14:48 Arctic lights, even now as a victor of it, is still extremely hard. it is not long, only about 50 seconds, but a lot of difficulty is packed into that
arctic lights is the definition of being harder than it looks; i've beaten it and sonic wave and it was so much more mentally challenging to play and honestly felt orders of magnitude harder
When it comes to Jawbreaker, I think it's wave is harder than Nine Circles. It's longer, often tighter, has higher cps, and gravity switching. That being said, I still think Nine Circles is harder overall as a level, even if only slightly. The timings outside of the wave are harder in Nine Circles than in Jawbreaker. Jawbreakers wave may be harder, but you also get to it more frequently.
In my opinion Tidal Wave is a Nine Circles level, just slightly more visible. "Dual theme" or whatever OniLink said is just an excuse to not classify it as Top 1 NC Slop.
Honestly, I know it's an off-topic rambling, Hyper Paracosm is actually more fair on the gameplay department (except the first cube) than Hyper Paradox
I also count Tidal Wave in my head as a nc level, even if the creator and people say that it isn't, is just a matter of having eyes and seeing that it is a wave focused level woth a predrop and the nine circles nowadays neither have epileptic effects
i’ve gotten really unhappy with the current state of NC, i feel like people have lost touch with what made nine circles special. the loss of epileptic wave will always hurt
I personally think that nine circles is easier than jawbreaker. In jawbreaker theres genuinely really disorienting bugs that may just outright kill you. This is just me, might be my crazy nine circles bias, but i genuinely dislike jawbreaker. Might seem a bit harsh but i was genuinely so happy to get it done with
28:45 “Dethroning Artificial Ascent” 💀 Sonic Wave Infinity was robbed of a top 1 and places behind the golden and Tartarus. PS Artificial Ascent was dethroned by the OG Sonic Wave. (Probably)
I beat nine circles, fairydust and jawbreaker in that order back in early 2.0 i think. Nine circles at the time was a hardest for me taking me around 3.3k attempts. A month after i beat that i started fairydust as a new hardest again and that ended up taking me almost 7k attempts. Right after beating fairydust i beat jawbreaker the next day in around 700 attempts. This is all to say that i found jawbreaker far easier than the other two which might be because i had gotten alot better at wave. But also i don’t really think that was the case since both the other levels still felt really difficult. For me i find jawbreaker to be around easy-ish medium demon. Edit: Also really cool i learnt something new. I never knew of the two levels you mentioned before nc itself. Really cool stuff and good video.
Does arctic lights really not feel like a top 1?? I remember it as one more clearly than anything else on here that might be cause it was the hardest when I started but it still surprises me
Just a heads up, the gddl isn’t super useful for comparing extreme demons. It’s good for easy-insane demons, but for extremes a much better resource is the NLW spreadsheet.
Honestly watched around 75% of the video, but I don't know if you mentioned at some point The Hallucination being harder than SWI, or is it not considered a NC level? Also arguably the best NC level
@@NothingIsScaryHe is right, while the 66p inputs are way harder than any click in swi, the part is so short that the difficulty doesnt come anywhere close to swi.
I beat nine circles as my first hard demon and jawbreaker as my second and I think nine circles is harder even back then also headrush is way easier then fairydust
According to the GDDL, Jawbreaker is harder than Nine Circles, but not Fairydust. ALSO, according to AREDl Aquatic Auroras is easier than Arctic Lights
hiya, im actually making a level inspired by skc and aquamarine and i plan on it being harder (although probably not fun in the slightest) so if you want more info lmk :)
bro nine circles levels are like a content farm for gd. Its always a like 1x speed cube than 2x ship. 2x ball then a 3x wave for like a minute the same ass formula
