Certified hood classic

Not the worst thing in the world but Scarlet Surge is the better Insendium XL. This has very repetitive gameplay and drags on for too long.

Tetrix is one of the most famous 9 stars in the game as well as one of the most popular XL level in the game , is it good ... Uh well ...

The level is 3 minutes and 6 seconds long , in order to have a good experience with such length the level must have different and entertaining parts , this is not the case here ! Both deco and gameplay get extremely repetitive extremely quickly !

The deco isn't innovative at all even at the time ( 1.9 )

The gameplay is boring and is made in such a way that any mistakes result in death , making a very frustrating experience

Overall , the level is a perfect 5/10 , do i recommend beating it ? Hell no !

Obviously a comedically large nostalgia bomb for anyone who has been playing this game for a while. That being said, I don't think the rose-tinted glasses are working as well on this level as they do for other levels in it's category of "nostalgic peak", or whatever its called. Honest to god, the gameplay is incredibly boring and uninteresting, it just kind of happens. That's not to say its particularly BAD, its just not very imaginative at all to me. You know that one scene from baki where he's cooking and eating meals made out of air? Yeah, that's basically what the gameplay in this is like.

I largely feel the same way about the decoration, but the visual at least gets bonus points for the fact that it is genuinely pretty thematic. I especially like the dark cube bits. They're sparse, but it works in favor of the atmosphere in my opinion.

Overall, not bad, but maybe wasn't as deserving of it's iconic status as a lot of people seem to think. At least to me.