Rating Curve

early 2.1 megacollabs are currently an era that are showing their true colors to me in the last few months for the first time, and this is a very good example of one of the levels that i always thought was interesting but felt like it was lacking something or was kind of incoherent. the thing is a lot of the classic viprin and korean collabs from 1.9 and 2.0 are kind of incoherent, but they slowly make more and more sense as you get more familiar with them, and this is a very good example of that happening again, because it's both an unofficial part of a viprin series (one of very few if any i find successful in doing this) and has a lot of korean/korean style design. now that i really understand what it's going for this level goes hard as fuck, actually. the incoherence gives to a chaotic identity of its own, both representative of an era of (mostly) design and interesting diversions from the norm. it's always something to keep in mind that's it's really hard to tell in the moment which levels like this are actually good and you're not noticing, and which are less than stellar, it's something integral to gd level appreciation and history in general

pretty clearly the highlight of an overall kinda bad contest for me, really has continued to grow on me as time’s gone on, it’s genuinely so charming, and the song is actually listenable. well almost. would be a 9 for me if it didn’t have that just, awful monologue before the drop. nothings like morally wrong with it it’s just like so, so not my vibe. great level tho, hope one of the big kira drops eventually doesn’t have a part i kind of hate in it (yeah i’m on the side where i think the emulator in alien dream emulator is stupid. ik that’s divisive)

…also there’s no shot jghost isn’t at least involved with kira right? look at that jghost ass character. im predicting it’s a team of exactly 4 creators and one of those is jghost. apr 12, 2025 at time of writing it that ends up being true.