Uploaded November 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago

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Yes, that is a 9 hour time skip between checkpoint 2 and checkpoint 3. Yes, there's invisible hitboxes around the path so you can't cheese the whole level.

After a total of three different grind periods in the span of a couple of months, I finally beat the hardest jetpack level and the third hardest rated pemon. This level has been looming me since it got rated, and I'm glad I ever have to touch it again. The level features primarily precision jetpack gameplay and a little bit of swing copter, which is very uncommon in platformer. There are three checkpoints, with 1 & 3 being very hard while 2 is relatively easy. Since there are checkpoints in this level, and since there are no persistent checkpoints yet, it is very common for runs to be egregiously long (like this one). If you're curious, I started this run on the 9th of November and completed it on the 11th, meaning it spanned across three days.

This level hurts physically and mentally. Physically, the level will injure your hand if you are not careful. Since the level is both hard and has no breaks in the middle of checkpoints, you will have to manage long grind sessions of constant high cps jetpack control. In this video, you see me switching from up arrow to spacebar occasionally; this is me switching from my right hand to my left so my right hand can take a break. If you want to grind this level, please make sure you know where you can take a break in the level, force yourself to take breaks in general, and learn hand stretches. If you don't, you will guarantee hurt yourself (don't worry, I'm fine, just a PSA).

Mentally, this level is boring as hell. There is no visual or auditorial stimulus, and you're just banging your head on a wall for hours until something happens. This is most apparent in the first checkpoint where you're not punished for leaving the level and doing something else. I never could handle more than an hour of the first checkpoint before being completely bored and doing something else. I also easily get distracted into doing something else by the 15-minute mark. Fun fact: I got so bored one time that I decided to make my keyboard overlay look better, so you can thank the level for that. The boredom isn't as bad in later checkpoints since there's stakes at that point, but the gameplay is still uninteresting.

If you're wondering why I have info label on, it is because some of these gaps are annoyingly tight (with the smallest ones being a 3-unit leeway). With the camera being so zoomed out, it's better to have good enough ship control to look at the numbers and look back at the ship than to sit 2 inches from the screen to align to the correct pixel. This is especially useful in the last checkpoint where there's five or so 3-unit gaps as well as being a dark checkpoint (meaning your brightness is cranked up to max).

And with that, I only have one rated platformer left before I have the maximum amount of moons possible: the top 1 level "CONVOLUTION".

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📕 STATS📕

Attempts: 17,682
Creator: No ob
ID: 99195742
Enjoyment: 2/10

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⛓️LINKS⛓️

Platformer Demons List: gdplatformerlist.com/#

Personal Ranking of Completions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GgGg5VmE3Ouf8or-3F_LizTIpe5fYycH_UYEkqC9zw4/edit?usp=sharing

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⏰ TIMSTAMPS ⏰

0:00 Intro
0:02 Checkpoint One (big jetpack)
1:28 Checkpoint Two (swing copter)
2:48 Checkpoint Three (mini jetpack)
4:42 Win

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