Rating Curve

One of the game's largest levels (if only in a spiritual sense), happens to be an intense, stark, deeply gratifying landscape to maneuver through.

Full Review (YT)

Cosmic in scale yet contained within the bounds of a single screen, watch it flow effortlessly wields the full power of clutter and clarity, both visually and obstacle-wise, like no other. Killer playing experience - so much intimidation just falls away when the experience is so intuitive despite its harsh visuals, you feel like an artist looking over his canvas. It all just feels subject to forces outside of the realm of human understanding (the rotate trigger).

So abstract, so alien, so compositionally challenging in every possible way that it feels as though it MUST be naturally-occurring, creating the deepest solitude a GD level has ever resided within. Staggering. Subversive. Unapologetic. One of the most important levels.

The most numbing level ever released. Repetitive and heavy-handed gameplay guides you into intimate subconscious understanding of every speck and strand of Lit Fuse, accompanied by one of GD's most legendary tracks and impossible, soul-stealing visual sequences. The complete stripping-away of sensation is so clinical, down to the little hand shake you do after the dual. And then, the awakening - still an iconic, breathtaking, landmark moment in history every time it appears. Nothing plays like this. Nothing feels like this. To date, the peak of Krmal's illustrious career.

A long look inward disguised as a bold, techno-action joyride; a skyward song and dramatic shifts in scale make such noxious, inhuman mechanical trials downright life-affirming - to that end, some of the most harshly satisfying gameplay ever, in all its bumpy imprecision. Afterwards, a simple acknowledgement that you're still kicking. There simply hasn't been such a pure, enthusiastic vision in so long.