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Author Name:Silver
Submitted By:Red-XIII
Hold Name:Fortress of Death
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Number of Levels:32
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I'm not sure about difficulty since is not constant. The first levels are 1 difficulty but the last ones are pretty hard than KDD but I'll let you judge.
09-18-2012 at 03:28 AM
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compled.

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difficulty 5

6 fun
09-18-2012 at 04:18 PM
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I see :) I'll try my best to prevent these things in my future holds.

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09-18-2012 at 04:29 PM
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I haven't played much of this myself yet, but word on the street is that it's an accessible hold with plenty of rooms to get novice players on the high score board, which is nice, and it's by a new architect, which is always nice too. DROD stalwarts might find its emphasis on quantity (especially of trapdoors...) to lean towards the tedious, but we can't have everything, can we?

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09-18-2012 at 09:45 PM
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Dischorran wrote:
I haven't played much of this myself yet, but word on the street is that it's an accessible hold with plenty of rooms to get novice players on the high score board, which is nice, and it's by a new architect, which is always nice too. DROD stalwarts might find its emphasis on quantity (especially of trapdoors...) to lean towards the tedious, but we can't have everything, can we?

You are totally right! My main purpose is the one you said. The bad thing about this hold is that it might be annoying after a while. This is because i built it 4 years ago and my mind was limited. I assure you that my future holds will be more mature :D meanwhile newbie might have fun learning all the basilar puzzles of drod :)

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09-18-2012 at 11:38 PM
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A decent hold by a new architect. It's massive: took me 10 hours and 14 minutes to finish it (that's about 1.75 minutes a room - yes, I counted).

The first rooms of this hold aren't particularly hard or interesting, and most people have seem them in one variation or another before. Luckily, we get away from the easy stuff and find some more interesting stuff. I enjoyed lots of rooms in this hold. Unfortunately, it's often surrounded by plenty of trivial or copy-cat rooms of ones earlier in the hold.

The aesthetics were pretty good, the scrolls/level descriptions were good and the hold was fun to play.

Several rooms suffer from a lack of checkpoints, which artifically increases the difficulty while decreasing the fun. Not fun. Remember...it's hard to have too many checkpoints in a room, advice which I have already taken to heart.

Many rooms are of the trapdoor variety which got tiring after a while. Several of them feature trapdoors/walls under tar. This problem would be terrible if this were a TCB or later hold. But since this is an AE hold, I can let this one slide (I did it without translucent tar, and it's nowhere near as frustrating as Level 11 KDD).

There are about a dozen US's here, many of them completely breaking rooms. I'm not sure how they made it into the final hold.

So, in conclusion, a great first effort by the architect, and I look forward to any other holds they have in store.

5 difficulty
7 fun

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09-19-2012 at 02:32 AM
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Wow, first of all thanks for giving so many comments I really appreciated it and I'll take all of your advice!
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Well if you liked this then I hope you'll like also my future holds :)

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09-19-2012 at 09:48 AM
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You can wake up the eyes before dropping the red door and without using the mimic. The arrow traps are not a problem, as you can just simply kill the eyes standing on them and exit the room,
09-19-2012 at 01:32 PM
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You can wake up the eyes before dropping the red door and without using the mimic. The arrow traps are not a problem, as you can just simply kill the eyes standing on them and exit the room,
Oh that's right :) well now I can only hope that players don't see this solution, but US's are part of the game so I Don't really care too much :)

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09-19-2012 at 04:26 PM
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Not sure I have much new to say.

This is quite a big hold.

There were soooooooooo many trap doors. Sometimes it seemed like more and more trap doors were there just to be annoying. Otherwise, I thought the hold was reasonable.

Fine effort for your first hold!
09-24-2012 at 02:22 PM
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Not sure I have much new to say.

This is quite a big hold.

There were soooooooooo many trap doors. Sometimes it seemed like more and more trap doors were there just to be annoying. Otherwise, I thought the hold was reasonable.

Fine effort for your first hold!

Thanks for playing it :)
And about trapdoors you're right, I'll be more careful in the future!

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09-24-2012 at 03:15 PM
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Okay, I will start with the caveat that this is the architect's first hold, and that I imagine their later holds will get better (I'm actually going to play another of their holds next).

I'm afraid I did not enjoy this hold much - it was way too long, had too many trapdoor puzzles (and "hidden under tar" puzzles), and didn't really contain any original puzzles. I also got the feeling that the architect knew this based on the level description text for level 25 (not sure whether this was ironic, or self-deprecating, or something else!)

There is also so much repetition of ideas that it leads to saturation (eg. KDD's infamous Level 13: 1S2W trapdoor-orb puzzle makes an appearance but then gets repeated so many times it just gets tiresome).

The hold is initially easy, but I thought the difficulty ramped up once you got to the brained levels, although again, there was repetition of ideas (particularly the inaccessible spawning roach queens theme).

Having said all this, there were a few rooms which did show signs of promise (and as I mentioned previously, I haven't played any of the other holds by this architect so will have to give them the benefit of the doubt), but this hold would have been much better if it had been a lot smaller with all the best ideas distilled into fewer rooms.

Unless you're a high-score hound, I would recommend you give this hold a miss.

My Rating:

Difficulty: 5
Fun: 3

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I really didn't know that people still did holds for DROD AE in 2012. I'm quite amazed.

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