Rating Curve

as much as how basic and simple past is, it delivers such an amazing and unique experience that I rarely find nowdays. it feels like a sweet dream! the falling stars, the constant day and night shift that happens often, it feels like a surreal fun adventure.

I especially really like the ending, its one of the most memorable parts through its whole 3 minute duration. I really love the sparks going along with the birds chirping, it gives the feeling that you have woken up, you hear real things as your eyes still closing waiting to experience this amazing adventure again.

its amazing what simple shapes and pleasing colors can achieve

Casino bb is a very mysterious ocean, I can tell that these blocks are from geometry dash and I can say the same about the spikes, but they do not look right, they blend in too much with the background, almost like they’re sinking in it’s ocean and so they give a whole different vibe overall, same goes with the song too! A classic Xoberax song, heard nowhere but in geometry dash, although it feels quite distorted, I don’t remember the song being like this. Why does it feel blue? Why does it feel slow and sleepy? The song is also sinking down, sinking deep with all the objects that try to represent it. The screen is messed up, and the rotation feels off as you’re playing too, as if you are feeling dizzy, you’re sinking deep with everything around you which I feel the screen as a whole is turning blue and eventually to black try to represent, and that you can’t really see anything anymore.

The perfect 0000FF blue is a huge part of this map’s identity, it doesn’t feel sad or depressed for me, it’s really charming almost in a positive way but it’s hard to point out what that feeling exactly is, it’s hopeful and calming yet also still kind of unknown and unsettling. There is some sort of soul staring at me as I’m sinking down, I don’t feel alone like I used to. It’s really mysterious overall, but also, it’s one of the most unique art pieces I’ve come across this game.

This map feels like an experience, the progression and storytelling is simply unmatched. It always feels like im travelling somewhere, from stars to buildings, gardens and the blackbirds chirping, its just so cool.

the last part especially made me really happy and emotional, we've been in this sort of hand-drawn look for most of the time, and when the morning comes all the colors start to appear with the bright blue sky and the singing blackbirds, you can also finally fly everywhere and even go into the clouds if thats what you wish, it all feels free from now on, that part gave me an indescribable feeling I dont think I ever felt like in this game. I love oh blackbird 123

I think marathon is one of the greatest memory demons of all time, really cool ideas and gameplay fakes throughout its almost 5 minutes duration.

of course you cant talk about marathon without mentioning its progression, the song notably gets faster and faster, and marathon keeps throwing out new gameplay ideas and fakes every time you progress on these number levels, slowly changing the speed as it goes, this gets intense quickly especially later in the 2nd half, the speed is the fastest it can get, the colors pulse out dramatically and the gameplay is basically nuts.

I always imagined memory gameplay to be really easy once figured out and I still think thats the case with it, but I imagine the nerves skyrocket far away in marathon even though you basically know what to do, its like an actual marathon, you are constantly tired running and running just to cross that finish line, thats intense, all you have to do is to keep running, faster and faster.

I think the last part is a perfect conclusion for marathon, you return to the same aesthetic from the beginning, the deep red bloody color, and the beating heart repeats along with the same structure consistently while the gameplay is still, to keep up memorizing and passing, its as if you have gone over the limit, you need to keep pushing just a little further to reach the line, and having just passed the hardest parts in marathon, you will be nervous and your heart rate might get high around the end. I think its perfect, it brings the whole map together and overall feels incredible to beat.

you eventually do reach and cross the finish in the end, the song continues on and syncs with the level complete screen, as a celebratory sendoff. I love this map, its awesome and I hope to beat it one day.

dorabae-basic7 is my definition of joy, it uses objects in a very simplistic way but still in a way I haven't seen anybody be able to do except DORABAE, thats their flavor they've been putting in pretty much all their maps, very identifiable objects and very interesting color choices, their maps are always a blast to play from start to finish and I think dorabae-basic7 is a great example of that.

dorabae-basic7 is a playground of ideas, dancing gameplay and flashing, saturated colors to show off its intensity. Each note and beat of the song is expressed in very interesting ways, the jumping vibe with the ufo, the flashing checkerboard to reflect the crazy circus, and simply just the overall progression.

I especially really love the progression throughout its 2 minutes and 40 seconds duration. The beginning, being the obscure part with its boxed stars and very slow gameplay, has each click quite the distance from the other, but you slowly start to sense that buildup as you approach the bounce pads, upward staircases and the quick beats of the song, the colors suddenly darken from that point as you approach a corridor leading to that bright, red, eye popping pulse as you fly with the ship passing obstacles far away from each other, that feels so incredible, you start to sense that anticipation when you're just 15% on the way through. More and more colors start to flash and appear on the screen, filling the blank saws and corridors the same bright color as the background which feels really cool, it gives that sense of expansion where colors pop out and splash on the obstacles, after travelling an obscure, calm space that gets tighter as you go on. Not every structure of course has its details invisible but it doesn't give away that feeling any less.

The more you progress the more colorful the aesthetic becomes, contrasting colors within the flashes as the wave dances to the song, the dancing floor with the crazy bounce pads and jump rings that dance to the song as well, the pad corridor in particular with all the flashes happening feels very powerful and is reminiscent on how intense a circus performance can get, something like jumping a flaming ring, it gives that part power and the map as a whole an identity which I find amazing. Everything goes with the song as it still grabbing your attention to the gameplay, everything is just so joyous and playful with its ideas, joy fills my body every time I get to that point even though its not even the climax of dorabae-basic7 yet.

The colors seem to darken suddenly with the joy lingering there in the background, the dark ball part with the rainbow blocks, the dual ship with the bright colors and fluid gameplay. Something seems to be charging..

Suddenly all that energy is released when the giant slope launches you, flying in space, and flashes start to happen to introduce the beautiful chaos until hitting the bounce pad, everything after is filled with rainbow, including the stars you've been flown into. The pure amount of happiness this part brings me is unmatched to any other, the wave does it beautiful dance again as you approach the ending. dorabae-basic7 suddenly returns to the same aesthetic in the beginning, except that its filled with rainbows and joy, the whole map was progressing into that point, it was becoming too colorful and too playful to where everything you've run past into has been pulsing and charging in the background, to flash all the colors happening in the current part, thats so incredibly effective. The ending is also very memorable, ending off the fun experience with the player dropping from the slope, just syncing perfectly with the ''boingy'' sound in the song, thats awesome.

Easily my favorite map of all time, and what influenced my creating style the most, I was so inspired by dorabae-basic7 that I would just draw my ideas in a sheet of paper and feel that I am creating a dorabae map before I got the full version of the game and the access to the editor, thats how long I wanted to make my own basics. Even though I still value my identity the most, creating like them was what I always wanted to do and I'm glad my vision eventually came to light.