Shaped by Elnoobiexd is a level themed around the ADOFAI chart for the song Options by Frums. It's a relatively simple level where most of the blocks are black and white and different effects fill the background. It's a pretty cool level! However, I do feel it takes too much from the chart video at times and the gameplay can be very off the mark.

Shaped does very well to create an atmosphere, the constantly moving backgrounds and obstacles, the occasional moving windows, the very free form UFO and ship gameplay, the level does a lot well! My personal favorite part of the level is the very first opening sequence, which involves you sitting there as these black glow lines slowly enter onto the screen to create a checkerboard pattern. It's super cool and FULLY brought me into the level when I first played it.

The moving circle background seen in the first part and later in the second half is very well adapted from the chart video, it's super well made and I feel it fits very well with the level since it's supposed to be inspired from it! There's also the background in the middle which consists of these moving squares with this wavy shader over it, it's supposed to represent the application windows from the charts but instead they just became squares. I'm not sure if this is the creator trying to make it something original or they just weren't sure how to do it. Either way, I like it a lot :)

However, I do feel a lot more could be done with these backgrounds, the chart video for example has these really cool stretched out rotating + signs. Obviously, I don't think it should be taken exactly from the video, but I think some more could be done with the backgrounds to keep the attention of the player, maybe a couple more shaders to make each background have some variety!

One detail I really like is the usage of rainbow blocks from 60% onwards throughout the level, this is completely unseen in both the chart video and the original MV and I think it fits super well with the aesthetic of the level and the song! They're very slow moving and I just think that they fit very well.

Unfortunately, this level's gameplay drags my rating on this level down a ton. It feels very unplaytested at points and contains lots of very odd gameplay choices. While I personally have always loved unique and different gameplay, even if other people would consider it "bad", I think this level just needs another run through. The duals in particular stand out to me, they contain very odd and weird setups at times, like orbs forcing you to microclick and becoming very inconsistent, or the Hexagon Force-esque ship dual which seems to barely function. The duals also just feel very unbalanced from the rest of the gameplay, with every other part seeming like 6 stars at most while these are very learny and require a practice run.

All the other gameplay parts I'm fine with for the most part though! There's one part in the middle where there's a black glow covering up the side of the screen which DOES make it hard to play at times because of the rotated camera, but it can be dealt with. I think either swapping the glow on that side to the other side or shortening how much it affects your view can be very helpful.

Other than that, I love the atmosphere this level gives off and I feel with a bit more originality and a couple tweaks to both balancing and playability, this level could be a really cool experience that I would see myself coming back to! :D