Rating Curve

This level is rather messy. It tries to be a good level — the general color scheme is pretty consistent throughout, and the deco almost looks good — but it falls short in a lot of places. Some parts look too glowy, and the style kinda seems to shift between different parts. Besides that, the gameplay isn't great. There's a lot of parts where the gameplay doesn't feel clean at all, and the ending in particular, where it fades to white while still expecting you to be playing the level isn't good level design. It has some good moments, but it's not all that good overall.

I like the story for this level. It really does a great job setting the scene, and the multiple endings idea is pretty cool too. In fact, I even tried to beat this level with all coins so I could get the best ending. That proved to be a mistake.

On the main route, the difficulty of this level is largely carried by the wave part in the middle. I could get to that part reasonably consistently, even while getting the secrets for the coins, but I'd say that most of my deaths were probably to the wave part. That's bad enough on its own, but some of the secrets are choke points themselves. I'm specifically thinking of the eighth one, which has you jump over three extra triple spikes, one of which is obscured by a police helicopter in the foreground.

I really wish the gameplay for this level was better. If it wasn't for those specific choke points, I would be giving it a far higher rating than I am.

I'm honestly not the biggest fan of the gameplay. I think that the thing that throws it off for me the most is that it starts off right at one of the more intense parts of the song without any buildup. It's far from the worst gameplay I've ever seen, but it's not my favorite. As for the deco, it's also fine, but it's forgettable. It just feels like yet another generic glow level that doesn't really do anything to stand out.

The gameplay is okay, but the deco looks kinda messy, especially in the first half.

Kinda basic, but at least it looks somewhat polished.

Doesn't really feel all that interesting, and that one really tight wave part probably ought to be easier.

I didn't have a great experience with this level. The deco is awesome, but I struggled so much with some of the gameplay in this level.

The deco works really well with the song, and the level tells an interesting story. I just wish the gameplay was easier to read...

You have to admit, it's charming. It's not even unfun, either; the gameplay is pretty basic, but nothing about it is inconsistent or annoying in any way.

The infamously buggy orbs at the start are bad enough — while you can hit the orbs consistently by not buffering, less experienced players may struggle to figure this out, and this really shouldn't have to be taken into account — but there's a part later in the level with some reasonably tight wave spam that could easily be another choke point in a level that I really don't think needs more.