Rating Curve

8 years later. STILL MY FAVORITE LEVEL EVER

In all these 8 years, I still haven't seen a level that is just... so... CUTE!!!!!! This is just the cutest level EVER!!!!!!

The decoration is so simple and bubbly!! The unique 2d sidescrolling style is really cool and the puzzles are simple and great!! The difficulty also progressively gets harder, and it reflects extremely well with the theme of the song, which is LOVE!!!!!!

There is a big place in my heart for levels about love (etc. Miss You by Zoroa), because I don't think there is nothing more adorable than love!!

I also like how this level is a reference to a flash game from my childhood!! (I Saw Her Standing There). It gives me a bit of nostalgia!!

Despite many levels, and most of my favorite levels in general having the most well thought out decoration, executions, graphics, gameplay, and etc, this incredibly simple level will forever stay on top as my most favorite level EVER simply because it is so freaking CUTE!!!!!!

I am AshleyButSix and this is my message

[Sorry for bad English]

This is my first review!! I am so HAPPY this website exist because that means I can now talk levels like this one!!

This is quite possibly the best impossible level layout to ever be made in the whole entire game. There is nothing that matches the immense atmosphere and vibe this layout does. An atmosphere so immersive and chilling that I actually think that decorating this layout would take much less from it. The level is perfect the way it is because of it

The gameplay is humanly impossible, and it really works well in this level's favor. The thought that someone can theoretically beat this, but no one has yet (and possibly never) feels so existential, a theme that I think this layout was purely going for.

Gameplay is also not like most impossible levels either, as the style of Thycket's impossible layouts are usually like. They are both intimidating and unorthodox. Sometimes uncanny in a way that the gameplay shouldn't even seem possible to pull off. (https://imgur.com/a/dCmxknU)

Structures also move around sometimes, as if the level is alive and sentient, and out to kill you. The difficulty and structuring also becomes more difficult and intimidating the more the volume of the song increases.

That leads me to the next aspect I want to cover. The song. This level is extremely carried by the song, and I mean it in a good way. This song is the reason why I think this level should stay as nothing but a layout. The song has this really specific eeriness to it that conveys both dread, isolation, and coldness. I feel this way even more strongly about the song, especially because of a dream I had when I was only a little kid. Like 3 or smth idk.

Back when I was little, I used to have nightmares all the time. I never knew why. Looking back, they were pretty intense for that age. One of these dreams, I was in my neighborhood. Everything was the same except for the fact that it was night with no stars or Moon showing, and there was nobody around except for me. The only light were the streetlights. I never felt like I was being watched, but it did feel that I was purely alone in the dream.

To make it easier to imagine, much of the neighborhood looked almost exactly like these pictures:

• https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VqZEfqoTA7M/hq720.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEXCK4FEIIDSFryq4qpAwkIARUAAIhCGAE=&rs=AOn4CLDPlY-Vu9UXuoF4iOZWp7mBzTM7PQ

• https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fi-have-a-liminal-space-outside-my-window-v0-8ru00r9fghsb1.jpg%3Fwidth%3D1080%26crop%3Dsmart%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3D4b0329be9440c8e3006e0ed8a2a5b3e34c9ac373

• https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/899a4212-c027-4a53-8c46-9d3758a9ac68/dejyv62-fa970096-aeac-45d7-bc34-143fe70eb247.jpg/v1/fill/w_1280,h_960,q_75,strp/liminal_space_at_night_by_nohopenofear420_dejyv62-fullview.jpg?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ1cm46YXBwOjdlMGQxODg5ODIyNjQzNzNhNWYwZDQxNWVhMGQyNmUwIiwiaXNzIjoidXJuOmFwcDo3ZTBkMTg4OTgyMjY0MzczYTVmMGQ0MTVlYTBkMjZlMCIsIm9iaiI6W1t7ImhlaWdodCI6Ijw9OTYwIiwicGF0aCI6IlwvZlwvODk5YTQyMTItYzAyNy00YTUzLThjNDYtOWQzNzU4YTlhYzY4XC9kZWp5djYyLWZhOTcwMDk2LWFlYWMtNDVkNy1iYzM0LTE0M2ZlNzBlYjI0Ny5qcGciLCJ3aWR0aCI6Ijw9MTI4MCJ9XV0sImF1ZCI6WyJ1cm46c2VydmljZTppbWFnZS5vcGVyYXRpb25zIl19.GMRV2SCTaO5Et4yGoNxPd_77PyiXVh-D9232lzhSOeY

This song purely reminds me of this dream whenever I listen to it. It just sounds... right!!

Thycket is extremely good with finding really unconventional bangers on Newgrounds!! I wish I could be able to pull off how he does it!!

The song is perfect, the song representation is perfect, the gameplay is perfect, and the lack of decoration is perfect. I am dead honest when I say I dont think we will have another level like this ever again. A lightning in a bottle type of event. It is one of the reasons why Thycket is one of my favorite creators ever, and also why I think this is the best impossible layout ever made!!

I am AshleyButSix and this is my message