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This is a puzzle-oriented hold, with most rooms involving monster manipulation. It has three levels, with a total of about 35 rooms. Fairly difficult in places. No story.

JtRH v2.0.11 or higher is required.

zex20913
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This hold is currently making my head hurt. But I'm reaping the #1s, so it's okay.

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Syntax
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Must admit zex, you're getting a hell of a lot harder to beat

Great hold so far... though I'm still hovering between the 1st and 2nd room trying to shave some moves off.

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[Last edited by Syntax at 07-22-2006 02:55 AM]

zex20913
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After observing you guys' demos (michthro, Rabscuttle, Syntax), is it any wonder?

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Tahnan
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So confused...why do the first two rooms of the prologue not have high scores?

BoyBlue
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I'm definitely going to have to update this hold, because the last major room -- L3:3S1W -- has an serious error that negates its whole point. I apologize to the at-least-two people who've solved it already.

BoyBlue
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Tahnan wrote:
...why do the first two rooms of the prologue not have high scores?

Because I marked them as not high-scorable. I assume those aren't the rooms Syntax was referring to.

Syntax
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BoyBlue wrote:

Tahnan wrote:
...why do the first two rooms of the prologue not have high scores?

Because I marked them as not high-scorable. I assume those aren't the rooms Syntax was referring to.

You're absolutely right... I was hovering between the 2 first scorable rooms.

Remlin
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I'm liking this hold a lot. Or at least, the half of it I've been able to do so far. Very creative rooms!

Syntax
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Couldn't agree more

I tend to switch a lot between holds, especially after a hellish day a work when an easier hold is required, but yeah, I'm more than happy spending time on this one. I'll update once it's completed but so far it's an 8-8. This also a brilliant sequel to "Spare Rooms"...

Watch out larrymurk

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[Last edited by Syntax at 07-25-2006 09:56 PM]

larrymurk
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Syntax wrote:
This also a brilliant sequel to "Spare Rooms"...

Watch out larrymurk

Hey, I couldn't agree more. This is a great hold. I wish more people would make thoughtful, challenging puzzles like this! I'll comment more when I complete it.

larrymurk
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Finally done!

Great job, great puzzles, great hold!!


I love this style of puzzles. The architect (kid blue) designs each room around a unique interesting concept. He generally makes the rooms very clean so you can concentrate on solving the puzzle instead of examining extra room contours or killing a hundred monsters first.

Some tough rooms. I thank the help gods on L2:4N3W and the L3:EXIT rooms. A fun hold to play and you'll come away with some new tricks up your sleeve for the effort.

jbluestein
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Just conquered this excellent and difficult hold. Great use of elements to create new puzzles (although I thank larrymurk's recent hold for teaching me a few things that made certain rooms here easier to solve.

At this point, though, the score is Secret Rooms: a lot, Me: zero

I've managed to find the secret rooms in the Prologue and Epilogue, but I can't even find the ones on the second level. I must be missing something really obvious, but I can't see it at all. Can anyone throw me a bone?

(This of course says nothing about actually solving any of these rooms -- I've had zero luck there as of yet.)

Josh


[EDIT: By the way, the hold gets a 9 and 8 brains from me.]
[Re-EDIT: Found 'em all. Just have to solve them now. Two down, three to go.]


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captainzakku
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And finally done. That was definitely a challenging hold, I don't really know where to start with the comments. There were so many different types of puzzles. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think every type of game element, with the exception of the slayer, was used at least once. And used well!

[edit:I am wrong, make that slayers and spiders]

Some of my favorite rooms:
L1 Secret Room (6 mimics)

L2 Secret Room (the one with all the decoys)
There were a number of rooms that required tricky guard manipulation, which I thought gave the entire hold a neat theme.
Anyway, fun, challenging hold. Nice job.

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Jatopian
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captainzakku wrote:
And finally done. That was definitely a challenging hold, I don't really know where to start with the comments. There were so many different types of puzzles. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think every type of game element, with the exception of the slayer, was used at least once. And used well!

[edit:I am wrong, make that slayers and spiders]

You mean there's Halph?

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Neather2
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Amazing! Great hold! I give it 10 with 9 brains

Good job, BoyBlue!

-Neather2, Bye!

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tima
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@Holdmaker: You, sir, are a genius. This hold is brilliant. I enjoyed every minute of it.
Rock on!