Review of Speedbuild Monday

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, 2025-03-14, 21:11:03, Level ID: 98068312
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I hold a lot of appreciation for the things other people can create in short amounts of time, with levels like TRIPPY TRIPPY by Wulzy always fascinating me with how they must have optimised everything about their conceptualising and building process to build so quickly. Speedbuild Monday is a pretty decent showing from RhymerGD considering this, nothing particularly stands out about it but it's quite well polished and doesn't feel like it was rushed. The designs, air deco, structuring and effects are all pretty standard, heavily leaning into glow-design styles that were most prevalent in the first few years of 2.1. The glow bar effects on the orbs and some of the song's synths as well as the rotating 2.1 particles used to fill up space definitely show their age, and in my opinion are pretty underwhelming methods of representing a song and filling space. I don't feel there's anything particularly powerful in the song to warrant the bright bars of glow, so something a little bit subtler like a glowy emblem surrounding the player or hue-shifted pulses would have worked better to accentuate the soft synths of the song. The rotating particles are wholly unnecessary and only serve to add more visual clutter to the level, so I'd recommend using the 2.2 particle editor to create some sort of background "white noise" or add some floating embers or particles in their place to achieve a similar effect.

Other than this, there's not much to comment on as everything is part of a very tried-and-true style. The structuring and designs are ok, making use of multiple rectangles and some black glow to create the illusion of multiple rectangular structures stacked on top of each other; this isn't bad, but it's something I've seen done in many, many levels and I'd like to see a more unique take on this with different structure shapes. The colours are also very standard, mostly purple and blue with minimal notable pulsing. Because of this, I'd only recommend this level for Star Rate, but it's still impressive to see something of this caliber made so quickly by a creator I've never heard of. Nice work!

OVERALL5/10
GAMEPLAY5/10
VISUALS5/10
DIFFICULTY3/100
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