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Me entering Temporal Anomaly: ... I know this. Thematic and artful architecture. Is it Jutt? Hmm, no much symmetry though. Oneiromancer? ... Wait, it's a new style as well. OMG it's zch and/or Kallor!!! (I might be wrong, haven't seen the credits yet) :p

And it's looking to be my favorite level yet! I was skeptical to the Temporal Split at first, but getting to fight beside friends visible only inside your own brain has turned out to be great fun!

What are your favorite TSS levels and why?

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As I mentioned previously, My favorite is Rooted Hub. I enjoyed the hilarious character of Arky, and also I love bosses, So I loved the Gentryii trap, even if it was easy.

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Temporal Anomaly - The first use of the awesome Caldera style, which has the best style music in the game, and amazing graphics that give the level an otherworldly atmosphere. It is certainly Zch and Kallor; their skill with minimap art gives that away. And although it's a large step up in difficulty, the temporal split token puzzles turned out to be enormous fun and very satisfying to solve.

Experiment of Ages - This level was excruciatingly hard for me when I first encountered it, but again, getting to the end gave a wonderful feeling of "I can actually do this!" The voice acting of the characters in this level is excellent, and the final cutscene uses one of my favourites of Emmett's pieces.

Lemming Beach - They made a tribute to Lemmings, which was one of the games that defined my childhood. That was so touching. And the puzzles are excellent; in particular, that one room everyone gets stuck in, which might be the best puzzle in the game.

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I've not fully explored the optional levels, but I think Temporal Anomaly was probably the best designed level in the game. I liked Shattered Mine too. My favourite new elements were Fluff, Lemmings & Flowers, it's a shame the latter two were seen so briefly.

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In retrospective, Arcane Laboratory was more fun than I thought.

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Temporal Anomaly was amazing. As was Security Gates. And Ore Refinery.

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For me, it would be:

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I encountered Temporal Anomaly for the first time today and wow, what a level. I was simply blown away. The look of the level in terms of both tileset and mini-map are so awesome. Almost every puzzle had me start off thinking "no way, surely I'm not gonna be expected to pull that off" only to find in practice that it wasn't too tricky and a lot of fun. The secret room where was particularly satisfying. The whole level was an excellent blend of a simple concepts needing some tactical finesse but not overly complex or overwhelming and seeing everything come together makes you feel like a total badass.

Great stuff. I love time chappies.

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Time chappies! I love it

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Kieran,

I couldn't agree more: it's amazing watching you and your temporal buddies all working in concert, sometimes chopping at empty space, to achieve the goal.

But there's more .....

After you've watched your own genius 900 move solution, involving waiting around for many moves at strategic points use F6 to have a quick peek at the people who can really play: WHOA! how can Amelia do it in a quarter of my moves?

Those minimal solutions twist my head even more, because the temporal chappies chop away at nothing, then later there are baddies right there to kill.

I haven't come up with a way of thinking like that about these levels - maybe it will come.

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Temporal Anomaly is the place where DROD has changed substantially for me: it's so different to be effectively programming your character to face enemies not visible as you define the program.

I'm really interested to hear from the dev team (part of some post-mortem stuff I guess) about the development and tuning of this feature.

And I echo the comment I've seen a few times here; solving these levels makes me feel so smart!

I found myself wondering about a new breed of DROD puzzle: you get to build a fighter in a workshop, defining how your fighter will respond given certain situtions - they you deploy your fighter into the room - then you stand back and watch helplessly as your fighter faces the foes.

I guess I have to go and give SpaceChem a whirl don't I? I've been frightened to do it because it might suck up cycles I badly need for DROD.


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Temporal Anomaly has, so far, broken my brain.

I've done about half of the rooms but each one is costing me just a little bit more sanity. I feel like I'm in a game of Call of Cthulhu instead of playing a video game in my basement.

(After the last one, I had to switch to Gunthro and the Epic Blunder for a less frenetic pace...)

But...amazing puzzles!

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I think the soundtrack is what got me through that one.

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Dischorran wrote:
I think the soundtrack is what got me through that one.

Not to mention H&S

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