Yea, I know I sound like a normie for saying this level is a masterpiece and one of the best levels in the game… but how could I not? I’ll admit I’m partially biased towards this level, as it is somewhat inspired by Rayman Legends, which is a game I love a lot, but besides that, this level is a masterclass in pretty much each category.

This level showed such an insane amount of quality when it first dropped almost 2 years ago (damn time flies), and it still continues to impress this day.

The whole “theatrical” theme this level goes for is really cool, as it is divided into different acts, all with visually stunning environments, my favorites being the “video game” and “simulation” parts . What makes this even cooler is at the beginning, you can choose to keep it in theatrical, or bring it to life through your imagination, making everything look more real. I personally prefer the theatrical route slightly more since it is a bit more creative, mainly with how it themes each act (i.e. video game part has a video game UI while it doesn’t in the other route), but the other route is still high quality. The level has such a dramatic and intense vibe going on throughout, while also managing to stay surprisingly cohesive. Best part about all of this is that Bli managed to do all of this in under 80K OBJECTS, I cannot stress just how monumental that was when I first found out about it.

The gameplay is also extremely well made, it is very sightreadable, hardly has any bad timings, and just has a lot of variety to stick out and make each part a lot more memorable. It is generally very well polished, with not a single bad part coming to mind!

I guess my only nitpick is that the ending following the fake ending sort of feels like filler given how its decoration looks, but it still has fun gameplay so i can kinda forgive it.

So yea, this level is a masterpiece all around. Kinda sad to see some people start switching up on it, likely because of how popular it became, but I’ll still always highly respect it. And I think this is a level GD really needed at the time, it came out in an era where GD feel so stagnant in the levels that came out, felt like most people just wanted to make the same old stuff and nothing actuslly interesting.