love the mood of this level . btw I subscribed to congregation jumpscares back when they had like 400 subs🔥🔥🔥I been there since the (almost) beginning

Clearly, "Congregation" is best known for the jumpscare drop. Why not? It's one of the most shocking things ever to hold our eyes, and it's of the few perfect seconds in this game. The way the icon disappears to leave you hanging and reappears just in time for you to realize what's going to happen.

What Talk Talk's "Laughing Stock" was to 90s rock is Presta's "Congregation" a response to the growing uniformity of year 2021 Geometry Dash neo-modern style. Its importance is obvious, its mark is clean, and this level has not yet left the community consciousness. Watching this for the first time was as electrifying as the debut of "Nine Circles".

The neo-modern scene of mid-late 2.1, with releases such as MrSupremeGD's "Meta BoXes" (the first one I thought of off the top of my head), can be characterized by box style, in which an uncomfortable amount of square designs fill often-uncomfortably-constructed structures. In my eyes, this scene peaked with cometface's cosmopolitan masterpiece "WELL RESTED". Congregation serves as a grim and violating response to this.

Take the first and third parts, entirely filled with 1x1 and 2x2 blocks, a hallmark of boxstyle. The drop part is just so different. The blocks are still square, yet they're so haphazardly placed. They're connected only by pure association without any regards to actual geometric form or example. It's a response to the standard, the orderliness of neo-modern that stagnated into mediocrity.

"Congregation" isn't a unique example in terms of revolutions and responses, but it is the most stark. I really like this level. Thank you Presta!