Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
I initially beat this with Gecko on his account at the end of May, but due to an unexplainably lucky completion, the level being unrated, and little time before I had to go home, I didn't feel like rebeating this on my account. However, the level recently received a rerate after being unrated for many years due to being hacked, and I had no real reason to put off playing it. I did not enjoy playing it at all during a brief attempt at rebeating in May, but the level was a lot more enjoyable today, likely due to the lack of time pressure.
That being said, this level has a lot of very apparent gameplay flaws that you would only ever discover in a hacked verification. The predrop does have its chokepoints, but they are nothing too crazy. The issues come from a very poorly designed set of orb timings at 50% on Gecko's side, and a very awkward ship manoeuvre at 77% on my side. Both of these raise the difficulty of the level immensely, and really don't do the level any favours in terms of how fair it is to play. Everything else is totally fine but its a real shame that two things drag it down as much as they do.
Those issues aside, I did enjoy this a lot more coming back to it. That being said, I would recommend staying away from this level unless you have a lot of patience and are way above its skill level, as this would get really frustrating. This was definitely the only 2 player extreme demon that at no point during playtime did it feel like a completion was close.
Also the mic audio kinda bugs out near the end of the completion due to Shadowplay being stupid, sorry ðŸ˜
Song: Armageddon by Shtriga
Attempts: 1,471, plus 826 from the initial completion
Worst Fail: 87% on both completions
Enjoyment: 7/10
Extreme Demon #557
I initially beat this with Gecko on his account at the end of May, but due to an unexplainably lucky completion, the level being unrated, and little time before I had to go home, I didn't feel like rebeating this on my account. However, the level recently received a rerate after being unrated for many years due to being hacked, and I had no real reason to put off playing it. I did not enjoy playing it at all during a brief attempt at rebeating in May, but the level was a lot more enjoyable today, likely due to the lack of time pressure.
That being said, this level has a lot of very apparent gameplay flaws that you would only ever discover in a hacked verification. The predrop does have its chokepoints, but they are nothing too crazy. The issues come from a very poorly designed set of orb timings at 50% on Gecko's side, and a very awkward ship manoeuvre at 77% on my side. Both of these raise the difficulty of the level immensely, and really don't do the level any favours in terms of how fair it is to play. Everything else is totally fine but its a real shame that two things drag it down as much as they do.
Those issues aside, I did enjoy this a lot more coming back to it. That being said, I would recommend staying away from this level unless you have a lot of patience and are way above its skill level, as this would get really frustrating. This was definitely the only 2 player extreme demon that at no point during playtime did it feel like a completion was close.
Also the mic audio kinda bugs out near the end of the completion due to Shadowplay being stupid, sorry ðŸ˜
Song: Armageddon by Shtriga
Attempts: 1,471, plus 826 from the initial completion
Worst Fail: 87% on both completions
Enjoyment: 7/10
Extreme Demon #557






![Lone by thazm (Extreme Demon)
Very nice atmosphere here but the gameplay is pretty uninteresting, admittedly. Its pretty much just a raw skill test which for a lot of players would make it very frustrating. This did get to me a little, as a lot of players beat this way faster than I did which made me go into it with expectations of knocking it out in around 20 minutes (which was not the case). That aside I did just happen to find this one much harder than most people do and seeing the insane demon opinions on this one just sort of feels like either people being egotistical or unaware of how skill-based it is (the latter of which is something I do myself on fast paced levels). I am not great at slow paced gameplay which probably resulted in me finding it as hard as I did.
Overall I really cant say I recommend this one in terms of its gameplay unless it appeals to you, but at the very least it is very nice to look at and the atmosphere is great. This song has been a classic choice for atmospheric non demon levels for as long as I can remember so seeing it in a level this hard was both unexpected and interesting to me, and for that I do respect it.
Song: [Chillstep] Adrift by balderdact
Attempts: 340
Worst Fail: 87%
Enjoyment: 5/10
Extreme Demon #638
Current Placement: NLW Beginner Tier
Difficulty Opinion: NLW Easy Tier
My Extreme Demon Spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yoDFGJ415KP6oy1mdzd4_ompKKWk0yGvq39scneW1D4/ Lone by thazm (Extreme Demon)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/EXxMLfvb1t0/mqdefault.jpg)



