Rating Curve

Clearly, "Congregation" is best known for the jumpscare drop. Why not? It's one of the most shocking things ever to hold our eyes, and it's of the few perfect seconds in this game. The way the icon disappears to leave you hanging and reappears just in time for you to realize what's going to happen.

What Talk Talk's "Laughing Stock" was to 90s rock is Presta's "Congregation" a response to the growing uniformity of year 2021 Geometry Dash neo-modern style. Its importance is obvious, its mark is clean, and this level has not yet left the community consciousness. Watching this for the first time was as electrifying as the debut of "Nine Circles".

The neo-modern scene of mid-late 2.1, with releases such as MrSupremeGD's "Meta BoXes" (the first one I thought of off the top of my head), can be characterized by box style, in which an uncomfortable amount of square designs fill often-uncomfortably-constructed structures. In my eyes, this scene peaked with cometface's cosmopolitan masterpiece "WELL RESTED". Congregation serves as a grim and violating response to this.

Take the first and third parts, entirely filled with 1x1 and 2x2 blocks, a hallmark of boxstyle. The drop part is just so different. The blocks are still square, yet they're so haphazardly placed. They're connected only by pure association without any regards to actual geometric form or example. It's a response to the standard, the orderliness of neo-modern that stagnated into mediocrity.

"Congregation" isn't a unique example in terms of revolutions and responses, but it is the most stark. I really like this level. Thank you Presta!

My family fled the America in the 1860s, and all they brought with them along the upperground railroad was a little Dutch watch. My great grandfather passed it down, then my grandfather, then my father, then to my younger brother.

Every community has a monolith, something to stand by in the midst of the changing currents. While this piece of totem holds up like rotten wood, it’s clear this level is larger than its digital boundaries.

I tend my own garden down in Johannesburg. Some things, like the beauty of the light between two noble branches and the extravagance of a field of flowers, only make sense directly in front of you. It reminds me of those olden days when my eyes lens still beamed a vibrance not off-yellow, and my house stood strong.

I had hoped my wife’s child be borne under the previous South African administration, for him/hers complexion would be of great benefit. Don’t get me wrong! I am happy with the new administration. Simply put things haven’t been the same. Alas my son came out a tad too late.

On my flight from Eswatini to New Brunswick, the quaint motherland of my forefathers, I had this level and only this level saved. Entranced by the definingly “maxxormen” style of the road and structures in the first segment, I pursued on, achieving 13% after the whole plane ride. I had been so engaged by the experience I failed to notice my wife’s angry gaze as she struggled to urge me into the aisle when she got her sudden shits, a habit which I implored her to improve. Thoroughly enthused by Cityfade, but the UFO part is a bit infuriating.

I consider this Aimbotter’s pivotal moment in his creating career before he settled into his identifyable astrotechno-infused design style. It is quite a treat, too. It reminds me of my pregnant wife upon a Delta Airlines flight, from which we peeked above the clouds. That infant motherfucker kicked my table and spilled my ginger ale all over my beige jorts.

It’s not easy being a trailblazer; you speak under the growing weight of the eyes upon you. Still, you speak.

I give thearmyants both my kudos and my flak. While definitely the cause of the movement, some movements go backwards, but it is still momentum. Unclear if this is a net positive or a net negative or simply one heave in the long haul, I respect its existence with a 5/10. In short, ts pmo.

I leave my screen, turnt black with inactivity, betwixt us lies a moment of severe incredulity. Unsure of my future now, unsure of my future then. I must get my wife pregnant.

I am often pleasantly surprised, but few times I am reminded the universal joy felt during pregnancy. This level achieves it perfectly, maybe save some notes for the drop part.

In the advent of platformer mode, levels like Crerro Kaizo, How to Platformer, IWannaBetheKamala are completely expected, at least by me, HerbertTheSherbert. With this stage I can only imagine how uniquely moving it must feel to open a new railroad for our collective train of thought, to invent a new dimension of gameplay. It reminds me when the Ottomans invented kebabs for the first time and caused the Europoors to search for “new land” (which had already been discovered by Indians (not like Native Americans, search up Babur the Great)).

Sincerely, amazing! This is one of the most philosophical levels I’ve seen!

I like to imagine this as an allegory for pregnancy. You start in a quiet space of unknowns of what the future will be, like a passionate couple. Then You get thrown into the ship part. Then at the end, which is so drawn out, like 9 months, pregnancy, you are met with an encounter of peace and quiet again, like the baby is born.

How kiwipenguin thought of this is so important! I’m impressed beyond belief.