You may hate me saying this (or you may not) but "Esencia" is a level that I quite like.
The whole idea and concept of the level, experimenting with our roots as are objects of 1.0, and combining them with relatively recent objects such as the glow and the more complex effects, makes this level something very experimental for that time, that is something that I appreciate a lot. However, I would have liked to see a more polished use of glow, as I found quite a few points for improvement in the use of glow.
The representation of the song, in my opinion is pretty decent, I feel like how chaotic the level is, it pairs quite well with this song. "Censored" is one of my favorite songs, and seeing that this very interesting level uses this song really catches my attention.
As for gameplay, yes, it can be quite improvable, because it is a bit bugged, I feel that this aspect is the one that lowers the score a little in my opinion, since it is also so flowy that it is super difficult to learn and follow the rhythm of the practice runs.
Let me keep it a buck 50 with you, the song hella carries it. My issue with it personally is it's abundance of bugs. I'd like to think it's the fact that the majority of the objects are moving, in which for an experimental level like this, you'd want to keep that to a minimum, but there's a handful of them, and it makes the level dysfunctional by a lot. Harms the level by quite the margin imo.
Had this been playtested a lot better, or had the level have a lot less movement, I think this would've been a solid experimental level. But the issues are too apparent for me to even consider giving this a 5. It gets a 4 from me. And again, the song carries it a lot. Someone has to give this song better justice.
Buggy, boring, and unrepresentitive gameplay. Drags on for too long given pacing and the style is unoptimized, unoriginal, and uninteresting.
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sorry about this gang