ASfAEe (Average Sonic fan vs Average Eggman enjoyer) 1.3.2

mod's fun and the levels are really neat but you shouldve added time emblems, with all the shortcuts that are in the level it would be neat i think

The levels themselves are great. The only issue imo is the difficulty spike at map 18 - Even small mistakes drop you to the point where victory can be just out of grasp because of a crusher. Although likely just me being bad at that regard.

Map 20... is just a kaizo troll map, to be honest. I can't put it any other way.
I tried doing map 20's hard route as fast I could cover it, but Tails' 8 second long flight was never enough (ascending and then instantly descending was a must or the ceiling or bottom poison would be leading to a death). I'll admit I looked at the map in SLADE, and... That's about 23 seconds of flight in the same narrow hall (way beyond what Tails can last, even with maximum speed, cannot reach about 2/4th).
Considering the large "LMAO" spelled at the end via floor tiles, I'm guessing that is meant to be intentionally undoable without cheesing it...

Besides those 4 hours of utter pain I'm never getting back, I'd argue this is a great pack. The pacing is just a little off at times.

my problems are fixed it's a decent mod . i wish it had customcharacter patch. some sonic stages need some rework.

This map pack seems to jump between a fun, fairly easy experience and a sudden difficulty spike to kaizo-level traps that are nothing but trial and error. The longer it goes on, the bigger these dips and spikes in difficulty get. One level will be easy going, then it'll suddenly crank up the difficulty and drain your lives. I'm convinced map 20 wasn't meant to be beaten by a human, at least on the "secret" route. Sure, I'm weak, whatever, but I'm not gonna waste my time going for a secret level when the design of the levels directly punishes and hates me. Some segments I could mercifully find a way around (those narrow platforms in map 19 for example, you can spindash jump to a small path on the left wall), but for the ones I couldn't, it was just a matter of dying to a trap, retrying, getting past that trap, then dying to the next trap. Rinse and repeat until you can manage to brute force your way to the end.

That said, there's a lot to like for the good parts. When the maps are good, they're very fun, and visually they look pretty good as well. The cutscenes were good for a laugh or two. Bit surprised there were no emblems in this mod, though I found several places where a green grayed out emblem was hovering in place. I actually didn't mind being forced to switch between all 3 characters for different levels, though quite often when faced with kaizo-like challenges I'd wished I could choose my own character. The lack of being able to pick Amy/Fang/Metal kinda hurts too.

The mod's overall a good experience, but the levels towards the end where you're hit with beginner traps and trial and error challenges are infuriating. I think it can have its place in unlockable maps, but for main campaign levels, some of this stuff is discouraging. If the difficulty curve could be smoothed out, I think this is a pretty solid level pack.

when i tried playing, it gave me the messege of "makeviamapthings: slope vertex 0 (for linedef tag 1010) not found "

Extremely fluctuating quality. The levels get alot better starting with Sirena Beach(map 7). Those levels alone make the pack worth loading, though it eventually falls off with cheap difficulty and undeserved instant kills.

You clearly improved alot overtime. I'd suggest going back to this pack's first level to make a good first impression, as first impressions can color how open people are to whatever follows.

For difficulty, I'd focus on improving conveyance when there's danger. If there's pits/instant kills, make sure people can clearly identify them even when moving fast. As dev you always approach your maps with full veteran knowledge of what comes next, but others have to use their eyes and make sense of things first.

Also, add more checkpoints to diminish frustration. You cannot go overboard here, more is always better.

Lastly...maybe consider adding a command to turn off the ForceSkin, or at least allow people to switch afterwards.

new game doesn't work

One of the most needlessly difficult levelpacks I've ever played.

Nothing in this pack is too bad until you get to level 18, then it's all downhill. When I encountered cycle based instant kill obstacles in a level on a strict timer... I hoped it was just a difficulty spike. I was wrong. Level 20 is suddenly kaizo difficulty without enough checkpoints to ease the pain of redoing the same section over and over. Taking the easy path even calls you weak.

I haven't beat every level yet but I like it...I love square city!

It would be nice to have non-timed versions of the timed levels so that it's possible to practice, followed by a timed version ... that's just my preference though

I really enjoyed this level pack!!

Some of the difficulty spikes were jarring and I experienced multiple game overs trying to beat certain stages, either due to difficulty or to (in my opinion) confusing level design.

Early levels are not really substantial and I would say do not really give the right impression of the level pack? It REALLY picks up later on though, having you play through a number of vast levels in different genres (the button hunt was unexpectedly enjoyable, even though i never figured out how to cross the giant body of water and had to use an enemy to bounce there). You get challenged in multiple unique ways, yet sometimes it feels unfair (metal sonic just went underground after being like 2 hits away which made me really sad).

Overall, this was just really fun I love fun levels thats why this level pack is cool

This level pack has some of the most irritating and frustrating levels I've ever seen. Half of the levels contain annoying obstacles such as jumps with extremely low ceilings, needlessly long tails flight challenges with no checkpoints or levels under absurdly strict time limits.

The other half of the levels are empty and brainless, often featuring long stretches of more or less flat ground with comically long ring trails, not to mention the handful of occasions where tails can simply fly over almost entire levels (which would be less of a problem if the map wasn't forcing you to play as tails anyways)

Still, despite my frustrations, I feel as if the creator has potential, there are a few good looking areas around the middle levels of the pack, and there are some inventive ideas on display (even if they end up more exhausting in execution).

Overall I feel as if the pack would have benefited from more of a "quality over quantity" approach. If there were about half as many levels, but they were adjusted to be less frustrating and more substantial, then perhaps the pack as a whole would have turned out better.

random difficulty spike out of nowhere with the 3rd stage but otherwise a very enjoyable and comedic adventure

This wad ignores much of what the SRB2 community at large considers "good", but ultimately proves that you don't have to be conventional to make a good levelpack. It uses its linear level design, forced character switching, and occasional time limits to provide highly focused challenges that force the player to adjust their approach. Despite how tight and deliberate this wad is, it never oversteps into kaizo territory; if you've mastered the vanilla campaign and are good enough with the 3 base characters, you can probably handle ASfAEe.

That said, not all levels here are winners; there's multiple of these weird open intermission levels that have a bunch of irrelevant stuff littered around a pathetically easy path to the goal. I'd think these are here for hidden emblems, but there are no collectible emblems in this wad (despite multiple intangible ones being scattered throughout the stages for whatever reason). Beyond those, there's multiple levels that feel too easy or too hard for their point in the game, or are just plain baffling (was Rerun Site really necessary?), and even levels I consider good suffer from oddities like arbitrarily excessive amount of rings and monitors. Specifically regarding Final Judgement, golden monitors exist for a reason. If you want to make sure the player has access to a specific power-up, put down one of them in a golden monitor, not 20 or so in regular monitors.

ASfAEe didn't blow me away, but it gave me a fair and unique challenge and made me consider if this community really has level design down to a science, or if it's just found its comfort zone.

This is Amazing in either way, even though the levels can be struggling, just remember to take your time before doing one of those impossible jumps, which it can take a few tries before making it through the jump, not to mention the transition between the characters as the levels go by, which is the reason why it made this addon unique, and fun.