Rating Curve

April Foole isn't a particularly serious level, so many of its elements are either not worth touching on here or can be chalked up to being the way they are for the sake of humour. However, especially for an April Fool's level, I really wish this level just picked one bit and went with it. Some of my favourite joke levels out there are the ones that just send it really hard on one very specific joke (think Your Brain On Drugs by Jayuff), where it's clear the creator really believed in their joke and wanted to let it shine. Throwing together a bunch of random bits of internet humour/culture into a ragtag mess doesn't get very far in the realm of making a level funny or memorable, and in my case really only served to make me cringe through a minute of level that feels very half-hearted in its attempt to be a joke in the first place. In my opinion, if you're going to try and be funny in a level, pick one bit you enjoy and commit to it fully for the level's entire length. The method that's used to do this is up to what the bit itself is - the "fake" bossfights and one-liners in Your Brain On Drugs wouldn't work as well for something like a You've Been Trolled level - but as long as you commit to it, the chance that the humour will land is a lot higher, and the chance that the level will feel like a proper, cohesive product is also a lot higher.