The Submarine is a vast and highly ambitious Platformer Insane Demon that pushes the boundary between Geometry Dash and an original game. While not too visually impressive, mainly just utilizing the pixel blocks, the contents of The Submarine is where the magic lies in the level. It’s a big mix of primarily mining for materials, fishing for extra health, avoiding monsters in the sea, and defeating bosses to advance to further points in the map. The amount of time you have to breathe underwater is limited, but you can refuel by going back into your Submarine that you move around the level. Inside the submarine is where you find a ton of stuff, like crafting, cooking, objectives, information, moving the ship, and basically any other important thing needed.

Admittedly, The Submarine isn’t very much a level for me. I played it for 30 minutes and got to the second area, but I’ve seen most of what the level has to offer through my playing and looking through the rest on YouTube. While I like all that The Submarine has to offer, it can be very confusing and overwhelming to get into. This isn’t much of a problem after a while, but that isn’t to say I didn’t have other problems. One of my biggest issues is the 2 player mode required to play the level. I understand why it was needed, but being forced to use ship entirely with WASD is a nightmare, especially when it’s challenging gaps at times. Secondly, I just found everything to feel rather clunky. Entering and exiting the ship is so slow, and using weapons is super awkward and frankly unenjoyable. I also didn’t enjoy how sea creatures could attack you as you entered the ship, as it felt rather unfair. As a result, The Submarine is not a level I would want to spend a ton of hours completing.

Unfortunately, I feel validated for not wanting to complete this level after watching through the videos. While all of the bosses are cool in their own rights, they feel sort of slow and anticlimactic, and the clunky weapons don’t make them very fun to fight. Honestly though, the biggest letdown has to be the ending. The opening scene of the level is an intense cinematic moment that gets you excited to figure out the mystery behind everything, only for the ending to be this: “Oh hey, you found me! I didn’t think I’d ever get saved. Well, unfortunately this was a death mission, you can’t get out from here. Have fun dying with me!” Then the level ends. It’s a super lame ending for what it built up to be. Despite this, The Submarine is a really interesting level. It isn’t exactly one that I find myself wanting to play, but for some people, I can certainly see why they would find a lot of enjoyment from it.