The SMW community once again comes together to make a cornucopia of great levels. Some are very puzzly, some are surreal, some are artsy, and some are kaizo hard but in general the quality across this romhack is great. I had a splendid time playing these little adventures. Sure the difficulty and quality could fluctuate but I gave myself the rule that if a level was too frustrating, I could just skip. And I did that for a handful of them.

For the most part though, I enjoyed these levels. They were tough but not beyond my ability. I got a wide variety of themes and environments. There was an array of design styles. Altogether, this hack’s feast of level design was easy to love.

I’ve been playing this one on and off for a couple years and I even quit for a brief time because I wasn’t getting the same euphoria I did playing the 9th vanilla level design hack years prior, but eventually I loaded VLDC11 up again and it got infectious for me. I think VLDC9 is always going to standout because I had never played a collaboration hack before and its presentation blew me away. VLDC11, though, is pound-for-pound better than #9.

This annual thing bring out a lot of quality levels.