Rating Curve

You just don't see levels like this anymore. Have people gotten too uptight for a little fangirl action?

For a level with such an intentionally eclectic style, it's amazing how well Booglee manages to pull off each individual "collab part". I'll admit, not everything is perfect, but from the glowy cave spider to the slow ending, every part is executed with such a degree of mastery that it's, frankly, awe-inspiring.

PEAK. GOAT. RAW. OTHER SUPERLATIVES. Oh my god, I could write so much about this. For now, I'll just say that I'm SO GLAD that this was the first popular XL level. It seems that in modern times, XL levels have deviated from this standard slightly, with travel levels setting the expectation that an XL level is supposed to constantly wow the player with new scenery. Tetrix also does that to some extent, but it's amazing just how much the decoration of the level is carried by continuity. There are callbacks to earlier parts, the intensity of the song corresponds to certain designs, the final part literally has the exact same gameplay as the first part, the list goes on! This is a level carried by its strong base, which allows Insendium the freedom to use and reuse it to fit the granular prescriptions of the song at hand. My god, is this level good.

Found this level when going through Insendium's old levels. At first, I thought it was completely random which paths you're supposed to pick, but then I realised that it actually tells you the paths a bit earlier on, and you have to memorize it! It's like that one part in Dark Travel, but done several updates earlier. The structuring is also pretty neat, as is typical of Insendium, and I'm assuming the name refers to what you'll be feeling as you try to remember the up-down patterns. There's a really good progression where the patterns get longer and longer, and it even throws you a curveball at the very end. Really good and highly underrated level, wish it was rated.