Gauntlet Contest 4 (Monster) results

Eh, looks decent enough. The obvious winner should've been Monster Mischief, since it's the best-looking and the one that reflects the theme the most.
Slam was still an OK winner though, even if it needs more "monster-like" elements.



Aaaaaaaand I'm sure we'll already get lots of drama by Viprin having placed such a generic level as Ghoul as #2, so I'll spare the complains.


Overall, although that isn't saying a lot, I say this may result in the best Gauntlet yet

Whoa, good contest results, nothing like the Doom Gauntlet 8) im still dissapointed at why underworld and terminal void didnt make it instead of trash like Shrill Hallway but whatever

Although Reunomi's level should've made it in, I'm really glad OMG Aliens and Slam made it in, as I've beaten both and they were both hella fun.

idk about HellGate Menace and Ghoul because I didn't give either more than 20 attempts, but Monster Mischief seems pretty fun.

Never played Shruiken, but Mechanism has pretty fun gameplay, unsurprisingly. I'm not very fond of the glitch effect in Predator, as it'll likely make the level confusing, and Reunomi's level could've taken this spot, but I'm genuinely surprised that we actually received results where every level is better than Mind Control by Darwin.

I think the results are pretty good. Not sure if Slam deserves the first place (it has great gameplay however the decoration is nothing amazing, still good though). I hope they all have decent gameplay so the gauntlet will be playable for me without too much frustration.

Also nice to see that they tried to stick with the difficulty and these levels aren't like overly difficult. Sometimes people have trouble with making good 8-9* gameplay.

If Hellgate Menace didn't lag, I would definitely choose it as #1. Slam by Rafer honestly isn't my favorite. The colors and gameplay are really nice, but I'm not a fan of the weird large chunks of block deco that look out of place.

It was less disappointing than previous gauntlets but overall the levels were underwhelming. That may not really be the fault of Rob though, because in all honesty there weren't any levels I noticed that were particularly great. There weren't really any obvious snubs. However, I do question how the fuck Rafer's level made it on to the rankings, especially so high up. I will admit that the gameplay was OK, but it was nothing special. Rafer has a tendency to have these very open parts where you do nothing but stay in the center of the screen, which is honestly just boring and doesn't sync very well. This kind of stuff was all over the level, especially in the bossfight portions. But the real problems start in the decoration, which was honestly just abysmal. The colors never worked together. He has this one bright neon saturated green (which is a guess supposed to signify the monster gauntlet) that he puts all over the level, but doesn't put colors that compliment it. Instead of mixing it with greys, deep blues, or other fully saturated and vibrant colors, he mixes it with this really weird dull red orange magenta mixture. These color sets could look fine on their own but they look absolutely terrible when put along side each other. To clarify, I don't mind having one stand-out color in a mix of dark or dull ones, but the dull colors he picked to go with it just make it look ugly instead of giving it a good contrast. Everything was so poorly shaded. He had a lot of different blocks but he didn't put them together in such a way that they compliment each other like Woogi or Hinds would be able to do; he just kind of has them all over the place and it ends up looking disorganized and poorly planned. It feels like a knockoff Alkali or Rexone to me in most of the parts, and while you do get some nice parts here and there, it's nothing compared to the amount of really bad ones. And it's sad, because while I do think Rafer has his shortcomings, he IS usually able to make that style work because of proper shading and mixing complimentary blocks and colors. However, in this level he seems to have just retrogressed. Even though the other levels in the gauntlet aren't the best thing ever, I think most of them stand up pretty well against Rafer's level.

Whatever though. That's really the only thing I felt that stood out. There could be a lot more that I'm missing, but I honestly just didn't pay any attention to it this time around.

Design level =/= Generic