My THOUGHTS On Geometry Dash 2.2 Levels... (NEW Update)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 มิ.ย. 2024
- Geometry Dash UPDATE 2.2 has 5 New Levels and in this video I will be reviewing Robtop 'The Tower' and 'Dash' to see if they are GODLIKE or TERRIBLE... (sadly no Explorers that will be in 2.21)
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0:00 A SUSPENSEFUL START...
0:07 DASH
2:45 THE TOWER
4:24 THE SEWER
5:53 THE CELLAR
7:07 THE SECRET HOLLOW - เกม
Theres been a ton of arguments in the comments over my opinion in the video and I think a lot of it was caused by the previous thumbnail and title.
Hopefully now people can view the video with an open mind, sorry to anyone I upset. Also the dislike mod makes this vids ratio look far worse then it is, at the time of typing this the video has 1058 dislikes, still a lot more then usual but not nearly as much as the faulty youtube dislike mod says.
I WILL MAKE MORE 2.2 VIDEOS SOON... Let me know what you think of the video and if this gets 10K likes I'll upload an uncensored rage compilation to matmartmore :O
it's incredible
fire in DA HOLE chain
fire out of the hole
I love the ending to dash
dash go brrrrrr
I don't understand most of these criticisms. It really feels like you expected a godlike masterpiece, a Picasso of platforming to come out, when he's trying something completely new and different to geometry dash. I've never been a fan of the base game and this update is what it took to make me start enjoying the game. It brings a new perspective to the game and brings more people to the community, it's new. Dash, sure you can say it feels rushed considering the quality dip from start to end, but with the tower it feels really fun and high quality in my opinion and I hope to see it get even better.
He has never played a platformer before so he’s used to practice mode and has no experience with actual bossfights
yea i agree
@@ThreeletterIGN then he shouldnt critique it
It's not the end of the essence of the game, it's the beggining of a new one.
@@ThreeletterIGNwell clearly he knows what super Mario is
I really don’t think the latter part of Dash is that bad. A major worry people had upon seeing the trailer was that the level would be impossible to sight read, but it introduces a medley of 2.2 gimmicks in a very digestible way. Though it could be more creative with decoration and gameplay, it’s better this way than to leave players feeling overwhelmed. The ball part and buildup part for example is very barebones in terms of gameplay, but that’s because most players are not used to going ⬆️⬇️↩️⤵️↔️🔃 while playing a level.
Yeah the players are not used to it and robtop gives the player like zero time to get used to it and expects they already know it... which you know... isn't the MOST fair.
@@vanessa5552806new update , new features , 7 years , GET USED TO IT!
@vanessa5552806
The level is pretty damn fair, it gives a good amount of time to look at where your going even with the camera changing. Except for that one spider part.
The coins are bs after the first one tho
sure, you can call the ball part barebones in terms of gamreplay but holy hell does it feel so cool even though im just going up and down
Difficult to sight read? I literally fluked everything after the second beat drop.
I don't care how bad the levels are, the update's out, and that's all I care about.
I agree, this feels like a cash grab.
for rel
@@GameNobzbro the game is 2 dollars
@@gdbacon1234 i think they mean this video
exactly
I personally really like dash. It’s a good introduction level. It’s not trying anything too crazy but it really doesn’t need to be. The fan made versions of dash are cool to look at but they don’t feel like base game levels, they feel like a fan made level. Not a bad thing but for a level to introduce the basics of this update, I say robtop did a good job. I do agree though that the start of the level is a bit meh.
nah, the spider is honestly just a 2.2 jumpscare, clearly rob knew people would go full lobotomy after 2.2
@@Malam_NightYoruwhy everyone gets so pissed off by the spider...
I like dash as well! Also about the spider. Bro it takes like 10 attempts to learn if you aren’t a new player. It’s fine and I like it!
@@DeLoRiAnEcikr
dash is absolutely fire.
you're complaining about the most unreasonable things ever 😭 almost everything you mentioned are fine and literally no other reasonable human being has any issues with it
Shut up.
I agree. It feels like MatMart’s overly high expectations weren’t met and that he just wants to bring up any little bad thing about 2.2 because of it. I really love his content but this video is just terrible honestly.
@@ASimpleOrb My thoughts exactly
100% agree
Agreed, like what’s so bad about the second half of Dash? It goes hard af
Also taking off points for difficulty is just stupid
4:56 it’s called skill issue
Now who is he when he complaints about dash but compliments electrodynimax...
Exactly
Some parts of electrodynamix are maybe fun but *DAMN* the rest of the level is mediocre to straight up bad.
-oh and i will use this opportunity to complain about its 71% transition, that is quite possibly the worst transition in any official level.
@@Detoox21Deadlocked mini wave to the last ship (i didn't remember percentage) is probably worst.
Wave to ship is just a bad transtion, but mini wave to normal ship? It's even worse.
im not even an electrodynamix stan but the drop felt way more climactic to me
I really don’t get why people don’t like the spider part where you walk on the wall sideways. It’s literally two clicks and not even hard to sight read imo
true
Honestly
because people like to complain over nothing
It's like they're only don't like it because other TH-camrs already said they personally dislike it
I have a good guess:
Colon.
Bro anyone who is critisizing Robtop levels for being "boring" or "bad gameplay" needs a professional Yappist award.
Agreed.
How does it taste?
It’s called ‘’introducing new mechanics’’
Excluding the dogshit spider part around 7-8%, this level is meant to INTRODUCE us to 2.2. Man expected some kind of 200k object masterpiece to introduce us to how 2.2 works 💀
@@LuxEternislmao, dogshit? Is just a spider walking on the walls lol. What's wrong with that?
@@poto2826It's quite confusing, but at the same time it's not even 15 seconds in, so why bother really?
man i sure love when the cursed thorn AI randomly freezes before a phase transition and the only thing left to do is jump into the lava
I never saw that happen to anybody
@@SamSamii2.0 It happened to me a lot
@@SamSamii2.0it happens so much
@@SamSamii2.0it happened to me
Me too
Youre never happy
Ya
as someone who grew up on the Papa Louie platformers, I love the Tower levels, the boss fight ones in particular. When you grow up with stuff like this, you appreciate the difficulty of the boss fights and having to do them from the start every time you die. That's not a flaw with the level, it's literally just how boss fights work.
papas hot doggeria peak. robtop will add practice mode in platformer soon :v
They had platformers??
@@DanksterPaws Papa Louie: When Pizzas Attack, Papa Louie 2: When Burgers Attack, and Papa Louie 3: When Sundaes Attack
@@Unagam1GD Ive been missing a huge part of the lore all this time
@@MatMart i doubt it, the difficulty of platformer is having no practice mode, just like mario levels
are these criticisms actually serious and honest or is there a pinch of salt to them? I really hope its the latter
with some of the thing he's spewed, a pinch won't be enough. it'd have to be at least a whole bag.
4:22 SO HIGH
Lobotomy levels are a weird trend in 2.2...
SAME THING MR.NO CAPS@@IonRuby
FIRE IN THE HAAULLE
FIRE IN THE HOLE 🗣🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥🔥
screaming in public restrooms prank 🗣🗣🗣🤑🤑
We going from this to really mythic rates.
Watch "No man’a sky GD" by Konsi
I dont think there is any reason to hate on Dash because, afterall, its an official level, so its made only to show us what is possible to do with the new features
If you think the deco is empty, compare it to polargeist, wich one is better? See? The deco is, also, just an example of what we can do with the new features
exactly this guy is way too critical lmao
that comparasion is stupid as hell
@@WhirlwindSonic yeah. Comparing Polargeist to Dash is so ridiculous. Polargeist is just empty simply because it's not like he could've added more air deco at the time of the level being made.
That is the worst comparison I have ever seen in my life
Dash is good but it falls off, I hate how Rob started rushing levels since Fingerdash
this guy lives in an opposite universe where dash and the first two tower levels are garbage and the cellar is peak platformer
Dude had a whole entire custom art thunbnail made just for a 10 minute complainfest video, sm my h
5:52 As somebody who completed all coins in all the tower levels, yes it's a hell to do that. (The actual boss was easier than the mini boss at level two for me...)
Not really
@@AK_804he’s right
The fire in the hole bossfight is so easy once you memorize a route. Cursed Thorn is just RNG
Forgot the "for me" part... Sorry!
@@BlueIce234 gd players when something isn’t 1086% predictable:
the clickbait is insane with this vid why has no one noticed this shit yet
this guy expected high quality on a level that's just supposed to introduce the new mechanics 💀💀💀
bro thought we would be getting HOW 💀
who else remembers the “FIRE IN THE HOLE” chain?
FIYAH IN DA HAUL 🔥🕳️
In my opinion, Dash is really good overall, sure it feels rushed but it still a really nice way to introduce new mechanics without filling the place with details.Also, THEY SHOWED US THE WHOLE HARD PART so we dont have to sightread anything!
dash just introduces mechanics. look at all the other levels which give you active tutorials, and teaches you how to play. now look at the beginning of dash where they just introduce lever and spider. dash is there just to showcase mechanics, not to be a level.
@@warbotics2440 aren't all the official levels the same thing?
@@hichewies you gonna clarify
@@warbotics2440 i admit its not for beginners but i find it fun in every part.Maybe his oppinions are based on beginners view.
@@warbotics2440 You could say this with fingerdash, it just introduces the black orb, the green and purple dash orbs, the spider
6:29 gd colon would hate you for that
*cologne
@@MatthewAttardi oh yeah that’s right
Platformer Mode having Practice Mode just kills the essence of the game mode. You are supposed to play a Plat. Level blind, and you are given free will to move and jump anywhere (plus Checkpoint object), unlike the default autoscroller where you can't go backwards and you start back at 0 when you die, giving you little room for errors.
Also, Plat. Extreme Demons are only annoying to get through if they are designed like "I Wanna Be The Guy". Seriously, I feel like the creator was like "What if I don't apply game design 101 and solely rely on tight jumps and hitbox abuse since it's Geometry Dash and isn't any game like Celeste or Hollow Knight?"
I think you're disregarding the amount of unique levels that can come from platformer mode. Sure, there are and probably will be many platformer levels that wouldn't need a practice mode; but there will also be levels that focus more on platforming skill and being like GD and would greatly benefit from practice mode.
Platformer doesn't need to just be Celeste or just be Geometry Dash; both types of levels can co-exist, and having an option for practice mode would just benefit those levels that focus more on raw platforming skill and being GD.
Wtf bri, its not even practice mode, its a god damm checkpoint.
@@basicallyvoid4284 I am referring to him when he said that Platformer Mode should have Practice Mode
@@Siggator1 But it's a double edged sword. Sure, it will make Extremes a little less time to complete, but it will make a lot of levels TOO EASY. Not only do you have control of where to go and jump anytime and anywhere, but you also have Practice Mode along with the Checkpoint object within those levels.
Easy and Medium Demon Platformer levels are already way too easy. I beat Forsaken City in under 20 minutes despite me taking 5-7 days just to beat 1 Easy Demon. I also beat Shiftleaf Temple and City Side (GDSide) in a single day, and it only took me an hour to do that. I am not even skilled enough to beat an Easy Demon in a single day, let that sink in.
@@johferson09robtop literally confirmed that coming out, cope lil bro
7:35 Geometry dash racism lore?????
😱💥💥⁉️⁉️⁉️
Many old players come back because this update, i'm really happy ❤
Yeah like Darnoc, Zenthic, Serponge, Funnygame, etc. SO COOL :)
@@MatMart8bitryan
not dorabae
@@alan69420 what a cheery one you are
@@badpiggsI'm sure he's fun at parties
Tbh i think the dash spider wall climb part is pretty easy, you probably just didnt knew how it worked
Just because you thought it was easy doesn't mean it's not hard.
@@stuffjuststuff6067its really not hard, its just confusing.
skill issue
@@stuffjuststuff6067bro, it's actually easy lol
Dash not only declines in quality as you go on but also in difficulty in my opinion. Luckily, i had learnt the first part of dash on the gdps, otherwise it would take me a lot of time to learn
i swear, people cant just be happy anymore.
bro is fluent in yapanese 😒
Fr bro never stops yappin
platformer practice mode is technically already a thing when using a controller, but most likely unintentional
It's because RobTop forgor I think, he's adding practice mode to platformer in the upcoming patch
I'm sorry to say MatMart but this video was not very good. It just felt like you wanted to hate this update for some reason and just only dug into the bottom of the barrel for anything remotely half-decent. Dash is fine and the tower levels are all masterpieces if there's not enough sfx for you then make a game yourself
7:42 GEOMETRY DASH RACISM CONFIRMED
NO WAY?1?1??11
so basically you’ve never played platformer game and use normal level standards to judge platformer levels
The spider part in dash was not that hard. I never died to it once
Seeing experienced players get angry at this is so weird to me.
it is hard imo. not really hard but hard to read. had to go in practice mode for it. the timings are easy tho
@@speedyjetnot really I’m a Noob and I just passed it with like 10 attempts at most
@@speedyjet4 button inputs aren’t hard
@unanimouslyhated5890 @@forget1486 Like I said, it's confusing. I think everyone knows that. But the timings are easy, something you'd find in maybe a hard difficulty level.
(Robtop taking a year to finish dash)
**Everyone critisising it**
If by everyone you mean this guy and like 2 other people...
Everyone or just the guy who made the video?
Everyone? It’s just MatMart and another person I don’t know about.
This is what happened with Fingerdash all over again
the worse thing is the playbutton and delete button being pressed at the same time glitch is back 💀💀💀
Wait what
@@lico1203 I'm serious
@@MaorTheHedgehog0000 I just tried it out and yes it works! Although I don't think it works on Gauntlet levels though
3:54 as the guy that holds the Mobile World record for the speed run of the level, I can confirm that this part was a huge choke point and is what ruined my runs many times
4:10 huge issue with what you are saying, the speedrun coins are really generous as long as you don't die.
5:16 Platformer skill issue. Do you really need extra checkpoints?
Btw, I do agree that the secret hollow boss is absolute garbage. Too much rng
"Platformer skill issue"??
that doesn't make any sense
is needing practice mode or startpos to beat extreme demons also a skill issue?
regardless, robtop has already said that practice mode in platformer will be a thing, so whatever.
@@Siggator1There is literally a checkpoint right before the thing he was complaining about.
@@Siggator1 technically that's different, unless you're talking about I wanna be the guy.
@@Siggator1Yes it is, that was literally the easiest boss fight to exist of all time
@@orang9134”Easiest bossfight.”
*I cry in skill issue because I can’t even beat The Sewers bossfight*
It’s crazy We hit such a peak with creativity at making levels that we are critiquing robtops levels. What a time to be alive
Bro just wasted 7 years waiting only to say its bad
fr next update he’s gonna lose his marbles
7:26 Wait, doesn't the plat forms sync to the music in the back ground?
2:32 Base After Base: You’re not alone, my Hard difficulty brother.
Technically can’t let go introduces upside down jump pads and orbs so base after base is the only one too
@@Scrimletsdad xstep introduces blue pads
@@Payt0nR when did I mention blue pads
@@Scrimletsdad you said upside down pads, which are the blue pads
@@Payt0nR no? I mean pads in upside down gameplay. If I meant blue pads, I would’ve said blue pads
What is blud yapping about just enjoy the update 😭
2:52 WE NEED A FULL VERSION
hmm ill let u cook
I was thinking about skipping cutscenes and I made a set of triggers that does so upon tapping the screen twice. I'd be happy to share with anyone who wants it for their levels :)
Dude same!
robtop doesnt intend to make levels like top gd creators, they all mainly introduce something, or show more pieces to the gd's official lore like his platformer lvls
I think the hate for the new robtop levels is really undeserved. I love this update. The platformer is awesome. All the new levels are sick, and swingcopter feels really fresh and a great change from the old gamemodes we've had for the past 8 years.
So there actually IS a way to get practice mode in platformer, you can activate it using a controller. Pressing the button that would normally enable practice mode will enable it on platformer for some reason. I know that was not intended at all but I found that out pretty quick.
It only works when you activate it using a controller though.
Honestly a skill issue 🗿☕️
6:34 bro was sr pelo
What
This update is evolution
MatMart when RobTop doesn't make the most godlike white space kind of level while he was actually focusing on making the editor additions not absolute garbage (MatMart doesn't give a shit about priorities in game developing and only cares about the levels when the update's focus wasn't even the levels at all)
you should flip your webcam so that youre looking into the video and not away from it
Wait, that would be so funny :D.
People forget that GD is basically a one man operation, so every bad game design is heavily criticized
Did you literally complain about the platforms not making sound when moving when they LITERALLY sync to the music?
The music that the platforms was syncing to isn't in the actual level. He just used it as background music.
@@Zurted I’m talking about the actual soundtrack though in the real level, I wasn’t talking about the music used in the video.
Personally, the Cellar was my least favorite level just because of the lack of checkpoints in the first part. I get why it doesn't have any checkpoints but for me it felt unbalanced and rather stupid
Unbalanced?? I thought the gameplay was fun. And some people do it first try. Do not project your skill issue
@@gdmathguythe gameplay is interesting and unique but the part where its just a stack of moving slabs was annoying in my opinion. Don't be rude because I simply have my own opinion, if you don't like it you can just ignore it like a normal person
skill issue@@endgamer7896
Those moving plataforms lol
@@Ale-Y yeah
Dude I feel bad for Rob the only thing that He needs is a development team and the update will be able to come out faster and cleaner. but at least 2.2 is out
Don't feel bad cuz Rob don't want a dev team. It is a self-made problem.
@@poto2826 You to pay a dev team, it's not like Rob is gonna get like 500 people working on it, even a small group can cause money problems.
the biggest skill issue ever
Also like.. the levels look "mid" ?
You do realize right that robtop made every single asset from scratch? That takes equal amount if not more work than any of the masterpieces that you are thinking about
You're actually just taking it for granted that it takes robtop the same amount of work to make a level as someone with a premade level editor.
Robtop is coding the physics, the particles, the effects, the camera, creating every asset from scratch, doing the pixel art, and on top of everything he polishes his levels to a really high degree.
True.
to be fair, its a first for Rob too
im honestly happy, the levels in my opinion are awesome and tho not perfect, they still do what was intended
3:00 I'm probably the only person to notice this but... FAWFULLL
Don’t worry I noticed to
I HAVE CHORTLES
Really, man?
You want to stress RobTop more?
Nah, having a skibidi toilet reference after the zoomer no attention span joke is crazy 💀
It’s actually wild bro 😭
3:20 best thing i have ever heard
I personally think the precise jump into the door while it's opening is pretty cool honestly.
Also, platformer mode is getting checkpoints in the next bugfix update.
I found it really funny when you said "Now segregation is canon to Geometry Dash".
Alternative title: My useless angry opinion on the new Geometry Dash 2.2 update that nobody cares about.
i honestly prefer "mid" decoration than good decoration
True. I’ll rather have good gameplay and decent decoration over anything. At the end of the day, the gameplay matters the most. Featured level nowadays are so deco heavy that it’s annoying to play most of them.
rare footage of matmart screaming 5:40
5:09
Not "for some reason". Platformer games don't have a "Practice mode" because that just kills the essence of the platformer games. A blind level, but it's the same every time you die without any RNG thing (you can do rng gp in platformers but it needs to be good and not just "rng cuz funi")
You just have a several skill issue
i mean robtop disagrees with you because hes adding platformer practice mode in 2.21 but okay
Anyone else heard a Minecraft disc start playing at 6:02? Or is that just me?
Bro everyone knows that’s otherside
2:18 swag route let's gooooo!!!
I don't agree with your point.
Practise mode for platformer levels is unnecessary.
1: there is checkpoints
2: no other platforming game has practise mode so why should geometry dash
Was that song at the cursed thorn, Unify the convergence?
The first time I beat the Cursed Thorn I got hit with its fireball and it was at 0 health so I had to restart the fight.
2:44 not Yuri... anyone but Yuri 😭😭😭
fr
What music was used when he was fighting the cursed thorn? The one with the organs.
people saying "i waited 6 years for this?" is like dumb
coding is hard in general and making a whole game editor is hard and making designs, levels, objects, server changing, etc is very very hard for a single developer
people only say the update was shit is only saying that because the have been fed by other games with an actual dev team
my response:
0:30 literally nobody says that, and i also disagree
1:20 i agree with that, but it gets followed up by the best spider buildup ever
1:34 the dash orb is just great
1:41 best part of the level, i love the massive buildup
1:56 WADDAYA MEEEEEAN? ok i sorta agree, but the ship going waay up is just so satisfying somehow
2:10 another amazing part, i agree
2:20 NAWWWWWWWWWWW
3:33 french laugh.
3:41 how did you think that???
4:26 i wish that guy would come back
5:42 welll you cant blame him... the servers were barely ready yet
5:56 rattledash! i shore hope nothing happens to him!!!
6:00 yep
7:09 ohh yeahh the best level
7:36 there is also an amogus sound
7:57 why you say it like that? 🤨
8:19 in good, there's evil. in evil, there's good. balance, pure good, then there's this b-
8:28 if it was fair, this bossfight would be a million times easier. like, to the point that it would be easier than back on track.
yeah thats all. i have no life
Yeah, he legit tries to find out a way to hate on this new update for no reason.
@@Programartemishe just has a skill issue tbh
@@Th3Myst1cL3g3nd skill issue fr fr
@@phoenixbutterwolf8305 fr
8:20 I am dying at this part lol 😂😂
Bro Rob didn't make The Secret Hollow with sounds in mind. Chill out.
Let's bully RobTop til he ragequits and starts making ez profit mobile games with those shitty 3d graphics and gates with simple math problems.
Nice video !!!
2:39 Gave me flashbacks 😳😳😳
Gaved????? You mean “Gave?”
Bro 😭😭😭
skill issue
THE ONE QUESTION I HAVE! (Not about this vid) why are there human skeletons in the tower? The beings of this world are cubes.
5:14 there is actually a bug that lets you use practice mode in platformer, if you plug in a controller and press the controller bind for practice mode it will restart you from the start of the level with practice mode enabled.
Fire in the hole 🔥
Dash already very lag for me even to finish, idk why some people are complaining how it is not ✨well done✨
bro expected a bli level 😭
Yep, it's Fingerdash all over again
I remember one time some dude put Fingerdash in F tier because it wasn't as good as user created levels and he used Ultra Violence and Dark Odyssey as actual examples
8:38 touhou hijack un owen was her
Literally took me an hour to beat the cursed thorn on my first play through, only to beat it first try on my speed run so I could get the third coin
An hour? Holy shit was it really that hard for you?
I suck at the game. Gimme a break. Besides I forgot to mention I was also playing DND for half of that
An hour???? Bro what 😭
Congrats on being the only person on the world to critique the new levels that much. The like to dislike ratio in this video is amazing lmfao.
*Air Decoration*❌
*Air™ Decoration* ✅
I personally really liked all of the new levels and had a lot of fun with them
Really funny video editing though. Loved it
Basically hard = bad >;(((
That’s literally MatMart’s logic. He just can’t cope with the fact he has a skill issue.
5 hours in and we're already at a 1.8k to 991
that's like basically a 2:1 ratio, which for a TH-cam video, is absolutely terrible
yeah i think this guy has the mentality of “any attention is good attention”
Bro attention span is absolutely horrible to think every singular part is boring, "every thing being mid", jesus dude
This video is pretty bad.