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Heliceo made his debut on the forums when posting his first CTM map, entitled "The Corrupted Path". This map instantly drew players in with its great architecture, massive areas, and plentiful custom mobs; however, it was soon realized that the map had a few gameplay issues. It was unbalanced in places and suffered from Inferno-Minesian-Random-Loot-Syndrome, among a few other things. However, with his second release, entitled "Insomia" (due to permanent daytime), heliceo has improved even further on his aesthetics while fixing most, if not all, of the gameplay issues present in the first map.

The map is on an enormous scale with huge areas, and every single one of them looks fantastic. From the first area to the last, I found myself completely awestruck every time I stepped into a new area, despite even seeing what most of them look like beforehand from preview screenshots. On top of the natural caverns and formations, the buildings and architecture are some of the best I've seen in CTMs, and they're a blast to explore and conquer when they aren't being blown up by creepers.

Putting aside the looks of the map, the gameplay is also great. Despite the tons of custom mobs and loot, the gameplay is near-perfectly balanced aside from a few minor fluctuations in the first intersection. The gameplay from area to area is so varied that the map never gets boring, even when a single area can take three to four hours or more to conquer. One area has you exploring and collecting ingredients for a fire resistance potion so you can swim up a tube of lava to access the next area, another has you leaping on the tops of buildings with permanent speed and jump boost, another has tons of explosives lying around and creepers that can only be killed by letting them detonate, and yet another has you searching for treasure maps that pinpoint the wool's location while killing wolves to give you saturation and combat a permanent powerful hunger effect. Heliceo gives out heaps of hand-placed loot without making the player overpowered, making it easy to recover after a death, the monument is available very early in the map so the player can get established quickly, and travel times are made very short with the use of teleporters despite the large areas.

Additionally, while it doesn't have too much of a story, the entire map is packed with unique elements and objectives rarely ever seen in CTM maps (if ever) and tons of creative custom mobs and loot. On top of the bonus emerald block monument with a reward system, the side quests found in every intersection, and the devious yet fair traps, fun gimmicks are present in a lot of areas to add to the map's creativity. One area features effective "hallucinations" using nausea and the /playsound command, another kills you instantly unless you replenish your "shield" by killing charged creepers, and another features a horror-game style nightmare area where, when you are inflicted with blindness and you hear screams, you have to make yourself a place to hide or get killed by powerful baby zombies. Every area also has at least one or two custom mobs (some of the later areas can have six or seven each), which allow for a great range of difficulty and add to the overall experience.

Overall, it's a pretty challenging map, and it's massive (my total playtime was over 45 hours), but completely worth every second you play of it. With its unparalleled aesthetics and fun gameplay elements, it is by far my all-time favorite CTM map, and I'd highly recommend it to everyone. A map as great as this is a rarity, and it really should not be missed.

Ragecraft 2: Insomnia

I tried to beat this map, but I'll face it. I'm not cut out for playing CTM maps. I cannot be a critic of CTM maps. Something I can do however is write, therefore I could be a food critic, like this guy:
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Alas, as I have stated before, my problem is that I get lonely while playing. If I had a couple other people to play with, I would be very happy to play through these maps.

This one in particular is extremely difficult, but I can see how people would love this map. Even when I flew through in Creative Mode, I marveled at the apparent work put into it. I knew that I could never, or at least not without a ton of practice, do something like this map. I'm trying to make a map, but often I find myself bored for a while, and I have to work myself up to working on it again. This map feels effortless, everything blends so smoothly, and the map, while being a tad unfair, is extremely balanced for a Romhack Hard.

This truly has an artist's and an inventor's eye. I am not an artist, and I am mildly an inventor, but what I am is a writer. So, this map is going to get a full guide on the recently invented CTM Guide. Once it is complete, this map will be my first project. Tips and tricks a plenty will go around for talent-less map players like myself.

I hope you're happy, heliceo, because you should be. You have created a true masterpiece in CTM maps, perhaps better than even Vechs himself. Overall, I would give this map a 9.8 out of 10. Let me be the first to say that the elusive ten is extremely hard to come by by my standards. You would have to create a map so perfect it would be impossible for nearly every human on Earth. To create such a map would take an elite team a year or so to make, while working 9-10 hours a day.

The only reason this map is not at least a 9.9 is because there are ever so small flaws that make the map just that much less enjoyable. I cannot wait until heliceo releases his next map, but all I know about it is that it is going to be a long time. Another thing that I just realized could be improved about the map is the relative lack of secret content. Everything seems to be out in the open, but correct me if I'm wrong.

heliceo, I commend you in all of your lowercase greatness. Good luck, and keep on going.