Hey everyone! Today were exploring something a little bit experimental with Tahazzars Show Whos Boss, which aims to create a sort of pseudo boss rush.
The concept of a boss rush, which is essentially going through several bosses consecutively, is somewhat troublesome to imagine working well in DEADBOLTs environment making it a series of levels (especially if you just put a bunch of levels from the games main campaign in a row) could be dull and tedious and if you choose for it to be a single level, you can run into trouble of just having too many enemies in one spot, and powerful enemies at that. Tazz decided to go with the latter but, fortunately put all the bosses in one large building, sparing a lot of space between bosses and enabling for somewhat fair one-on-one encounters.
As you could tell by looking at previous MotWs, I like hard levels, maybe even too much. And while this one, contrary to what wed usually see from Tazz, doesnt have any flashy decorations, it sure as hell delivers on the difficulty and the fun factor, having us face our arch nemesis like Madam Stela with her phylacteries and endless shotgun ammo or Amber & Evelynn with their harvest babble and many alike. No Timur though, darn.
Sure, theres a lot of space between the bosses, but that space also happens to be filled with other undead. If youre not careful, you can quickly find yourself out cornered by hordes of dogs and vampires coming your way. As always, the best strategy is divide and conquer.
Its a nice, simple level that provides a fair challenge with thoughtful enemy placement and just the right amount of guns littered around. While Show Whos Boss isnt unique with its story or visuals or even anything gameplay-related to begin with, I can still commend it for just focusing on the level design and succeeding in that regard. And hey, at the end of the day its a really fun level. And what else do you really need but a fun, well designed level? Play it now!