LOLLLLLLLLL i remember playing this one time and struggling to beat it. i honestly kinda like this even if it gets VERY unpredictable. i can tell the creator had so much fun making this. Cuidado!

Beware!

Cuidado!

Factory by Saturos182 is a level that has become very renowned in many ways, mostly due to it's difficulty rating. Factory is currently rated as 6 stars when it should most likely be demon due to it's very 2.0 styled gameplay which is full of moving objects and overall unsightreadable gameplay, in combination with its very strict timings.

While this level is very hated on for its misrating, I think this level is fucking AWESOME. The vibes this level gives off are absolutely unseen in other levels and gives off such a raw atmosphere that other levels don't. The level, obviously, takes place in a factory, and involves you entering and escaping from said factory. You must dodge all the moving buzzsaws, jump across unstable platforms, move across conveyers, jump over acid pits, it has everything you want in a factory.

This level has AURA if nothing else. While the decoration for its time isn't the best per se, I think this absolutely deserved a feature solely for its creative ideas. It feels like an actual platformer level from a real platforming game, where you go through different rooms of a factory and jump across pits using hung up platforms from the ceiling! There's so many little details in this level that I absolutely love, such as the hanging robots, the laboratory filled with monsters that the scientist has created surrounded by flasks of unknown liquids, I especially love the staircase tunnels that you go through to get to higher areas!

The last quarter of this level is an absolute joy to me, because while you've been relatively slow throughout the entire level, you now suddenly speed up after you accidentally triggered an alarm and now must escape as fast as possible. Traversing through high and low across platforms, avoiding saws, avoiding acid pits filled with monsters most likely created from the laboratory before, pits of fire with said monsters, all before you finally escape into the snowy mountains, away from the hells that surrounded you in that factory.

However, my favorite part by far about this level and series as a whole is the LORE. There's actual lore to this yes. I don't know too much about it so I won't go into detail as I don't want to give any misinformation, but this factory was apparently the last robot factory made by the late Isaac Wayne. Wayne was a genius engineer who sadly passed in 1910 shortly after finishing his factory, however, the common belief is that he is still alive, somewhere.

In another level known as Factory Secrets, we get more information on this supposed Wayne. It seems that Wayne has been working with an army of some kind, and has some kind of enemies that he was looking out for. Another weird thing noticed in one of the factory rooms is that he has a room... dedicated to himself? Not just an office, but a room to study him. Isaac Wayne. This is a very odd room to have, a room to study yourself in your own factory? Wayne was a genius after all, he might have just wanted to understand how his own mind works, how the brain works in general, too many unknowns to give a concrete answer.

That's about all I can say with sincerity as I'm not exactly sure of the rest, but I absolutely LOVE when creators give lore with their levels. It shows how much effort the creator put into it and it really shows here. Even if the gameplay is too hard for a 6 star, I think the theming and creativity of this alone should've at least given it it a feature. I love this level and I genuinely hope more people can learn about it :)