Every once in a while, you come across a level that makes you think nothing except “what was this creator thinking?” and that time is now for me after playing Another Breath. Another Breath is a 2.0 level with a lot of creative ideas and a ton of questionable choices in every other aspect. There’s a ton to love here, but it’s often overshadowed by bad gameplay or colors.

I’ll start with the good in Another Breath. From the start, you can tell that JJjo had a lot more to offer than a normal design level. You start off on a block with angel wings that floats you up, and I love the animation on it so much. After a little bit, there’s a green ball part with super intricate and unique looking vines, which is super neat to look at, even though they feel a bit messy in their implementation. Finally, the coolest part has to be the piano part at 53%. The notes all go from the right to the left of the screen, static like normal objects. However, they perfectly slide into piano tiles on the left side of the screen. Whenever they hit, the notes light up, and they go to the actual notes in the song as well. This is a super awesome idea that I’m not sure if I’ve seen in another level, at least from this era.

Those were all pretty small moments in the grand scheme of things, considering the 3 minute long length of the level. Unfortunately, most things outside of those are executed very poorly. It’s about what you would expect from your average Unrated Demon from 2.0. In fact, I would say it’s worse than that. The colors never look good, with different color combinations used that consistently fail to work together. This alone makes it hard to love, but the gameplay is somehow worse, with constant blind and awkward gameplay that makes for an absolute nightmare to learn and put together. There’s also 65%, which is 25 straight seconds of hitting a row of green orbs with no change. While the level is undeniably raw, the execution is too poor for me to really get into despite a few cool ideas.