I don't think the update did this level much good, but I will always respect the nice usage of pulsing and design especially in a level as old as this. The gp isn't amazing by any stretch, but the song sets the atmosphere pretty nicely and the gp isn't too ambitious apart from the obviously skewed balancing. Still a solid level to this day. I wouldn't recommend it as a hardest though.

As a kid, I always wished the last wave was 2x or 3x speed to match the song, but I grew to love how the second half of this level is purely slow gameplay. It makes for an incredibly nerve wracking experience, especially for people beating this as their first extreme demon. This level overall holds up very well, but I will forever be disappointed by how the first ship was swapped out for an unfitting ship part that uses a ton of invisible portals.

This level received an awful update and still manages to be one of the best ever made. how did they do it