Frankly, I have no clue what this level wants to be. LIMIT OBJ is something of a collage level, with a few different songs spread across 5 distinct parts. I like this in concept, but the execution fails because the level's style stays relatively similar while failing to accurately represent any of the songs used. Each part has a similar, glow/design based approach that feels completely disconnected from the intense, distorted songs by FREE.99 that are used; there's little effect work, not much movement, and only one part has some tangible effect work in the form of glitching and colour inversion shaders as well as some movement. In my opinion, this is a huge pitfall and leaves me questioning why they chose these songs to begin with, as this would likely have been a decent showing had they chosen a song that was more relaxed and EDM-adjacent to better match the level's visuals.
The gameplay, while fun, also lacks in this regard. The sync is basic and sometimes absent (a notable example being the third part where the gameplay doesn't really have any connection to the song at all), and the only proper usage of movement sync is one single click in the second part where the song becomes quiet and the player flies through some debris during a brief lull in the energy. It is well balanced and fair to the player, lacking any unusually hard timings or blind sections, so it is fun and would again make for a decent showing in a different level, but it does not work whatsoever with the chosen songs and leads to every major element of this level feeling totally disconnected from each other.
I would really like to see AFKTEAMS focus more on a unified vision amongst their members instead of everyone making their own thing and putting it all together. There's quite a lot of potential here, but I need to see better usage of gameplay and visuals in song representation, better part-to-part cohesion and more interesting stylistic direction to consider anything above a star rate.
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sorry about this gang