Uploaded October 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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geometry dash fans are eating good tonight

ID: 107418375
Enjoyability: 7/10
Time: 6-7 hours at least
Difficulty: Extreme Demon

Been a while since I uploaded GD. It started when I was originally going to drop five random platformer extreme demons in one video, cause I was bored and had multiple days off school for some reason. I hadn't played GD since my 22 Trials of Pain clear, so it was a lot of derusting. I beat three in one day, then was planning to beat two more another day. Once I got through the fourth one, I needed one more. I was looking at the GD platformer list for levels that wouldn't take too long, so nothing that was like Top 75. I kept searching until I looked at the video for this level. For context, this is a recreation of an extremely difficult boss from kazio mario (specifically CASIO MARIO WORLD), Pardoner Fennel. Now I had watched a bit of Super Mario World kazio from people like Barb, Shoujo, and Thab, so I immediatly recognized this boss. I vaguely remembered Shoujo randomly reclearing this boss within a few attempts, so I for some reason thought I could probably get this boss done in an hour or two. Quite the mistake, it was ranked 42nd for a reason.

Firstly I'm ignoring the pacifist phase to get into the real hard fight it's free. Now for the actual fight, the amount of learning required is pretty insane. Sure you can learn how to bait and sort of combo her, but once you enter phase two it's like a completely different boss. The simple addition of a cyclone slash (sometimes) every other attack adds so much more possibilites to how the fight can go. I'd say this fight is about 30% luck, 70% skill. There are so many things that can just go wrong, like Fennel doing an unfavorable attack, bad lightning spots, hits not lining up with lightning, getting cornered, Fennel moving too much or too little. SO much can go wrong due to luck. But at the same time, it's what makes this boss feel so much more rewarding to learn and eventually get really good at. These unlucky scenarios may seem impossible to get out of, but you may eventually notice more ways to get out of these situations. I mean in my clear you could see how Fennel was in a horrible spot at the start of phase two, but I managed to make it work. This battle is mostly a test of being able to adapt, because attempting to follow a strict pattern will likely never work out due to luck. It takes forever to learn, but it sure is worth it when you finally get that perfect run.

Do I recommend this boss? Well if you don't mind having to learn a boss with kinda insane amounts of luck, then absolutely. That being said I am the person who used to grind dozens of hours on Any Radiance so I definitely have experience in this sort of boss.
Might see another GD video this month, depends on some other stuff I got going on in Celeste and real life. Also Rivals of Aether 2 might halt literally everything I do so that could be a bit troubling. Whatever here's the GD video you were waiting for people who subscribed because of The Tower XXII.