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So not only is this map based off of a song, It's also based off of a video game character - and I'm not telling you who it is.

A couple of the areas in the map may give you hints as to their identity, as will how things are named, and there's also a total of 4 books in the map that will give you some crytic clues as well.

So that we don't spam up this thread with guesses, you can either guess on my own thread, myah:

http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/mapping-and-modding/maps/2230260-ctm-rfw-black-shadows-map-collection-ctm-and?page=2

or fire me a PM.

If enough people are interested, I may leave more hints on my thread and reveal their identity in, say, a couple of weeks.

If not I guess it can remain a mystery. :3

Well Omega, you told me you like reading...

I can honestly say, I did not like this map. It was way too mob spammy and unbalanced which made it stressful to complete. On top of that, there were many derps such as open command blocks and holes in the walls that revealed void, a bedrock floor, or something similar.

First of all the desert area had a rather atrocious mix of sandstone and red sandstone that was painful to the eyes and just did not look good at all in my opinion. On top of that, the area was very empty, with nothing more than a couple trees and a few buildings in the walls. There was a small amount of mob spam here since under majority of the trees were a spawner that couldn't be broken before a mob spawned behind you. To add further injury, the player is given so few torches, that it was nearly impossible to light up and secure the spawners as well. I also noticed that the spawners were given an extra large spawn radius because even if the spawner was lit up around the normal 5 block radius, it would still manage to spawn somewhere. The loot often was too poor to properly fight off the wither skeletons so I eventually decided to stop fighting them altogether and mostly dash through the area. I thought the banners were pulled off nicely, though, it would have been nice if the player was given a cue of some sort to let them know that they did something right after placing them. The first boss fight was rather easy and I managed to kill him without taking a single hit.

The underwater area was extremely annoying. The guardians posed more as a nuisance for me since I decided that fighting them would be suicide. I just swam by them and placed blocks whenever I had to, in order to stop their lazers from hitting me. My real complaint with this area though, are the spawners. I'll start with the zombies. They weren't very dangerous, but they spawned so often and spawned in such a large block radius that they just became awful to have to deal with. The skeletons...oh no the skeletons. Their punch made them impossible to melee and the extreme lack of arrows made them not worth fighing from afar. Every single time I ended up having to fight them, I had crybox in a wall and just hit their feet. The spawners themselves were obnoxious to try and destroy since the punch skeletons and spammed zombies would always manage to hit me before I could break it. The loot in the area felt very underpowered and eventually became not worth grabbing.

The third area may be my favorite area in the map, though it too, suffers from the straight path syndrome. Like the first area, it was mostly just a flat path with occasional buildings and structures here and there. In the parkour part, I was idiotic enough to take the fun path, and I fell about 10 times and water dropped successfully each time. When I finally got to the top I managed to kill the boss quite easily and take the crystal. The knockback resistant skeletons were suprisingly easy to kill. (Omega already knows about the broken teleporter, so there's another clunky aspect of this map)

This last area is just awful. At this point, I still only had a stone pickaxe which bothered me greatly. The beginning of the area suffered from the flat and long straight path syndrome once again. The six spawners right in front of the castle were overkill, yet little did I know what was ahead of me. In the castle part was mob spam so bad that I couldn't be bothered fighting them. I ended up just going up the ladders, torching the area, and then running out to regenerate before repeating the process. After I found the painting, I fought the extremely easy boss, got the glass, and ran back through the mob spam to finish the area. Sorry if this sounds mean Omega, but this map was just very, very unbalanced and got to a point where it was no longer fun.

Anyways, victory pic!

This map was pretty challenging, but thankfully it was nicely balanced, and I played in the hardest "gamemode" with only two deaths total. The aesthetics, as usual, were pretty and simplistic. There's just something about shadow's mapping style that I really like . On a side note, I got an extra emerald, and three out of the four books, but I'm too lazy to figure out who the character is. (Apparently writing large clusters of feedback like this isn't lazy, but doing a simple puzzle is.)

The forest area that the players starts in was a bit overkill. I tried fighting all the mobs I saw and taking out the spawners with the little supplies I had, but it didn't work. I got swarmed and killed really quickly. After that, I decided to strafe away from the fun path a bit and I managed much better. Without armor, the mobs in the forest were overpowered and were really tough to fight without taking damage. I couldn't be bothered fighting the wolves for supplies either.

The fiery place, which had the first wool, had shadow's typical bridge-styled area. All the mobs and loot here were balanced, however those magma jockies might have been a bit too difficult, unless you just shoot them from afar. I thought the area looked fine, although, there wasn't anything particularly interesting about the area other than the mob variation.

Next up was the wintery castle area, which I thought looked pretty neat from the outside. Once again, the woods area had mobs that I couldn't be bothered to kill so I just ran into the castle, ignoring everything outside. The inside of the castle was visually simplistic, but looked good in my opinion. There weren't any mobs here that were overkill except possibly the silverfish. In a map where taking damage is devastating, the silverfish just peck the player's health down. The loot here seemed to be less powerful than the loot in the first dungeon, excluding the potions of course, so I wore the same golden armor that I got from the fiery area. I got my second death here from a little bit of mob spam in the room above the first layer of the "above ground" part. Overall, a fun map!

Victory pic: