It looks great, and the way it branches off so you don't have to beat every level was a good idea.

:D

A random idea ended up framing the entire game. It was a good fit, too. I know in the past my cutscenes met some resistance for being too long and wordy so I tried to make it all about action and kept it very short and precise. I also came up with the idea of having mario walk along the bottom, hidden, to trigger each step in the scene. It'll make future scenes look much better.

It's great.

Seems like it should have been further into the game instead of a first level, it's one of the few levels that I died on.

First section is decent.

The next section is cool that it's a puzzle but I feel that you could have done something better with the non-solution doors, rather than having them all return you to the start. It's more tedious than confusing, some confusion would have been nice.

Last section is decent, but the long walk after hitting the goal could use some scenery.

Nice touch!

I was dreading this moment. Walking into Port of Daven. I won't lie, my expectation were really low. I wanted to get these levels out of the way first.

Right off the bat I see is some kind of high resolution snow(?) in the background. It doesn't fit, it looks terrible. If it is snow, it doesn't appear to be falling. It's just sort of hanging in the air, going in circles. It makes the game lag, too, on a PC where nothing else lags.

Now in the building, I'm relieved to not see a multitude of clashing tiles. And to my surprise the layout of this section is pretty good.

Some of the edits work, mainly the recolors. However...*sigh* the skeletons in the acid look like crap and you made no attempt to create the mask for it so you can see the shadow of a castle in the background. When you put those tiles down did you think they look good? or even passable? If you can't get it to look proper and actually match, then you shouldn't have included it at all. A good game adhere's to a single style, and most importantly, a single resolution. That is why your games will never be good.

Instead of pointing out all the faults, I'll just say the level made me cringe in various locations and I didn't enjoy the level as much as I should have.

This level is too large and has no clear direction. It's too busy and a lot of what was there looked bad. This has always been the problem with your levels; the few good ideas are overpowered by the many bad design choices. Luckily I didn't have to beat this level, because I was unable to. I had no desire to punish myself any further after dying twice.

Another weather effect causing lag, at least it fits in with the graphics. This is how a level should be, short and to the point. There are still some rooms that have too much unneccisary tiles in them but at least this level is enjoyable.

In terms of design and flow this is a good level, too bad it suffer the same problem of incoherit visuals. Didn't you realize that when you change a graphic it has a shadow of the old graphic behind it? And you were ok with that? You didn't ask for help and you clearly don't understand how it works. Your choice of a birdo replacement offends me. Your hopeless.

After getting a star from Gloom Catacombs, something told me that Kentona wouldn't put 2 stars in Port of Daven. I didn't plan on beating it and I'm glad I didn't have to. This level is the worst one.

I remember playing the original, a decent improvement(by kentona?). It's still a bit short but at least running away from the wall of fire offers some resistance. This would have made a better first level.

I recognize some of the edits from Doki Doki World screenshots, I think. I don't like the spider web vines, they don't really look like spider webs to me. Good level though, requires some exploring and a bit of thought.

Yup, whole lot of fun. Good use of events and layers while remaining simple. I think that's what makes it stand out for me. There are multiple paths and fun things to do.

The stack of blocks in the first section doesn't look so great. If that is supposed to be the mountain that I will be entering, it might look better if you used the same tiles that appear in the next section.

I already reported problems with this level early on, seems like you didn't listen.

Another kentona upgrade? Still too short. No SMW ending?

Fun idea but much too short.

Another level I reported problems with that didn't get fixed. It seems updated, I think. There seems to be about 4 times the amount of enemies, which isn't a bad thing. Every powerup block was a mushroom, which is a bad thing. A leaf would have been helpful. A decent level for its exploration.

:3

I figured out why the blocked door after you turn into a ghost appears open sometimes. When you die and start at the checkpoint it resets the colored switch blocks, which allows you to go past without having to hit the switch. Too bad, because that's a challenging part and death is very probable.

I liked it. The first half was enjoyable. However, the last part was annoyingly tedious. Having to jump on stairs of invisible single blocks was the wrong kind of difficulty. God forbid you make a mistake and fall, you'll probably end up all the way to the bottom and have to do it all over again. Plus it's all about back and forth backtracking, so that just adds to the annoying factor. The level was trucking right along and it was great fun but then this last part puts the brakes on the level and killed the fun mood. Boss was definately too easy, which I suppose is a good thing because if I had to redo that last section... It's a cool idea though.

Seems like a whole new level from the first version. I didn't like it as much though. The moving platform section was easy and boring. All the enemies are gone, there was no resistance.

Excellent! Good use of layers/eventing. Well balanced fight. It took some time to beat, which is a good thing. I would have liked to see more variety.

on the world map it would have been a better fit to swap Dim Darkness with House of Death, since it is only a boss battle.

Heh, it's only good the first time around but it's a novel idea.

Too short, it was going somewhere good but ran out of gas.

Already commented on this, I take it you didn't see that? Decent level, it wasn't overly short but I did wish it were longer.

I'm not against the way it opens but I wouldn't have done it quite like that. Good idea cutting it off before the boss battle.

I felt like I should have made the battle against Kamek(third wave) a little harder. The second wave is probably the hardest because of all the things taking up space. If I would have known it would be it's own level I might have done it differently, it was originally going to be part of the Turning Tricks level. Oh well.