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Holds:
Ouroboros
Chronometry Confusion
Deadly Square of Death
For the Sake of Succulent Burgers
Collection
Officially Corrupt

Let's Plays:

Journey to Rooted Hold
DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale (Second Half)
...She'll Carry a Really Big Sword

×Level 1 1S: I think you already cut one pair of orbs, but you could cut another pair, since the back-and-forth is tedious and this isn't making the best first impression.

Level 3 1W: Reduce the number of roaches. I know in my first feedback post I said I enjoyed Level 3, but that was before you added the challenges, and this one requires luring the roaches over the middle wall a few at a time and the process goes on for ages. I'm not saying you should cut the challenge -- it is an interesting puzzle to find the correct sword direction and best hiding-place. Just shorten it a little bit.

Level 4 2S: This could do with slightly fewer roaches, as the challenge is a bit of a magic move sequence.

Level 4 1W: For a secret, this is weirdly easy as you just have to hide in the gap between the tunnels. It would be more interesting if you had to fight the roaches out in the open, but there are too many for that.

Level 5 1N1W: Cut the room entirely. This is too similar to the other rooms on the level, and 1W and 1S1E are much more interesting than this one.

Level 5 1E: The last two chambers don't add anything interesting to the room, since they are entirely separated and you can finish the first two chambers, then go to the last two -- by which time a lot of roaches will have built up that you have to swing back and forth to clear. Suggestion: remove the NE chamber entirely, remove the long NW path, and connect the second and third chambers at (14,14) instead.

Level 6 Entrance: Suggestion: replace this room entirely and introduce Halph's door-opening with a puzzle where you have to use Halph to help you get to some single roaches. We've just had a queen horde level so it would be nice to have a small break.

Level 9 2N: I still believe that requiring the Slayer wall kill is too much, even for a challenge. It wasn't discovered to be possible until years after JtRH was released, to give you an idea of how difficult the trick is. Sure, anyone can look up how to do it, but then the player isn't challenging themselves....

Level 10 1S: Add challenge: Clear the room with the Slayer alive and not trapped.

Level 12 2S1E: I could only clear this by hiding at (17,5) until Halph cleared his path. Is that the intended solution?

×Level 13: This one is a really good illustration of what mauve said above. The general idea is the same in all the rooms, but they have very different layouts and that means they have different strategies and different moment-to-moment decision-making. It also helps that the level is very short and quick to finish. I like this one a lot.

Level 14: This is much less good, because the three north rooms feel like playing the same room three times, and to a lesser extent, so do the west/east pair. You wanted specific suggestions, but I don't think there is a single right solution -- instead I'm going to offer several suggestions and you can choose the one you like best.

* Simplest but most drastic is to cut two of the north rooms.
* Alternatively, you could cut two of these rooms and replace them with new rooms -- either similarly themed but with different layouts, or something more linchpinny (for instance, having to use a wraithwing to block a queen's spawn, or a situation where it's not easy to find the spot where it's possible to kill a wraithwing). This suggestion would be the most work, which you probably don't want at this point.
* If you want to work with the existing rooms, a way to make them more different from each other is to concentrate harder on the features that are more different. 1N1E could have more wraithwings (it doesn't even really need the queens) and the orb could be in the middle. 1N1W could have a spawning queen or two in the middle.
* Or you could leave things In the end two rooms is not a big deal, and these ones also go by very quick.

Level 15 Entrance: Add a checkpoint on each side outside the trapdoor formation.

Level 15: Recommend that 3N1W should be moved to a secret, as this level is already more laborious than previous ones due to the trapdoor-dropping (not in a bad way, though) and this room can catch the player out and make them start over if they didn't realise that because of the tunnels, you have to do the north part first.

Level 16: Not my favourite but harmless enough. No suggestions.

Level 17: No suggestions, but I just wanted to note that 1E is a very nice linchpin room, the best one so far

Level 18: It's a bit repetitive, but the difficulty does ramp up, and "do this, then do a harder version" is much more acceptable than "do this, then do the same again".

Level 19: Maybe make 1N1W secret? It's much harder than the other rooms and could be annoying -- but it was satisfying to beat, so I don't want you to change it or take it out. I enjoyed this level a lot, especially untangling 2N, and getting the right setup for 2N1E. Slayer + wubbas didn't get explored much in JtRH, so this is new and interesting.

Level 20: Easier level and a good time for one. No suggestions. I particularly liked 1N1W, a very strong linchpin room.

Level 21 1E: Move 18,11 checkpoint to 21,11. Otherwise, really nice level.

Level 22: I enjoyed this one a lot -- it's quirky and fun. I'm glad you took my earlier suggestion to add checkpoints in row 3, but I think you went a little overboard Maybe take out about half?

Level 23 2N: Add checkpoints at 7,6 and 7,23. No other suggestions.

Level 24: This is another case where the copy-pasted rooms actually work well because they play out differently. I like the way 1N1E and 2N2E let you choose whether to hit the orbs with Halph or Beethro.

Level 25: Please take out the challenge in 1E; it's unfairly hard and I don't believe you've solved it yourself.

The other two challenges (1W and 1S) are really good!

1S1W is an excellent room as well.

1E is honestly not much fun, because if you use the potion it goes on too long, so maybe the solution is to reduce the number of monsters? If you do that then maybe reintroducing the challenge would be reasonable, but test it first.

×Level 26 Entrance: Just a reminder that the challenge scripting needs fixing. Also, the challenge is a bit easier entering from the north -- up to you whether to allow that or change it.

Level 27 Entrance: Move 23,13 checkpoint to 25,15. Add a checkpoint at the equivalent position in all four rooms.

Level 28 2W: Challenge awards as soon as all monsters are dead, even though the interesting part of the challenge is exiting the room afterwards. Award the challenge only when stepping on the yellow door after clearing the room, and change the scroll to say something like "Clear and exit the room without drinking the potion."

Level 28 Entrance: Add checkpoints at (7,3), (7,28), (29,3), (29,28) and (18,17).

Level 29 Entrance: It's not clear from the scroll exactly how far you're not allowed to step. I suggest marking the forbidden tiles with a distinct floor type.

Level 29 2E and 3E: Challenges are okay but should be a separate challenge for each room. Scroll for the 2E challenge could be on the 1E green door, and for 3E on the 2E green door.

Level 29 exit: Downward stairs approached from the south look wrong. Since this entire dungeon is downward-oriented, probably best to make them approached from the north. (Also Level 3.)

Level 30 1E: Trapdoors and red door don't serve any purpose.

×L3 Entrance: Not a huge issue, but when you fixed the stairs, you also removed two roaches, I guess because the new stairs get in the way of backswiping. But with the roaches now all the way in the corners, you could add roaches in the other corners -- there is enough time for Beethro to turn west or east and backswipe.

L5 1E: Since you removed the queens in the NE chamber, the checkpoints aren't needed either.

L11 1N1E: Instead of fixing the challenge, you removed it. Of course it's your choice in the end, but I really liked this one -- getting the Slayer to hit both orbs, especially the east one, is interesting and tricky. Maybe make the challenge just "don't use the tunnels" as that's the interesting part? Let me know if you need any help with scripting.

L26 Entrance: The Wait 0 problem has been fixed, and the challenge is now obtainable However, the other issue remains -- all characters have "End" commands, so the challenge can't be obtained if you take a potion (without clearing the room) and then leave and come back.

There are two ways you could fix this:

* The challenge is quite a bit easier from the north entrance (since you can drop one trapdoor straight away), so you might want to add "Solve the room from the level entrance" as a condition, in which case, add it to the scroll, and have another character with this script:

  If ... 
        Wait for entity Player 17,0,21,0
     Set var "l26_entrance_challengefail" = 1

* Alternatively, if you want to allow solving the challenge from either entrance, then in all five characters' scripts, put "Label end" at the end of the script, and replace "End" with "Go to end".

×I have a lot of mixed feelings here. I'll start by saying that there are some really nice rooms; Level 38 2W especially is fantastic and easily my favourite room so far

But there's a lot I didn't enjoy. And the thing is, that's really subjective, so I can't say for certain that these are things you should fix. On the other hand, a lot of players will have similar dislikes, so you may find people getting put off your hold by this batch of levels. I'll do my best, since I promised, to offer specific suggestions aimed towards smoothing out these levels without making too drastic changes, but it's up to you whether you want to make further changes, or less, or try to get more feedback from others.

Just to be clear, this is not primarily about combat rooms versus linchpins; it's about specific types of room that are showing up a lot. I don't enjoy snake trains (when the object is just to get through them; I did enjoy leading the tar baby through snake trains in 210 Levels because that was more puzzly). I don't enjoy "lead the mimic from A to B with 1-tile obstacles". I don't enjoy wall mazes hidden under tar. Still, you are absolutely free to make these kinds of rooms if you want, so I'll try to help you improve them rather than complaining that they exist at all.

×No suggestions for Level 31. Not my favourite, but it goes by quickly.

Level 32 is more interesting, with some fun variety. Would it be cheeky of me to recommend having the warp room go to Level 37 to allow skipping a bit further, for those who want to skip?

Level 33: I would remove 1N1E, since it's definitely the least interesting room here, and with three levels of these mimic movement rooms, this section drags and it would be good to shorten it.

Level 34: Mostly, this is a nice break with some interesting rooms. Not keen on Entrance because you have to wait for a large pile of roaches to build up and then clean them up afterwards; maybe shrink both chambers a bit so the puzzle is essentially the same but takes less time?

Level 35: If you wanted to make a larger change, I would suggest cutting this whole level, because using Halph for the doors isn't really a meaningful change to the mimic movement puzzle, so the whole level feels like playing Level 33 again. I believe L33 was the first appearance of mimics in this hold, so I'm sure you could make a level using mimics in different ways -- it could even be combat rooms and I wouldn't complain!

Again, though, that's only if you want to spend the time on a new level. If you decide to keep it, that's okay, especially with the skip.

Level 35 secret: Halph isn't needed for anything. It would be really cool if you had to direct Halph so as to be a temporary blocker to give the mimic extra leverage -- that was what I expected when I saw the room, and I was disappointed that it didn't happen!

Level 36: This is a bit more interesting, because the Slayer gives the rooms a little bit of moment-to-moment decision-making. Also, 1W is a nice challenge because of the smaller space on Beethro's side. Still, I'd probably cut one of the less interesting rooms (1S1W or 2S).

Level 37: Thank you for adding vision tokens even though they're not a JtRH element. Maybe make 2S1E a bit shorter since it goes on for quite a bit and the activity is pretty samey?

Level 38: As previously mentioned, I loved 2W. It's a fantastic horde room where Beethro has to gradually cut away his own cover, making the room get steadily harder as you progress (whereas a common problem with horde rooms is that the difficulty is at the beginning and then they get easier but take a while to wind down).

The rest of the level just feels like each room started with a good idea and then went on for too long. Entrance is especially bad because it's two copies of the same puzzle -- I would cut one half. Make the blob smaller in 1S1W. Cut one of the four chambers in 1W.

Level 39: So the idea is that we've seen these rooms with vision tokens in Level 37, and now we have to remember the layouts.

I enjoyed it more than I was expecting to But it is still a level of hidden things under tar, and some people hate those, so you have to be prepared for people to dislike this. Then again, these days people can turn on transparent tar if they want!

L39 1W has the same issue as L38 Entrance, cutting the tar takes a while and you have to do essentially the same puzzle twice. And if you decide to reduce L37 2S1E, then do the same here for consistency.

Level 40 is a nice quick break. Only issue here is the challenge script in 1S1E. Here is a fixed version:

  Wait for entity type Mimic,9,0,27,21
Label Loop
  If ... 
        Wait while entity type Mimic,9,0,27,21
     Flashing message (660000),Challenge Failed!
     Go to end
  Else 
     If ... 
           Wait for clean room 
        Challenge completed Life Preserver
        End 
     If End 
  If End 
  Wait 0
  Go to Loop
Label end