The Netherflame Blade is a singleplayer adventure/puzzle/PVE map for version 1.21.4 EXACTLY that was made by me, PsyKat777, the creator of the Enhanced map series. It has been tested by me and 2 beta testers, guigui0246 and soph1703. Based on what I hear from the testers, the map’s puzzles are normal difficulty, and the combat entirely depends on your in-game difficulty. The testers also tell me that it should take about 2-3 hours to beat. While development was a bit rocky for various reasons, I finished the map over a year after I started developing it!
In it, you are a teenage boy in rural South Carolina, USA, and the day is March 19th, 2017. Due to your poor performance in school as of late, your parents have decided that you will be spending the day outdoors like they did when they were your age. After wandering around for a few hours, you encounter a mysterious man and quickly find yourself deep underground in a ruined laboratory.
In this laboratory, more formally Facility 33 of the Arctangent Laboratories, you will uncover all sorts of secrets, from information regarding a legendary sword called the “Netherflame Blade” to the true nature of the mysterious evil that has destroyed the facility. If you want to leave this place, you’ll have to forge the Netherflame Blade and defeat this evil.
This map tries its best to keep and accentuate what was good about the Enhanced maps (interesting story and lore, charm, etc.) while taking away the bad parts (annoyingly difficult puzzles, excessive dialogue, lack of direction, etc.). New aspects are also added, like voice acting. You do NOT need to have played the Enhanced maps beforehand; they take place in entirely different universes.
The map is inspired by quite a few different things, most notably The Legend of Zelda, The Kitatcho Laboratories, and the SCP Foundation. However, it also has some smaller inspirations, like those old NicoThePro tool maps, Undertale/Deltarune, and Don’t Turn It On Origins: Realms.
So, yeah, hope you enjoy!
