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My previous review was a stub more than an actual review, and this level's review page coming up in conversation on a server I'm in made me think more deeply about why exactly this level isn't funny - and after comparing it to more effective joke levels, I think I've figured out why I dislike this so much.
Disconnected Descent isn't as much as a joke level as it is a level with jokes haphazardly stapled onto it. It doesn't have an interesting/high concept or a storyline to follow like in a cw2003 level. It doesn't play with the level format in an interesting way like Bransilver's joke levels. In this level, things ostensibly intended to be jokes just occasionally happen with no rhyme or reason and don't feel like meaningful additions to the level - strip them away and you're left with a mediocre remake of Digital Descent that looks markedly worse than the original for the most part. Comedy isn't just a torrent of random, vaguely silly bullshit - at least not good comedy. Good comedy has a hook, it has comedic timing, it has concepts. There's certainly more that goes into it than just "hey, look, it's a red hell level now, isn't that funny?!" The closest thing this level has to a hook is that it's a remake, but making fun of remakes is a dead horse that's been thoroughly beaten since fucking Generic Wave came out in 2018. Find some new material.
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obnoxious nostalgia bait that isn't interesting, doesn't elaborate upon the grand majority of its styles beyond absolute surface level (when it even sticks to its concept) and of course has to be drenched in 700 layers of unfunny irony and metairony because i guess creators are just terrified of sincerity now. not good
no quantity of vaguely agreeable ideas about the rate system can distract from the fact that this level utterly fails at delivering its message or evoking any kind of emotion. i am sure that almost NOBODY would be talking about this level if it didn't have the pastebin attached to it. i'd be willing to give that part a pass if it was, like a little bit after the fact but this came prepackaged with the pastebin. surely if you were truly confident about your art and its message, you wouldn't have to write an little manifesto detailing your exact intent and the exact meaning of it? maybe i'm just not a radical like you.
google what is the opposite of "aura farming"
I was agape when I realized the pad boost was the intended route. The rest of the gameplay doesn't fare much better, and its visuals don't exactly compensate. The cube-ship dual might as well be completely luck-based.
if i could describe this level in one word it would be "punchable"
The disconnect between what the mod team thinks GD's audience wants and what GD's audience actually wants has never been more apparent than in this tacky, tasteless, dated-on-arrival, obama medal ass conclusion to the NCS album event
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sorry about this gang