“Quest for Absolutely Nothing” by Cheezyboom

Veteran designer– and winner of some well-deserved LOTD’s– Cheezyboom has made a wonderful and inviting leaderboard challenge in the form of Quest for Absolutely Nothing. While the level itself only has a few difficult fast-paced platforming parts, the real fun is in the players all attempting to steal gold and a top place on the leaderboards from each other. With these awesome new block additions, the level opens up to some more scenic gameplay, and also shows off the new design models. Although short in length, this level makes up for it in a brief puzzle. First, you must hit a block repeatedly into a dip in order to be able to reach it’s top– which is made annoying to no fault of Cheezyboom’s, as the block is just to heavy by MiST’s design– while next you must quickly jump and ledge-hang repeatedly on some falling blocks. After this comes an easy moving platform segment in which you realize you can’t jump the distance between a block and the finish flag in the next room. To solve this small puzzle, you turn around, head through the small corridor behind you, jump on a platform and avoid a few spikes placed in strategic areas, and jump back on to avoid it disappearing and sending you to your death. Once in the upper room, you trigger two moving platforms and race back down to the original level through a teleporter– thus being at the beginning of the moving platform segment. Now it is as easy as jumping from platform to platform to the finish. All in all, this level only takes experienced players about three minutes tops to complete– or at least, it should. A wonderful design on Cheezyboom’s part and welcome addition to his other exciting levels.

Staff Score: EliteBlackDragon 7,240

Player Score: mrcoble 7,200

Atmosphir Rating: 4/5 Intermediate

AC Rating: 3/5 Intermediate