Reviewing the Most Popular Geometry Dash Levels
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 พ.ค. 2024
- Ever thought about the fact that the most downloaded levels in Geometry Dash have over 40 million downloads? I try not to think about it. Anyways in this video I give my thoughts on GD's most popular levels and discuss how well they hold up.
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0:00 - Intro
1:37 - Sonar
2:38 - OuterSpace
3:27 - Level Easy
4:32 - The Nightmare
6:07 - ReTraY
7:38 - Promises
8:32 - Dreamland
9:34 - Dark Paradise
10:44 - Acid Factory
11:59 - Brief Intermission
12:21 - Bloodbath
15:07 - Final Thoughts
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If you're reading this, hey robtop it's not too late to rework map packs - เกม
Correction: It appears that *Promises WAS highlighted in Geometry Dash World!* Along with checking the current list, I watched a bunch of old GD World playthroughs to see if the level was anywhere to be found - but didn't find anything. Feel a little guilty for saying false info in the video now but oh well, I tried my best. (thank you for correcting me!)
Also, sorry that some of the clips have small but noticeable lag spikes in them, it happend with all the clips I recorded while having a bunch of other windows (such as my editor) open. Didn't realize until after rendering and I didn't wanna rerecord dozens of clips. Not the worst thing in the world thankfully
Edit: I also said 1200 instead of 12000, I am very stupid
(bonus thing: ever wanted to see gd world's current featured list? i added it to gdbrowser! gdbrowser.com/search/*?type=gdw )
Ok
4 replies yes
Make a level every march 10th
Because its michigun day :D
You should add a feature that allows you to search by star-rated only.
It will be SO, SO helpful for people like me, who want to document star-rated levels.
@@kilbonrobert I think that feature already exists
my wife was giving birth but this is more important
name your child robtop
@@L.Creeper the grandson is rubrub NOW.
@@FrogCar. why did you phrase it like the low tier god meme
HUH?!
LOL
We need a category for "top downloaded in the past month" and make that the default when you search for GD levels with no filter
ABSOLUTELY
RobTop hire this man
Replace "most downloaded" with "Top Download of the month" its a pretty nice idea
It will be filled mostly with dailies, like the trending section
this sounds like it will either be the exact same or completely different from the trending tab
14:28 "The nice part about Bloodbath being a 1.9 level is that it's very easy to make out the gameplay" This is like, the main reason I fell out with this game after 2.0 came out. Everyone became absolutely obsessed with out-doing each other with flashy visuals and effects, so much that level design suffered greatly, on top of moving object abuse making levels nigh impossible to sightread. 1.9 and 2.0 hardly feel like the same game in my mind.
AAAAAARGH FINALLY SOMEONE WHO SHARES MY OPINION. i badly wanna beat the gauntlets but theyre too fucking flashy and decorated and i cant tell whats going on :(
On god. And I'm gonna say with 100% certainty that sightreading's gonna be dead post-2.2. It's all memory from here (even though old Insane/Demon levels rely on memory, at least you can still tell what's going on in them). This is why I strongly support creators putting jump indicators in any level below medium demon, since easy stuff are supposed to be accessible for most newcomers (excluding people with epilepsy or eye problems)
Yup, I agree. They're pretty much different games. When I want to have fun, I go back to pre-2.0 levels because they feel like the last levels to still follow some rules.
Yeah, I was trying to play a newer demon and I was getting genuinely overstimulated because of how many bright flashes.
a lot of OG players quit because of that, but then more players came to open a new era of creators and players. Excellent observation
The nightmare & the lightning road is pretty much the stereo madness & back on track of the demon levels
my first demon was shiver
@@marcomicheli6345 nice
platinum adventure is cant let go
@@irxosm1 Considering I still haven't beaten the lightning road but have beaten platinum adventure, I am going to say that your claim is false.
@@DJFireStar I beat all 3 in the same day so I don't really know
Colon single-handedly roasting The Nightmare was interesting...
i don't like it
@@GDColon its kinda fun though
@@GDColon he doesn't like it
@@GDColon
Colon doesn't like it
@@GDColon guys hear me out this is gonna sound crazy and it’s just a hunch but I don’t think he likes it
I literally screamed “YES” when colon said “not as bad as generation retro”
that level sucks
Robtop really took the worst level in the game and put it in a map pack
@@bonjouratous6287 Gauntlet, actually!
@@kilbonrobert true
its not even that bad lol
8:32 "This level has objects"
Colon always has something new to teach me
i love gd cologne
@@VaILI.12 evil Wulzy: I love TIG shampoo
5:15 as someone who had the experience of beating The Nightmare, I can confidently say that no, the nightmare doesn't set a terrible impression for demon levels. It shows demon levels as more of a challenge than something for the top 0.01%. New players coming along and seeing bloodbath is much less likely to result in a group of new players open to harder levels, than new players coming along and seeing the Nightmare.
First of all, the difficulty of a demon should stay consistent. The nightmare is easier than Clutterfunk. When someone has 2 demons, immediately you think "Are they actually good enough to beat Clubstep, or is it just the Nightmare and the Lightning Road?" It's not the difference between The Nightmare and Bloodbath, it's the difference between The Nightmare and almost any other demon.
And that wasn't even the main gripe Colon had with it. His main point was that the gameplay sucks, which I mostly agree with. I think he's overexaggerating how bad the design is (it's not great, not terrible) but I agree that the gameplay isn't good.
Every time I check someone's profile who has won 1-2 demons, I can guarantee you it's either The Nightmare or The Lightning Road. That makes it a terrible impression for demons, especially for online levels, imo.
@@brokenbacon8233 I agree that it does set a slightly worse perceived worthiness of having beaten demon levels (which is really just a complicated way of saying that bragging about having beaten a demon level is meaningless), but the video was talking almost exclusively about the playing perspective, and in that aspect, it's pretty okay.
@@JamesLee-iu5ln It would be "pretty okay" if it wasn't a demon 😐
If only there was a demon difficulty system to differentiate the difficulty of The Nightmare and Bloodbath, that is displayed right on the level page of demon levels for new players to see, and has The Nightmare and Bloodbath on complete opposite ends of the scale
Fun fact: Acid Factory probably has a lot of plays because it used to be inside the gd world servers before they got updated.
True
It is still on the gdw servers. Every single one of the old ones is just now in the middle
It’s still there, along with many other levels like promises, just… it’s a bit harder to find them.
@Stratdan it was also in the gd world servers, which is probably why that level specifically is popular
I remember that level cuz the music is from Donkey Kong 64 and I loved that game
12:26 Bloodbath is SOOOO popular that even when looking up the death metal band of the same name (one of the most famous death metal bands that's a supergroup containing members from many other extremely popular death metal bands and having made Eaten, one of the most iconic death metal songs of all time), it STILL gets drowned out by GD. Everytime I look up one of their songs, I ALWAYS see a video of the level in the search results lol
I wouldn't really say it drowns it out, as it only pops up about once every ten results on google images. But yeah it's *that* iconic, arguably just as much as stereo madness
4:34 If you thought The Nightmare was bad, JUST WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE THE LIGHTNIMG ROAD!!!!!!!
Fuck that level
This level drove me insane.
I’m not joking.
i LOVE the LIGHTNIMG road!!!!
and gd cologne
@@ThatPenGalwell, you're exaggerating (can we like, not get rid of the meaning of words or phrases that mean you're not exaggerating please those are REALLY important)
I think the only reason I enjoyed the nightmare was because of the lightning road
Colon has to be the greatest impossible game player of all time, he can beat levels without his keyboard plugged in, with a blindfold on, and when it's actually his little brother playing
i appreciate this reference greatly
@@GDColon same lol
So true
he has the world record on bowser's big bean burrito
I agree
In the ball parts , you just go up and down.
In the ship parts ,you just go up and down.
In the cube parts you just jump and fall without much else going on.
Isn't that the description of GD?
Tbf, stuff more than that exists ofc.
For example;
You go up and down, tap this and then this, beat bloodbath but squeezed in a 10 second mark, and finally beat retray
The nightmare is good but ball and ship is trash because theres no challenge or something you just go up and down💀
@@sonetagu1337but that’s in a speedrun
Hol up
In wave parts, you go up and down.
5:42 you just explained gd in itself
The Nightmare is so popular because it's the first weekly, hence it's the weekly that appears when you have never beat that one or never clicked the X.
It was already popular before 2.11 though, which introduced the weekly demons
this man thinks that GD was unpopular game before 2.1 💀💀💀
I think it’s the same for promises, which might be the first daily
It was not, I think it wauwe a pauze level
@@milley9541 ok
Fun fact: At some point Promises WAS in gd world, but the game server got updated and was deleted
Edit: you're welcome colon
As someone who used to play GD world,this is true. I remember this from a year ago being one of the (if not the) first one (s) on the page.
@@TheHispanicUsername same
@@Magenitech same
@@3vorp same
@@TheHispanicUsername same
I once beat Bloodbath in practice, while on mobile, while I was still pretty new to the game. That was the best moment of my life. I'm not joking.
Without dying?
@@Hello-ho3zn probably died some times.
@@Hello-ho3zn beating bloodbath in practice mode without dying would be frustrating af 😂
This is why I have the last attempts count achievement
I think u forgot the "after 1000 attempts" part
My house was burning down but i am rewatching every colon video so i paused the fire
Fire in the house
@@EnergeticTheriannn i forgot i even left this comment here
Foreshadowing irl is crazy
Great video! Extremely high quality, as always. However, I think that there's another problem with Acid Factory you didn't talk about, which is the Silver Coin placement. As a colorblind person it was EXTREMELY DIFFICULT to spot them, even at full brightness and LDM; they are just hidden by shadows and I could just not distinguish them from the background.
You should continue this series, this video was actually very enjoyable
I'd love to do more reviews like this!
@@GDColon yes please! I loved this video
@@cesarperez3052 sussy baka
U can't find my gd username :)
heheh
How the heck did u find me
...
Ok I'm done here is my user: Tantman
@@qqClizmo h
@@qqClizmo Tantman
Whenever I feel like I can't create levels worth a damn I take solace in knowing that at least I couldn't possibly do any worse than Generation Retro
It's trash
Some people gain confidence in their own work by looking at the misery of others and learning what NOT to do.
I'm one of those people.
I really liked generation retro but I can get why its kinda trash
Have you seen Scarlet Surge? It makes me vomit every time I go and look at the chaos gauntlet
Edit: well not as much as generation retro
@@ahmed4363 Fire Aura. Extreme demon
I think that The Nightmare holds a special place in many people’s hearts. For many (including myself), it was the very first demon they ever beat. We all know it sucks (I mean, just look at it). But for me at least, it marks a turning point in my experience with the game.
i doubt anyone that heard "not as bad as generation retro" was expecting colon to make a whole video about it a year and a half later
my only real problem with dark paradise is that I always mistake those spinny things in the ship section for sawblades, and then end up killing myself trying to avoid them.
The thing with "The Nightmare" is it works as a gateway for more confidence if its your first demon. I wasnt the best at geometry dash but when I first beat the nightmare I got really motivated to improve and felt better in my skill cause the level is rated demon.
7:29 woah that sync was sexy
2:25 I’ve seen this over a dozen times, and this still makes me chuckle
I’m gonna be straight. A lot of the level decoration 2.1 and beyond is kinda lame. Pre 2.1 had a lot of simpler level designs but I feel like they were more creative. A lot of levels post 2.1 are just a lot of flashy lights and overly complicated designs.
I swear to god I see a 2.1 level and think "WAIT THAT WAS NOT A WALL?!" or "WAIT THERE WAS A SPIKE THERE?!" every goddamn second
@@Tr0lliPop modern style without custom orbs is perfect for me
I cant do levels with decor makes me confused and laggy gameplay-
@@Tr0lliPop ayo hftf player?
@@lmao1660 how did you recognize me
I absolutely love how Colon just angrily growls instead of directly saying that Flappy Hexagon is one of the top 20 most popular levels in the game
Flappy hexagon 🤢
That part played just as I read this comment lol
I can really agree, flappy hexagon sucks.
7:17 The visuals of ReTraY was heavily inspired by an older level, Gigabyte. Gigabyte shall stay the original. I’m suprised you havent mentioned that ReTraY copied Gigabyte in this video. Anyway, keep the good work up😄
I think of HOW, the 3d level. I also think of Hyphen, because of the following orb mechanic. I believe it was made by this creator himself, but that's not why I put it there. I really like how the orbs follow you around and place themselves, severely reducing object count.
I gotta say, you make some of the best GD content on TH-cam. These kinds of videos talking about parts of the game are exactly what I like to watch!
thank you so much!
8:25
THAT ACTUALY SCARED THE HELL OUT OF ME
Same lmao
Same
same
I love how when talking about levels that revolutionized GD٫ he was humble enough to not mention The World Machine
14:08 for those who dont know, heres a full story 😊:
It All Started When Ggboy made cataclysm and everyone thought it was the hardest level in the game, until 3 players verified it, notably, Cyclic, Giron David, and of course, Riot. In that order they all beat cataclysm with cyclic being the first to "Beat" it, after beating cataclysm, riot attempted icdx and he also beat it. Riot went on to make bloodbath. shortly after bloodbath was verified. Cyclic Made Sonic Wave, Blood Bath was made to one up Cataclysm, In the same way, Sonic wave was made to one up Bloodbath. Sonic Wave got a number of updates, 1st Update made the level a brighter blue, 2nd Update Buffed It And Made The Blues Darker, But In The 3rd Update, All Of Sonic Wave Was Deleted and Turned into a level full of random blocks and spikes.
And then one day, Riot got a chat in his skype, It Was From Cyclic. He Revealed How All His Streams Were Prerecorded and Spliced. He Also revealed how he Hacked cataclysm to verify it and sonic wave was also hacked to verify😢.
After This Shocking Revelation, 3 Players went on to beat the legendary sonic wave, Mefewe, Sunix And of course, Riot. Sunix Later went on to beat sonic wave, and also this means that giron david was the first to beat cataclysm after revealing that cyclic cheated it, imagine thinking you got 2nd place in the hardest level of the game, but later to find out that you were actually first, i imagine it must have a very bittersweet taste to it.
if anyone actually reads this full story, you are an absolute King👑
🤓
@@ruzbak17🤡
Thanks for letting me know
@@ruzbak17 🤡
"then manix was like 'need more pentagrams'." Had me dying 😂
6:21 are we all gonna ignore the fact he has 97% on retray practise mode
621
*practice
@@RudyTheAwesome what
@@advance64bro american spotted
@@ryzikx root beer, guns, oil, freedom, McDonald’s
Man, I just love the fact that you play rhythm doctor. The outro on this video was amazing.
blood bath and sonic waves to me are the most iconic creator levels.
true
Accually, for Promises, it blew up because back then, the world levels, were very limited, so Promises was one of the easiest levels and probably how it blew.
Yep, I remember playing it 2 years ago
But it's actually in the featured tab, just look deeper.
It was the first level that would pop up in gd world when you clicked the featured tab
15:24 cancer
i forgot that dogshit level existed. thanks for reminding me of its braindead gameplay
8:05 Promises used to be in GD World but I think it got removed when the game got updated
When i first installed gd world back in 2017, i was completely clueless about gd and it's deeper community-side universe etc. however i strongly remember that promises by adiale WAS indeed in the featured tab there. don't have any proof, but the level really stuck out to me.
I can really tell your humor's inspired by Scott the Woz, i can't complain since he's the epitome of funny though
haha thank you for the callout you are 100% right but it's a good thing
did you notice in every geometry dash update trailer they use the icon that is unlocked when you complete the level shown in the video this happened for the fingerdash and dead locked update and many more!
OMG you're right
Cool food for thought. I'm gonna beat the mdk secret level for that icon straight away when 2.2 releases
What the hell is acid factory?
Dude! When you said "This coin scares the hell out of me" in Promises, you went "AHH!".
That scared the absolute HELL out of me!
8:59 WOAH cool transition
Never noticed that. Cool!
I agree
5:53 “heres a color wheel, heres how it works, Study up”
Idk why that made me laugh
OuterSpace now holds the record for most downloads, as of 11/15/22, 3:06 PM.
10:50
Actually its because it resembles the 2 world in geometry dash world
13:37 I thought I had accidentally scrolled down (I was in fullscreen) and tried to scroll back up...
1337
15:04
Bloodlust
Bottom text
0:47 i think of the ones that revolutionise-
wait, the level in the bg is revolution
I think a good way to make good levels show up would be a combination of factors like how many people actually completed the level, as well as a ratio between how many comments the level has vs the amount of likes.
What makes most downloaded bad is that you dont have to ever play the level to make it get more downloads. Literally going to the levels main screen, without even having to look at comments, gives the level a download and if youre like most people, if you see a bunch kf negative comments on a level and decide you dont want to play it afterall, most people dont click the delete level button to undownload it.
8:08 on gd world they add ed a bunch more levels to the featured list
before that if you pressed featured promises was the first level on there
7:55 Tip: Promises was the first level and the first easy level before GD World's levels got updated by RobTop.
I think if I were to make a "Most Downloaded" tab in any sort of custom level game, I'd exclude the number of downloads a level gets from said "Most Downloaded" tab, and only count the downloads that are gained elsewhere. That way, the list has the chance to update/constantly change! :)
16:46 promises actually was in gd world. in gd world there used to be only a few levels (around 70 ish) before it changed to all the daily levels.
before you can actually scroll to the end in gd world fetured pages and find null levels that you can download and sometimes get recent tab levels!
Yessss I LOVE Dark Paradise. It's coins are smart, the deco is epic and forever will be and the song is even more epic. It's just great.
But there's that pink speed portal at the end
12:54 yeah it's crazy how people can do that like how my friend beats the golden on 144hz the forgets to record it then beats it AGAIN 3 days later it's already crazy how he beat it once but twice in just a few days after is just insane and I don't know how someone could even beat it once it's just crazy how dedicated and talented people are at this game
Guys I am here from the future to confirm that 2.2 DOES COME OUT IN 2023 DECEMBER
What??? I don't believe you!
bruh i got a geometry dash ad on a geometry dash video with the geometry dash app running in the background
You're the chosen one
The idea of dividing popular levels in version/week/ year is awesome
Rob should add a feature in 2.2 to organize the most famous levels in a specific year or month and etc
Yo that idea of filtering the most liked and downloaded levels by upload date is amazing. I guess that’s what the trending tab was supposed to be but I don’t even know how it works. Amazing video!
Tbh it's more known how the magic tab works
wow look it's moldy
(This isn't a correction, just wanna say something) Promises was on the gd world featured list, the first level too. I saw it when trying out online levels for the first time on GD World when I was MUCH younger. It's the first ever online custom level I ever beat and will never forget it.
The Transition from fly to small jump in acid factory . How to overlook , took me 90% of attempts
I love how I'm so familiar with Promises (especially the last coin)
The muscle memory is in graved to my arm that if I ever miss it, I'd have to face a 12 year sentence
Promises was the first level I ever beat. I remember at one point it was very popular on Geometry Dash World. To this day, I go back to it and just play through for the fun. Plus, Promises by Kabuki is just a great song for a level.
8:30 scared the hell out of ME with the most funny sarcastic scream ever
This video got me to beat the decode wave section. Starting to get into GD even if I’m just on mobile.
I remember playing this back since late 2013 (the year it was released) and seeing how simple level design became something beautiful (somewhat authentic) and was generally just fun to play, it was a blast growing up with this game it was quite fun.
I remember playing a 2* level that was fully auto, just with one easy jump in 1.5 minutes
2:52 not sure whether it's a pun or something, but that little joke on Terraria's Fire Gauntlet accessory really made me smile a bit because Terraria doesn't get enough recognition. Sure, if you show the game to someone they will say "oh that's terraria", but not because the game is played a lot, but because it's considered a "shameless Minecraft 2d rip-off"
Which is funny because geometry dash (at least the 1.0 version) was more of a shameless ripoff of The Impossible Game than Terraria was of Minecraft.
Also, I remember Terraria had a big popularity spike at the beginning, which is probably why everyone knows it, and also why people think it’s a Minecraft ripoff. They probably played it a bit during the popularity spike, then they forgot the gameplay but not the style.
I actually forgot the gameplay of most of the games when I was 5, but not the style.
YESSSS!!!!!!!
Tbh i love Terraria more than Minecraft
I remember that level too!!
No, this isn't 2011 when Terraria was an obscure new game that barely anyone knew about. The "Terraria is a ripoff of Minecraft" thing ended in 2015. This game has sold 30 million copies and you aren't any kind of "super obscure indie game fan"
8:33 “this level, uhhh, has objects” Best Geometry Dash quote of 2021
If this guy lost it over the nightmare I don’t wanna see him look at the lightning road…
Great video! I love how in depth you go into every level, it reminds me of Sea in a way. I hope to see more like this in the future :)
thank you!!
damn I miss sea1997’s old videos they were so good
@@GDColon these levels dont suck
I know I’m late but I just wanted to let Colin know that this video is amazingly crafted. All of the jokes landed and I truly enjoyed the whole thing! Keep it up!
I have always....AND LET ME TELL YOU, ALWAYS thought that sonar could be the first level of "adventure 2" where all levels follow the theme of sonar, same feel as the normal level+ new music and being a bit harder
I like when my level gets 3 likes
ok
Half of my levels have -2 likes (they aren’t that bad)
13:53 based
11:42 we use low brightness cuz it makes the phone dont go low charge
True cus we don't/can't charge it while playing.
Yes.
@@janetkhee4735wdym I always play while charging
No, I use it because it's too bright for me if I set the brightness higher
In my eyes, the map packs are a museum of old levels and some other random levels.
5:32 - Colon describes every designable ball, ship, and cube part in the game
3:57 Level Easy is NOT a 1.0 Level. It is most likely in 1.2/1.3. This is because the ID is larger than (1.2 lvl example) Demon Park and it is in 1.2. So therefore it is During or After 1.2
🤓
Well he didn't know lmao
its 1.6 level
Maybe it was made with the 1.0 editor as back than you weren’t forced to use newer versions of gd they do it now to prevent expliots
Actually, maybe it was made on 1.0 but then it was forgotten until 1.1/1.2.
For me Promises was a good beginner level back when I first got into the game with GD World, since it was one of the only 2* levels available there
Promises: can i stay here?
Payload: Get out of here!
i dont know how this guy makes these videos rewatchable, like i already know exactly what hes gonna say but i still wanna watch it
“And for the other parts, you just go up and down!”
Colon, you’ve just explained all of geometry dash in one single sentence.
16:24, why did I make "worlds hardest jump" like man, that shit went viral
I DIDN'T REALIZE THAT WAS YOU OMG
Pro
I actually really like the nightmare minus the pointless portal and ring spam as decoration. It’s a nice intro to the harder levels in the game and it actually plays really well imo
the lightning road is the one with the portal and ring spam, not the nightmare
7:36
i love this
the fact that (take my words with a grain of salt because i have no memory of when it was posted) colon either referenced the “the WORST Geometry dash level” video, hinted that its coming soon, or that like
i dunno he couldve just thought of the worst level video out of the blue i dont know his personal life
10:06 it may be boring but the song is nostalgic
3:51
it was made in 1.2
the first guaranteed 1.1 level is id 2340 because it has mirror portals, and one of the first 1.2 levels was demon park, since it had the ball gamemode (Id 10109 iirc)
11:46 i keep it low so i dont waste battery
Ye
Promises was probably the first online level I ever played back when GD world came out and I didn't know you can pirate full GD.
at 6:15 i got an ad and colon sounded like this:
“The levels are obviously soup”
3:30 “1200” (ID is near 12000)
I AM STUPID
@@GDColonso you’re the outer space coin 😂😂😂😂
Third
When the world needed him, he came back.
"he" refers to my motivation
Yea
@@GDColon lol
"He" was gone for a month. That's not that long.
Second channel cough cough
Mobile players use low brightness because of their battery percentage
I love these kind of videos you make!