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Hey there! It's me again. Thought I'd drop in and leave some footnotes on the graphics you've put together.



First off, this bit at the start wasn't outright appealing. The way you mashed cave and grass tiles, as well as the cave background, made a lot of cutoff be visible. Cave tiles and grass can actually be used together, and well, but you need to experiment a little more to make the terrain seem solid. Alternatively, you can mix either the cave or the grass with the dirt tiles at the Volcano tileset, or use stationary blocks (items) to help with your cutoff. Those tall trees also seemed they were all over the place, and made the start look even more cluttered.

On the other hand, many of your block arts (such as the duck and the parasol) were really nice, and I don't remember ever seeing many of the critters you've put together in other levels before. Nice work!

To help add some effect to both your level's strong and weak points (warning: shameless self-advertising), I point you to this glitch: the collisionless rotating and moving block. With that gimmick, you can set up fancy and solid cave backgrounds, critters you can walk through, or even talk with, given you hide a sign behind the blocks. Do note that, if you do use this glitch in future works, you should read all the notes about its in's and out's on the thread. It could save you a lot of trouble later down the road.

It's recommended to use complex kind of tiles. However, that doesn't mean you can drop tiles to the level disorderiy.
It's recommended that you can put more kinds of bolcks in the level, but not all kinds of tiles.

As the previous replies above mention, your level has some amount cutoffs and the tiles in the beginning wasn't really use the right and effective way. Other than the very beginning part though, the rest of the level was pretty interesting. The way you created some of these creatures like the squid and whale were something I didn't expect that could be possible. Overall not bad at all.