Eyes in the Water

Template:Infobox Level Eyes in the Water is a 2.1 Extreme Demon mega-collaboration level hosted and published by hawkyre and verified by LordVadercraft on 29 October 2023. The level received positive reviews, with praise for its theming and decoration, as well as its intriguing, epileptic and intense fast-paced gameplay.

History

The first mention of the level dates back to 9 April 2022, when hawkyre uploaded a preview (1 of 3) of his new solo project, called 'Eyes in the Water'. hawkyre mentioned that he aims the level to place within the Top 15 of the Demonlist, and that Cursed would be responsible for its verification. His next preview of the level happened on 5 July, and the third and final preview was uploaded to his YouTube channel on 2 August. On 7 November, Eyes in the Water was completed and ready for verification, which was passed onto Tenebris. He also thanked his friends for helping him with the level's creation. After that, there would be no updates regarding the level, or it's verifier, until a new and final verifier was chosen to tackle the level, LordVadercraft.

Verification

LordVadercraft's first verification progress video was uploaded on 28 February 2024, where he got a run of 77-100%, in the videos description noting that the level might place even within the Top 10 of the Demonlist. On 3 March, he would get 67-100%, on 14 March, 58-92%, day later he did 49-80%, another two days later, 49-89%, on 20 March, he improved his run to 100% from 49%, and on 26 March, LordVadercraft made 34-80%. On 27 March 2024, LordVadercraft got a 34-91% run twice, and then got 34-92% in the next two days. On 2 April, he got 34-98%, dying to the last block in the level. He came back nine days later, and did 34-100%, then 23-97% on 14 April. He then started playing the level from 0%, achieving 23% on 30 April and commenting that he did the level in two runs. On 7 May, he reached the new best of 55%.

On 8 June, LordVadercraft uploaded a video where he did the predrop ship (around 0-25%), three times in a row. On 4 July, he managed to reach the drop after being unable to for past two months due to mindblock, commenting that he spent ~26,000 attempts just to do it. Four days later, he got 60%, with 86,313 attempts overall. On 17 July, he reached to 64% of the level, taking 90,526 attempts. On 30 July, he almost verified the level after reaching 91%, with 94,524 attempts. On 3 September, he crashed at 91% once again, taking almost 110,000 attempts. On 29 October, LordVadercraft finally verified Eyes in the Water. He made 123 streams dedicated to the level, 135,054 attempts, and died 13 times past 70% before verifying. Despite that, he gave the level a 9.5/10 enjoyment rating, thanking hawkyre for choosing him as a verifier.

Gameplay

The level begins with a long, slow ship part where the player must fly through multicoloured eyes that occasionally jitter and shake. Next, the player enters a monochromatic cube section, navigating through a maze of various orbs, blocks, sawblades and spikes. The music gets louder and more intense, and the player enters the drop, with frequent changes in speed and game modes. The player must perform wave spamming through spikes. Then, the player must travel through a three-block-wide blue orb spam as a cube and navigate through more spikes and sawblades as various game-modes. The player then enters a brief dual-wave auto part where an eye appears and stares at the screen. In the dual, the eye moves from top to bottom on the screen, depending on which side the player is playing on, alternating throughout the dual. In this part, the player must navigate through more spikes, blocks and sawblades and perform fast spam and tight timings on both sides. Finally, the level ends with a dark, memory-based part with timings.

First 10 victors

Victor #	Player	Date Completed	Total Attempts	Furthest Fail	Video
Verifier	LordVadercraft	29 October 2023	135,034	98%	YouTube
1	Netermind	29 October 2023	~15,000	?	YouTube
2	TheGoldenBo	18 December 2023	~30,000	92%	YouTube
3	Arshadow	5 January 2024	?	?	YouTube
4	Trick	31 January 2024	?	98%	YouTube
5	Zoink	6 February 2024	6,720	88%	YouTube
6	millinillion	7 February 2024	73,380	84%	YouTube
7	Seturan	1 April 2024	38,956	98%	YouTube
8	EastShark1	17 June 2024	100,106	98%	YouTube
9	Modlini	19 June 2024	22,770	92%	YouTube
10	ChopBlox	6 July 2024	53,500	84%	YouTube

Trivia

• The level is free to copy.
• The level contains 91,457 objects.
• The level was initially placed at #17 on the Demonlist on 6 December 2023, above The Hallucination and below Saul Goodman.
  • This addition pushed Horros into the Extended List and Gamma into the Legacy List.
• Eyes in the Water contains 21 60FPS frame perfects.
• Eyes in the Water was hawkyre's first rated level.
• The placement of Spectre on 11 November 2024 pushed Eyes in the Water out of the Top 20 of the Demonlist.

Video

• Credits to Lavatrex.
  Credits to Lavatrex.