[ti]Demon[/ti] Forsaken Place by Me with video

The gameplay in this level is very very lacking. The level starts you off with a completely blind jump. There is no exact way to practice this jump, and making blind jumps like this is VERY unfun. It would have been a bit better if the player was visible. This is my main gripe with the level: how unplayable and unfair the gameplay is. If you want to get people to play your level, then you should try to make excellent gameplay that people would willingly play. Being an extreme demon doesn't excuse putrid gameplay, which is why levels like Mystic are given the shaft. Okay, back on topic. You make an invisible leap of faith onto a jump orb spam. This spam is really buggy and isn't fun at all. Not only that, but it's not telegraphed, meaning that on the first playthrough, the player has no idea what to do. No blind jump is a good one. Add arrows to show that there is spam incoming. Then after that there is a spider, which isn't AWFUL, but is nothing really worth mentioning. The timing on the third blue ring is pretty damn annoying however. After that, there is a HORRIBLE transition where the player has to tap right after entering the Cube portal. The blue jump ring is completely out of sight, meaning that this is another part where the player will blindly die from bad level design. Move the orb down a couple of blocks, or warn the player about the upcoming tap. After that, there are two sets of triple spikes, which are pretty luck based because they depend on when you tap the jump orb. If they were moved a little to the right, they'd be fine, but most of the time I died by falling onto the corner of the first spike. This is artificial difficulty. No player should have to die because they didn't perform a perfect timing when they didn't know they needed to. Triple spikes are overused anyways, so only Michigun would like this part. After that is a very easy ball, which starts off with a horrible transition that forces the player to tap INSTANTLY. Not only that, but the player doesn't even see the spikes until the last minute, which means that they don't know that they have to tap. Never use moving objects to cause these types of deaths. A lot of troll levels that use this "feature" are very unfun to play, and it's annoying. Then you fall upwards onto another moving block. The gameplay after is pretty straight forward, which is very inconsistent. Try making your gameplay balanced throughout the level. You shouldn't have difficult spam sections then easy parts right after. Try to maintain your difficulty throughout the entire level. The timing on the orbs through the blue orbs is kind of annoying. After that, we have a UFO, which starts off with another "tap here or you die" transition. I'm not even going to give you suggestions anymore for these because I've made the same ones over and over. Just add indications so people know that they have to tap. The spam is also very annoying. My laptop has VERY bad input delay, making this section unplayable. Next up we have a timing robot, with another AWFUL transition. The timings are nothing worth mentioning, besides the last two being very annoying. After that, we have my personal favorite part of the level in terms of gameplay, the wave. The transition is horrible once again, as you are forced to hold right away, but it's the most playable part of the level in my opinion because it's a redundant but passable wave. The final area with the size changers is unique, but annoying. After that we have a below average transition but an okay one into a cube. This is probably one of the better transitions throughout the level. The gameplay here is very confusing. The worst part is that it's almost directly ripped from Sonic Wave. The gameplay was definitely inspired by it, but the decoration was ripped from it. NEVER copy level designs. If you do, at least give the original creator credit. This is called plagiarism, and getting caught while doing it is nasty. Nothing much to say about the gameplay however, but going upwards into the gravity portal is very disorienting in my opinion. After that, we have three fakes which are easy to distinguish, but the gameplay involves doing absolutely nothing for a few seconds. You should try to keep the player engaged instead of having random auto parts. Sure, random auto parts are fun to make, but don't have them. After that, another pretty lacking transition into a dual. The dual is one of the better parts of the level, but the gameplay is rather odd. After that, another "tap instantly or die" transition into a timing UFO. Timings aren't very fun at full speed. The UFO isn't the worst but it needs some work. Then we have a copy of the first ball, which is pretty lazy. Try to make each section fresh instead of copy pasting gameplay. The orbs after are pretty odd, and they don't feel right. Maybe make the path wider. The auto cube following is VERY disorienting. It feels like the auto is going to break at any time, and falling upwards onto the platform works 25% of the time. It's VERY buggy. Move the platform over a teensie bit, so that there isn't any bug, because I keep falling into the top corner of the platform. Also, 75% of the time you fall onto the side that KILLS you. This is UNFAIR, and having luck based gameplay in a level makes it even more unplayable. It's all luck whether or not you land at the top, or die to the platform. Fix this, you should never die from bugs or from luck based gameplay. The gameplay in this part is nothing specialThe pink orbs are pretty annoying however. After that, you guessed it, another blind transition. You dodge green portals as a ship. A lot of straightfly is needed to pass. It's cool dodging cube portals, but nothing special as it's the same as dodging spikes. Also, the last few green portals you can actually touch if they are at the top. After that, transition into a ball, with quite repetitive timings that do little to be fresh and original. It's obviously copy pasted, making this a very boring section. After that, we have a VERY annoying ship. First off, it's invisible. Not fun. Second off, there's straightfly, which is something that only 144hz players like. Lastly, the timing to fall down is very buggy. I swear I keep dying here no matter how early I release, so I'm saying that it's impossible. Avoiding the green orb is also quite annoying.Not even talking about the awful transition. After is a HORRIBLE transition where if you don't spam instantly, you die. Avoid these. It's very annoying to deal with these. The spam is also very annoying and inconsistent, and is also very unforgiving. This section reminds me of hya's part in The This, which NO level should do. Then, you go into a decent wave with a decent transition. The first part of this wave is actually passable in my opinion.But then you have a troll in a level that obviously isn't a troll level, which is something that I don't like. I like memory levels a lot, but not when there is an out of place troll in a level like this. After that, we have an okay part: one where you tap orbs in gravity portals. This part is more fun, but it's still buggy. Lastly, we have an ANNOYING part where you have to guess where the dual portal is because you are a ship at full speed, then position both ships PERFECTLY at full speed to straightfly through one spike then TAP an orb to PERFECTLY straightfly through another in the middle. This is VERY annoying and luck based. There's blind guessing involved here, and the dual is very buggy. Bad way to end a pretty bad level.