Fairydust
Template:Epilepsy Warning Template:Infobox Level Fairydust is a 1.9 Hard Demon created by mkComic. It is a remake of Nine Circles and was formerly considered one of the hardest Nine Circles remakes. People usually consider this a Hard Demon. In addition, this level helps improve one's wave skills significantly.
History
When Nine Circles started to get famous due to its epileptic effect, mkComic decided to make another level using another Rukkus song: Fairydust. He selected a purple color scheme and started building. On February 27, 2015, he verified and published the level.[1] The level was soon given a Demon Rating. Once multiple Demon difficulties were introduced in Update 2.1, it was initially rated as an Insane Demon, but was later changed to its current Hard Demon rating.
Gameplay
- 0-14%: The level starts with a moderately difficult and confusing cube section that requires crucial timings to make sure the player does not press the wrong buttons.
- 15-20%: Next, the player enters a ball segment that is fairly easy and only requires a little bit of timing.
- 21-28%: Then, the player enters a semi-auto cube section that contains a few easy jumps.
- 29-73%: The music drops and the level goes into the infamous Nine Circles wave segment. Like all Nine Circles levels, the wave contains flashing lights and has tight spaces, lots of mashing, and many crucial timings that will otherwise instantly cause the player to crash if done incorrectly. The first section of this wave is quite irritating because of gravity portals, tight spaces, and awkward timings. The mini-wave is also a very big part of the wave, and is very hard and clunky to control, only increasing the difficulty of the level to force in your perfect timing, altering between more awkward timings and a very difficult mash segment around the middle of the level. The wave, in the end, briefly enters the dual-mode.
- 74-100%: Afterwards, the player transitions into a double speed wave segment with even more tight spaces. Note it is very easy to crash here because of strange timings and an incentive to react quickly to avoid crashing into the lower wall. The wave segment ends and the player briefly transitions to a cube, then goes into a triple speed mini ship sequence that is practically the end of the level. Then, the level ends with a "GG", a Lenny face, and with an auto cube section with SuperPizzaLuigi's name.
Errors
- In the same way as The Realistic, the auto cube before the drop may be buggy.
- The player can skip the second dual portal and remain a single wave. This can be done with good timing.
- At the end of the first dual, it is possible to miss the double speed portal and stay in triple speed, similar to how Poltergeist operates its mini-wave.
- After the first double speed wave segment (51%), it is possible to miss the mini size portal which will in return cause a crash.
- At the end of the second dual segment, it is possible to miss the mini size portal, similar to Nine Circles.
- In the end, the player can skip the last cube portal and remain a ship due to a large amount of space.
Trivia
- The password for the level is 123456.
- The level contains 10,969 objects.
- Fairydust is one of the first five Demon Nine Circles levels to be created. The others are The Realistic, Jawbreaker, Figures, and the original Nine Circles.
- Fairydust is mkComic's only Demon-rated level.
- mkComic completed this level more easily than Nine Circles, so when he published this level on YouTube, he wrote that the level could be Insane and not Demon.
- This is the first Nine Circles remake to utilize a maze path with real and fake blocks, with spikes and misleading jump rings. This part was used in several later remakes, like Fear Me and Classic.
- This level has a v2, created by C9 Sneaky, using the second drop. However, this level presented a 9-stars-rating without a feature, which was strange because the level was actually Extreme Demon difficulty. It was later unrated.
- Rulas created an Ultra version of the level called Ultra Fairydust, which is said to be easier than this.
- The real first Nine Circles remake isn't actually this level, but Beautiful Eyes. That level is generally overlooked due to its low-quality aspect and its former improper rating (3 stars instead of 10). It was recently unrated, however.
- Softable used a copy of this level to create The Realistic.