Rating Curve

Choleric is widely considered one of the hardest harder levels in the game. I would personally rank it as the #2 hardest harder level just behind Hazy Blood. This level is infamous for having an asymmetrical 2P part at the very end, so make sure you have some 2P experience before going for this.

0-16% has an annoying cube part with lots of fakes and precise timings. It gets consistent but it forces you to lock in every attempt which makes it annoying

16-22% is a precise wave part with one fake and a few gravity portals. It’s one of the easiest parts of the level

22-27% has a very janky ship part - it gets consistent but prepare for a few annoying deaths here

27-33% has an even jankier ball part. I died here a lot in normal, the click pattern is just a little unintuitive for me

33-40% has a UFO that is often called one of the hardest parts. I won’t lie, it is pretty bad, but I was able to do it consistently by the end. The transition into and out of this UFO can be rough.

40-48% is (imo) the hardest part of the level. You have a cube part with many precise timings. There’s one timing in particular that must be 60Hz frame perfect or something. Just try to practice the pattern for this part, get visual cues for all the timings, and pray you can do it in normal

48-56% is an easy memory ball part, but I still died to it twice in normal because of all the fakes.

56-69% is a mini ship part that reminds me of 8o and Crack’s part in Bloodbath. It takes some practice but it is very consistent

69-73% is a short mini wave spam part. It’s easy, but fatigue from doing all the previous parts caused me to die here twice.

78-100% is the infamous Choleric 2P dual. Ironically, it is pretty short for how iconic it is, but that doesn’t stop it from being the hardest part to learn. You have to do a few precise inputs on both sides of the dual, and the transition to the ball ship dual can be janky. It took me hundreds of attempts just to do this part once. It’s not as hard as a lot of the previous parts, but it is still one of the hardest parts of the level so expect at least a few deaths here

Overall the gameplay is pretty fun, but there are too many janky parts for me to give this above a 5/10 gameplay wise. If you’re struggling with this level I highly recommend doing increasingly long runs to 100 (the Vortrox “Beat-em Backwards” strat)

The song choice is excellent - Genesis (the -SIRIUS- song) has always been one of my favorites.

The visuals are pretty generic for 2.0 standards. Some parts look like 2.0 and some parts look like 1.9 which makes this level standout, but nothing seems that impressive visually imo

Overall, this level is alright, but it should be medium / hard demon, nowhere near 7 star difficulty