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Edit: Please do not play this hold. It is a bit boring and was one of my first holds. The only reason you might be reading this is if you played my other holds and thought they were good.

tokyokid
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Even though this is Vipual's first hold, it is still pretty good! There are quite a few good rooms, with the first level being some of the best! There is a little bit of weird scripting, but the puzzels make up for that. There are also a few new and original ideas, and a few puzzels will make you think just a bit.

This is an above average first hold. Bonus for that. Coming from a beta tester, I give this hold a 3.5 brains, and 7 overall. I'll be looking forward to your second hold!

Beef Row
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Karipto wrote:
My only real complaint is that some rooms have too much checkpoints.

Behold, the phrase never before uttered!

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Banjooie
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The mind boggles.

jbluestein
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A reasonable hold. No story to speak of. But a few puzzles that, while not particularly difficult, are still fun to play.

I give it a 6, with 3.5 brains.

Josh

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Pilchard VIII
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As a beta-tester, I honestly found a lot of bugs with it, but I think Vipul learned quite a lot about scripting from this hold. I also think that it turned out being pretty good for a first hold.
I gave it a 7 with 3 and 1/2 brains. Keep up the good work.

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MeckMeck GRE
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This is a nice hold. It's a good mixture of everything ; different themes, different styles.... It was fun playing and it's definitly one of the slightly better "first-timer" holds. Particulary I liked the scripting... it's well done. What I missed were well placed checkpoints and I also disliked some unfair spots (the goblin attak after the secret room in the last level...).

I think all in all this hold deserves 6(+) points and 3,5 brains.

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Tahnan
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There are a lot of fun rooms in here. And in contrast, there are rooms in which roaches appear at random. I hated those rooms; it made it impossible to plan out a strategy of any sort, and optimizing felt like a matter of pure chance. (I also thought hiding orbs under NPCs was a little, well, mean.)

So not unflawed; but with rooms (e.g. V3: 1S) that were quite nice.

cbemom
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As an somewhat less than average ability player, I found this hold to be interesting and rather play-able. However, there were several rooms that really needed checkpoints. The last four rooms where a pain in the backside to play several times.

I don't worry about optimizing, so found the "appear out of nowhere" roaches a great part of the puzzles, though I almost wore out my backspace key!

I will look for your other holds to play.

Sillyman
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You know what? I just realized something about the title of this hack... wait, did I just actually type hack? I meant hold. Funny coincidence, since VIP is also the name of a SMW romhack made by 2ch. Which may itself just be coincidence, but ah well.

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Sillyman
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Really? Lol indeed. Well, carry on then.

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