Rating Curve

Hard to tell, but it looks like Mato likes screen effects.

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This level takes me back to the good old days of 2019. When 2 star levels were complete garbage in the gameplay department. Now, this level barely escapes the criticism of being a crappy 2 star by being rated 3 stars, but that is arguably worse in my opinion. Having played through the level a few times, it is clear that the 3 star rating comes from the obscene amount of screen effect triggers the level has. In fact, I'm going to open the level in the editor and find out how many screen effect triggers it has. (For the purposes of this review, screen effect triggers include anything that effects the screen and not gameplay.)

Originally, this level had 38881 objects. After removing all of the screen effects, it now has 36330 objects, which means 2551 objects are screen effects. That's 6.56% of the objects in the level. If I replaced all of the screen effects with Stereo Madness, the resulting level would have less objects than what I started with. That's impressive.

Honestly, this whole thing reminds me of when Wulzy deleted all of the glow from a level and then laughed at it for being bald.

Now, although the level looks extremely goofy without its makeup, the various set pieces look quite nice, which is why the legendary rating it received makes sense.

Finally, an excerpt from the comment I left on Viprin's showcase.

This level suffers from the typical pitfalls of 2 star gameplay, that being it doesn’t really have any. I get it. It’s hard to map 2 star gameplay to an intense song. It has been done, though! There are some great 2 star levels that capture intense songs through gameplay! Starbladesaster just isn’t one of them.

You don’t need a thousand camera triggers to capture the intensity of the song.

Overall, the level is decent, but the gameplay doesn't meet my expectations for a good 2 star level, let alone a legendary one.