jolynsbass on 19/4/2005 at 00:05

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Here's the lowdown from me and my wife:
Nice stroll - Liked the waterfall(+sound), and the bridges, especially the fallen down boards... also liked how you could go behind the waterfall. Lots of potential in this one.

Cemetary - Wow. A lot can be said for a "beauty" mission by the first thing you see. And what we saw was really beautiful... Loved the fog(should be a little slower, though, I thought it was fancy water at first...), loved the light beams, and really loved the "reflective floor" inside the crypt... very nice effect. multitudes of tombstones + much variety = good thing.

Requiem - loved the 3 eulogies, and the different stained glass windows. Also really loved the reflections, and the use of warm light coming in nearly horizontal to simulate sunset... very nice indeed. Music was very good too.

Butterfly - It took me a while to find a butterfly, but I did ride one. Loved the waterfall, and the boulders in the pool... the flowers and bushes and trees were quite nice also. Colorful and spring-y.

Lazarius - Another one of those initial impression missions - the first thing you see is a stunningly beautiful scene - the warm light of the candles(and their coronas), and the beautiful textures add up to visual goodness. I agree, the "cut and paste" hallway was a little tedious, but at the same time, I was agog at the texture/architecture combination - very beautiful work.

Surrounded - My wife took a special fancy to this mission - I think its the pond. She loved the flowers and plants and the stone path around it, everything was very well placed. I loved the attention to background details - the smoke stacks pouring out their smog, the big tanks on the buildingtops... Plus, the feeling of wondering why the chairs were all covered... Nice atmosphere.

Clocktower - Very atmospheric, the multi-level tower was so very detailed and chocked full of very well-placed and reasonable objects. (1 obvious exception) . The lightning/lighting was fantastic, the rooms were fun to explore, and the attention to detail was incredible.

A lot of really good-looking and atmospheric missions... I'd love to see these turn into real FM's one day. CONGRATS to all the authors!!

MOG on 19/4/2005 at 01:44

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I always write/comment to much, so in short:

"A nice stroll" was fun, and as the author wrote; better have an entry than not.

"Hazelshade Cemetery" I think was most surprising and goodlooking.

"Requiem for a Thief" was very nice, well done.

"Ride the Butterfly" scenery was a forest scenery in daylight which is two very difficult (allmost impossible) settings to make goodlooking, alltogether an extremly brave attempt. Also enjoyed the AI's very much.

"St.Lazarius" best part was all the nice pictures on the walls, great lighting and atmosphere. I think art teachers should consider this way to teach art history.

"Surounded by the Metal Age" had a nice symbolic meaning and was cool even though I hate the bigbl.pcx (one of the core textures for thief).

"The ClockTower" was allmost as goodlooking and impressive as The Cemetery, more build work done with it for sure (big pluss) but something made my final vote for Hazelshade.


Greetings
M :) G

mxleader on 19/4/2005 at 03:03

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Those are some awesome maps. Who needs Thief DS?

Lucky Hand of Glory on 19/4/2005 at 05:26

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..ok, what they said exactly, with a few suggestions/additional comments:

Clock: if a RL pic must be added (and i think its great), get one of her not smiling, without glasses, looking away from camera, to go with the atmosphere. If possible, sepia the color. To (slightly) quote a movie line, "You had me at <s>hello</s> the lightening and thunder and rain" ---> to me, the perfect way to begin a stunningly awesome mission. It was forboding and yes, i too, expected to find some (custom) horror awaiting me on the top level :thumb:

Lazurius: very very nice, i even liked the cut and paste hallways, but the pin-up chick was distracting and odd (i am a female taffer, so find the double-D babes in missions to detract from the atmosphere sometimes :erg: ). The music cut out on my PC, but i would have liked to have heard it continue the whole time i was there = very atmospheric. I loved the way this one looked.

Requium: i freakin loved this, with the different windows for each level and the voice acting and script was perfect and very professionally done! I loved the view out the window and the dust particles. Just gorgeous!! I felt like i was there (though I would have liked to have been able to steal a valuable momento off Garret's body during the viewing ;) [his eye, perhaps?])

Surround and Stoll both very nicely done: Surround used sound they way it should be to create excellent atmosphere, and Stroll was really different in a good way - those orange circles should one day open to different areas of a FM. I don't think i got Butterfly to work properly, but kudos to the author for attempting a daylight mission - and i loved the hopping creatures.

Graveyard: I was torn between wanting to flee this place in fear and the love of never wanting to leave this (excuse the cliche') "hauntingly" beautiful place. Said before, but fog should have been slowed down, and it would have been awesome to just,ever so slightly detect, 'something' floating on the other side of the yard...in amongst the fog. i Loved it!

All in all, these were an absolute pleasure to explore. Each unique and very well done. It will be very hard to chose a favorite.

:thumb: :thumb: :thumb:

Logan on 19/4/2005 at 08:37

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Screens. May be slow download or busy. For a full preview touch a glyph on theright top of a page.

(http://darkfate.iskratelecom.ru:81/FILEARCHIVE/FAN-MISSIONs/Metal_Age/Hazelshade Cemetery, bc/screens/) Hazelshade Cemetery, bc

Else: Lady Jo site (http://ladyjo1.free.fr/FM/page114b.htm) Hazelshade Cemetery

( http://darkfate.iskratelecom.ru:81/FILEARCHIVE/FAN-MISSIONs/Metal_Age/Clocktower%2C%20the%2C%20bc/screens/) Clocktower, the, bc

Else: Lady Jo site (http://ladyjo1.free.fr/FM/page114g.htm) Clocktower, the

(http://darkfate.iskratelecom.ru:81/FILEARCHIVE/FAN-MISSIONs/Metal_Age/Nice%20Stroll%2C%20a%2C%20bc/screens/) Nice Stroll, a, bc

Else: Lady Jo site (http://ladyjo1.free.fr/FM/page114a.htm) Nice Stroll, a

(http://darkfate.iskratelecom.ru:81/FILEARCHIVE/FAN-MISSIONs/Metal_Age/Requiem%20for%20a%20Thief%2C%20bc/screens/) Requiem for a Thief, bc

Else: Lady Jo site (http://ladyjo1.free.fr/FM/page114c.htm) Requiem for a Thief

(http://darkfate.iskratelecom.ru:81/FILEARCHIVE/FAN-MISSIONs/Metal_Age/Ride%20the%20Butterfly%2C%20bc/screens/) Ride the Butterfly, bc

Else: Lady Jo site (http://ladyjo1.free.fr/FM/page114d.htm) Ride the Butterfly

(http://darkfate.iskratelecom.ru:81/FILEARCHIVE/FAN-MISSIONs/Metal_Age/St.%20Lazarius%2C%20bc/screens/) St. Lazarius, bc

Else: Lady Jo site (http://ladyjo1.free.fr/FM/page114e.htm) St. Lazarius

(http://darkfate.iskratelecom.ru:81/FILEARCHIVE/FAN-MISSIONs/Metal_Age/Surrounded%20by%20the%20Metal%20Age%2C%20bc/screens/) Surrounded by the Metal Age, bc

Else: Lady Jo site (http://ladyjo1.free.fr/FM/page114f.htm) Surrounded by the Metal Age