Best/worst areas in the game?

[BBQ]

Hey there,

I am curious, since almost everyone is different in what he likes/hates. So I wanted to know which areas you like most and/or least in the game and for what reasons (gameplay, visuals, BGM etc). No worries, there are no wrong answers here.

To start things off:

My favourite area in the game was Hall of Termination. Maybe I am just a dragon in disguise who loves gold but yeah, I liked that area the most by visuals/atmosphere.

My least favourite area was Den of Behemoths. That map felt kinda meh. "Look it's all huge!!" Nah, not my cup of tea.

Honorable mention goes to the Inferno Caves for the music. That somewhat amped it up a bit. And to the teleport and save rooms. Those liked kinda dope.

[Mutant1988]

Den of Behemoths is easily the worst. The huge enemy gimmick is grossly underutilized, the area boss feels disconnected from the theme (Apart from the huge poker chips) and the huge size of the rooms just makes it more annoying to navigate.

But the Ice Caverns also feel underdeveloped and a poor fit for 3 of the final boss fights. I really think they should have added a third area theme to the end for the fight against Dominique, such as a dark gothic area with obvious hellish corruption going on.

The Halls of Termination is easily the most interesting, alongside Livre Ex Machina.

[Juno Brier]

I'd have to say my favorite areas were Livre Ex Machina and Bridge of Evil. I like the aesthetics on both, they hold two of my favorite enemies (respectively Chair Mimic and Lili), and the train sequence was pretty cool.

I can see Den of Behemoths generally being one of the least popular areas, I'll admit it didn't sit well with me at first. The size was a bit of a pain, but the boss there was pretty interesting.

[BBQ]

I agree on the boss in Den of Behemoths.
I had to fight him twice because reasons (let's say I just ran into him and was not really prepared) ;-) and I made sure to fight it with an empty wallet. You don't trick me into a long fight....

[Tenshi]

I'm gonna start by saying i can't really think of an area i disliked, maybe like the village part? i dunno.

But the favorite defenitely goes to the Gardens, the area is cool and all, you can fiight ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Richter and theres a playable piano, not only that, you can make your Carabossa familiar sing while you play the piano. 10/10 would play the piano again.

[Dracology]

Den of Behemoths and Glacial Tomb were the worst for me which is sad because obviously that's the last 10% of the game.

Den was just.. big. That's all it has going for it. nothing really interesting going on there other than upsized monster who mostly give the same shards as their lower tier brothers. Glacial Tomb.. eh. It's tiny but also just felt to much like a reskin of some of the other cave like areas such as the hidden desert or the aquaway. In the end it doesn't really feel great as a final area for the final boss, this tiny ice cave under a 2nd, inflated, castle map.

I think having them seperated from the castle map was also kind of a mistake. we have some pretty sizable gaps in the main castle that those final areas could have gone in.

I mean I /get/ why its out there, they didn't want to have a couple obvious entryways left over when the player got to the 'final fight'. But there are plenty of ways they could have hidden them so.. i dunno.

[darklich]

I thought the teleporting torii gates in the Oriental Sorcery Lab were really neat. Def one of the more original elements in level design.

[DarkFenix]

I disliked the Den of Behemoths, it was basically copy pasta of parts of the garden, but obnoxiously large such that it took ages to move around each room. Conceptually there was nothing wrong with it, but the execution was awful.

Aside from that I thought all the areas were good. The implementation of the final fight in Glacial Tomb was pretty poor, but the area itself was fine.

[Auts Dog]

The ice caves. Only one enemy matches the theme of the area, no ice traps. They made ice props, made generic areas to walk through and nothing else.

[Sinsear]

Den of Behemoths should have utilized that large area for better monsters that could be suitable to be called Behemoths. I mean you only get the abyssal dragon and the rest are trash monsters. At least make the cannons just shoot across the map with a projectile or something.