Mechanical Showdown
Template:Infobox Level Mechanical Showdown is a 2.0/2.1 solo Medium Demon created, verified and published by Tongii on 31 December 2016. It is the third level in the Demon Gauntlet, after Traction and before Vibration.
Gameplay
The level begins with a regular normal-speed cube section with some orb fakes. Near the end, the player briefly slows down to half-speed before speeding back to normal into a broken part. At the drop, the player transitions into a challenging double-speed ship part with many moving obstacles. After briefly becoming half-speed, an easier ball part with some orb fakes comes next, with a brief triple-speed ball and cube dual following that. A triple-speed wave segment with numerous moving obstacles follows.
After briefly becoming a dual, the player transitions into a very challenging mini-UFO section with many shaking and moving spiked obstacles. A mini-ship part with some straight fly follows. After the ship part, a very challenging robot dual section with varying sizes occurs, with one of the robots soon turning into a cube. After a dual ball, a ship sequence and a UFO part come next, and the level concludes with the player being a half-speed cube.
User coins
- The first user coin is located at 4% during the first cube section. The player must not jump on a platform, hit an offscreen blue jump orb to avoid falling up to death, and then jump to obtain the coin.
- The second user coin is located at 72% during a mini-ship sequence and is triggered by a key at 51% during a fast-paced wave segment. There, the player must fly into a tight corridor inside an object to where the key is and later fly into a route where the player would usually crash during the ship sequence to where the coin is.
- The third and final user coin is located at 94% during the final UFO segment. There, the player must go under a platform and into a tight corridor inside a pillar where the coin is located.
Trivia
- The level's password is 111111.
- The level contains 22,209 objects.
- The level is 1m in length.
- The level was the second-ever Weekly Demon and the first to last a whole week, as the first Weekly Demon was replaced.
- The level is Tongii's most popular, with over 3.6 million downloads.
- The level got an update on the first anniversary of its verification on 31 December 2017. It included a new coin placement for the second coin, new decorations, and a wall with saws that chase the player, starting at the robot dual.
- On 5 May 2021, Mechanical Showdown received another update. In this update, the wall with saws was removed to fix a bug that occurred when playing the level on 360 FPS.
- Since Mechanical Showdown is in a Gauntlet and was the Weekly Demon, it was possible to get this level's rewards three times. It shares this distinction with Shock, ichor, Danger Zone, Payload, Silence, Timeless, Half Past Twelve, Pureland, Tenebris, Powerful, SLAM, Adust, The Behemoth, CRUSH, GLORIOUS FORTRESS, Sky Tower, Koenigstein, Ruta del Sol, Afterlife, Double Dimension, Radiant Glen, Subdivision Zone, Wild Card, Sinless Ash, Change of Scene, BUSSIN, Next Cab Soon, and Uprising.
- It is considered by many to be the second hardest level of the Demon Gauntlet, behind HeLL.