This is farther down in the queue but an update has made this level relevant recently so I'll hop on the bandwagon! The first thing I really considered about the level was the name, especially since it was just a line of text in a spreadsheet to me until yesterday. I do have very uncontroversial opinions about self-deprecating level names, including the related Bli levels Absolute Garbage and Trash Level, but once I thought about it more and got around to playing it, Objectively Garbage is definitely worthy of the title. Both Bli levels have a similar double meaning, simultaneously a description of the theme and a funny jab at poor level criticism, but Ydo takes both far further, being unapologetically raw in detail and structuring, and of course with a masterfully tongue-in-cheek spin on what poor level criticism looks like nowadays. Both are so bizarre in their execution that it makes it really hard to dismiss out of hand, which I can appreciate.

I hate spending such a large part of a review talking about unrelated things but I unfortunately don't have a ton to say about the level itself. While I certainly don't mind levels being messy, I think this one in particular should have leaned harder into parts like the ship, which use the array of blocks and slopes as a landscape and theme with more coherent foreground elements to develop it. The crusher part was really fun to figure out and I think they mesh really well with the more chaotic elements of the part. However, as Objectively Garbage develops it both becomes even messier and strays further away from its central ethos. The robot, for instance, feels less like a junkyard and more like having a ton of overlapping slopes and slabs was the entire point, which considering my praise of the balance this level strikes given the title is a bit of a letdown. I enjoyed playing through it - I don't think I would enjoy beating it but it was fun to figure out - but it's another thing that devolves along the runtime. For its strengths early on, though, Objectively Garbage is a very welcome play on both words and an abrasively unpolished style.