×Level 1

Entrance: Why use so little of the room space? In a larger first room, the player could get used to controlling Gunthro, then see the roach start to move towards them, then have to kill it. You could also have tooltips telling the player how to move and rotate.

1W: Introducing arrows and doors together means you only say a little about each. Doors will be explained in more depth later in the level, but arrows won't.

1S1W: This room is way too hard for only the third room! Firstly, beginners often move further than intended or input a wrong move and aren't used to undoing yet, so this is much too early to have a tight room where every move matters. Secondly, the correct strategy is hard to find -- it took me quite a while and I have years of experience. Thirdly, I think a "backswipe" is required, and it's hard for beginners to learn that backswiping is possible and leads to success rather than death -- most beginner holds have a dedicated room just for learning this.

1S: Reasonable room that teaches "you can't go across arrows the wrong way". Maybe the dialogue about arrows should be in this room?

2S: Rather an annoying orb puzzle. For a beginner's introduction to orb puzzles, I would make the puzzle itself simpler and also have the orbs closer together so going back and forth is less annoying.

2S1W: Way too many roaches (especially when the battle key hasn't been taught yet). Also, after using the tunnels you need to wait for the roaches to come to you, and wait hasn't been taught either.

3S1W, 4S1W, 4S2W: These rooms are okay. Each room makes just one point and is over once you've gotten the point.

5S2W: Another really hard room: the linchpin of retreating to the room entrance (if that's intended) is very hard to spot. Beginners would definitely get frustrated here.

5S3W: The main idea (stay on the plate briefly to release only a few roaches) is sound, but then the roaches get onto the plate and the player gets overwhelmed. Managing the horde correctly is definitely a skill that a beginner would not have.

6S3W: Probably too confusing for the first room with disabled arrows -- which could be taught just as well in a room without roaches at all.

5S1W (secret): Haven't solved yet. Even for a secret, this is much too hard.

Level 2

Entrance: Gunthro says "I don't like that these roaches are running away from me" -- when they are not!

1S: Yes, you made another war hold. With so many roaches spawning, it's really hard to get to the orb without being overwhelmed.

1S1E (secret): Unlike the previous secret, this one is much easier than some required rooms on the level.

1S1W: Nice linchpin room! It might be too hard for beginners though. Might be good to try it on an actual beginner if you get a chance (and after the first level has been improved so they can even get this far).

2S1W: Did you test this at all? To solve this, the player will probably first try killing the nearby queens and then get stuck at the SE corner because the build-up is too much. The beginner gives up at this point. Then you have to start over, race through the first part while still killing a fair number of queens so that the SE corner is manageable, fight through to the SW corner -- at which point the queens that start in the centre will have gone to the NE -- and then start to fight upwards while roaches are now also attacking from behind you. This is actually a decent room for introducing some strategic concepts and making the player think rather than trusting their first instincts -- but it's material for around Level 18, not Level 2.

3S1W: Now this is a really good room. There is something non-obvious the player has to think of, but they are given enough to help them work it out, and the clean-up after the main point is short and sweet.

2S2W: Standing on the door so as to be safe from roaches when it closes is a non-obvious mechanic, and you are doing this in the first Halph room. I'd suggest that complex elements like Halph shouldn't be introduced this early at all, but if you must, then at least start with something really simple. Also, there are too many roaches.

1S2W: This is pretty good, although the player may get confused about why Halph moves off the plate without an explicit order to move off.

1S3W: I thought you were trying not to make a war-style hold. This room has 200 roaches. (Carving a safe space out of crumbly walls is a good room concept, though.)

2S3W: You never introduced stepping off arrows at 90 degrees to the way they point....

2S4W: Nice simple tunnel room, a much better introduction to tunnels than the Level 1 rooms. Why is Halph here? He doesn't help, and has to be moved out of the way at the end with "Follow me" behaviour... which hasn't been taught yet.

3S3W: A random Gentryii, of all things? This is way too complicated for a first gentryii room. If you must introduce them so early, then start with gentryii alone (without roaches) so the player can see how they are chained to a wall and how to tangle them up; then introduce roaches and stabbing across the chain; only then, something like this.