[ti]Insane[/ti]Spectral Velocity By QuantumFlux (me)

Now, look. I had your phase. I know very well this type of block design, and I also got the tons of people telling me that it sucked, and that I should change it. But I didn't realize why the complaints came after a while. This type of block design is specially bad because of two points.

1-Inconsistency: This is not really fault of the type of block design, but its a generalization that has been growing with it. In block design, you have to have a specific concept. If you made all the structures differently, regardless if the main patterns or the main colors stood the same, it would look like a cluttered mess. This is because, while not copypasting, if two structures are in the same section of a level, they should look the same. Not necesarily the same exact patterns or objects, but you should be able to look at both and clearly tell they're from the same section of the level, and obviously, you should tell structures from different sections of the level apart.
This type of block design can be achieved in a consistant way, but in this case, your level doesn't. This is because the structures look the same, no matter how much you try to make them different.

I removed the color from these 3 structures in your video, that I took from 0%-30%. Can you tell them apart? Can you tell they are from different %? No, they look the same. They look as if they were in the same exact part of a level. And this is the issue: while the song changes, the sections of your level don't. I can see that you tried to imply the change, but changing colors, adding a few more objects to the main pattern, or ading more outlines doesn't help, those represent a minor change, not a major one, like the song does.
This wouldn't be much of a problem if you didn't show in the same level that you ARE capable of doing major changes in the block design without changing the main style, as shown in, for example here.

The problem here is, you use these big changes in decoration for little variations in the song, and the small changes for big variations, like, changing the color when the intensity of the song peaks. You don't have to do much to fix this, you just use those big decoration changes for big variations, and those little decoration changes for small ones. With this, the inconsistency is fixed, as the little changes you implemented are enough for little variations, and the big changes you implemented would be enough for big variations.
I would also advice to use more objects. You're just using lines, skulls, reflexes and dots. You would make the block design less boring if you made it more interesting.

2-Size: As much as Spadekilla's point may have been confusing, it IS right in some way.
In this type of decoration, I would advice you to first, use bigger objects more, smaller objects less. Use bigger objects to fill the structure up, and use the smaller objects to cover the empty places. You are doing the oposite, which makes it look messy and cluttered. Look at the diference between these two structures.

I didn't even use colors, and you can tell that one looks way better than the other. Of course, my core-wired brain made me exagerate a bit too much on the decoration in the first structure, but you get the point, use more big objects and less little ones. Keep the little objects for details, because otherwise, the structure will look messy. You should also keep in mind the distance between the objects, try to keep every object surrounding another one have the same distance.

I don't agree with Spadekilla saying the air deco is effects. Its just that the actual air deco is minimal, and everything else is filled up by custom backgrounds. Now listen, please, for the love of god, turn down the opacity of those custom backgrounds. At LEAST to 0.50%. Custom backgrounds are complementary, they should never replace the air deco. They should be really dark and low opacity, so they fill in the background and make the air deco stand out. What you are doing is keeping the air deco to the minimum and letting everything be filled up by the custom backgrounds, which works in an effect level, but everything in your level makes it look as if it was supposed to be a design level. And this is a problem. You should always focus more on the air deco rather than the custom backgrounds, because if not, the level will look once again, messy and cluttered: something you should always seek to avoid.

The other problem I have with your air deco is the fact that it doesn't make sense. I am an overdecorator, and I can easily tell that this level has way too much going on at the same time. There's bricks, grounds, lavafalls, rotating circles, ramps, arrows, clouds, etc. You should always keep the level off from being messy, EVEN if its overdecorated. You don't need to have 10 different custom backgrounds connected to 10 different move triggers just to fill up the level, and in fact, if you do that, the level will just look worse. Tone down the custom backgrounds a little bit, add less things going on, add more blending and more opacity, and you will see how everything starts to look cleaner, leaving you space to improve your air decoration (add more)

I will say that I have no comment on this. I'm terrible at explaining gameplay, and even if I like it and I want to give you more incise than "you did a good job", I really couldn't be able to do it, because I don't know much about judging gameplay, and what makes a gameplay good. Just keep going with this, its good enough, not really a lot of mistakes.