I'm sorry Arcadiac but this is not it

RaveYard was made for the NCS gauntlet contest, and actually got an epic rating which is really cool! I was prefaced to be as brutally honest as I wanted to be when Arcadiac requested this level, though I don't think the (relatively) low score comes from anything they anticipated I would complain about, given their track record of basing reviews primarily off of gameplay. I actually think the gameplay is pretty alright all the way through, and even some of the more unorthodox parts only really suffer from some bad transitions after learning them. The decoration is fine I suppose? Some parts are pretty empty or just kind of ugly, particularly the ones that rely on pixel objects, but the last part is pretty good and it's not a level ruiner.

What are level ruiners are the song choice and the transitions. I have no issue with the song representation in this level - I actually think it's painfully standard more than anything - but I think the song itself is absolutely terrible and anything that uses it is pretty much always better suited by something else. No further comments. RaveYard also has several moments where literally nothing happens, usually in transition parts but even in one part with gameplay, where the background is so dark it's basically just floating structures on a black screen. There's even a completely black screen transition (that lasts like two full seconds??) in the middle of the last part, it's so abrupt every time it happens and I was very excited to see it cleaned up in Starcadiac. Other than that, RaveYard has some great ideas and interesting gameplay, and I'm happy to see how many of them were realized in Arcadiac's later stuff.