Biglolly Coop - GrandmasterJ

 


    Big Lolly is a conversion of a standalone mod made for the author's brother's birthday. It's short and sweet, pun intended.

SCMapDB page

Original mod authors: Cayle George

Conversion authors: Royal-soldier

Date of original mod release: 2003

Date of final Sven Map release: 2009

Maps in package: 6

Map review of Biglolly Coop

(originally posted on SCMapDB)

by GrandmasterJ | January 30, 2022 | 1854 characters

    Biglolly is a map that looks really good. The textures are nice, the level design is interesting, and the candyland concept is really fun. The map series may consist of 5 maps but each one is so short the whole thing just flies by. Enemies are zombies reskinned to be gingerbread men, headcrabs reskinned to be red gummy bears, and cockroaches reskinned to be tiny sour patch kids. There are also some nice butterflies flying around the maps and players can pick up snarks which are green gummy bears. The crowbar was a lollipop and the pistol was a banana, there were also grenades near the end that were pop rocks attached to soda. This series even has an introductory cutscene with a fairytale book opening up and a high pitched voice reading off the page plus an ending cutscene of a floating candy island with more narration. The map ends rather abruptly and completely after the end cutscene. When I say 'completely' I mean the server shut down, I was kicked to the desktop instead of changing map to one of the defaults.

    The map was fun. It was short but very sweet (pun intended). The combat was a bit lacking and there was a lot of platforming I didn't like but in the grand scheme of things, neither of those things were huge problems. The map is just really fun to be in and experience.

Pros:

  • Fantastic visual style
  • interesting level design, the platforming sections weren't terrible
  • lots of fun model replacements and custom sounds
  • I liked the intro and outro cutscenes

Cons:

  • I don't like the way the map ends the whole server, this is a problem for dedicated servers
  • I'm just not that big a fan of platforming

Score: 8 / 10

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Deluge - Dunkelschwamm

Image
       Deluge is a very atmospheric map made by one of the community's most acclaimed mappers, RNG. This map is very indicative of his style, well detailed moody and oppressive environment, strange monsters, and high levels of interactivity including lots of secrets. SCMapDB page Author: RNG Date of final release: 2014 Maps in package: 1 Map review of Deluge (originally posted on SCMapDB) by dunkelschwamm | April 9, 2022 | 4625 characters      Deluge is a map by RNG, which you can assume means it is a quality map. RNG brings style, high-production, and a confusing sense of eldritch nonsense that glues the experience together in a way that makes it feel like something that was summoned from another plane of existence rather than mapped out.      The map is a classic arcade-style keyhunt level. After choosing a difficulty (I suggest going as hard as possible, as with two players it felt easy) you hop into a gritty world that feels like brutalist, industrial architecture made its way
Read more

What is this place and why should I care?

Image
Welcome friends, to Sven Co-op map reviews.     My name is GrandmasterJ and my colleague and other reviewer who is not writing this post is Dunkelschwamm.  This blog exists purely because we have zero faith that Wikidot will exist much longer and want a place to host our reviews. All maps are hosted over at the Sven Co-op Map Database, which you should already know about. It is pretty much the only place dedicated solely to hosting the maps for this wonderful mod. All our reviews are written there first and copied over to here for preservation.     If you don't know what Sven Co-op is and/or haven't been to the database take a moment to familiarize yourself. You can download Sven Co-op via Steam right here by clicking this text . You can visit the map database by clicking on this text . But if you are already familiar with those two things and are looking to avoid garbage maps in favor of the best then you have come to the right place.      Dunkel and I have a combined 400 year
Read more

Zombie Squad - Dunkelschwamm

Image
       Suit up squad, it's time to go fight human grunts that this map calls zombies. This map is a horde map taking place in a burned out urban block, supposedly there are points to capture but I didn't see any. SCMapDB page Author: cyberdaemon Date of release: 2005 Maps in package: 1 Map review of Zombie Squad (originally posted on SCMapDB) by dunkelschwamm | July 17, 2023 | 2601 characters      Zombie Squad is a well detailed horde map wherein grunts and hwgrunts (and, like, an assassin) swarm the players from every angle. Thankfully, within the details of the ruins are plenty of weapons, and a reasonable smattering of HEV and health pickups.      The description makes it sound like maybe my experience with the map is broken. There were, like, 3 soldiers which looked like zombies in the map. I think far more were meant to be zombies? Also, the MOTD makes it sound like there's some funny control point business, like there's an objective to the map. Far as I can tell a
Read more