Uploaded March 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
This stage is an insanely hard guantlet themed around Deltarune/Jevil. Holy shit was this a grind. It started off incredibly motivating because within 20-30 hours of attempts I was already consistently getting to blue castle, but I immediately got stuck and could not make any progress. It was consistent dying to dumb stuff 20 minutes in that I can't really learn from. Even now that I have the star, I can confidently say that my worst choke was completely out of control as I just hit a completely bullshit 1/4 chance that killed me. I eventually reworked my strategy at that jump to make it retriable, but it really shouldn't have happened in the first place. Then my second and third worst chokes were scenarios that didn't happen in the 50+ times I attempted the jumps so I didn't react correctly even though both were relatively easy to save if I could have ever predicted that they would happen.
Despite all of that, this stage is genuinely really well made and its only flaw is a bad difficulty distribution (which is insanely hard to judge as a creator). Nearly every jump is fun and creative, the theming is impeccable, the music slaps for the first 50 hours (I muted the game audio after it got too hard to listen to) and was absolutely brilliantly designed as a larger structure. This level took me a very long time to understand the structure of because of how brilliant the design was.
The difficulty curve as an ASCII chart is roughly:
-\___/\____/---------
This is problematic because the early level is hard enough to the point where you can't 100% autopilot it. This wouldn't be an issue if the entire mid star wasn't WAY easier than the beginning and end. This lead to every attempt feeling completely pointless, boring, and genuinely grueling to play until around blue castle. This combined with the fact that there are a lot of hard jumps randomly mixed in made this star horrid to grind.
Overall, I would give this star like an 8.5/10 quality. If I wasn't so unlucky it would probably be more like a 9.5, but every mistake or stupid death is punished HARD with how uninteresting the intro is to play causing me to drop the rating.
Massive shoutouts to Kougahei for making this, it was overall really good despite everything and I wish I could have appreciated it more for the quality that it is.
My thoughts typed immediately after getting the star:
Gonna do a mattybuhh and type my thoughts here while Im still emotional. This star might have tormented me more than any other accomplishment in my life. The sheer raw bad luck I had at every point in this grind is crazy. I was a day or two away from getting it by no more than 30 hours in, and it just kept giving me more and more chokes. Half were really stupid and something I never could have prepared for and the others were just stupidity. The worst of these was getting a 1/4 Quarterframe death on the scythe kicks at the end of the star. Overall I had like 12ish attempts to blue castle, including those past it and those that died to the slopes leading into it. It was so backloaded it drove me nuts. It took me so long. I finally did it. I cried so much scrolling back through it.
Music Used:
youtube.com/watch?v=Df67eevncL0
youtube.com/watch?v=TX9JIZMXKsY
youtube.com/watch?v=UD3kCViM-f4
youtube.com/watch?v=J2skbG1WHXw
youtube.com/watch?v=w9tWq6FIwzA
youtube.com/watch?v=YnfL3tzFx1Y
youtube.com/watch?v=ouUeRx0OHPw
youtube.com/watch?v=K1CExaZd4dA
youtube.com/watch?v=i9r1zbMEO9U
youtube.com/watch?v=Paw4n5xmqxQ
youtube.com/watch?v=FakbNdxRXdw
Streamed live on my twitch - twitch.tv/iamdolphino
I would greatly appreciate a follow o7.
If you actually read all of this, please leave a like and/or subscribe. This video and the star in it was an absurd amount of effort, and I would like to know that it was worth it.
This stage is an insanely hard guantlet themed around Deltarune/Jevil. Holy shit was this a grind. It started off incredibly motivating because within 20-30 hours of attempts I was already consistently getting to blue castle, but I immediately got stuck and could not make any progress. It was consistent dying to dumb stuff 20 minutes in that I can't really learn from. Even now that I have the star, I can confidently say that my worst choke was completely out of control as I just hit a completely bullshit 1/4 chance that killed me. I eventually reworked my strategy at that jump to make it retriable, but it really shouldn't have happened in the first place. Then my second and third worst chokes were scenarios that didn't happen in the 50+ times I attempted the jumps so I didn't react correctly even though both were relatively easy to save if I could have ever predicted that they would happen.
Despite all of that, this stage is genuinely really well made and its only flaw is a bad difficulty distribution (which is insanely hard to judge as a creator). Nearly every jump is fun and creative, the theming is impeccable, the music slaps for the first 50 hours (I muted the game audio after it got too hard to listen to) and was absolutely brilliantly designed as a larger structure. This level took me a very long time to understand the structure of because of how brilliant the design was.
The difficulty curve as an ASCII chart is roughly:
-\___/\____/---------
This is problematic because the early level is hard enough to the point where you can't 100% autopilot it. This wouldn't be an issue if the entire mid star wasn't WAY easier than the beginning and end. This lead to every attempt feeling completely pointless, boring, and genuinely grueling to play until around blue castle. This combined with the fact that there are a lot of hard jumps randomly mixed in made this star horrid to grind.
Overall, I would give this star like an 8.5/10 quality. If I wasn't so unlucky it would probably be more like a 9.5, but every mistake or stupid death is punished HARD with how uninteresting the intro is to play causing me to drop the rating.
Massive shoutouts to Kougahei for making this, it was overall really good despite everything and I wish I could have appreciated it more for the quality that it is.
My thoughts typed immediately after getting the star:
Gonna do a mattybuhh and type my thoughts here while Im still emotional. This star might have tormented me more than any other accomplishment in my life. The sheer raw bad luck I had at every point in this grind is crazy. I was a day or two away from getting it by no more than 30 hours in, and it just kept giving me more and more chokes. Half were really stupid and something I never could have prepared for and the others were just stupidity. The worst of these was getting a 1/4 Quarterframe death on the scythe kicks at the end of the star. Overall I had like 12ish attempts to blue castle, including those past it and those that died to the slopes leading into it. It was so backloaded it drove me nuts. It took me so long. I finally did it. I cried so much scrolling back through it.
Music Used:
youtube.com/watch?v=Df67eevncL0
youtube.com/watch?v=TX9JIZMXKsY
youtube.com/watch?v=UD3kCViM-f4
youtube.com/watch?v=J2skbG1WHXw
youtube.com/watch?v=w9tWq6FIwzA
youtube.com/watch?v=YnfL3tzFx1Y
youtube.com/watch?v=ouUeRx0OHPw
youtube.com/watch?v=K1CExaZd4dA
youtube.com/watch?v=i9r1zbMEO9U
youtube.com/watch?v=Paw4n5xmqxQ
youtube.com/watch?v=FakbNdxRXdw
Streamed live on my twitch - twitch.tv/iamdolphino
I would greatly appreciate a follow o7.
If you actually read all of this, please leave a like and/or subscribe. This video and the star in it was an absurd amount of effort, and I would like to know that it was worth it.
