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Level 41: Intro to bombs and fuses

Level 42: Bombs and fuses as a hazard rather than helper

Level 43: Halph with bombs and fuses

Level 44: Intro to tar mothers

Level 45: Tar mother hordes

Level 46: Mimics in tar with mothers

Level 47: Bombs and fuses used to explode tar

Level 48: Halph and tar mother puzzles

Level 49: Intro to goblins

Level 50: Manipulating goblins to kill serpents

Level 51: Goblins and tar

Level 52: Goblins and Halph

Level 53: Intro to mud (no mothers)

Level 54: Mud and black doors

Level 55: Mud and mimics

Level 56: Intro to mud mothers

Level 57: Intro to decoys

Level 58: Tar and roach hordes with decoys

Level 59: More monsters than just roaches and tar, with decoys

Level 60: Decoys and Halph

Level 61: Intro to rattlesnakes

Level 62: Rattlesnakes in combination with more monsters than just roaches and tarstuff

Level 63: Potions and rattlesnakes galore

Level 64: Rattlesnakes and Halph

Level 65: Intro to Seep

Level 66: Dropping doors to kill Seep

Level 67: Seep in combination with complicated puzzles

Level 68: Halph and Seep

Level 69: Slayer and goblins

Level 70: Slayer and rattlesnakes

Level 71: Slayer and Seep

Level 72: Slayer and decoys

Level 73: Intro to brains

Level 74: Tar and roach hordes with brains

Level 75: More complicated puzzles with brains

Level 76: Intro to tar and mud in the same room

Level 77: More complicated puzzles but same theme as 76

Level 78: Requiring you to clear out all the tar and mud in the room

Level 79: Same idea as 78, but with brains

Level 80: The hardest hordes yet

Level 81: Intro to bomb mazes

Level 82: Fuses in bomb mazes; don't step on any!

Level 83: Mimics and bomb mazes

Level 84: Halph and bomb mazes

Level 85: Slayer with brained monsters

Level 86: Slayer with tar and mud

Level 87: Like JtRH level 22, so dodging lots of monsters and coming back to the room after your first visit

Level 88: Slayer and Halph in the same room

Level 89: Manipulating monsters in mazes, like KDD level 19

Level 90: Doors being toggled and opened by other characters than you, mimics or Halph or the Slayer

Level 91: Like TCB Torture Chambers

Level 92: Intro to guards

Level 93: Guards in more complicated setups than level 92

Level 94: Guards and lots of other monsters

Level 95: Guards and the Slayer, like JtRH level 25

Level 96: Intro to more than one Slayer in the room

Level 97: Guards and multiple Slayers; basically an "army" level

Level 98: More tricky setups with lots of Slayers in them

Level 99: The ultimate Slayer army, pure and simple; level 100 will have no Slayers at all however

Level 100: Like JtRH level 24, so the hardest puzzles in the hold especially with lots of tricky hordes

×Level 41: I had a bad time in 1W and 1S1W on my first time through, because I thought you had to make it all the way to the horizontal doors before the bomb closed them. You don't; you just have to make it to the door blocking the orb, and you can stand on that when the bomb goes off and then re-open the horizontal door. So that's entirely on me.

Add checkpoints at (18,13) and (18,23) in both rooms.

Levels 42 and 43: All the fuse timers are really generous, and this feels especially weird when they were quite tight in Level 41. I would honestly suggest cutting all the timers quite a bit.

L42 Entrance and 1S should have a checkpoint by each corner with two queens.

L43 1W is weird. A trapdoor puzzle always takes exactly the same number of moves to solve (unless the player accidentally bumps), so why have a timer? Cut the room, or cut the timer and have it just as a trapdoor puzzle, or maybe add monsters or tar so the room doesn't have a fixed move count.

L43 secret needs a vision token.

Level 44: This is mostly about recognising when a tar blob is in a clearable shape and it's safe to kill the last mother. Absolutely a valid puzzle type, although I was surprised that this is the very first thing you do when introducing tar mothers. Then again, I believe the "one element at a time" structure is mainly included here as a self-imposed restriction and this isn't actually aimed at players who have never seen these elements before. So, no criticism

L44 2S1W challenge is difficult, and I only managed it by clearing all the tar before killing the mother. I don't know if that was the intention.

Level 45 has a lot of similar rooms, but I didn't mind here as they are all pretty quick to play through. Maybe make 1N2W secret so the player has the option to move on a bit sooner? All the western rooms should have a checkpoint inside the large tar blob.

Level 46: Entrance and 1W are fun. I like the way that in both rooms, you can use the mimic to help Beethro slip inside the large tar blob and clear up that way.

1S is not fun and I think it's the worst room in the first 50 levels. You get a second mimic, so there's no danger of the tar blob being unclearable and you can kill the mother straight away -- and then you just have to clear the huge tar blob and there's no interesting decision-making, it's a pure "you know exactly what to do and it will take ages, have fun".

Suggestions for improvement? If the NW mimic potion were removed, so the main puzzle is to get to the SE potion before turn 30, there would at least be a puzzle here. You'd still have to clear up the tar afterwards, so maybe also remove the NW mother and the roach? The result would be a simple room, but one that I'd enjoy a lot more than what you have. Alternatively, if you want to keep tar-clearing as part of the room, make the area smaller or add some bombs or something.

Level 47: I enjoyed these. Add checkpoints next to the bombs in Entrance and 1S.

Level 48 Entrance: Challenge is a bit weird; I don't see how you could use Halph to make the room easier. Is the idea to position him at (20,20) to stop the tar growing there? But you can close that door with the north orb, so there is no real problem.

Overall a fun, easy level.

Possible backtracking issue: L48 Entrance may be unclearable if the player leaves without clearing it. (It is possible to reach all the orbs, but I'm not sure it's possible to beat the timer.) A possible fix would be to add a south exit next to the level start, so that from the east exit you can cross to the south, then restart the room from there.

Level 49: Some cool goblin rooms. I would definitely suggest changes if this were intended for players who've never seen goblins before, but for experienced players, this will be fun.

L49 1E: Clearing all the trapdoors is rather pointless busywork. Either shrink the arena or take out the eye and red door.

Level 50: I enjoyed 1S, because I don't think I've ever had to do this kind of goblin-leading room on orthosquares before, and it was interesting to see how that changed things.

I didn't enjoy the remaining rooms, because they don't change enough, and what Beethro has to do is pretty much exactly the same in all of them. Sure, there are traps to avoid, but they are all to the sides of the road and goblin-pushing is most easily done in a straight line, so the player will be avoiding the traps anyway.

2S is especially pointless, because the player can just drop all the trapdoors before releasing the goblin.

If you want to keep this level concept, I suggest that the rooms should do more to make things different. Some ideas:

* Add gradually more wall tiles so it's harder to get around.
* Add a lot more trapdoors (without a red door). Maybe even have one iteration where the whole area is trapdoors, except for sufficient floor tiles to make sure it's still possible.
* An orb inside the west snake chamber opens access to the east snake chamber. However, to reach the orb you have to step on a fuse end, connected to a bomb that closes a different door in front of the east chamber, so you have a timer to get from one to the other.
* Bomb maze (not very tight, but tight enough that you have to think about what moves are and aren't possible).

×Level 51 Entrance: Good room up to the point of killing the tar mother. I felt that having to clear all the tar was an unwanted burden at this point, but I see there is dialogue for freeing the citizen. Maybe remove the eye, so that freeing the citizen becomes an optional extra?

Level 52 Entrance: Maybe cut one or two groups of goblins as this goes on quite a bit, and once you have the technique down, killing each group is the same.

Level 52 1W: Checkpoint at (24,18).

Level 53 intro text: "unsettlingly" and "familiar" are both misspelled. (L54 as well.)

In general, I enjoyed the mud levels, and appreciated the fact that they mostly showed instances where mud was easier to handle than tar. The exception is of course L53 1N1E, and I didn't even mind that very much as it was rather humorous

Level 54 1E: Since you removed one chamber from L38 1W, should this match? Up to you; it doesn't have to, since mud is quicker to deal with. Add a checkpoint in between the yellow doors in both rooms.

Level 56 1N: Add a checkpoint at (26,14).

Level 56 2N: Remove all checkpoints and add them at (33,7) and (29,3).

Level 56 1N1W: Move (16,26) checkpoint to (20,23). (Could do this in L44 1S1W as well, although it doesn't really matter.)

I enjoyed how this level was much less scary with mud, and the way 1N1W was different: with tar you it was a bad idea to try to clean it all before going for the mother, but with mud it's the right approach.

Level 57: Loved how quick and easy this was!

Level 58: Left the secret for later. In 1S, I appreciated how you left in the option of a simpler solution by stabbing queens with some of the decoys so there's less to clean up with the mimic. The two tar rooms are very similar, but I guess 1W is slightly harder because you have to find decoy positions that cover both the spawn from the tar blobs and from the queens.

Level 59: Very nice puzzles. Haven't managed the challenge.

Level 60: Skipped this challenge as well.

Halph isn't needed in 1W, and I'm honestly not sure how he could be helpful.

In 1S1W, Halph moves three tiles in and then checks for Beethro on the arrows before turning into monster. If Beethro is already past the arrows and never steps on them again, Halph will remain a character and can't be commanded. This doesn't matter as he isn't needed, but it's a bit weird.

×Rattlesnake combat is fun. It's chaotic and unpredictable without being too messy, and they have a tendency to get stuck and make things easier for you.

Level 61 2N: Surprisingly tough, since you have to fully clear the mud before going for the queens (unlike 1N). Getting the snakes stuck in good positions to block off roaches from one side helps a lot. You could change it to trapdoors and red doors like in 1N, but if you do, certainly add a challenge for clearing the mud before killing any queens, because it was very satisfying to pull off.

Level 63: Since 1S and 1E are the same except for the type of potion, having a "don't take the potion" challenge in both rooms is redundant. As I just explained, you could have a challenge shared between the two rooms, or just remove it from one.

I don't get what "Holy Diver" means or how it relates to the room.

Level 64: Rattlesnakes on trapdoors are a very interesting challenge that doesn't come up very often.

Level 65 1S needs more checkpoints. Suggested positions: (5,14), (5,21), (17,21), (17,30), (17,6) and (28,17).

Level 65 1S1E: Fill in (9,19) to (10,25) with wall.

Level 67 Entrance goes on for too long. I suggest removing some of the wall shapes -- maybe remove the top five and fill in the top part of the room with wall?

Level 67 1S1W is very interesting. I didn't use the orb at all -- is that intended?

Level 67 2S is a very nice and surprisingly tricky trapdoor puzzle

Level 67 3S1E needs a couple of checkpoints inside the wall circle.

Level 69 1N1E is very funny. The Slayer and I passed each other in the corridor, and then I had loads of time to kill the snake while he went all the way to the end of the corridor for nothing

Level 69 1S should have more checkpoints, maybe one near each corner?

In general, I did not enjoy Level 69 much -- too chaotic and hard to work out good strategies. Goblins on orthosquares are never fun. 1S1E was very daunting at first, although once I got off to a good start, it wasn't too bad to finish. Still, it took a long time, and I wouldn't complain if you reduced the numbers a bit.

On the plus side, I'm grateful that the rooms on this level have rounded corners to allow the Slayer corner-kill

Level 69 1S1W: Challenge name should have a small w.

The challenge is much easier than the non-challenge It took me a while to spot it, but all you have to do is wait in the entrance, let the goblins come to you, and swing back and forth until only one is left, then go and kill it against a wall -- and as long as you stay next to the entrance, the Slayer will never appear. The non-challenge is really tedious because it comes down to peeling goblins away one at a time and leading them back to the entrance (at least, that's the only reliable killing spot I found, although the Slayer can sometimes help). I would definitely suggest reducing the numbers here.

Level 70: Good fun. Again I appreciated that you allowed killing the Slayer in several rooms. (In any case, rattlesnakes are good at keeping him off your back.)

Level 71 is good, no suggestions.

Level 72 Entrance: Did not enjoy this. I placed the decoy to keep the roaches from the NE queens away while I killed the other queens -- no problem so far. But then to get to the NE queens to kill them, I had to drag roaches away from the pile-up -- the problem being that the Slayer kept interfering and once I'd gotten away from him, the pile-up had built up again. It took me almost 1000 moves to beat this. And then it was very fiddly to get him to open the exit door -- the Slayer is coded to try to open a door if you close one on him, and you've taken advantage of this by having (34,8) open the exit as well, but the problem is that when you're in the "airlock", you can't get far enough away from the Slayer to avoid trigger his short-range combat mode.

I'm not sure what could be changed. I totally appreciate that, while you let me kill the Slayer earlier, at some point you want to test the player with a horde room + Slayer where they can't take the easy option. (I did this in Bubble Wrap as well.) Maybe just move the (36,13) orb a bit further south to help with the final airlock?

Level 72 1E: Going to be honest here, I hated this. I don't know if I missed something else I was meant to do, but what I did was:

* First, get the Slayer onto the door, and without any wisp tiles west of the door, so I could strike the orb without trapping him. Even this part was incredibly fiddly, given the tiny space you have.

* Then get the Slayer to move east so I had time to grab the decoy potion. This pretty much amounts to a magic move sequence, and I felt I had tried every possible combination of moves by the time something worked.

* Cleaning up the eyes was relatively simple.

* Finally, another Slayer airlock -- this one was even harder to get the Slayer to strike the orb! I finally got it by flailing around until something worked, but I have no idea how and I couldn't reproduce what I did.

I don't know what to suggest. I think this room needs serious reworking. Maybe I'll come back to it when I'm less tired, or maybe you can work on it on your own.

Level 72 1S1E: This wasn't as bad. I got most of the goblins stuck on the decoy and peeled them away one by one. The Slayer helped a bit with killing them. The airlock in this room is much friendlier because you have enough space to avoid the Slayer going into short-range defence mode.

Level 72 1S: Finally, a fun room on this level! I positioned the Slayer to make a dead end with the walls, and the snakes kept walking across the wisp and resetting it, so he stayed put as long as I needed.

×Level 73 is very quick and easy, and honestly, this is a really good time for a break Entrance maybe doesn't need quite so many checkpoints....

Level 74 is good clean fun, no criticisms. I appreciated how in 1N, some of the queens are behind black doors so you get to make things easier once you're past the hard part of the room.

Level 75, a bit silly but also good. I especially liked 1N2W.

Level 76 is a nice gentle introduction to tar and mud combined, and goes by much more quickly than the corresponding JtRH level. I appreciated how in 1N, there is only one place you really have to watch for growing tar making the room unclearable, and even that can easily be defused with a tar baby.

Level 77, also good! The mud shapes in 1W look a bit weird at first but they are well designed so that the player doesn't have to worry too much about the room becoming impossible.

Level 78 Entrance: Rooms like this are about two things: killing all the mud mothers quickly, and killing the last tar mother at a time when all remaining tar is clearable. These are both good room concepts, and up to killing the mothers, I have no problem with the room. But cleanup takes way too long. Suggestion for this room: have all the blobs start at 4x4.

L78 1S: Same deal but worse. Leaving a clearable tar blob is a good puzzle; clearing it isn't. Don't add bombs or anything like that because that would spoil the puzzle, but do shrink the room by about 4 rows and 4 columns.

L78 1S1W and 2S1W: These are even worse because there is no puzzle. You just go round the outside to kill all the mud mothers, and then you have a very large blob to clean up with no more decisions to make. Keep only one of these rooms (1S1W is slightly more interesting because of the irregular walls) and make it much smaller.

Level 79 Entrance and 1N1E: Same issue again. These rooms are not interesting to solve (there is a little challenge in getting to the middle mud mother in Entrance) and clean-up goes on way too long. I would honestly suggest completely replacing these rooms, but making the puzzle area much smaller could also work.

L79 1E is much better, a really nice puzzle room

Level 80: This is more like it. I honestly enjoyed all the rooms here, even with the repetition; it helps that each pair of rooms is a distinct easier-then-harder pair.

L80 Entrance: Add checkpoints at (4,8), (4,23), (33,8) and (33,23). Replace the top two rows of the top blobs, and the bottom two rows of the bottom blobs, with walls.

×Levels 81 and 89 intros: "familiar" again

Level 81 2W: Add a checkpoint near the NW corner.

Level 82 1W: Add a checkpoint at (6,14). And this is my new favourite room in this hold You have to have good strategy and tactics to get to the mother while babies/roaches are continuously spawning, and the most direct approach involves creating new spawning spots from the smaller mud blobs, so you have to decide whether to deal with that or take a longer time cutting the blobs away, and neither way is easy. It's true that cleanup takes a while, but that's a necessary evil because if you shrunk the blob any, it would be easier to get at the mothers from the other side. In short, I love this. Please don't change it.

From Level 83 onwards, I haven't completed all rooms and I'm using the editor so I can keep pressing forwards. I will try to go back and clear all rooms (and all secrets and challenges) so I can give full feedback, but don't feel obliged to wait for me.

Level 83 2S is surprisingly tricky and a very nice puzzle! (I did solve this one.)

Level 83 2S2W: (16,12) should be part of the door!

Level 85: Some good horde-fighting fun. I appreciated that we're back to allowing killing or trapping the Slayer; it doesn't trivialise any rooms because you have to thin the queens down a bit to gain the space to do this.

Level 86: Honestly, I enjoyed all the rooms here. It's true that whichever of mud and tar mothers you eliminate first, the other will grow a large blob, but the presence of the Slayer means that clean-up is still tense and engaging. Also, it's neat that you can grow mud around him to keep him off you for a while

Level 87: Similar comments. I find it highly amusing, in 1E, how easily the Slayer can get himself stuck where he can't follow his own wisp because of a bomb. However...

Level 87 1N1E: Only room in the 80s I didn't enjoy. It's not hard to find a place where it's safe to swing back and forth and the seep will all come to you and die, and then it just takes ages. Definitely make this smaller if you want to keep it. Cutting the connection between the large wall island and the NE island would help as well.

Level 89: Suddenly monster mazes? Didn't expect this, but I'm happy! You could have done a little more with needing the player to think about the particular features of each monster's movement (golems getting stuck, wraithwings being able to be pulled or pushed, goblins using Pythagorean distance and avoiding the sword) -- but you did include all of these at least a little and that's great.

Level 90: The character in 1N continually hitting the orbs is a bit annoying. Could make them cracked orbs (I know those didn't exist in JtRH, so I'll understand it if you prefer to remain authentic!) Also, on seeing the room I was expecting him to open each door when I got close -- the fact that he opened all five at once was a hilarious jump scare

×Level 91 Entrance doesn't need so many checkpoints, especially as it's easiest to go around the outside

1E is very quick and easy, and I enjoyed the chaos of 1N1E, where the patrolling guards can often help you.

Guard hordes: I generally enjoy these. Difficulty varies a lot from room to room and that's probably for the better; you get breaks between the tougher rooms so things never get too overwhelming.

L93 1S1W: The challenge is easier than most rooms on Level 92 Not something you need to fix, just amusing.

L94 1S: Very hard but in a good way. The roach horde is too much if you don't kill some queens before the first spawn, so you have to find a way to kill the guards as quickly as possible while moving over to the first queens. Excellent room.

L95 1S1W: I was expecting to have a bad time here, and then I saw that there's no black door

L95 1S2W: Delightfully chaotic.

L95 2S2W: Silly room. There is a good corner-kill spot very close to the entrance (In general, a lot of these rooms let you kill the Slayer, and I appreciated that as a fun extra part of the puzzle.)

Level 96 intro: "defeated" is misspelled.

L96 1N1W: Great room. It looks simple, but you have to know how to lead the Slayers around so you don't get stuck with Slayers on both sides.

L96 1W: The additional Slayers don't spawn if you enter from the west, making the room much easier. You may want to add a green door (or leave it, since solving this room with all the Slayers looks very hard!)

L97 1S: Wow this was tough, but really satisfying to peel apart. Checkpoint at (26,22).