more like fashion disaster

honestly, the wallpaper and laminate were atrocious, and don't even get me started on the furniture!

hoo, boy

the map is busted as hell, but it's beta, so whatever. the bugs I encountered didn't make it worse, and really improved on the bland design.

there was a bug on map 2 where one of the party spawned in the end safe room instead of the starting one, skipping it. 

there was a bug on map 3 where we accidentally got around the trigger for the finale, and since the chopper spawned without the event, we didn't realize we'd skipped it until the "credits"

lighting bugs everywhere

day/night changed seemingly at random

honestly, if those bugs get fixed, it'll probably be fine. some of the areas are pretty unpopulated, especially in map 3, where most of the map is a parking structure, but that's about par for the course around here.

needs work/10

Pros:

ALL CAPS ALL THE TIME

GOOD SCENERY

FIRE EVERYWHERE

BOHICA

Cons:

SHORTER THAN A HORNET'S TEMPER

FOLIAGE MURDERED MY COMPUTER

NO SHOTGUNS

Conclusion:

IT'S A GOOD MAP IF YOU DON'T MIND THE FRAME DROPS AND THE LACK OF SHOTGUNS.

I WISH IT WAS LONGER, BUT IT'S BASICALLY ACCEPTABLE AS-IS

Pros:

strong, fast, casual map

good amounts of supplies

no keyboards were thrown

good visibility, thanks to the color scheme

Cons:

spread out the tanks! we spent the entire campaign wondering where they all were, only to find 3 of them out of nowhere in the finale!

I'm not usually one to bring it up, but the map is often trivially easy. if you as a reader like difficult maps, this is not one of those.

if you don't like orange and grey, get as far away as you can

Conclusion:

it's fun. the map's design is very simplistic, but not in a lazy way. we never felt lost, bored, or under-supplied while we were playing. maybe add tanks to the arena events? I dunno.

good, simple fun/10

Pros:

great platforming segments, and...

you don't die if you miss a jump 

heck, even the toxic sludge doesn't kill you

good use of custom assets

the boss battles and arenas are fun

players are well-supplied

weed chests are appropriately dank

cutscenes!

easter eggs!

and music!

oh my!

Cons:

when I say "players are well-supplied," I mean that my party almost never had issues with being short on health or ammo. this isn't something I really have a problem with, but others might

I didn't get much out of the "graffiti" everywhere, but that comes down to personal taste. one of my friends thought it was the bee's pajamas

the finale is a bit much. It's possible that I missed some instructions somewhere, but we were at a loss for what to do for a while in the room with the tank in it. if there isn't something already, a quick message with what to do could be added to the beginning of the stage for some clarity.

Conclusion:

funny story... I originally suggested this map to my lobby because I thought it would be terrible. boy was I wrong! I fully expected to encounter all of the pitfalls (heh) we'd dealt with in other platformer-based mods: the adversarial jumping puzzles, tanks punching you off cliffs, that sort of thing. we were pleasantly surprised that the creator had addressed these problems with a number of anti-frustration features.

I've never actually played crash bandicoot, just seen other people play it. as such, I can't really speak to how faithful a recreation of the source content this mod actually is. regardless, this was a very, very well made adaptation, and I'm eager to see what else LordShoot2Kill makes in the future!

pleasantly surprise/10