Rating Curve

While this level features some truly jawdropping moments and compositions, it's ultimately soured by a lack of focus. Cut a minute off of the runtime and maybe the creator would have had the chance to actually put literally Any gameplay in half of the parts here.

LOVE: the stunning line art, the final section with the tiled-floor effect (should be much longer!), beautiful "setpiece" like designs with the line-drawings

HATE: gameplay that feels like it's regressed to the early 2.0 tradition of super-slow moving obstacles, Some weird use of over-scaled deco objects for a "painterly" look - It's never worked for me

+as a more personal gripe this uses an Extremely similar transition to my space gauntlet level at one point - Definitely not alleging plagiarism, I think it's extremely likely to be unrelated but I'm allowed to deduct a point anyway haha

How does anyone think this gameplay is redeemable at all? either criminally boring (Super-slowed-down swingcopter sections appear to be a recurring theme in this gauntlet's offerings) or manically unreadable - in the case of the wave-gimmick-like park, literally indecipherable on a first playthrough.

Decoration is equally gaudy and over-the-top. Feels like it could one-shot a Victorian child. I actually disagree with PAHC and think the emulation sections is the only positive quality here - it's fun and meta in a novel way, I think.

This placing in the contest at all will be a signifier of the Path of Shit that the game is, for some reason, choosing to follow

Near perfect, one of the most enjoyable level completions I've had.

Would love to have made this now instead of a few years back - it's rife with little ugly bits and inconsistencies that wouldn't make the cut these days. But still gets 4 and a half booms from me 💥💥💥💥🔥