[epilepsy warning btw]
5 years after my first geometry dash rendition of this song, i present my longest and probably my best layout/level using a song mashup intersecting 3 of my favourite artists, underscores, madeon, and porter robinson. when i first heard this mashup all those years ago i was instantly hooked and created an unfinished layout of questionable quality, but with some definite charm that i appreciate today. as of recent, i relistened to this mashup and had that same spark of motivation and joy that i got back then, inspiring me to create a layout to it, drawing tropes and ideas from the original layout.
ok so im gonna talk about some cool parts now :D
00:20 this part is kinda copied from the original and i also used the silly low gravity portal thing (i butchered the colours tho lol). anyways after that u enter the clouds and this part is pretty fun to play imo. you then descend down to a place where every structure has a group and a move trigger!!! the 2 spider segments at the end before the cube are so epic and im very happy with how they ended up working out
00:48 this first drop part is pretty cool cos it takes some gp elements from the original, such as the ufo-gravity portal thing, and the large-mini wave sequence. i end this part with some lyrics (in the hot rod font) flying in the same way they do in the og
01:08 i love this segment for how simple yet effective this is. i went into it with kinda low expectations because the og had horrible gp for this section of the song, but im glad it worked out here, and i put in way too much time ironing out the skips and bugs
01:29 reminiscing the og, this part is set on the ground with some floaty gameplay, this time using the 'new' swing. the glow lowkey carries this part lolol. right after this is a part that used to be literally the worst piece of gameplay ever and im glad i deleted the reworked the enitre part to be a silly gimmick so yayyy
02:10 ok so when i reheard this part of the song on soundcloud i realised that the lead solo was different to the youtube version which was interesting. either way this lead visualised itself in my mind in the form of a crazy and intense maze with lots of verticality, so i tried to make that. IDK if its as good as it couldve been, but i decided to leave it as is and just work with what i had. theres one definitive path that has some notouch/hide blocks to make it easier to traverse, but idk if theres any other similar courses (!) you can take. i spent a lot of time here especially to make it fun to play but its literally 40 seconds of memory so idk. its also at this point that i stopped building the og layout
02:53 some repetition and movements i made in an attempt to reflect the robotic sounds, followed by a part that was envisioned pretty clearly prior to making the layout. i like how the flashy monochromatic dual came out cos it reflected my ideas nicely
3:08 yet another part that my mind conjured early on. this part of the song just screamed dissociate (one of my older layouts), so i took that idea and expanded on it here, and i like how it came out. the transition after this into the second drop looks kinda weird? but idk i had a vision or something lol and i think its ok
3:55 the ending!!! very lovely piano solo and i tried to visualise both hands. there were also some bird chirping sounds so i added some goofy birds. i spent a bit of time on the finale of the level cos i REALLY wanted it to hit. idk i think i couldve done more but its good enough i hope.
anyways ye i spent a lot of time making sure that this entire thing was playable and fun to some degree, with a healthy amount of unbalancing between easy demon and insane demon parts so i guess i can encourage u guys to play it and stuff. i also hate making visuals so doing that for this level was a drag but oh well!!
the original layout from like 2019: th-cam.com/video/xD3-DlOs-T0/w-d-xo.htmlsi=YNiTvWoGWVfk2njt
id: 112590618
song: porter robinson & madeon - a similar course (underscores mashup)
nong download: drive.google.com/file/d/1hA8nDVg23mNnqY68GVIRT1kyiAdWRY62/view?usp=drive_link
obj: 22k
hours: 40.5
main: www.youtube.com/@stcubing