Goldcrest Palace 100% (Extreme demon) by GrenadeofTacos

Definitely one of the more arduous grinds I've done playing this game but I know I can do harder, I haven't ever really dropped super high loads of time and attempts into any level I've played. I am slowly climbing my way up the NLW sheet by going from Aksion to MPT and now this. Some super iconic levels in the next one but I'll probably refrain for now. Been playing this game far too much recently. My experience with this level was super weird. Progress was steady going up to the ending. Died at 81 twice then 83 on the same day. The next two days, whenever I got to the ending, I'd die to the 85 ship. Happened 7 times before I started to suspect that the part functioned differently from 0 as oppose to on copyable so I did a practice run and adapted a new method of doing the ship. Don't know why I didn't think of that earlier but it worked like a charm. Beat this on my first attempt from 0 the next day. The level itself has gotta be my favourite extreme so far, of the ones I have beaten. It's super fun to learn yet not so learny that it makes up like 80% of your time playing the level but it gets super consistent after a while and is really satisfying to pull off. The level itself is pretty well balanced in that it doesn't really have any singular chokepoints although I will say that the gp between 23 and 60 is generally speaking a fair bit harder than the rest of the level but that's my ideal balancing, the level being more or less beginning/middle heavy. I don't really have anything bad to say about the level except that it's kinda unoptimized, had to drop down to 160 to play this, it has 240k objects which is crazy for a 1.9 level. Enjoyment: 8.5/10 Level rating: 9.5/10 Difficulty: Hard tier extreme demon PO: Haven't really played any other hard tier level, but it felt a good bit harder than MPT and possibly Esencia as well. Definitely easier than Anahita though. Worst fails: 85 x7, 83, 81 x2, 75 x2