Uploaded August 2021 | Updated September 2026, 9 hours ago

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Catalyze by Zephirox is the sequel to Zaphkiel, which I beat last week. I took up this challenge right after beating Zaphkiel and within 2 days I got 74%, progressing much faster than with Zaphkiel. Unfortunately, it would take another week and a couple days to finally beat the level. Thanks to my shit luck once again, I ended up having over 50 deaths in the "lava" part or past it, dying over 5 times at the 90's (wtf lmao :D). While not as unlucky as with Zaphkiel, this was still really frustrating and added a lot of attempts to the final count.

I'm 100% confident that this is easier than Zaphkiel, opposed to the demon list order. Catalyze is much easier to learn, more consistent and overall has easier gameplay and wider spaces compared to its sister level. However, although Zaphkiel is much more second half heavy and everything, I found Catalyze to be less interesting and quite a boring experience. So my list placements to the surrounding levels would be the following:

ZAPHKIEL ------ Catalyze - Digital Descent --- Stalemate Redux

Thank you for coming to my ted talk.

Attempts: 4675

👉Song: Kolkian - Catalyze

-Difficulty: #72 on the demon list
-My difficulty rating: #69 (read above)
-Decoration: 8/10
-Gameplay: 9/10
-Enjoyment: 70/100

My top 10 achievements:
#1 Bloodlust: youtu.be/F0iw3L3O7Kg
#2 Yatagarasu: youtu.be/WCa3T3OxBlQ
#3 Erebus: youtu.be/sH0HBocmJgw
(The new #4 is this)
#4 Digital Descent: youtu.be/RXTiy2yaGxg
#5 Zaphkiel: youtu.be/cod0vuzvGI0
#6 Stalemate Redux: youtu.be/vvS2rSv2PMo
#7 Artificial Ascent: youtu.be/ERf9K629KOw
#8 Auditory Breaker: youtu.be/9OGrqR_pylM
#9 Sinister Incision: youtu.be/PxvAV0w2sQM
#10 Black Blizzard: youtu.be/p51V-JM9Xow