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Old 02-11-2003, 01:11 AM
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Re: Playerworld Review: Cynical

Interesting review CyberX although I don't think you spent much time there to give it a thorough review. I'll give my short review

Levels: 4/10
The levels are highly over-rated in my opinion. There are lots of tile errors all over the place, and the tileset works only for levels starting with cyn. So when you are walking your tileset is constantly changing from default to normal.

NPC's: 5/10
Most npc's on Cynical I have zipped up on my computer. A good portion of them came from !booJ's old website he ran and just about anyone who played in the past 1 1/2 years that browses graal fansites probably have seen/downloaded them. So far from what I've seen nothing new npcwise. I still have a lot of exploring to do so there could possibly be new stuff.

Creativity : 2/10
Not much is actually new. I do like the window for the hats. I've seen something similar to it on I think Andor or Divided Kingdoms. (one of them p2p servers). The cheese game was interesting and challenging, although I think I have seen it somewhere before.

Quests: 1/10
The quests that I found were annoying. You guys have a riddle quest made by Acid Telvecho that used to be on N-Pulse. I don't really like riddle quests, but what made it stood out was the fact that it was already on another playerworld in the past.

There was a volcano quest for a hammer that I found really annoying. There was explosions all over, and a few paths were blocked to where you had no way of maneuviring yourself to keep from getting hit. So it was a good chance that you would be kill a few times if you were low on health.

There was another quest that was a carry the pot to the door type quest. I didn't waste my tim with it. I lagged my way through to get to the next room... err correction the door linked to the same room, just to the opposite side. The entrance to this quest was weird as well. A part of the tree I passed by was chopped off so it looked to me like a tile error. The first tie I passed by I thought it was just that because there were numerous tile errors all over the place. I found out it led to a quest when a fellow guild member told me to go through it. This quest was similar to 2 other pot maze quests. (i don't like pot maze quests!!! :grrr: )

Storyline: 7.5
there was none so you get default score.

I still haven't played the entire playerworld so this score is pretty low. If I got through more of it then I would probably have given it a higher score.

Total for a partial review: 19.5/50

Recommendations:
Take full advantage of your scripting abilities when making quests. Don't just get a quest and slap it somewhere with no thought. If things were a bit more organized it would definitely have gotten a better score. This score pretty much gives you my impression of the playerworld. I may pop up once in a while to pk Deek and other old buddies of mine.
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