Rating Curve

♤ the first yuko platformer extreme and you can definitely say she improved lol. not to say that this is completely awful, in fact I think it's aged pretty well, but her new levels are much better. decoration wise this level is kinda almost hideous to look at but that almost gives it charm to me, kinda rainbow vomit. the gameplay should've been playtested more I think because certain checkpoints absolutely spike in difficulty. over everything tho I'd recommend it

♤ you might be wondering why my overall doesn't match the other ratings, and if you knew me, you're probably surprised why it's not a 0. if you had asked me what I thought of this when I beat it, it would be an easy 0, but since then I have done A LOT of thinking. it's really difficult to try and explain this but the best way I can think to describe it, is that fury of 500 was simply a medium for events that happened around it.

story time

I had first played fury of 500 when it came out on globed with my friend kaley. she had quit out early on but I was determined to finish the level. my hardest at the time I think was either tower of infinity or dungeon treasures, so this would've been a new hardest. it took me about 7.5 hours to get to the final room, and what I wanted when I reached the end of 499 was a sweet relief of an easy room, but instead it was the hardest thing I've ever attempted. it was 7am and I had spent 9 straight hours playing fury of 500 before I gave up. I was on call with my friend mae the whole time and to this day I'm still grateful for her putting up with me that whole time.

at that time I have never given up on something that far in and it was heartbreaking for me.

a few days after I gave up I was practically hoping to god it would never get rated and that I would not have to go through that hell again. and then about a week later, I'm currently in the car on a 7 hour road trip to my grandparents house. it's 4 in the morning and I get notification from my awarded demons channel, my heart fucking DROPS when I see that it's fury of 500. I literally scream and scare my mom before explaining to her what happened lmao. as it gets rated I go to open the game and screenshot it (I think) but when I click on the app on my phone, the game instant crashes. I try again, same thing. instant panic sets in as one of my worst fears starts at the same time the worst level gets rated. it's a bit of a long story so I'll try and summarize it but basically I check reddit posts, gd forums, the gd servers, basically I ask questions fucking everywhere and no one is able to help. the reason why I didn't just reinstall the game is because I know I haven't saved my game in a month. I was panicking and worried that ENTIREEEE car drive, and was trying to do anything to fix it. once I got home I think I just gave up and decided to ignore the problem for right now. during this time I was like just kinda becoming good friends with my current like besties kgamesnyc and montanso. I was watching montansos stream and kgames was in chat and we're all just like chatting while montan plays fury of 500. fast forward, I had ended up not fixing my gd for a solid month and I was just too scared to accidentally corrupt everything (for those who are curious and what happened, my game basically spontaneously deleted itself). anyways I had to rebeat a bunch of stuff and I got everything back. fast forward to my birthday, and I had like the best birthday ever and I decided to end the day with beating fury of 500 on call with kgames. everything fell into place. I wanted to beat it before midnight so I could say I beat it on my birthday. I got to room 500 with about 30 min until midnight and I FLUKED THE WHOLE ROOM. beat it at 11:40 pm.

anyways after all this you would think I would hate this right? going through some of the worst hell I've ever been and yet I gave it a 7? as I said earlier, this stuff started as my friendships with some of my best friends really grew to what it is today, and throughout all the hell fury of 500 gave me, it really made me appreciate the friends and resources I have today. 99.9% of levels that I've beaten I have no lasting experience with, but fury of 500 is one of the very few that will stick with me forever.

♤ entrenched used to be my hardest for a couple of months and it's such a good level. for how old it is (like one of the first 5 or 6 plat extremes) it plays surprisingly well. it's all robot gameplay that focuses on corner jumps and tight precision gameplay and that's kinda just exactly what I like. the decoration gives a vibe similar to the abyss but much friendlier and less looming. the songs help with the vibe incredibly well and it uses platformer features really well for being so old. my least fav part gameplay wise is easily ending, I think it almost breaks the flow every part had by suddenly being an autoscroller and having cycle gameplay. would recommend to beat

♤ at a first watch this level doesn't really feel like anything special, but once you start to play it you realise how actually perfect everything becomes. I've never even really been a fan of pixel deco especially in platformers, but this like evil vibe it creates in pair with the song makes itself so good. despite being purposefully unbalanced and cycle based gameplay, I still think it's the best platformer gameplay in an extreme. every cycle is tweaked to absolute perfection and every movement flows perfectly, it's honestly mind blowing the attention to detail enlightenment put into this. I highly recommend this level to classic players looking for some plat extremes to try.

not the biggest fan of this level I must say

♧ my favourite platformer in the whole game. most of why I like this level I can't exactly put into words but I find it very moving and emotional similar to commatose

my favourite level in the whole game. god tier song representation with the most moving and emotional progress I've ever seen in a gd level. it amazes me that this can be made in this editor