Koti - Dunkelschwamm

  


    This map has three rooms, a bedroom, a balcony/bathroom/closet area, and dark hallways that lead nowhere. The map description says as much. This map is very small.

SCMapDB page

Author: Robootto

Date of final release: 2004

Maps in package: 1

Map review of Koti

(originally posted on SCMapDB)

by dunkelschwamm | January 22, 2022 | 1797 characters

    koti is a map which seems to exist as only a showcase of a brushwork representation of a bedroom. Being that it is a Robootto map, it's weird as shit.

    The bedroom itself is like the Twilight Zone- everything is off just a little. There's a ladder to a bunk over a computer desk, but there's not actually any bed up there. There's an alien looking game system, around which are game boxes for individual levels. I have never bought games one level at a time, but apparently that's how games work here. Also the ceiling light is this bizarre glittering cube with a glass cone sticking out of the bottom. The computer in the computer desk has no keyboard or mouse. There's what appears to be elevator doors into a closet that is blocked off by the furniture. Bad feng shui, what can I say?

    There are multiple rooms connected to this bedroom. One is a balcony(?) with opaque glass which can be shattered to reveal the skybox up close and personal. This room is lit bizarrely for what it's meant to be. A hallway, shrouded in darkness, and utterly empty, is connected to the bedroom.

    If this map is meant to show off a recreation of a room, it's a recreation of a weird and wonky and unrelatable room. I don't think it's very good, and I can't see any reason to spend time running around in it.

Pros:

  • Doesn't take up too much time
  • The idea of buying a game one level at a time predicted microtransactions

Cons:

  • All of the details are off or wrong
  • The map itself is kind of ugly.
  • Why even attach other rooms to it if they're just going to be black, empty hallways?

Score: 1 / 10

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