Cognition

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Cognition (formerly known as kowarinnards) is a 2.1 Extreme Demon collaboration level created by EndLevel and Benji8080, published by EndLevel and verified by nSwish on 28 September 2019. It is known for having ridiculously tight timings, although being a minute long.

An official sequel named Oblivion was verified by dice88 on 5 July 2021.

Gameplay

• 0-22%: When the level starts, the player already has to do ridiculous timings, while the portals and orbs are invisible. These timings are difficult and tight. Then, a short ball section appears, with some similar timings. After this, another cube section appears, with the same timings previously. Then, a difficult ship section comes, consisting of very tight straight-flying. Eventually, the ship will slow down, and the screen darkens. Then, the next section comes.
• 22-52%: This section is at triple-speed, extremely spammy and precise. Many different game-mode portals fly at the player while they have to perform difficult quick timings. Once the section has reached its halfway point, there is a passive but tight wave section, which brings the player into the second half of this section. The second half contains some extreme duals and some tight waves. At the end of this section, there is another short wave segment.
• 52-72%: The speed has now slowed to normal speed, but the timings are still incredibly difficult. This part begins with a cube section before turning into a UFO with peculiar timings and click patterns. After this, the speed slows down to half with another cube section. Following this is a ship section, with some very tight straight-fly. It is widely considered the easiest section of the level.
• 73-100%: This part is slightly easier than 22-52%. It is very similar to it but is at double speed. This part is the most synced out of the whole level. The first half is similar to 22-52%, and the second half is as well, although having a bit of dual-action.

Trivia

• The level's password is 789123.
• The level contains 66,622 objects.
• The level is 1m 2s in length.
• The level was rated on 18 December 2019.
• The level was initially placed at #3 on the Demonlist on 21 January 2020, above Crimson Planet (#4) and below Kenos (#2).
  • This addition to the Demonlist pushed Bloodlust out of the Top 5, Artificial Ascent out of the Top 50, Athanatos into the Extended List and Glide into the Legacy List, three of which are former Top 1 Demons.
• EndLevel and Lexy teamed up with lolwut, a popular player and creator, to create Flyleaf, an unofficial sequel layout.
• The song of the level, Violence, was removed from Newgrounds due to containing copyrighted samples. Despite this, Cognition is still featured.
• Joshua28 became the first person to complete Cognition on a controller on 22 July 2020. Skarro became the second on 20 March 2021, and Kelvin the third on 23 May 2021.
  • It also became the former hardest level beaten on a controller, beating Brandon Larkin's kowareta completion. However, it was beaten by Skarro's Crimson Planet completion on a controller on 9 March 2021.
    • The current hardest Demon completed on a controller is Firework, completed by 12_Kelvin on 26 March 2022.
• Vintener made a big jump from Bloodbath to Cognition in a staggering 98,621 attempts.
  • Llqne also made a jump from Deadlocked to Cognition.
  • Cosmiciscool also made a jump from Prismatic Haze to Cognition.
• The movement of Scream Machine from #81 to #71 on 30 June 2024 pushed Cognition into the Extended List on the Demonlist.
• This level was in EricVanWilderman's 12 Demons of Christmas 2023 Community Series as Demon #11, being completed by AeonAir.

Video

File:Cognition 100% -ExtremeDemon- by Benji8080 and Endlevel. - GD 2.1

The full walkthrough of Cognition, credits to Combined as the first victor of the level.