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#253: Tic Tac Toe - coree - PW-1pMtWPVbUI

Tic-Tac-Toe. It's an empty grid. There are some seats to sit in, though.

tags: board game, multiplayer, social, tic-tac-toe

#254: eye - arual - PW-1pOkw3Aa0I

Detailed, impressive eye artwork. Well, at least the lower one is. The top is kinda just a grey or white ringed circle. Barely looks like an eye.

tags: art, human, mostly empty
presentation: 2/5

#255: win coins - michiel15max - PW-1ptX70obEI

A bunch of coins scattered around on green blocks. I'm glad the world owner didn't try to fill absolutely all the empty space with platforms. Gotta let the smiley breathe and jump around with freedom. There are no coin doors, so the coins are completely optional. You can just go up and get the crown.

To my shock, there is no way to ruin the level by spamming the key—while you can hit it once near spawn, it's behind a key gate so you can't keep resetting to keep the gates up forever.

On first playthrough, I got all coins and crown in under 47 seconds. On replay, I got the crown in under 9 seconds. This could be fun to speedrun but there's no win trophy so I won't try that much.

tags: arrow tubes, climb, coin spam
fun: 2/5
presentation: 1/5
difficulty: 1/5

coins: 63/63
bcoins: 10/10
crown: under 9s

#256: MNW - robertjesus - PW-1qDlaS5cEI

I don't know what MNW stands for, but this is definitely a Metroid world. Turtlecat1 said "My New World", and I think that's one of the default open world names, so maybe it's that. A sign gives credit to Alexferreira for "Super metroid 2", another world (PWmYy0ypv1cEI). It may have inspired this one, and I wouldn't otherwise know the connection.

You start from a purple spaceship, likely the one used by Samus in Metroid Fusion. You go into the cave and get various upgrades to progress. Sometimes you'll find yourself falling through a pit you can't climb back up, so you'll have to find another path.

First off, you need upgrade #1, the Morph Ball to get anywhere. The win area is behind doors requiring upgrade #2, Missiles. Finally, you will need either upgrade #3 (Bomb) or #4 (Hi-Jump) to get through. The last upgrade, #5 (Grappling Beam) is practically useless, but we'll go over that later.

A majority of the challenge in the level is avoiding spikes on the walls of the cave. It's not quite spike spam, but if you don't like platforming around spikes, you might dislike this level. There is a single mini in the entire level that uses arrows.

The second hardest part is the yellow-brown area. It has lots of hazards, and gives you the Hi-Jump upgrade. If you jump down a certain hole without Missiles and take the checkpoint, you'll have to go through it. It's optional depending on how you route through the level, so I won't give the level more than a 3/5 in difficulty.

The red area is probably the hardest in the level, requiring some precise jumps. It can be reached with a well-placed slide, and is reached from a hole that is too tall to escape, even with Hi-Jump.  However, when trying to leave this area, I found a problem. The first time I played this, I was about 24 minutes and 50 deaths playing at this point, and got stuck.  You must jump in the hole with 6 coins if you want all the coins without god mode. Fortunately, the upgrade there is not needed. It's only used in two areas, once to almost escape the area you find it in, and another to reach an unfinished hole to nowhere.

On replay, I beat the level in under three minutes with what I think is an optimal route. Once you win, you get god mode, as well as a practice mode that gives you access to more checkpoints. A bit weird that the practice mode is left to the end, after you've already beaten it and gotten god mode. But I'll take it, since it makes my job of collecting all coins without god mode easier.

Fun level, though unfinished and has some bad design choices. The top half is well-decorated, though the bottom half isn't. I consider this my new favorite of the randomly picked worlds.

tags: adventure, has softlock, metroid, metroidvania, non-linear, sci-fi, underground, unfinished, upgrades
difficulty: 3/5
fun: 3/5
presentation: 3/5

win: 2:53.547
coins: 8/8
bccoins: 4/4

#247: ESPANOLES bievenidos - santi15911 - PW-1o3HGm5bUI

Another Spanish level. ESPANOLES means Spanish as you'd probably guess, and bievenidos means welcome.

You start in a little building with a sign saying CARCEL, meaning jail. There are beds upstairs, and chairs and tables downstairs. You can leave the room by opening green key doors. Fortunately, there's a green key. Unfortunately, the green key is blocked by a gate, preventing you from leaving the area until the timer's worn out. Fortunately, you can just reset yourself while the timer's active to get through the doors. Unfortunately, there's much else you can explore when you're out of the room.

Under one of the tables is a switch opening up another green key, but you can't get there without god mode. There are also unreachable fire blocks inside the ceiling that seem to be for decoration. Above the building, there is artwork of a few 2011 smileys and a spawn point.

On the left, there's a hill and a tall structure blocking the path. You can jump onto the main building if you want. On the right there's a swimming pool with marine wildlife, a strange trend I've noticed. Then there's a quirky checkerboard building of water and mud, and on the far right there's some kind of object. Maybe a barrier, or a hurdle? I don't know what that is.

Now we enter god mode. The tall structure might be a sign or an empty building, with a smear of mineral green. Beneath it is tricky to decipher, and looking at it in-game did not help. But the minimap is a bit better, as it looks like a baby bug with wings. The green smear up above might be a caterpillar, but this is very speculative.

Going further to the bottom left, there's a building labeled MUSEO, which means museum in English. There, a bunch of decorations like skull, shield, and monster eyes are on stands. The doors also use the 0 switch like the jail, so it opens up the green key all the way back. This is probably a relic of the world's 2013 creation before switch IDs.

Next is an evil stick figure with red eyes, spraying fire or lava from its hands.

Next is another building, possibly a restaurant with tables and chairs. There is a framed octopus (or tripus since it only has three tentacles), possibly an aquarium or a picture. There are tables and seating outdoors as well.

On the far right, is a tall building with a bunch of bots. There's a dollar sign ($) here, so it's probably a shop. I thought at first it was sssa bank, but the weird pottery stuff would throw me off if it's meant to be a bank.

Finally, there is some miscellaneous artwork around the top right. A checkerboard cube, a blue star, and patch of land with a house and a tree.

It's fun to see how people can make a hodgepodge of stuff together in one world. Somebody mentioned it was like some friends goofing around.

tags: art, pixel, jail, sandbox, social, sprite, town
presentation: 2/5

#248: the challange - caanon15975 - PW-1omfdiGbUI

A challange [sic] where you get the crown...or the coins? Not sure what the goal is, so I can't really judge how quickly I beat it. On replay I got all coins and crown in under 29 seconds, and  I can get the crown in about one second.

There are two halves, each with platforms holding coins. At the top, there are crowns blocked by key doors. You can get stuck behind the coin doors. Jumping up the platforms isn't really hard. The hardest part is getting to the top left, which requires a 1x1 hook jump if you don't hold right while spawning. You can go between the halves using tunnels of arrows.

I like how colorful the world is.

tags: coin spam, has key softlock, non-linear, platforming
difficulty: 1/5
fun: 2/5
presentation: 1/5

coins: 38/38
bcoins: 62/62

#249: wall jumping test  - gab3 - PW-1oszrfJa0I

A small 2011 world where you jump sideways up platforms. There are some coins to get. Two in the top rather hard to reach, but are surprisingly possible by quickly doing two jumps upward and rightward.

The world was created a month before backgrounds were added, so it was updated at some point for backgrounds.

tags: climb, platforming
difficulty: 1/5

fun: 1/5
presentation: 1/5

coins: 9/9
bcoins: 22/22

#250: Pizza Pizza - toolyiamking - PW-1ozX2okbEI

TURTLECAT1: "this world is so random"

A little, unfinished mini world from 2011 with four minigames. This is the 250th world featured in this topic.

The level is named "Pizza Pizza", which I wouldn't normally question too much as worlds have weird names, but this level goes out of its way to have a logo in the top right. That's a status usually reserved for crew levels and epic adventure levels. So what gives? Turns out Pizza Pizza is both the name of a Canadian resturaunt and the slogan of the Little Caesar's pizza chain. What's the logo of Little Ceasar's?

Caesar is Greek. You know what else is Greek? Meanders, patterns of zig-zagging lines. What do those lines look like? The filler tunnels found in an Everybody Edits world such as this one.

...that logo is from 2017, probably long after the level was made, so that probably has nothing to do with the level. Maybe I should call these kinds of tunnels "meanders", as it sounds cooler than "filler tunnels".

tags: boxed minis, confusing title, filler, smiley, unfinished

#251: you Christmas note - samsungkid - PW-1p-wHL2a0I

I was quite insulted samsungkid would call me a Christmas note. But upon opening this world, I was hit with a burst of joys, nearly to tears. For some reason, I was reminded of the World 5 music from New Super Mario Bros. despite not having played the game in like a decade.

I forgive you, samsungkid. You're probably a samsungadult by now.

You start off on a ramp, and go off of it into the snow. You can try to jump up the snow. I wonder how far you could possibly get—this could be great to TAS. There are no goals, so do as you please.

I appreciate the art with the Christmas tree, house, and the happy Grinch smiley on a sled. This world exudes Christmas joy.

tag: art, christmas, explore, no goal, smiley
fun: 2/5
presentation: 3/5

#252: girl hot - mattlove648 - PW-1p7E7EfbkI

LICTOR: "finally a good level"

Since I saw the world name a few weeks, I have been waiting with intrigue for this one, with "girl hot". Presumably meaning an attractive woman. Attractiveness is not a common element of EE world. Will this be a crude drawing? Explicit bot art? A name that has nothing to do with the level? Let's find out.

OK, I joined. It's not really that bad, just a pinup of a lady lying with a flower in her hair and a cup. Reminds me of the Summer Girl smiley. Solid pixel art, though when I zoom in the elbows and feet look kind of weird. It's probably a limitation of the low resolution.

tags: art, cheeky, human, no gameplay
presentation: 3/5

#238: Thes es fun - andy77799 - PW-1bv5bLmcEI

Hey, I feel like I've seen that username before, andy77799. If I completed writing this last week, it would've been the second world that week made by an Andy. For how strange this world is, filled with odd quriks and exploits, this will probably the longest write-up yet, and I'm glad I didn't try to rush it last week. This took me longer than the remaining worlds combined. I will roughly divide it into sections marked with bold text, since I'm already using header texts for the world titles.

The lobby

The lobby is the start. Here, the goal is to get blue coins to create the gates to reach the trophy. You need at least 3 to reach the trophy—or god mode, which is right near the start, but that's basically cheating. The more coins, the fewer 1x1 hook jumps you need to reach the trophy, with a major exploit I'll explain later. Bizarrely the win trophy becomes normally unreachable after getting 25 blue coins, outside of an even bigger exploit.

There is also a curse effect arena here. You can get one blue coin there as long as you haven't died yet. Otherwise, you can only get it through an exit from the race, which may get you stuck as described later.

Exploit #1: Respawning in the corner

As you spawn in the top left, above the coin gates needed to win, you can simply die, respawn, and fall onto these gates as long as you haven't touched a checkpoint. You can beat the world in under a minute with this method, no 1x1 hook jumps needed. For completion's sake, I'm going for all blue coins possible, in both singleplayer and multiplayer.

You can get blue coins either from playing minis, the race, or by going through the death doors. This motivates dying. The race has lots of blue coins, but since it requires a second player, I'll skip it for now.

The mini hall

I'll start with the most straightforward part, the low gravity pits. In these two pits, you get low gravity and fall through, avoiding boost arrows and getting the 6 blue coins. Some are pretty easy, but a few are moderately difficult, requiring you to do fairly precise slides between boost arrows. The next blue coin is gotten from going through an oddly placed one-way block.

Next is a pair of hook jumps to reach a spike. There are no blue coins here, but it's the fastest way to die.

Next are three games with switches. One is just a 1x1 hook jump, another is a zigzag, and the final is a gauntlet of key gates you have to quickly jump through. If you do this fast enough, there are an extra two blue coins here. However, if you've already been in it to flip the switch, you're stuck until the key deactivated, which can cause a problem if somebody spams the key.

As a reward for all three switches, you get access to a spike which locks off after the first 10 deaths. In theory this could save you a small amount of time, but it's insignificant if you're going for 225 deaths. Speaking of 225 deaths...

The death doors. 15 total blue coins are locked behind death doors, up to 225 deaths. The fastest way to die is to go through the two hook jumps. If you do this 215 times (the first 10 can be gotten through the switch bonus), it totals 430 hook jumps. Yes, I did this. It took around thirty minutes, though with a few minutes spent doing other things. The alternative is dying in the curse tag, 40 seconds each time. This requires less button mashing, but takes at least 143 minutes...

I grabbed the last blue coins I could in single-player. But I finally noticed a problem that was in plain sight all along. See the 225 death door slot? It is four blocks deep. Without effects, a smiley can't jump out of a four block hole. Meaning your ultimate reward is a trap, and this 30 minute attempt couldn't even claim the win trophy. I also missed a blue coin by mistake, which locks off after just 1 death. (Also accessible in the race, but there the 1 death gate gets you stuck.)

Normally, the pit is impossible to escape. But I quickly looked for an alternative.

Exploit #2: Respawning with low gravity

The low gravity effect lets you jump much higher. The effect is found in a mini, surrounding by disablers so you can't take it outside...but what if you respawned outside the area?

Curse tag gives you a curse, naturally. That also has disablers, but unlike the low gravity effect you can go through the disablers diagonally to keep the curse. Once you do that, go through the low gravity mini. If you have your checkpoint as the one next to the death doors, you can bypass the low gravity disablers, and go through the area with low gravity. Not only can you escape with the blue coins, but there is another benefit—bypassing the hook jumps. With this newfound knowledge, I went to replay the level and claim all 26 singleplayer blue coins faster than ever.

17:44.630. Almost half as long as my previous attempt.

With this exploit, you don't even need any blue coins, letting you complete the level in about ten seconds. This means there's not one, but two exploits to get the win trophy early. This is a very free level. I noticed an even simpler exploit that's not quite as cool as exploit #3.

Exploit #3: Low gravity through the one-way

The one-way fitting mini lets you go to the low gravity mini. Unlike the other entrances, this is horizontal, letting you carefully go halfway through the block to get the effect, and going backwards to escape the mini with it. Once you do that, you have the right half of the mini hall, or the lobby and the race if you respawn up there.

The race

This is where all the remaining blue coins are. You need the green key, which is only reached with god mode. So, I'll spawn in a second player to use god mode. Strangely, there is a god mode block right before the green key entrance. Was this for testing? Well, it makes the level very easy to win, and a sign suggests you're meant to get blue coins for god mode. Perhaps it was left in as an oversight.

You have to complete 18 times. 3 times in first place (which also gives crown), 4 times in second or third, and 10 times in fourth or fifth, and once in sixth or later. Oddly, the places in the race are permanently locked into place with global switches and can only be deactivated with god mode. So, the second player with god mode will also need to flip the switches many times to get all coins from winning.

4 extra blue coins are found in the race, 3 expecting you to end the race early—though one can be survived with the low gravity exploit. As mentioned earlier, the fifth extra blue coin is also available from curse tag, if you haven't died once. If you get it in the race before dying once, you're launched into the curse tag. If you've already died and get this coin from the race, you get stuck unless a curse kills you. Weird level design.

Without the low gravity effect, I could beat it in around 66 seconds. The low gravity exploit would make it much quicker to get through, but no, the race inconveniently starts with an elevator, the one part you can't go through with low gravity.

Getting through the race kills you, which has the benefit of slightly speeding up the journey to 225 deaths.

The questionnaire

Finally, the questionnaire. Only reachable with god mode, each question has a coin and six answers, each with a different associated team. There are 23 questions, plus an extra blank one without any question or answers.

Most of the questions are fairly standard stuff like interests or hobbies. The world creator does show a bit of their bias, though with what answers they decided to include. For example, the video games can be divided into sandbox (EE, Minecraft, Terraria), 3D action games (CS:GO, GTA), or "Classic Boring Games". Besides the "Somebody dats better" answer, four of the five favorite YouTuber options are popular gaming channels. (And sadly, most the answers listed have had major controversies.) Besides the Other option, all the favorite animated series options are American comedies, and all but one are aimed at adults. The favorite memes are from the mid 2010's, etc. Admittedly a lot of EE players are probably into these things though.

Two questions reach a bit dark territory. "In wich [sic] way you clearly don't want to die?" which has the kinds of answers you'd expect, though thankfully they aren't gratuitous or detailed. The second is the last question, and what convinced John to ban this world from PixelWalker, "Who Are The Stupidest People in the world in ur opinion?" All but one are an ethnic group, including that one word used for Romani people often considered a slur. The odd answer out is "Trumps".

You might notice that each question has a block highlighting an answer. The world doesn't make it clear what it means, but I suspect it's the answers from the level creator. The answers show interest in Music on YouTube and Hip-Hop, which matches with the question asking about your favorite rapper. The highlighted answers also suggest a 15-18 year old with interest in Grand Theft Auto and South Park, which lines up with some of the edgy humor. Thankfully, the highlighted answer for annoying people is "Trumps", the only answer not about an ethnic group.

I'm going to give the level creator a benefit of a doubt and assume the troubling answers were just done in attempt to be shocking. I would not be surprised if the level creator has matured since making this.

The final stretch

With all that I've learned, it's time to speed through this and beat this once and for all. 225 deaths, 18 successful races, 2 players, an exploit, and a few extra minis. It took me an additional 46 minutes.

It was fun to play the world, see the variety, and find the exploits. However, the coins for racing and dying are way too dependent on doing the same things repeatedly, which gets old. The visuals are super basic, though the level has a few nice uses of color.  The walls are inconsistent—some areas are separated with two walls, and others with one, making the level look rather messy. The questionnaire is flawed, showing the creators' bias and edgy humor.

tags: allows key spam, edgy, has softlock, major exploit, minis, non-linear, race, racism, variety
fun: 3/5
presentation: 1/5
difficulty: 2/5

win: 12.548s, 17:44.630 (26 blue coins), 46:40.97s (all blue coins)
coins: 0/24
bcoins: 26/58 (1 player), 58/58 (2 player with god mode)
crown: about 66s (requires key)

#239: natan and ilia - iliag98 - PW-1cFKfIFbEI

Pixel art of Mario from Super Mario Bros. Weird coloring choices, as Mario's skin is a pale white and his mustache is pure black. This 2011 level is likely named after the creator, Ilia, and somebody named Natan.

tags: mario, pixel art, super mario bros.

#240: chrome - pokemontalon - PW-1cO-MN3cEI

This is a monochrome level, as the title is probably referring to. Likely inspired by Imgood9's "INFINITE" featured in the Alternate Reality campaign, you start off with a hall that fades to darkness...but when you go back, you find yourself in another room. You can do some wall jumps past some spikes, then the level ends there. I could beat it in half a minute.

Decently fun, has potential.

tags: minis, portal illusion, unfinished, wall jump
fun: 3/5
presentation: 2/5
difficulty: 2/5

#241: ED CREW SHIFT OFF - blazingfire - PW-1cr3avca0I

A 2011 Shift level, with only one play. Something tells me that not much actual shift activity happened here.

On the side, there are 10 coins for winning. However, one of the coins is reachable within the lobby itself. If you have all ten coins, which is impossible, the bottom opens up and there is a row of portals leading you nowhere.

The artwork and logo look pretty nice. Annoyingly, the arena is asymmetrical and doesn't have much room as the big blue D is intruding into the space.

tags: boss, bot, shift, unfinished
presentation: 2/5

coins: 1/10

#242: Untitled World - spookie - PW-1do3B4MbUI

A small race world for a crown. This is basic even for basic world standards—the middle two layers don't have any barriers, platforms, or obstacles, and the other two just have holes in walls you have to get into. Thankfully the key can't be spammed, though you can stand on solid blocks at the end right before the key and crown as long as you want. The background is an unflattering Basic yellow.

There are some random blue coins at the start you can get with no challenge whatsoever. Maybe the level creator should have put them somewhere more interesting, like in the actual race.

tags: race
fun: 1/5
presentation: 1/5

bcoins: 15/15
crown: about 5s

#243: blue minis games - mrhunter - PW-1ejFU3bbEI

MISSHAPENSMILEY: "Looks like the builder got bored in the middle lol"

Blue boxed minis. Mostly stuff I've seen before, but the last part starts to get a bit creative, with coin gates, portals, and switches. Unfortunately the level ends there, taking you to a large empty room that makes me think this is unfinished. The keys can be spammed in the stairs sections, preventing a player from passing. Gets an extra point for not dragging out too long, and getting more creative at the end. I reached the end in about four minutes.

The world is a mix of unpleasant and pleasant visuals. blue Beta and cyan Plastic blocks look surprisingly good together. The level does inconsistently use Mineral instead of Plastic at a few parts, though. The bright backgrounds, especially the Carnival backgrounds can be a bit of an eyesore. The take on the "Everybody Edits" block logo looks nice. Instead of just repeating what's seen on the title screen, it changes up the typeface and coloring. I don't know what that weird blue thing made of backgrounds is in the top right.

tags: allows key spam, boxed minis, eyesore, unfinished
fun: 2/5
presentation: 2/5
difficulty: 1/5

coins: 27/27
bcoins: 41/41

#244: code is 7676 - james345678 - PW-1faR-wQbEI

A fun little minis level. I like how the minis are numbered and divided into little boxes. You really get to appreciate the space used in tiny worlds like this. Keys being used to trigger platforms here is rather satisfying, even if it makes the level harder to play in multiplayer, and potentially impossible if the key is being spammed. Unfortunately a few parts do require fitting into place, which slows things down, but this is otherwise quick and breezy to play.

tags: allows key spam, boxed minis, coin spam, free code
fun: 3/5
presentation: 2/5
difficulty: 1/5

coins: 10/10
crown: 25s

#245: Lava Escape! [ON] - ruben247 - PW-1fiQQtfcEI

An exciting world where a player builds an escape as the lava rises! Or at least, that's what it would be, if it were actually on. The lobby and win area look pretty nice.

The level is by NEON NIGHT FALL CREW, and the description is "Aw shucks." It has 330 plays.

tags: boss
presentation: 2/5

#246: Untitled World - uvaoo - PW-1iic5IWcUI

Another boxed mini level. This one is a bit worse than the others reviewed today, with sluggish minis. There's a slow dot trail surrounded by boosts, so no fun skipping allowed. A key section has you outright just wait 10 seconds. And if somebody else presses the key, it could be longer. The last three minis are a little better, with a maze where zombify and unzombify to pass through doors and gates, a pendulum jump, and a maze using switches this time. The level just ends, and I beat it in around 90 seconds. The last part almost redeems the level to a 2/5, but I feel the beginning is bad enough for a 1/5.

The visuals are kinda nice. Instead of going for overblown colorful blocks like Mineral or Plastic, or bland Basic blocks, it uses purple Brick blocks alongside their backgrounds for shading. It makes it somewhat like a "pro" level, though I realize that term is a bit arbitrary.

TURTLECAT1 thought this world was cool, but I feel this is the weakest of the mini levels I've played today.

tags: allows key spam, boxed minis, maze
fun: 1/5
presentation: 2/5
difficulty: 1/5

#224: solar system (WIP) - spiderboy01 - PW-1ROw5OxcEI

A display of the Solar System. There are little exhibits for Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. The exhibit for Mars claims it is hot, but Mars is colder than Earth. It also says it has no life, even though that would apply to all the Solar System besides Earth. (Well, as far as we know.)

You can also go outside and explore the area with a no gravity effect. The planet display is nice, even if they're a bit stylized and don't look that accurate. I like the Sun but Jupiter looks weird, almost square which is odd for a gas giant. The lack of space to build the display also shows, as the lineup of planet takes a weird turn.

Overall, this is a pretty unique idea for a world. However, there's not much to it, and some of the info is misleading.

tags: educational, planet, space, unfinished
presentation: 2/5

#225: My Home World - lordsagreas - PW-1VqaotscEI

Apparently there's still another default home world. It's the same as some of the previous homes, but it's winter so it's covered in snow.

tags: default home world, interior, winter
difficulty: 1/5
fun: 2/5
presentation: 3/5

coins: 1/1
crown: get

#226: Arts and Crafts - diamondheader - PW-1WEZ4RbcEI

This world is by RED CREW, and the description is "OH YEAH?"

I was expecting a sandbox world, but I think this is meant to be an adventure level. The plot is to restore the world of nothingness with its elements.

You start in Level 1: Earth. It's some rather basic platforming. all done with brown bricks. In theory you need to flip a switch door to get to a hook jump, but I just jumped over it with a fast jump. The rest of the level select is unreachable, but even if you use god mode you'll find the other areas don't exist anyway. I hesitated to give this a 2/5 for the fun, but there are enough levels with tedious gameplay that I figured the lowest rating wasn't appropriate.

The emblems on the minimap are interesting. They may be parallel to the level themes. The rightmost has the most obvious meaning, being the four elements—representing levels 1, 2, 3, and 6 with Earth, Air, Water, and Fire. The Water and Air corners are decorated, and the fire corner has a sign saying "Infernis", possibly a name for a fire area. The sign, as well as blocks in gravity arrows in the fire corner, suggests it may have been meant to be reachable at some point.

Right of the middle is white spots on black. It likely represents the Cosmos, matching Level 10.

The remaining emblems with no clear level counterpart are Life, Personality, Purpose, Energy, and Knowledge.

Left of the middle has either a "fire and ice" or "hot and cold" theming, which is more clear when you see the several lava blocks used. There are dark blocks in patterns that sorta look like symbols. After doing a little research, and scribbling both into Google Translate, I could not find any obvious connections.

The middle is mostly white, with a black arrow facing downward from the top. Perhaps coincidentally it looks like the arrows found on flying bison in Avatar: The Last Airbender.

The leftmost emblem is mostly pink and orange, separated by a blue and green border, with black and orange spikes from the bottom. It also has some kind of blue root or stem.

If anybody can decipher what these mean, let me know. They seem pretty interesting.

There's some miscellaneous stuff. Above the emblem, is a water icon with "ML". It might be a logo or insignia. In the top left, there are various gold-themed blocks, ice, booosts, and labels saying "GENG." and either "ONISIN" or "OHISIN". There is a small green "y", and in the top left a yellow circle with a god mode block. This area was likely for crew members to mess around, and I suspect the text is some of their usernames.

For some reason this world got a "Connection lost" error when I tried to play it in PixelWalker twice. This is different from the usual "Connection closed" error from an unrecognized world ID.

tags: adventure, mostly empty, story
difficulty: 2/5
fun: 2/5
presentation: 2/5

#227: Anthropocentrism - commanderkitten - PW0J2mOi3ncEI

Gorgeous world, that deserves a lot more than 400 plays. It has a lot in common with Unau's "Oddus~" from last week, being a wide world split into four sections with distinct colors. The scenery is bright and dreamlike. The last area is a change of pace, being moody and rainy with no visible plant life. The use of half blocks on top of poles for mushrooms is a clever way to work floating platforms naturally into the environment.

My first idea of the world's theme was the four seasons. The first is full of tulips and spring-like. However, the third section doesn't resemble any particular season which weakens this theory, as well as the "winter" section having rain instead of snow and the "summer" section having wilted flowers which I assume is closer to autumn.

I decided to look into the title. Anthropocentrism refers to the tendency for humans to focus on themselves as superior. The world starts out with nature, and progressively gets more human buildings such as temples. The grey, plantless end has Eastern religious iconography such as torii (Japanese shrine gate) and yin-yang decorations. It could reflect religion being part of human identity, or be used to blend in with the mysterious, grey environment.

Now the gameplay. This is the least substantial part of the level. This is a rather sparse level. The first section and cave boil down to "hold the right keys to slide through" which is satisfying to watch, but there's not much to it once you figure it out. The last section uses several Secret blocks with no indicators of where they are, as far as I can tell, so it's a bit of trial and error. Though to be fair, the platforms are consistently sized and fairly to get past in about 1-2 minutes.

tags: adventure, minis, outdoors, nature, platforming, slidey minis
difficulty: 2/5
fun: 3/5
presentation: 5/5

coins: 4/4
bcoins: 4/4
win: 1:50.432

#218: Worlds Easiest Game - muffin - PW3MAP_p5dbEI

A recreation of The World's Hardest Game, a top-down game where you dodge hazards and collect coins. Everybody Edits doesn't have moving hazards, making this the Worlds Easiest Game with no obstacles. You could also call it the Games Easiest World.

The gameplay is very basic—just collect coins to get through. Some rooms don't even have coins to collect. It gets bit repetitive with around thirty rooms, though they are quick to get through. The hardest part is getting the last three optional coins in the end room which requires a bit of fiddling with boost arrows.

I like the visuals of the light checkerboard. However, the world doesn't use the space very well, leading to the rooms being very close together while there's a bunch of unused blue space on the bottom and right sides. The win room uses the crowns to make an unpleasant brown on red design on the minimap.

The idea is a bit novel, but it doesn't make for a really interesting world.

The world ID has "MAP" in it.

tags: coin hunt, game recreation, no gravity
difficulty: 1/5
fun: 2/5
presentation: 2/5

win: 127.22s
coins: 99/99
crown: get

#219: Small Stairs v2 - jojohihi - PW5w6dq7hYa0I

A sign welcomes you to the "oldest unchanged world in EE", being from 2012 (aside from the sign itself). More specifically, the description says late 2012 or early 2013. Even if you ignore empty worlds, with over 72,000 saved worlds created in 2012's first half, over 146,000 from 2011 and over 6,000 worlds from 2010, I am inclined to say that no, this is definitely not the oldest. Probably thousands of those have probably been untouched since 2011, and probably a few from 2010. I also met the creator of the world, whose name in PixelWalker I forgot. To be fair, the world was created in January 2, 2011 which is very old, putting it in the earliest 9000 (under 0.1%) saved worlds in ArchivEE. That's more elusive than being untouched since 2012 IMO, but the world creator might not have realized the age of the world since it's not really clear in-game.

Anyways, the actual world is small stairs. I respect the world for making it small and not wasting too much of my time. The first staircase has coin spam, and it's impossible to get through the last section if you miss any. It makes me wonder why the coin door wasn't placed in the section with all the coins.

You can spam the keys, and the end reward being crown and keys shows that this is intentional. There are some key gates, which I assume are meant to stop players from jumping up while the keys are triggered, but some of them act as platforms to help players jump up. Unfortunately the entire world cannot be completed this way, which could be a fun twist on the stairs formula.

tags: allows key spam, coin skip softlock, stairs
difficulty: 1/5
fun: 1/5
presentation: 1/5

coins: 64/64
crown: under 40s

#220: Rapunzel - mihb - PWs-2FNebMa0I

Also made by Mega Lamb (Xenonetix). This world is based off the German fairy tale of "Rapunzel", but you probably knew that. After climbing Rapunzel's outrageously long hair, you travel through various rooms of the castle until you reach the treasure room at the top.

The artwork gives a lot of color and life to the house. However, it does look a bit off the more you look at it. The way certain blocks are mixed, like the Factory boxes and bloody Halloween blocks feel out of place you just look at the in-game screen. The rooms are inconsistent in scaling, especially the basement which is around double in scale. The floors are misaligned in the top half, which is usually not how buildings are built. It feels like the shape of the castle was decided before having the rooms make sense. As the level is a side view of the grasslands, the mountains look a bit too tall and prominent for the environment. The sun also looks like it was rushed. The scenery on the left side looks nice.

The minigames seem rather varied in size and shape and fairly original. A lot of them rely on gravity arrows serving as barriers, or covering the floor with up arrows, and I would have preferred a bit more space to run and jump. The only mini I actively disliked is in the second-last room (not including the win room), which is a mess to control having arrow walls combined with an arrow elevator.

Once you get 26 out of 50 coins—the maximum before the final room, which has 24, you get access to portals taking you to the top of the Rapunzel text. From there, you can do two tricky jumps to get the last two blue coins, which is pretty fun.

This is a quality world, the kind I'd expect to see in a campaign. The minis are well varied, if rather arrow-reliant, and most of the artwork is good. If I seem critical, that's because there's more to criticize in a quality level. It would be a waste to go this in-depth for criticism of a stairs level.

I was tempted to rate this 2/5 in difficulty, but I gave it 3/5 because some parts are tricky and John PixelWalker could not complete it.

tags: adventure, castle, fairy tale, fantasy, interior, minis, outdoors, sky, tower
difficulty: 3/5
fun: 4/5
presentation: 4/5

win: 668.44s
coins: 50/50
bcoins: 5/5
crown: get

#221: Oddus~ - unau - PWmhgPPgWFcEI

One of EE's finest worlds. This should have way more than 818 plays. Everybody who commented on this world after joining it in PixelWalker seemed to enjoy it.

The main mechanic is respawning at checkpoints. The gameplay stays strong, and keeps defying my expectation by using the checkpoints in different contexts, and revisiting the same areas with new awareness and context. All without the traditional progress gating methods like coins or one-use switches. Another cool thing is the bosses, which are brief but require a lot of precise inputs to reach the checkpoints. The fourth section uses a boss in a creative way that I won't spoil. There's even an extra mode once you complete the level, but I'll leave it up to players if they want to find out what it is.

The visuals look nice and clean, both in-game and on the minimap. I feel some levels try a bit too hard to make the foreground and background blend together, but this is not one of those worlds. The background and clear and black as night, giving you a nice silhouette of the level, which reminds me of older levels from before backgrounds. There's nothing wrong with using lots of backgrounds, but I appreciate this approach. Each level has distinct colors an shapes.

According to TURTLECAT1, the last section is unfortunately impossible in PixelWalker due to the reduced lava timer. I quit the level partway through the fourth section because of this, but maybe I will complete it another day once I can put it in the leaderboard.

This level is excellently designed. I strongly recommend trying it out.

tags: adventure, checkpoint puzzle, fantasy, metroidvania, puzzle,   
difficulty: 4/5
fun: 5/5
presentation: 5/5

other: not fully explored

#222: ANDREJQ world - andrejq - PW-1PwOeiKbUI

ANDREJQ... That username seemed familiar, and reminded me of my Kongregate days back in 2012. Well, the world owner is registered on Facebook, and it turns out I was thinking of AndreiTan2000. No nostalgia rushes this week.

It might be hard to recognise at first, but this is a variant of the MrShoe home world. The big island is bulkier, there's more grass on the right, and there's an oddly shaped house. There are two coins inside, but you need god mode to reach the keys to open the doors. I like how colorful and weirdly shaped the house is.

tags: home world variant, outdoors, social

coins: 0/2

#223: Animals Only - lunathevampirewolf - PW-1QXazBpcUI

The description is "Please Join I'm Lonely". I doubt it'll help your loneliness playing it in 2025, and I might not quite be an animal, but I'll join anyway.

At the spawn, there's a vine taking you to a green structure with cloud blocks next to them. I don't know what it represents.

Past a 0 global switch door, which needs god mode to be reached, you can go up and reach a blue building of sort with cloud blocks. Based on the world name, owner name, and world contents, I'm guessing this is meant to be an animal role-play level, with the clouds representing pillows or something.

tags: blocked off, roleplay

#209: Cool Art - sillly - PW-1OAEkU2bUI

A week ago, back on Day 25, I briefly went into this sprite art world, expecting to quickly review it. However, something caught my eye, and addressing it would take a bit too long for the rush I was in. It's a Shroob smiley, from Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time. There have been not one, but two suggestions for a Shroob smiley on these forums (216325, 471594). I want to know, is there a reason for this? Are Shroobs that popular?

The other artworks are a Super Mushroom and a Boo. The Super Mushroom is a bit oddly colored. You'd think the world owner would use Basic red or Metal yellow to colour it, but the block choice makes it look rather dark.

The crown and win trophy are right next to the start. I can't precisely time the crown, but since it's the same distance from spawn as the win trophy I'll just assume it's the same as the win time.

tags: gallery, mario, mario & luigi, smiley, sprite, super mario bros 3, super mario world
win: 0.42s
crown: 0.42s (estimate)

#210: parour race - richman95 - PW-1OhUs1vbkI

The world title says it's a parour [sic] race, but this isn't a race at all and it's barely parkour. You jump up the ledges to the top, then you reach the crown. The rest is unfinished.

The start has all three keys pressed, but they do nothing but open up the doors letting you start the level. This is rather bizarre, since in platforming race levels like this, the platforms are usually made of key doors, with keys at the end to send losers back. I'm guessing the owner didn't think that far ahead.

tags: climb, mostly empty
difficulty: easy
crown: 8s

#211: I WANT MONKEY! - wuhaohan - PW-1OiT1dHcEI

I was expecting more coins, but I guess that's why the world owner wants money.

How do I classify this? This is too open-ended to be minis, and too abstract to be an adventure level. In the top layer you go through a small slow dot maze, jump across some platforms with keys opening them up. In the bottom layer there's a hover, another maze, and a small key puzzle.

Strangely there's no end point, even though there's enough room to put one and the level being made well after coin doors, win trophies, and crowns were added. So, just do what you can to collect all the coins. If you skip the first one, you can't go back for it. You can also get stuck at two parts if somebody spams the key.

I wrote this entire description, and just now realized the title says monkey, not money. I have no clue how it's related to the level.

tags: allows key spam, coin hunt, layers, maze, non-linear
coins: 4/4
bcoins: 1/1
difficulty: easy

#212: Untitled World - kodekpl - PW-1OtrxX4a0I

I respect a level I can barely make sense of. Really keeps you aware of how much of the world you don't see, and don't understand. This 2011 level has an assortment of weird stuff I can't quickly summarize.

You start in the top left, with 12 coins surrounded by blue key doors. The doors are surrounded by another barrier, this time with Basic blocks, making me wonder why the blue key doors are there if opening takes you barely anywhere. There's a 5x5...smiley artwork? It has a yellow top half, a purple bottom half, blue eyes, and a red mouth. Might just be abstract art at this point. The top right has red and blue keys, and some rectangles.

In the middle, there's another room with coins and a crown. To reach it, you need the red key. It also has a green key which opens up the bottom. The red key also opens keys around some red blocks, but they are too high to be used as platforms.

The bottom is a loop of arrows around a rectangle.

tags: nonsense
coins: 12/25
crown: impossible

#213: PACMAN - loxmender1523 - PW-1P7e001bEI

Here comes Pac-Man, again! Will it actually be a Pac-Man World™ this time? The answer is yes! It's a blue maze mostly made of dots and key doors. Four random colorful background blocks are scattered through the maze, which puzzled me, but then I realized they represent the ghosts. Four coins are placed near the corners (but not where the Power Pellets actually go), and collecting all lets you go to the Ghost House where the win trophy is. This can barely be done in under 20 seconds.

This level not only allows key spam, but goes so far as to encourage it. The Ghost House has an arrow loop pushing you to the blue key. The key completely changes how you play the world—the walls disappear, making the maze paths a lot harder to travel without falling to the bottom. However, there are so many dots that it's not hard to use them as a ladder to reach the top of the maze. The key doors also open up the Ghost House and by extension the win trophy. This lets you beat the world much quicker, under 2 seconds from top, and under 1 from below (which is a bit harder).

There are some oddities in compared to the original maze. The top is missing a row of paths, but they couldn't fit without shrinking some of the walls. Some of the Basic blocks stick out could be more strategically placed while having the same effect, better imitating the original maze. In addition, the spawn is in a weird spot off the side instead of the place where Pac-Man usually starts. Besides all this, the maze is a solid recreation of the original.

This might be the densest description I've made so far.

tags: maze, multiplayer, pac-man
difficulty: easy
win: 0.92s

#214: . - dabs - PW-1P8qeQxbUI

Artwork of a Worker in god mode. As a enjoyer, I respect the world owner's taste in smileys. I also like that it's in god mode, which is rather uncommon in minimap sprite art. Crowns surround the smiley, and one is gotten automatically if you just fall from the world spawn.

However, there is one glaring issue. A big mess of blue scrambled all over the smiley, as if somebody did a quick trolling session. Talk about an Over Blue Level.

Lesson hopefully learned: always save before giving away edit.

crown: 0.00s

#215: sweet home sweet - soohan - PW-1P9y5V4bUI

Our second "sweet home" world. It's a variant of the MrShoe home world, with a bunch of small differences. You know what this calls for? Our first bulleted list! Two of them (the coin and spawn point) I didn't realize until opening another window with the original home world.

• The main building now has an orange chimney.

• The spawn has been moved from above a sign, to in front of the red building.

• The middle island has been extended.

• The coin has been removed.

• The rightmost island, and the cliff with the trophy are missing.

• The island backgrounds used for shading have been converted into foreground blocks. Funnily enough, it looks like some of them were converted to the wrong color, resulting in a rather noticeable green block.

• The water has different backgrounds.

tags: home world variant

#216: BLACKSKY COME HERE  - gerben - PWL2rNPSdqa0I

The first intentionally out of order world. Spike asked if this was the origin of difficulty tier levels, and while I don't know, the popularity suggests it could have influenced many players. The level is from January 2011, and it is the 51st most played world with a whopping 74,712 plays. Back on January 1, the very first non-default world here was a difficulty tiers level. It's a bit fitting I ended up playing another at the start of February.

This level features tiers of Greek gods, from Hestia to Zeus. The gameplay is skirting the line between "boxed minis" and "advanced platforming challenge", with overused minis like dot trails and a few hovers, but thankfully the level doesn't waste your time with stuff like filler tunnels or hook jumps. Most of the level is extended, raw platforming, which I like. It sometimes shakes things up with weird arrow challenges. There is one part where it's fairly easy to lose a small amount of progress by going back through the wall that serves as the checkpoint. This happened a few times, and while not major, it could be considered "poor level design" as a player put it.

The world has a gradual increase in difficulty. However, the last tier, Zeus, lacks any checkpoint walls. The section also has some extended jumps quick require speed, and arrows that require pacing yourself. This makes it a lot harder, and is where I spent much of my time in the level. It's a bit merciless, but it felt fair enough for me, as you can get the feel for where to make your jumps. Since the layers are accessed with dots, and not arrows, you can go back through the dot tunnel to get an overview of what's coming ahead.

The hilarious part, is that after winning, the crown is behind a 12 coin door. There are only 11 coins.

THREEWHEELDRIVE showed us you can get on top of the HESTIA text right as you spawn. The text is shaded with one-ways. If you want a minor challenge, try getting inside the one-way on the far right of the text, as 3WD did. Opayye also got all 11 coins and reached the end. Might as well make a note here for my leaderboard.

tags: difficulty tiers, greek mythology, horizontal parkour, layers, minis
difficulty: hard
coins: 11/11
crown: impossible
diamond: 0.00s

#217: RED TEAM - dtmfm1229 - PW-1PjsbwRbUI

Text saying RED TEAM. What red team? I have no idea. To get the win trophy, just climb to the middle of the E. It's mildly fun to speedrun.

tags: text
difficulty: easy
win: 2.60s