Metalepsis is a level that came seemingly out of nowhere for this creator. Excellent567 up to this point had made pretty cool 5-7*, but nothing too notable. They were just levels you would find on a featured tab and think, "huh, that was pretty fun."

Metalepsis, however, it not that.

Metalepsis is a nonsenical, visually unbearable, impossible to play, mess of a level, that ticks all the right boxes for me. It is based off the music video of the same name, and highly references it, but gives it it's own touch. The level starts off very abnormally, with a sepia background that keeps changing with a seemingly random assortment of words that changes every couple seconds. You might think there to be a story there? Nope. It's just word after word, and honestly? I kind of dig it.

The level then transitions into a mini wave part where you traverse through this very odd blocky tunnel which seems to build itself as you make your way through it. The entire time you seem to be in front of some sort of spiraling cloud mass centered on something. I'm not quite sure what. The sun? A star? A black hole? Who knows. There's also a strange little white trail in the bottom left that follows you throughout this part. It's overall extremely odd, yet extremely intriguing. The song representation is perfect and literally makes it feel like something is wrong. The same text as before is also there on screen, however it is extremely zoomed out and makes it essentially unintelligible.

The level then EXPLODES into a black and white mess, nothing is intelligible anymore, it throws everything at you. It feels like TV static in a way, the gameplay is almost completely invisible, the backgrounds from the first part are used again, however they seem to be manipulated to this static feel. It also uses assets from other levels I noticed, specifically the one I noticed being the spiral from ABEL. I really like this as it seems to genuinely feel like the level is BREAKING, and is taking other parts from other levels. It's an extremely well made part is all I can say.

Then, it pauses.

More random words fill the screen as you see static from what seems to be an actual television screen. The mini wave from the beginning comes back, however you can't do anything, the camera slowly moves up as your mini wave flows above the previous part. Symbols fill the screen, more and more, as more unintelligible words appear in your vision. They then break apart, and then break apart, and then break apart,

Then you enter the last part, a mini wave which seems to be the final act of what has broken. You must traverse through a static filled world, faint words fill the background which you cant read. What seems to be a loading circle appears on your screen, as if it's trying to reset the world.

And then, it does.

You end up on a floating pathway covered in greenery and waterfalls floating downwards. Names flash on the screen from what I can assume is creators that assets were used from, and then it ends.

An overall, extremely cool level from an essentially unknown creator. I would love if more people knew about this, because it is completely insane to watch and try and understand! I just wish the gameplay wasn't as obscured as it was though.