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Pretty neat, funny bossfight animations and cool attack patterns. Funny premise as well. I feel like its a bit too repetitive for me to really engage with it tho

I feel like the subject matter is pretty boring and it really just goes through the motions showing you scene after scene of Christmas settings. The parallax effects are consistently nice, especially the ending. I found a lot of the art to be inconsistent, some sections look really nice with some very solid color usage, others clash a lot, particularly the red train near the beginning juxtaposed against the bluer arctic background. It feels a lot like Matty2003 took the reins in this level cuz it has a lot of his signature stylings like blockier art and certain camera transitions. A lot of my friends really enjoy this one, but I really can't say that I like it all that much.

Lotta issues with depth and contrast, really hard to see what is and isn't an object. I also have to question the inconsistent block usage. GamerKnight puts in a lot of rendered art set pieces and then out of nowhere adds 2.0 brick blocks, random pixel blocks, and the fingerdash bats. I feel like there should have been much more thought put into the object use, this is something I feel like a majority of up-and-coming creators lack much knowledge on.

I think the theming of this level is pretty daring, lots of hell levels just allude to ideas of hell. I assume the same goes for Ascension to Heaven. Here, you quite literally see depictions of biblically accurate angels, Jesus on the cross, and many demonic lookin fellas which I would imagine have analogs to biblical demons. Kind of ballsy to have this be a weekly demon for a kids game but hey the age-appropriateness of GD has been discarded long long ago.

Has some really cool yet masochistic gameplay ideas, like the x3 wave spam at around 38%. I also really fw the glitchy, frame-by-frame outline effects and animations. It really sells a more sinister, gloomy atmosphere. Unfortunately the level kind of falls off around the halfway point. Still a really intriguing list demon, even if it may give people carpal tunnel.