A zorbastic adventure (4330553)

[urban nymph]

A troll level I made pretty much out of spite to show zorbs have their uses too
If you decide to play this (don't) I mostly want to know if there's anything confusing, annoying, or softlocks I might've missed.

[urban nymph]

@snow barn where was the softlock?

[snow barn]

Okay so bear with me if this is confusing as I do not have the game open, but in the anti-softlock/section of the dungeon with 3 chests and a bridge over mud, the ||safe wind gust beyond the boots chest will not trigger again if you go through the anti-softlock||

Also, there is zero indication for the correct answer for that section, I only figured it out because of an accident after like 10 minutes of trying and restarting

So it feels as though that solution can only be achieved by pure luck

[urban nymph]

I'm gonna be honest I have no idea what's the solution you found but I sincerely apologize for it 💀

I'll try to rework that section

you're right though there really isn't any indication

[snow barn]

If you want, I can record a vid once I'm off work in a few hours

But yeah that section is confusing as much as I like it

Because I think it's funny

It's just I have no idea how to explain what happened

[urban nymph]

Sure, that would help

||the thing is, that gust of wind behind the chest is just meant to take you to the anti, it doesn't really have any other purpose||

[urban nymph]

Ok I remade that room, it should be more straightforward now

and I fell for my own troll like 3 times while playtesting so that's always a good sign

[snow barn]

Perfect I love that

[snow barn]

||How were you originally supposed to clear? Because that wind gust took me to the end||

[urban nymph]

||once you get the boots you are meant to go back to the room with the zorb pillars, get the red gem from the 'indicator', and take it back to the start to retract the blocks||
||there's a couple alternate paths depending on whether you fall into the softlock or not, but that's the general idea||
||while it was possible to get the star gem (you had to fall into the mud and respawn to the left side (which, again, no real indication that you could do that, my bad)) that was never really necessary||

now there's an actual hint to the solution once you progress/mess up enough

[snow barn]

||I swore that I tried the zorb gem pillar and it spawned zorbius and blocked me in||

[urban nymph]

||one of the alternate paths (the intended one unless the player dodges a lot of stuff). When that happens there are arrows pointing to the portal, if you try again and go straight to the portal you get taken to another red gem and win||

[snow barn]

Ohhhhh

Yeah I definitely didn't do that lol

My route was definitely unintended I think

[urban nymph]

Yeah I can see that haha

[snow barn]

Aka I think my world record is going to remain solid for a long time

[urban nymph]

I think I know what you did and it's a cheese strat I tried to minimize but couldn't outright remove

[snow barn]

Oh lol

It was completely by accident

So yay to accidental cheese?

[urban nymph]

Well hey, at least you beat the dungeon one way or another

Lol

[snow barn]

I think that's the greatest victory, total elapsed time was about half an hour

And I was so close to giving up

I hope other people get to enjoy this dungeon, aka the streamers who go through it

Incredible troll dungeon regardless of the suffering I endured

[frail oyster]

I tested the level, the trolls were fine, but the best part was|| the Mario 64 music||