[New Hardest] Anahita 100% (Extreme Demon) by zYuko and more

Publicado 2023-12-27

Finally beat a new hardest after nearly 6 months!

I started off by getting this in 2 runs in under 48 hours since I first touched the level, which gave me a considerable confidence boost, especially since, at the time of starting the level, I was not very good at ship (I still am not, especially now that I need to get used to 2.2 ship, but I think I got better). Then, a couple days later, I progress fluked like half of the difficulty and got 87%, which ended up being my worst fail. Over the next couple days, I was able to consistently get to the part between the slow ship and the second drop, and I was feeling like I could just beat it within a week. But, well, that didn't happen. Three reasons: 1) I have a habit of being really consistent at a hard level but I just cannot beat it for some reason, 2) finals were coming up and I had college apps to work on, so I couldn't really play much and lost a bit of consistency, and 3) TWO POINT TWO WAS ACTUALLY REAL????? I was genuinely not expecting the update to just drop out of nowhere and in the middle of the week, like I actually thought we'd get it in 2024. With that, I basically got addicted to all the new 2.2 things, especially platformer, and I didn't really feel like playing Anahita much. However, I did sprinkle in some playtime here and there, and I beat it today!

About the level: This is very, very ship-carried, especially by the straightfly at 40-ish and the entire slow ship section at 51-60. However, it is ACTUALLY fun hard ship gameplay, and while the 40 straightfly is kind of an annoying chokepoint and the predrop ships can maybe be a bit of a slog to play through, overall the ships are quite satisfying to pull off. The gameplay aside from the ships is also great, except for the section at 72-75. I might be the only one who thinks this because I suck ASS at double clicks, but the 73 double click is probably the hardest (and most annoying) set of clicks in the entire level, which I died to an embarrassing NINE times from zero. Fortunately though, I only died 4 times past those stupid clicks and just once to the second drop. I'd say I had a decent time with the level overall, but it could've been better if only I didn't die past the slow ship and before the second drop so, so many times.

Attempts: 10,387
Level Rating: 84/100
Enjoyment: pretty difficult to capture with just one number but I guess it averages out to 7/10

My hardest completions (my opinion):
1. Anahita (Extreme Demon)
2. Heavens Door (Extreme Demon)
3. Goldcrest Palace (Extreme Demon)
4. Niflheim (Extreme Demon)
5. reverence (Extreme Demon)
6. Falling Up (Extreme Demon)
7. Retention (Extreme Demon)
8. Air Tech (Extreme Demon)
9. Shotgun (Extreme Demon)
10. Reflective (Extreme Demon)

My gd spreadsheet:
https://bit.ly/3JZiLQR