Rating Curve

The hardest (and also weakest level) in the XYZ trilogy imo.

This level sticks closer to X than Z for its gameplay and visuals, but the gameplay is much more jankier compared to the other two levels, the duals being the biggest example of this, and feeling unnecessairly learny in others. It also feels unbalanced with said janky parts, making this annoying to play from 0.

The visuals are also probably the weakest in the trilogy, as it mostly uses similar designs to X. It still has its charm, but also not as much, and the visuals in the parts that aren’t primairly taken from X look too empty/generic.

Subpar overall, but not awful.

Rather mediocre all around, as the first half of the level is a very easy predrop, except for the UFO part, which is mildly inconsistent. This just makes this level more tedious to try and beat, especially given that this level still falls under the fabled Nine Circles balancing curse of making the start of the wave the hardest part, so you’ll likely play nothing but the pre-drop a majority of the time.

This level is also pretty lacking visually. I kinda do like the grid background in the second cube, but asides from that, there is a lack of air deco in many parts. What doesn’t help is that this uses the very much overdone Nine Circles effect, and without any unique twists either.

Some of the wave gameplay is fine, and can be somewhat enjoyable I guess, but nothing I would particularly call amazing either. So yea, wouldn’t really play this. Less reason now too, given that its demoted to hard demon.