapdoors
- Walls
- Fence Gates
- Vines
- Lava (Although not recommended)
- Beds
- Slime Jumps
- Headhitters
- Snow Jumps
And more!

 

[YOBittu]

About 80% of those I have included (except like water and beds). I hope it's varied enough to get accepted

 

[GamersDecision]

During my testing I don't think I saw a single Brewing Stand, Ench Table, Lava block, Snow, Door, Piston or Trapdoor used and if there was then in really low numbers like one jump of each. Either way at least 20% of the level are normal block or slab jumps and that's not good. Maybe I'm wrong. I'm just trying to help!

 

[YOBittu]

I mean 20% of 114 jumps is only 23. For such a big map, there has to be a couple of quads and neos which uses normal block/slabs. Not to mention the easier jumps (like 2 , 3 block jumps or head hitters).

 

[GamersDecision]

Sadly the map judges don't like that! They like levels that have continuous jump variation through the whole level with continuously different jumps!

 

[YOBittu]

Aw ok so there's no hope realistically right?

 

[GamersDecision]

There is hope, but the theme of your map being unoriginal means the map must be very good in other terms, build and parkour. Revisit the parkour and put more jump variation. Again I don't know if it will help the map enough since I am not a map judge but it will surely improve the chances! :)

 

[Presidenten]

I agree with gamers on this one, unoriginal theme but impressive build. Although the build looks pretty boring as it is only made out of 3 different type of blocks.
If you want this accepted I think you should redo parkour from scratch, as it's not varied, a lot of floating jumps and annoying/useless barriers. I also think the parkour is kind of low compared to the build as it ends like halway through on the height.
If you need help redoing the parkour I or maybe some other mapper could always help you. :)

 

[YOBittu]

Alright I'll redo the parkour but I can't change the build as I tried to make this an ancient fountain. If more types of blocks were to be used, then it would have looked messy and not ancient at all.
Also most of the barriers I used were used to block the water drops.
Anyways thx for reviewing! I assume I'll make a new post on this parkour

 

[k_rissy]

Hello YOBittu,

It appears that you have resubmitted this map; for that reason, I will be closing this submission.

Have a nice day,
Kristina