The Moon Below 100% (Extreme Demon, ship hardest) | read the description

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I found this level while looking on AREDL and I found it in the same pack as congregation, so I checked it out. Found it was timing and straight fly based and loved the atmosphere so I went for it after dropping acropolix. I quickly got good runs but struggled in the two ship sections A LOT. These sections felt like insane demon flying, but I wasn't experienced much yet in ship gameplay (I'm yet to do "buff this" and "bloodbath"). To get an extreme in less than 20k atts felt like a dream but I knew I could do it with this level.

The elephant in the room: liveplay. Like congregation, I recorded this from my phone. Yeah, I should stop doing that. Thankfully this isn't a list demon, and I got away with it in congregation. I'll try to find something before doing shardscapes. This is detrimental. I haven't even bothered with editing the video because of the situation. Thankfully I was able to knock this level off though before college by 2 days :)

Meanwhile, I felt like the first 60% of the level is very overrated, and I tried to look past me beating cong. but I can't help it. If I speak about the first 60%, that's bragging. You just have to be good at timings, a bit of muscle memory, and know when to jump which is very easy to see once you learn the level. I struggled with supersonic more than this (granted that was when I had no insane demon experience). After 60%, I took some unorthodox paths. While playing from startpos, I found a skip at 62% where you skip some straightfly. Nevertheless, I straightfly with another skip at 70%, which, while it looks harder, felt more enjoyable than dying to the ceiling at 71% when taking the other path. Then a skip at 74% which is just 2 easy timings, followed by a straightfly test from 75% to 92%. I loved this level but found it boring at times. More enjoyable than cong.

Enjoyment: 88/100.
Difficulty rank: Top 274th extreme demon (Tier 28)
My rank: Insane demon, around supersonic difficulty or slightly higher (Tier 17 or 18, i swear i'm not joking, was the skill boost THAT high?)
Farthest death: 86 (I count that as a fluke, similar to supersonic's 66% fluke)
Best run: 14-100
Att count: 12305 (hoped to do it sub 10k but alas)
Play time: around two and a half weeks

Hardest part: 65-90

Deaths in the last ship: 79, 81, 82, 84, 86

My top 5 completions:
1- Congregation by Presta
2- Cataclysm by Gboy
3- The Moon Below by Onvil
4- Supersonic by ZenthicAlpha
5- Acropolis by Zobros

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