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{{Infobox Level|image = File: The Golden Duel Wave.png|creator = El3ctr0, Gooseam, Geemi, Woomy, E. O. T. S, Bo (host), and Eridani (Verified by [[nSwish]])|difficulty = [[File:Extreme Demon.png|20px]] Extreme Demon|stars = 10[[File:Star.png|15px]]|id = 60978746|version = 1|last_updated = 2.1|composer = Waterflame|song = <p><soundcloud url="https://soundcloud.com/charles-wood-409687017/thunderzone-v2
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|id        = 60978746
{{Quote|Roots from forgotten times, rediscovered to bring the truth to light. Do you have enough courage to face the inevitable? Verified by Nswish.|Bo}}'''[[The Golden]] '''is a 2.1 Extreme Demon created by Bo and verified by [[nSwish]]. It is supposed to be a remake of [[El Dorado]]. It has a green-theme and the difficulty is mostly based on timings and fast-paced waves. The difficulty was previously set to surpass [[Tartarus]] in difficulty but was nerfed by nSwish on Bo's request. Despite this, the level was still considered to be harder than Tartarus. nSwish verified the level on April 18, 2020.<sup><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aas8_QKLnuc</ref></sup> It is currently #1 on the [[Official Demon List|Official ''Geometry Dash ''Demonlist]], above [[Tartarus]] (#2).  
|creator   = Bo (host and publisher); El3cTr0 (co-host)
;Contributors
Gooseam, Geemi, Woomy, EyeOfTheStorm, Eridani, and Byselling
|verified  = [[nSwish]]
|created    = [[Update 2.1]]
|difficulty = {{ExtremeDemon}}
|stars     = 10
|length    = 1m 24s (Long)
|objects    = 117,647
|copytype  = Password (886988)
|downloads  = 4.92M
|likes      = 153.1K
|rating    = Featured
|artist    = [https://waterflame.newgrounds.com/ Waterflame]
|music      = [https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/638150 ThunderZone v2]
|musicid    = 638150
}}
'''The Golden''' is a [[Update 2.1|2.1]] Extreme Demon mega-collaboration level hosted by BoBoBoBoBoBoBo (Bo) and El3cTr0, verified by [[nSwish]] on 17 April 2020.<ref name="nSwish">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpS5PSHmji0</ref> It is a remake of the 2.0 Insane Demon El Dorado. Known for its extremely difficult wave sections, it has an intense atmosphere similar to that of [[VSC]], a challenge also created by Bo. The Golden features a jungle theme, and its difficulty comes mostly from difficult timings, dimly lit decorations, and fast-paced wave gameplay.


The Golden was previously set to surpass [[Tartarus]] in difficulty but was heavily nerfed by nSwish on Bo's request, placing at #1 on the [[Demonlist (Pointercrate)|Demonlist]] on 31 May 2020, surpassing Tartarus until 12 September 2020, when the two levels were swapped.
== Gameplay ==
* '''0% - 13% (El3ctr0 + Gooseam) - '''The level starts off with a UFO segment with pixel-perfect timings and the screen is mostly dark. After a little bit, the player turns into a ball and the timings continue as the player must press orbs precisely. After this, there is a brief UFO section with more timings.
* '''14% - 27% (Gemmi + Woomy) - '''Next, the colors get a little more green, and the player turns into a ship. This ship has extremely tight spaces and the ship randomly switches gravity. Following the ship is a brief block section where half of the player's vision is blocked by a big black glow pillar. Ending this part is a title screen of the level.
* '''28% - 50% (El3ctr0) -  '''The part starts with a ridiculous wave section with almost impossible timings at high speeds. Also, there are heaps of anti-gravity portals scattered throughout this section. On top of that, the size of the wave changes occasionally. After a while, the player turns into a UFO with extreme timings. Then, the player turns back to a wave with, once again, insane timings.
* '''50% - 72% (E. O. T. S.) -''' Then, the player turns into a ship, but the ship has many teleportation portals and anti-gravity portals and very difficult timings. Next, there's a brief wave section as the wave turns into a block, which the block presses three very difficult green orbs. Afterward, there's a dual wave with absolutely ridiculous spamming that is nearly impossible. Next is a very short wave, and then a ball section to end off this part.
* '''72% - 86% (Bo) - '''This part starts off with a robot section where the player must spam to get through the timings, but occasionally there are some less spammy places. Next is a UFO segment that is also pretty spammy, but mostly filled with timings. Following this is a short spider section with difficult timings.
* '''86% - 100% (Eridani) - '''Following the spider section is a slow ship part with very tight spaces to fly through. In this ship section are a lot of anti-gravity portals and size portals being thrown at the player. After a little bit, a very spammy ball appears, with a lot of timings. The same thing with the UFO section right after. After the UFO passes through a very tight space, the title of the level comes up and the level is finished.


==History==
== Records ==
===Creation===
{| class="article-table"
The Golden started as a solo project by Bo. Dissatisfied with an earlier remake of El Dorado known as 'El Dorado Rebirth',<ref name="LmAnubis">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-JsfyWJzIs</ref> Bo decided to create an overall new remake of the level. On 21 April 2019, he uploaded a preview video of the first part of an upcoming Extreme Demon level, showing the first 37%.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1WF7zIVWSw</ref> Afterwards, the full version of the layout was revealed on 2 May 2019.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbC5O7NTGDo&</ref> Despite the original plans of being a solo project, the level became a mega-collaboration with numerous creators, including El3cTr0, involved in the project.<ref name="LmAnubis"/>
!'''Player'''
 
!Percentage
The creators involved would later upload a preview of their parts, including Woomy and Eridani.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOqS0PKlJ-g</ref>
!Date Completed
 
!Total Attempts
===Verification and placement===
!Notable Fails
Bo initially tried verifying the level, making considerable progress, including 22-71%,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I__SxHADFsU</ref> 49-97%,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WUPQzBY3qM</ref> and 53%<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrTw-DjeaI8</ref> before passing the level to Sky Jax, then Dolphy, then finally nSwish. However, Bo would try to verify it with those players again. nSwish became the final official verifier of the level and verified The Golden on 17 April 2020 after 52,870 attempts.<ref name="nSwish"/> The level was placed at #1 on the Demonlist, dethroning Tartarus and keeping the #1 spot for 105 days before it and Tartarus swapped positions as many skilled players stated that Tartarus was harder.
!Video
 
|-
==Description==
|'''[[nSwish]]''' (verifier)
*'''0-14% (El3cTr0 + Gooseam):''' The Golden begins with a UFO segment containing quite difficult timings, and the colour palette is mostly dark with a dose of green mixed in. After this, the player transforms into a ball, and the timings continue, as the player must hit orbs precisely. Following this is a brief UFO section with additional timings.
|'''100%'''
*'''14-28% (Geemi + Woom):''' Next, the level gets a little greener, and the player turns into a ship. This ship segment features extremely tight spaces, and gameplay is enhanced by gravity changes scattered throughout certain areas. Following the ship segment is a brief cube section leading to the drop, where a big black glowing pillar blocks half of the player's vision. This part ends with a title screen of the level.
|April 18, 2020
*'''28-50% (El3cTr0):''' Then, the drop starts. This part consists of a challenging triple-speed wave section containing pillars with tight gaps, requiring nearly impossible timings at high speeds. There are also heaps of gravity portals scattered throughout this section. Additionally, the wave's size fluctuates occasionally. After a while, the player slows down to double speed as they must spam through a brief but tight corridor, before being thrown into a brief quadruple-speed UFO section with precise timings. Then the player turns back into a wave at triple speed, with a gameplay style similar to before.
|52,870
*'''50-72% (EyeOfTheStorm):''' After the player passes through the wave sections, they turn into a ship while remaining at triple speed. This section is compact and features many different portals, as well as challenging timings, making it difficult to navigate through. Next is a brief wave section followed by a short but difficult cube section, during which the player must precisely hit three green orbs. Afterwards, a tight dual wave is followed by a tight single wave, before a ball section requiring precise timings to end the drop.
|92%, 93%, 94% (4)
*'''72-86% (Bo):''' After the drop ends, the player must pass a tricky half-speed robot section where the player must spam in some parts and perform timings in the others. Next is a UFO segment that is spam-filled but mostly filled with timings. Following this is a short spider section with difficult timings.
|[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aas8_QKLnuc YouTube]
*'''86-100% (Eridani + BySelling, End Screen):''' Following the spider section is a slow ship part with very tight spaces to fly through. This ship section features numerous gravity and size portals that are thrown at the player. After a bit, a very spam-demanding ball appears with many timings. The same principle applies to the UFO section that follows. After the player passes the UFO section, the level title appears, showing a golden city with the level's name at its centre and the creators' names below as the level concludes.
|-
 
|'''[[Rori]]'''
==Gameplay==
|'''100%'''
{{VC|Sn1q9xVxc2s}}
|May 25, 2020
 
|~18,000
==First 10 victors==
|N/A
{| class="wikitable"
|[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6I5Qnnfx8g YouTube]
!Victor #
|-
!Player
|'''Swiborg'''
!Date Completed
|'''100%'''
!Total Attempts
|May 27, 2020
!Furthest Fail
|40,541
!Video
|98%
|-
|[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzH16AMjI1g YouTube]
|'''Verifier'''
|-
|'''nSwish'''
|'''Sid125'''
|17 April 2020
|'''100%'''
|?
|June 23, 2020
|?
|~30,000
|[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpS5PSHmji0 YouTube]
|94%
|-
|[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alazfCqbRV8 YouTube]
|1
|-
|swiborg
|[[Mycrafted]]
|28 May 2020
|55%
|40,541
|May 2, 2020
|98%
|''Unknown''
|[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzH16AMjI1g YouTube]
|N/A
|-
|[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll4yO1Bmm4U YouTube]
|2
|Sid125
|23 June 2020
|30,529
|94%
|[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alazfCqbRV8 YouTube]
|-
|3
|Kurumi
|19 August 2020
|42,576
|96%
|[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpUtOa9ZgvE YouTube]
|-
|4
|[[Mycrafted]]
|12 September 2020
|?
|94%
|[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8pBUbMqXIk YouTube]
|-
|5
|DoSh7t
|26 November 2020
|49,109
|92%
|[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f_5VvccNeI YouTube]
|-
|6
|Beastular
|30 November 2020
|~91,500
|96%
|[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc8Q2HfqtR4 YouTube]
|-
|7
|[[Wolvez]]
|3 December 2020
|20,122
|?
|[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLo2OP4ujac YouTube]
|-
|8
|Combined
|10 December 2020
|~31,000
|?
|[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dssXsf8pPV4 YouTube]
|-
|9
|dice88
|28 December 2020
|43,523
|96%
|[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nufO_-zZcFw YouTube]
|-
|10
|Seturan
|4 January 2021
|63,353
|90%
|[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE3PlIWcYAI YouTube]
|}
|}
{{Togglebox
|header = Notable completions
|body  = <nowiki />
*The Golden took [[nSwish]] 52,870 attempts to verify. It is the highest number of attempts they have taken to beat a level.
*The biggest fluke on The Golden belongs to PaulaGPe, who fluked it from 35% on 13 September 2025.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd4JZFpxwmI</ref>
*Carv became the 500th victor of The Golden on 21 September 2025, also fluking it from 65%.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfxP2yDioHM</ref>
*Sunix, the verifier of Sonic Wave, completed The Golden on 4 May 2026 after dropping after a 75% fail on 8 January 2021.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-iLQjPvGFY</ref>
}}


==Trivia==  
== Trivia ==
*The Golden was rated on 1 May 2020 and placed at #1 on the Demonlist on 31 May 2020, above Tartarus.
* The password for this level is 886988.
**This addition pushed [[Crimson Planet]] out of the Top 5, Belloq into the Extended List, and A2Marbl into the Legacy List.
* This level contains 117647 objects.
**The Golden is regarded as the 36th instance of the hardest rated level in the game's history.
* This level's duration is 1m 24s.
***On 12 September 2020, The Golden swapped with Tartarus, with Tartarus being at #1 and The Golden being at #2. Many victors around this time stated that Tartarus was harder; it was mainly due to the level's straight-fly segments with fixed hitboxes at 31% and 45%.
* Since this level is a remake of the 2.0 level [[El Dorado]], the name comes from the English translation of El Dorado, which is The Golden.
****The Golden lasted as a Top 1 level for 105 days.
* The order of the verifiers on this level was Bo, SkyJax, Bo again, [[Dolphy]], Bo again, and then nSwish, who verified it.
*The name of the level comes from the English translation of 'El Dorado', 'The Golden', since The Golden is a remake of El Dorado.
* This level took nSwish 52870 attempts to verify, which is the most amount of attempts nSwish has taken to beat a level.
**[[LmAnubis]] had a comment thread on the full layout showcase of The Golden, approving it as an official sequel.<ref name="LmAnubis" />
** Many of these attempts came from grinding his superbuffed version and just how unlucky he got following the nerf.
*The Golden is part of the player-made 'New RGB trilogy', along with Tartarus and [[Sonic Wave Infinity]].
* A copy of the level, as given to nSwish before he buffed it was privately circulating with players for a while, with a "no detail" copy appearing on the server shortly after it started circulating. This copy infamously fell into the hands of Breeze, who used for a joke "verification" video of the level. [[ToshDeluxe]] also used it for his April Fools 2020 video.
**The Golden is also part of the player-made 'GRP trilogy', along with [[Avernus]] and [[Amethyst]].<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SNmJEyDItc</ref>
* The Golden was rated on May 1st, 2020, and placed on the [[Official Demon list]] on May 30, 2020.
*The order of the verifiers for The Golden is: Bo, SkyJax, Bo again, Dolphy, Bo yet again, and then nSwish, who verified it.
* Lolwut was chosen as backup verifier, in case nSwish would drop the level.
**lolwut was chosen as a backup verifier in case nSwish dropped the level.
* When this got put on the Demons list, this knocked Belloq into the Extended List, and A2Marbl into the Legacy List
*A copy of The Golden, given to nSwish before they buffed it, was privately circulating with players for a while, with a 'no detail' copy appearing on the servers shortly after it started circulating. This copy infamously fell into the hands of Breeze, who used it for a joke 'verification' video of the level.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdYTtJhzLfk</ref> [[ToshDeluxe]] also used it for his April Fools 2020 video.
* Lolwut has created a fan-made sequel called Athens
*lolwut created a fan-sequel layout named Athens.
*swiborg once decided to rebeat The Golden and managed to do so in one attempt.
*swiborg allegedly verified the unnerfed version of The Golden on 19 December 2021, claiming that he forgot to record.
**klimk verified ItzDoVi's buffed unnerfed version of The Golden on 14 December 2025 after ItzDoVi had hack-verified it.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvuZmhSeZ6A</ref>
**Nkontion officially verified the unnerfed version of The Golden on 4 September 2026.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfIy-LRaeOc</ref>
*[[spaceuk]] supposedly beat The Golden as his fifth Demon, after [[DeCode]], [[Windy Landscape]], Leyak, and [[Wasureta]], until he got exposed as a hacker on 25 April 2023.
**spaceuk rebeat The Golden legitimately on 6 May 2023.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLDsfM3jU2Q</ref>
*stillsouless fluked The Golden from 40%, making it the biggest fluke on the level.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YKLJcolFLM</ref>
*Sid125 beat The Golden three times in a row in the ''GD World Tournament''.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6dUBlA38_4</ref>
*Bo and PockeWindFish (originally Woomy, Kyhro, and El3cTr0) officially hosted a level as the 'antagonist' to The Golden called Avernus.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZfUhk-G0qY&</ref> It was verified by [[Zoink]] on 22 March 2023.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16Zh8jssanc</ref>
*The Golden was temporarily updated to complain about a creator's release schedule in December 2023.{{Verify}}
*A multitude of levels were created as an inspiration from The Golden.
**PockeWindfish created Avernus, which is an antagonist to The Golden.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO-OX4c8aWA</ref> It was a former Top 1 reigning since 16 October 2023 to 18 February 2024.
***PockeWindfish also created Tethys, the third level of The Golden series, and simultaneously the sequel to Avernus.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXRT9hlDGWE</ref>
**Mist created Amethyst, a crystal cave-themed level and a former Top 1.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTEERDj1i5Y</ref>
*The placement of CHIL on 26 December 2025 pushed The Golden into the Extended List of the Demonlist, making it the first level of the New RGB Trilogy to fall into the Extended List.
**The placement of Master of Puppets on 17 June 2026 pushed The Golden out of the Top 100.


==Videos==
== Walkthrough ==
{{VC|wpS5PSHmji0|zfIy-LRaeOc|Xt6twbj2gm4|S6Dex7L28_w
[[File:-VERIFIED- The Golden by Bo and more!|centre|thumb|330x330px|The verification of The Golden. Credits to nSwish.]]
|cpt1 = Verification
[[File:NSwish’s unnerfed version of The Golden|centre|thumb|330x330px|The full walkthrough of the unnerfed version of The Golden. Credits to Game Boi. Note that this is a montage.]]
|cpt2 = Unnerfed version verification
|cpt3 = Unnerfed version
|cpt4 = ItzDoVi's version
}}


==References==
== References ==
<references />
<references />[[Category:Extreme Demon levels]]
[[Category:Demon List levels]]
[[Category:Demon levels]]
[[Category:Long levels]]
[[Category:2.1 levels]]
[[Category:Top 150]]
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