![[EXTREME] Auroral Darkness By: iIiViRuZiIi [#135 AS OF COMPLETION] @sinkplaygame](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/5dT0chGNKnc/maxresdefault.jpg)
Uploaded July 2022 | Updated September 2026, 10 hours ago
DISCORD (now with requests!): discord.gg/K8CEmAw
new hardest!1
i beat my previous hardest, old athanatos, on june 3rd of last year
This took me like 4-5 days to grind out. Auroral Darkness started off being extremely fun to learn, albeit with random parts being way more difficult than others. This became an issue playing from 0.
20% to the drop is disproportionately harder than the rest of the predrop, which is really easy comparatively. The drop is relatively easy except for the wave (i am not good at wave) and the final ship section. The post-drop is twice as hard as the drop.
Luckily, the level gets very consistent. I got 97, 96, and then 86 within 20 minutes before I beat it.
Most of my enjoyment was sapped because of the inconsistent difficulty and overall bland nature of the level.
oh also fun fact this level breaks on 360
lmao
Attempts: 11,440 plus ~300-400
Enjoyment: 0.5/10
Song: Creo - Octane
Menu Loop: newgrounds.com/audio/listen/1056740
DISCORD (now with requests!): discord.gg/K8CEmAw
new hardest!1
i beat my previous hardest, old athanatos, on june 3rd of last year
This took me like 4-5 days to grind out. Auroral Darkness started off being extremely fun to learn, albeit with random parts being way more difficult than others. This became an issue playing from 0.
20% to the drop is disproportionately harder than the rest of the predrop, which is really easy comparatively. The drop is relatively easy except for the wave (i am not good at wave) and the final ship section. The post-drop is twice as hard as the drop.
Luckily, the level gets very consistent. I got 97, 96, and then 86 within 20 minutes before I beat it.
Most of my enjoyment was sapped because of the inconsistent difficulty and overall bland nature of the level.
oh also fun fact this level breaks on 360
lmao
Attempts: 11,440 plus ~300-400
Enjoyment: 0.5/10
Song: Creo - Octane
Menu Loop: newgrounds.com/audio/listen/1056740
![[EXTREME] Auroral Darkness By: iIiViRuZiIi [#135 AS OF COMPLETION]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/5dT0chGNKnc/mqdefault.jpg "[EXTREME] Auroral Darkness By: iIiViRuZiIi [#135 AS OF COMPLETION]
DISCORD (now with requests!): https://discord.gg/K8CEmAw
new hardest!1
i beat my previous hardest, old athanatos, on june 3rd of last year
This took me like 4-5 days to grind out. Auroral Darkness started off being extremely fun to learn, albeit with random parts being way more difficult than others. This became an issue playing from 0.
20% to the drop is disproportionately harder than the rest of the predrop, which is really easy comparatively. The drop is relatively easy except for the wave (i am not good at wave) and the final ship section. The post-drop is twice as hard as the drop.
Luckily, the level gets very consistent. I got 97, 96, and then 86 within 20 minutes before I beat it.
Most of my enjoyment was sapped because of the inconsistent difficulty and overall bland nature of the level.
oh also fun fact this level breaks on 360
lmao
Attempts: 11,440 plus ~300-400
Enjoyment: 0.5/10
Song: Creo - Octane
Menu Loop: https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/1056740")
![Not Afraid By: ChlOwOe (Medium Demon) [1.9 GDPS]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/6vUvv34ktoQ/mqdefault.jpg "Not Afraid By: ChlOwOe (Medium Demon) [1.9 GDPS]
Discord: https://discord.gg/K8CEmAw
unlike a lot of people, I actually found this quite fun.
ship should be nerfed a bit
Attempts: 93
Song: NemesisTheory- Show No Tears https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/20171
240bypass used")
![[Showcase] Fluctuate II By: Accelec and More](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/8I1e5ktQpAk/mqdefault.jpg "[Showcase] Fluctuate II By: Accelec and More
DISCORD: https://discord.gg/K8CEmAw
To be completely honest, I hadnt heard of some of the creators in this collab, nor the host and uploader of the level itself. Granted, the creator of the level has only 2 creator points from their level Fluctuate, which makes the fact that their second rated level was epic even more intriguing. To this regard, I was pleasantly surprised by how well this glow-styled level was built. What makes this level great is not the specific designs in each part, but how consistently built the designs are throughout the whole level. Most of the level uses the predrop of the song chosen, and each part within the predrop of the level follows a similar design style. This design style does get a bit repetitive, but the excellent pulsework and glow effects make up for this repetition quite a bit. Also, to reduce repetition, the design parts during the drop differ significantly from the previous parts by utilizing different and more profound foreground effects not present in other parts. By doing this, it is easy to see that despite nearly every part in the level using a very similar style, each part is able to be individualized by the part of the song that is playing. However, by doing this, a few parts towards the middle of the level do feel a tad boring due to the song being slow and calm. Nonetheless, Fluctuate II is an interesting and cohesive glow-design megacollab which bases its parts off of how intense the song is in each section. This was a fun level to play, and I hope to see more from the creators in this megacollab in the future.
Song: Sharks - Never Let You Go")
