My previous review was a stub more than an actual review, and this level's review page coming up in conversation on a server I'm in made me think more deeply about why exactly this level isn't funny - and after comparing it to more effective joke levels, I think I've figured out why I dislike this so much.

Disconnected Descent isn't as much as a joke level as it is a level with jokes haphazardly stapled onto it. It doesn't have an interesting/high concept or a storyline to follow like in a cw2003 level. It doesn't play with the level format in an interesting way like Bransilver's joke levels. In this level, things ostensibly intended to be jokes just occasionally happen with no rhyme or reason and don't feel like meaningful additions to the level - strip them away and you're left with a mediocre remake of Digital Descent that looks markedly worse than the original for the most part. Comedy isn't just a torrent of random, vaguely silly bullshit - at least not good comedy. Good comedy has a hook, it has comedic timing, it has concepts. There's certainly more that goes into it than just "hey, look, it's a red hell level now, isn't that funny?!" The closest thing this level has to a hook is that it's a remake, but making fun of remakes is a dead horse that's been thoroughly beaten since fucking Generic Wave came out in 2018. Find some new material.