Pentakill by WOOGI1411 - 100% (Insane Demon)
1Completed Dec 18th
Raw Footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vweza1CmtPk
The eighth demon of Christmas and holy fucking shit do I have a lot to say about this level, starting with the good. I think this level is great, the deco is really good even now, the gameplay is (mostly) fun, and the song is cool.
Also 2.2 is out, after almost 7 long years! Luckily I finished this right before it because it seems there are a lot of physics changes that might affect how I play. But my game runs SOOOO much smoother now. So I might end up picking back up levels that I had dropped in the past for being too laggy. That alone is enough for this update to be all I ever wanted. The platformer levels are fun too!
Now that all of that is out of the way this was an absolute NIGHTMARE for me, every single bad thing that could happen did that all conglomerated into the perfect shitstorm of one of the worst experiences I’ve had playing the game. I’ll try to express this the best I can in words but I might just end up uploading the whole session later because I doubt anything I say will do it justice. Let me know if you’d want to see that but who reads these anyways lmao.
First I’ll give you a sense of the balancing of this level. The first 35% is easy. I passed it most attempts with the exception of a few clicks at the beginning.
Next was 36%-39%, one of the two massive chokepoints in the level, with some really awkward release timings and a hard blind ship transition that’s very tight, this part killed me most attempts.
40%-50% is fairly difficult but not nearly enough to justify how much I died here.
50%-77% is easy and consistent, it what I WOULD SAY if I didn’t die here about 30 times because I was playing like a fucking caterpillar.
77%-90% is the hardest part of the level, there’s an extremely specific timing at 84% into the gravity portal at the start of the ball, it was pretty random if you’d die there or not. There’s also a very tough ship after the ball and a pretty rough blind transition into the mini cube after that.
90%-100% was pretty easy, who on earth would die here right???
Act I - The Calm
(0-41 minutes into session)
The session starts strong, 7 minutes into recording I get 91%, a fluke from 39%. Pretty disappointed I died past all the difficulty but I was still confident it wouldn’t take me much longer. How wrong I was. The next 41 minutes would be me dying a bunch to the ending, including 2 more times past 90%. Any other day I probably would've beat the level within the first 30 minutes but it just really wasn't my day.
Fails in this section -
91 x2
87 x2
92
78
84
88
74 x3
77
89
75
Act II - The Storm
(41-99 minutes into session)
This is where things go from fine to terrible. Suddenly I find myself unable to get to 70% or even 50% very often, and not only that I start dying in places I wouldn't die much to before (40%-66%).
It's clear that I need to head back into practice mode but I have this bad habit of sticking to normal until I beat it if I'm confident I can finish that day. Things get worse and worse until I'm basically reduced to dying at 36% (which I forgot the timing for and didn't realize it until much later) and 39% over and over again. It was so unbelievably frustrating that it got to a point where I wouldn't care that I died past 39% as long as I got past it.
Fails in this section -
84% x2
82%
85%
Act III - Acceptance
(99-150 minutes into session)
After an hour straight of embarrassing gameplay, something clicks in my small monkey brain and I finally remember how to do 36%. That realization will be the last thought I have for the rest of this level, because my brain completely turns itself off and I just mindlessly grind out the level until I beat it. No anger, though I do start to find it a bit funny by the 400 attempt mark.
I had a 96% fail and honest to god I didn't feel a single thing after it. I wish I had a heart rate monitor cause I seriously think it would be my resting rate the entire time during this section except when I was butt-clenching my way through 36%-39%
Fails in this section -
84% x6
71% x2
74% x2
79% x2
85%
88% x3 (twice in a row lol)
81%
96%
87%
100%
Now that I’ve beaten this and taken 2 hours to write this description I’ll wrap it up with some final thoughts. This level got rated to extreme and then rerated back to insane demon during my time with it, and i’ll say that this is DEFINITELY AN EXTREME DEMON. This is harder than at least five of the extremes I’ve beaten, and while most of my insane demons are pretty hard and should also be extreme, this is probably in the top 5. Also while this is the eighth demon of Christmas in terms of uploads, this is the last one I beat, so good job me!