Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Comparison between the old and new versions of the easy-ish extreme demon by kivvvi, a masterpiece for it's time. The original version was verified by NikVer in July 2023, enjoyed heavily even before the balance update, which happened in December of the same year, verified by Rivet. I would presume this was partially motivated by 2.2, to fix any new bugs that may have arose. Overall it's a good bit easier after the update, though I will say that there are a decent amount of harder stuff too in this. This comparison was surprisingly annoying to make due to the large number of camera guide portals (replacement for camera controls in 2.1), toggle trigger playtesting choices and miscolored portals.
ID: 92957491 (New), 132304841 (Old)
Song: Harvest - ImCold
Creator: kivvvi
Comparison between the old and new versions of the easy-ish extreme demon by kivvvi, a masterpiece for it's time. The original version was verified by NikVer in July 2023, enjoyed heavily even before the balance update, which happened in December of the same year, verified by Rivet. I would presume this was partially motivated by 2.2, to fix any new bugs that may have arose. Overall it's a good bit easier after the update, though I will say that there are a decent amount of harder stuff too in this. This comparison was surprisingly annoying to make due to the large number of camera guide portals (replacement for camera controls in 2.1), toggle trigger playtesting choices and miscolored portals.
ID: 92957491 (New), 132304841 (Old)
Song: Harvest - ImCold
Creator: kivvvi
![[Top 1] - SileNT ForTrEsS with Frame Windows Counter | Showcase](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/PH5KWUwI7Wg/mqdefault.jpg "[Top 1] - SileNT ForTrEsS with Frame Windows Counter | Showcase
Should preface this with a moderate epilepsy warning: Silent Fortress is a recently released level by zwaru as a collab with others, the level being the sequel of Silent Helheim made around 5 years ago by waru as well. This level is much much harder than Silent Helheim, being admittedly buffed in the comments of the official showcase. For me, this is an infinitely more interesting and visually appealing level than Silent Helheim, which felt like just another random upcoming top 10 to be verified (now low mainlist or extended). Theres some really cool deco in here, especially the middle sections of the level.
The level is extremely hard, obviously, and its certainly not helping that its 2nd half carried. The swings and ships are insane, and basically every input in the level manages to register as a 1-6 frame window. Its probably a decent bit harder than Society, and a few other upcoming top 1s, but definitely doable nowadays thanks to the length. I will note that the level is open verification. The WR is 27% by zwaru afaik, though if its cheated then its 5% by me LOL. Goodluck to anyone who tries this insane level.
ID: 147500452
Song: Fortress Destroyer - Machine Girl (NoNG)
Creator: Waru, Filqh, Ado, Skylark")
![[Top 1] - SHEOL 9 with Frame Windows Counter](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/R2ArfKdKnz0/mqdefault.jpg "[Top 1] - SHEOL 9 with Frame Windows Counter
Sheol 9 is an upcoming top 1 extreme demon by Rynoxious, to be decorated by him and Linear. They plan to make this level the level to end all nine circle top 1s, and I have no doubt they will cook. This is an early look the current version (still a layout) difficulty, and is obviously very subject to change. Its not very long but has insane difficulty regardless, which is really brutal. Theres a ton of 4 and 3f timings which add up, combined with the cps and possibly some memory stuff going on, as the wave is already going through blocks, etc. Very much looking forward to this levels deco.
ID: Private
Song: Sheol Death - Panda Party & Xtrullor
Creators: Rynoxiouss, Linear")
![[Top 5?] - DEATH CIRCLES X with Frame Windows Counter](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Rk77FpNSCrk/mqdefault.jpg "[Top 5?] - DEATH CIRCLES X with Frame Windows Counter
Death Circles X by zXdasfsa is a pretty short but very difficult nine circles level. It was intended to be the shortest nine circles level, and it succeeds afaik if you dont count challenges that have nine circle level parts. Its also placed on the ILL at 1023, a few spots below Society and much higher than TS2. Its pretty hard to say exactly how hard the level is, but I have no doubt those spammy corridors coupled with very difficult timings sprinkled throughout make the level this hard. The WR is 63-100% by Spanifer, and it could probably be beaten without too much a hassle. this is kinda filler ig
ID: 136531464
Song: The Grind - NightKilla (NoNG)
Creator: zXdasfsa")
![[Top 150?] - Can You Do It with Frame Windows Counter](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Rz_LVH8OSy4/mqdefault.jpg "[Top 150?] - Can You Do It with Frame Windows Counter
Another quick frame window vid for a somewhat recently verified impossible level. Not very interesting I know, but its something at least. Ill paste the rest of my old description below from the full detail showcase. also sidenote this fwc is almost 2 months old LOL
Can You Do It is an old impossible level by the infamous creator, Optic Sunflow. It was made in 1.5, when the top 1 was Definite Integral by Rabbitical, and oh man is it a monster of a level. Sometimes I wonder if Optic Sunflow was okay, because this some of this gameplay is so creatively devious, and you wont really understand till you play it. The original version was actually physically impossible in one spot, but was fixed by UltraVenom in 2019, with the ILL now using his fix as the copy.
The levels WR probably stood at 11% for years, after which HequinoX started playing this level, progressing swiftly until landing a WR of 59% in early 2023 after 4k attempts. He estimated the level to be around top 20 at the time, which actually falls in the range of our next verifier, Sulky, who started playing it around 2 weeks ago, got the WR of 64% a week later and 1.8k attempts, had a worst fail of 78% and then just verified it today in 4.4k attempts, around 3 hours ago as of publishing. Its worth noting that Sulky is a very good player, with a hardest of COMBUSTION, so of course it wasnt a mind numbingly bad experience.
Either way though, this level has some of the worst gameplay imaginable, with really awkward setups and frame perfect inputs (on 60 lol) all throughout. Youll see tomorrow with my frame window counter, but I cannot overstate how terrible some of them are for a level of this estimated difficulty (100-200). The UFO spam at 63% is very fast, nearing 15 CPS for a consistent setup, as well as a somewhat precise start to the spam, as hitting any block nearby will kill the run. Then of course we should mention the terrrible ship straightfly parts, which were probably only possible in players dreams back then. Overall a very respectable completion, GGs to Sulky and go sub to them below!
Verification Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v gnMQJcBYGs&
ID: 56337646
Song: xStep - DJVI
Creator: Optic Sunflow")
