The Dark PRO

Well, what do you expect? It's all this way!

My eighteenth house. This is a house that hasn't paid it's electric bills in quite a while. Translation: every room is dark. Kind of frustrating, but keep at it! Most of the rooms are much easier than they seem... One trick to playing this house is to be patient! Wait a few seconds until you see where the sparkles are. Sparkles are located on solid objects. 39 rooms, A from GT, A- from CP

Here are the reviews from GliderTech and The Cockpit:

Paul's Grade: A

The Dark PRO is rather difficult to review: Not only is it hard to play, but all its custom art is black! Considering the number of times this house has changed hands, I think Matt Wolfe deserves a round of applause for getting it out the door. When playing the actual rooms of The Dark PRO, I was confronted with an entirely new experience: I could not tell any information about a room at all. All I saw was a staircase here, an outlet buzzing there... the rest is total blackness. Mind you, I could play the thing, but it was a scenario that I haven't ever seen before. It's very cinematic. The Dark PRO is yet another high-ranking house by a Glider PRO veteran.

Jack's:

Overall: B+
Fun: A-
Difficulty: A
Art: (what art?)

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First off, I would like to say that The Dark PRO is a very good idea. The idea was that of Orion Trist, whom Matt forgot to comment in the "read me" and opening banner. Secondly, I would like to say that this is a very fun house. With this combanation of great house-makers, that's what you'd expect! Well, let me paint a picture for you. Remember the graveyard in Slumberland? Well, picture that taking the place of the meadows and fields. Stars taking the skies, and everything inside is PURE BLACK.

Well, there still are some troubles with the house though. There's an extreme lack of art, only two backgounds, the unoriginal graveyard and the all black screen, and a very cheesy opening banner. This all doesn't subtract from the house, but if you were to put more, better art in, you would get a a little better house. Another thing was the background clashes when going from graveyard to black. There were also a few floating objects flying around. Please! I know helium makes you fly, but it can't fly by itself. I liked the house a lot, but I don't know if it deserves an "A" from GliderTech. Houses like, Themulad, and MadHouse deserve "A"'s, and not short houses like TDP. But I realize that it's just another opinion, like this most of this review.

But what really gets to you, which is both bad and good, is the whole idea of the house. All dark with sparkles to guide your way. Sometimes it is good, and makes you want to play it over, and over, untill you succeed. Sometimes, however it rubs you the wrong way. This is what I like to call FL, or "Frustration Level." In other words, instead of making you want to play it again, it makes you want to put it on a disk and flush it down the toilet, then go down into the sewar and melt it with a blow torch. Not even mentioning what you want to do to the author... I'd download it, but beware...

Ryan's:

Overall: A-
Fun: B
Difficulty: A
Art: B+

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This house can be summed up in 3 words: Maximum Frustration Factor. I guarantee that before you finish playing this house, you will have teared all of your hair out. Well, maybe not, but it's a good way to tell you how hard it is.

Started by an idea by Orion Trist, The Dark Pro was worked on by many house authors, Aaron Shakra, Ira Ham, Jim Cox, and finished and uploaded by Matt Wolfe. I think this house was a great idea, all darkness, and sparkles representing obstcles, intead of the all too commonly used "follow the sparkles" route. A very addictive house also. I think I must have played it about twenty times before I finally beat it. Matt Wolfe is known for addictive houses, like Wolfe Tower two and three.

Background clashes are the main problem with art in this house. This house starts in the graveyard you remember from Slumberland, but The next room is completely pitch black. A cool thing that could have been done was to make a fade from the graveyard into pitch black, but then again, we can't always get what we want. I think you will enjoy this house, but prepare to get frustrated!

Note: About forgetting to mention Orion in the read me and opening banner; I had no idea that he had anything to do with this house until I read these reviews. Oh, well...

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