Marble Zone by fawfulfan, 1/10
Almost unplayable garbage. The first part was utterly boring hallway running, oh switch *bop* An outside part. Another switch? Bop, pool of lava comes out of nowhere, taken by complete surprise, miss the barrels, die horribly inside lava. Second try, I instinctively find the barrels, oh, a spring platform, springed, found where to go, forwarded toward it but I missed it, hurt on lava, fall to ground, die again. Try again, make the platform, the barrels defy the laws of physics and go through the platform I was standing on, and another spring up, do it, miss it again, fall down, and game over. I got frustrated and on my continue I just cheated it and flew up there with Tails. =P
Get the starpost, continue, heh a zoom tube loop, nice touch there. But from there on that part was kinda shocking, I managed to skip those slow vertically moving FOFs with Super Sonic, and the very fast FOF was almost impossible to time it correctly and I almost died trying to. But I managed it and then I went through the hole into the room. Wait, what the hell? I just died, like you intentionally placed an instant kill sector there (did you?) So when I got back up to there, I thoked through there and entered the room.
An empty room with a whole load of barrels, this reminded me of the lava fall in the first part. But there was no lava. Nothing was happening. So I just ran around everywhere trying to find a linedef executor that would trigger it. I did. The lava came out of nowhere and it started filling up quicker than I could get to the barrels. I died AGAIN. So, back there now, I was prepared for it, and passed it, and continued. Heh, new enemy, another plus. I thought the Marble crusher was pretty well made, and it didn't lag for me at all because I was playing it in OpenGL. Anyways, after that I got out of that part and then a random enemy that I couldn't see shot me and I got another game over, and I got frustrated and turned the game off because I didn't feel like playing through that crap again.
Yeah, it's that bad. =P This is not how a level should be. The textures, loop, crusher and the enemy were the ONLY decent to good things I could find about the level. Even though I didn't finish the level, after what I gave it I think I don't need to go through and finish it and all I need to say now is go and rethink this stage, it has HUGE and pretty glaring flaws that need to be sorted out ASAP.