Kyouki
Template:Low-Faith Template:Infobox Level Kyouki (狂気) is a 2.1 solo Extreme Demon level created, verified and published by Demishio (出見塩). Kyouki is the hardest fully solo level beaten legitimately (being entirely created and verified by the same player), followed by The Lightning Rod and Verdant Landscape. The level features fast gameplay with near humanly-impossible timings and quick game-mode changes, making the level very difficult to learn. Demishio designed the gameplay with his skillset in mind. Demishio verified Kyouki on 24 November 2022 after a death at 97%. He streamed himself playing the level for 175 days for around three hours daily, taking 501,997 attempts total (258,510 attempts to verify, 243,487 attempts playtesting).
Gameplay
- 0-12%: The level begins with a fast cube section, with many game-modes, like the ball, spider, robot, etc. These change very fast, and it takes a long time to learn. Many pads, portals, and orbs have bright, neon designs. There is a tight wave near the end, and after 12%, the player goes into a triple-speed change into the next section.
- 12-21%: The next area is rapid game-mode switching, fast speed and tight timings. Several tight normal wave and mini-wave sections are here, with frequent speed changes and tighter timings with the ball, robot, and spider. There are also several tight flying sections floating in the air.
- 21-30%: This section carries the same aesthetic as the others, with cube, ball, spider, and robot timings. At 26%, the player becomes a dual wave and has to spam through a tight corridor. A fast cube follows that, with a tight mini-wave at the end. There are many tight timings and almost frame-perfect clicks here.
- 30-40%: This section starts with a tight ship, then continues with the neon, spider, ball, and robot timings section. A swift wave/mini-wave section begins at 36%, ending at 39% with a slow UFO section.
- 40-49%: From 40%-43%, there are spider/robot timings, orbs, pads and mini portals. After 43%, there is a squished monster straight-fly. After this, the duals begin with a cube dual, turning into a cube-ball section. At the end, towards halfway, there are mini-wave sections with the UFO, ball, robot, and spider.
- 49-58%: Past the halfway point, the level gets somewhat slower and has many different hard duals like cube-ball and cube-robot. This section ends with a tight UFO-ship dual, with tight clicks and almost invisible gameplay.
- 58-68%: The level gets fast again and starts with the illusion of triple-spikes falling on the player. It is close to the first section but much tighter and faster. This section has no duals and is a very bright, epileptic section of the level.
- 68-78%: The level slows down until 72%, and the rest of the section is tight duals. The duals here are tight and fast: wave-wave, cube-cube, cube-ball, and cube-ship.
- 78-88%: This section starts with a Japanese symbol and then proceeds to a fast, very tight wave/mini-wave with gameplay close to Slaughterhouse's mini-wave sections. It has many tight game-mode switches, ending with a tight double-speed straight-fly section.
- 88-94%: This section is much slower than the other sections, mainly focusing on a wave, then UFO, then slow cube gameplay. The level ends with a small, neon straight-fly.
- 94-100%: There is a normal speed cube section with tight orbs, timings and dash orbs. At 98%, there is an extended triple-spike. After passing the triple-spike, the player is presented with an end-screen with the words 'Kyouki' in Japanese characters.
First 10 victors
| Victor # | Player | Date Completed | Total Attempts | Furthest Fail | Video |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Verifier | Demishio | 24 November 2022 | 501,997 | 97% | YouTube |
| 1 | Zoink | 11 December 2022 | ~19,800 | 98% | YouTube |
| 2 | Taiago | 29 December 2022 | 87,470 | 98% | YouTube |
| 3 | Trick | 2 April 2023 | ? | 91% | YouTube |
| 4 | Blackhole | 10 September 2023 | ~70,000 | 94% | YouTube |
| 5 | Zeroxy | 25 September 2023 | ~93,000 | 89% | YouTube |
| 6 | DiamondSplash | 21 December 2023 | ~142,317 | 96% | YouTube |
| 7 | Light | 5 January 2024 | 57,219 | 97% | YouTube |
| 8 | zThund3r | 15 February 2024 | ? | 96% | YouTube |
| 9 | Denni | 22 February 2024 | 42,993 | 91% | YouTube |
| 10 | Pixeldragon42 | 24 February 2024 | 212,594 | 98% | YouTube |
Trivia
- The level is free to copy.
- The level contains 220,723 objects.
- The level is 1m 38s in length.
- The level was ranked #96 in GDToday's 100 Greatest Levels of All Time list.
- The level was initially placed at #3 on the Demonlist on 2 January 2023, above Abyss of Darkness and below Slaughterhouse.
- This addition to the Demonlist pushed Sakupen Circles out of the Top 5, Spectrum Cyclone into the Extended List, and Jamboree into the Legacy List.
- Coincidentally, Spectrum Cyclone and Jamboree are two fully solo levels, just like Kyouki. The latter is also inspired by the former.
- It is also the first level placed on the Demonlist in 2023.
- This addition to the Demonlist pushed Sakupen Circles out of the Top 5, Spectrum Cyclone into the Extended List, and Jamboree into the Legacy List.
- Kyouki (狂気) translates to 'craziness', 'insanity' or 'madness' in Japanese. Both this and the level's description are derived from the song's name used in the level.
- Zoink became the first victor of the level on 11 December 2022 after around 19,800+ attempts.[1]
- Taiago became the second victor of the level on 29 December 2022 after 87,470 attempts.[2]
- spaceuk supposedly became the third victor on 24 March 2023 after around 13,500 attempts, which would also have been the record for the least attempts spent on beating the level.[3]
- This is the third hardest featured level, after Acheron and Tunnel of Despair.
- Opinions on the level's difficulty vary. While Demishio never intended the level to be Top 1, some skilled players believe it should be placed as Top 1, such as lolwut and Laniakea. The level's first victor, Zoink, thinks it should be Top 3-4, while the second victor, Taiago, believes it should be Top 2-3, and Trick considers that it should be placed above Slaughterhouse.
- At over 500,000 attempts, Demishio's verification of this level is the highest amount of attempts currently spent on a verified project.
- Only Muffy450, Vision, and Josh are known to have spent higher numbers of attempts to beat a level, as the first spent over 634,000 attempts to beat Sonic Wave, the second - 821,027 attempts to beat Silent clubstep and the third - 842,888 attempts to beat Bloodlust.
- Kyouki is part of the community-made 'ASK Trilogy', along with Acheron and Slaughterhouse.
- Kyouki is currently both Japan's hardest created and beaten level simultaneously.
- The creator's name on Pointercrate is｛出見塩, which is his name (Demishio) using Japanese Kanji letters.
- It is the first fully-solo level since Conical Depression to reach the Top-3 hardest levels on the Demonlist.
- The placement of andromeda on 13 March 2025 pushed Kyouki out of the Top 10 of the Demonlist.