Rating Curve

Another candidate for best of 2024. Was quite shocked not to see it nominated in the GD awards last year, despite receiving a well-deserved legendary rating and everything. Seemed like a fairly obvious pick to me.

A reasonable contender for my favorite level of 2024. So fucking sick. How do you even make pixelation to that degree not look like garbage?

Really impressive shader use for how much of it there is, does an excellent job emphasizing the level’s aesthetic as a grainy old film. I only wish the first half was as nice looking as the second.

EEYIKES! I think we’re going to “Lose Games” soon if no one helps us with these “Squid Games!”

Far and away Jonathan’s worst. He’s always had major issues with his color and texture work, and here it has become so egregious that it borders on unwatchable.

Pure hatred incarnate

If I may toot my own horn for a bit, I’m still really proud of this. Twig & Cabaret definitely carried me here, but still. Perhaps the only one of my projects that feels like it turned out exactly as I wanted it (bar the placeholder title, I suppose).

Not quite as evocative as it was on release, but certainly is part of a huge turning point in expression and experimentation within the confines of GD, alongside levels like Cement and Cold Sweat.

Sure, it's stellar, but its reputation as somewhat of a sacred cow nowadays kind of irks me. Really don't like how "objective" discussion on it tends to feel a decade down the line.

Embarrassing, self-serving drivel - probably one of my least favorite rated levels. I find it really hard to separate this from the tantrum he had in his own comments two weeks prior to this level's release when Soul Searching didn't get epic featured. It baffles me that not only is it seemingly so well received, this display of TMN dejectedly sucking himself off, but that it also ended up in a gauntlet somehow. It doesn't even really fit the theming for said gauntlet in the first place.