The Hell Zone

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The Hell Zone is a 2.0 Extreme Demon collaboration created by 1234, Koreaqwer, Ryan LC, and Cyclic, originally hack-verified by Cyclic, and later legitimately verified and published by Stormfly. It is a remake of the 1.4 level of the same name by Sohn0924, and is part of Stormfly's Hell Series remakes. Although it got deleted before it was rated, it is generally considered a 'Hell Demon' due to its extreme difficulty. The level was buffed and nerfed a couple of times before Cyclic confessed to cheating and had the level deleted. On 2 August 2016, Stormfly verified The Hell Zone legitimately, but it was unrated until February 2017.

The level's extreme difficulty is due to it containing a fair deal of quadruple-spikes at regular speed as well as invisible portals and orbs, among others. Its decoration is similar to that of Necropolis, featuring many Necropolis-style crosses, and also contains tons of incredibly difficult timings that Necropolis is infamous for.

Gameplay

• 0-22% (1234): The level begins immediately with a difficult jump over a triple-spike. The player must hold down almost at the beginning as a pink orb hides in the ground before the triple-spike. A Low Detail Mode trigger is located right after the triple-spike to use by not jumping over it. Next is a difficult cube section with continuous timings and small quadruple-spikes. It transitions from ball to cube and vice versa, followed by an intricate cube section, where the thorns are disguised as decorative fire, and then jumping over the thorns, above which there will be mirror portals. This segment ends with jumping over several spiked structures.
• 23-49% (Koreaqwer): Next, the player enters a ball segment. In the beginning, the player must 'jump' right before entering the ball portal. The figure of a man with a trident and horns appears. Here begins the main part of the level, a lengthy cube section. Oddly enough, for hell-themed levels, neon effects are present here. This section also features a bunch of invisible transitions, small quadruple-spikes and moving obstacles at 37-40%. At 41%, the player must jump over a set of quadruple-yellow pads.
• 50-73% (Ryan LC): Afterward, the player transitions into a mirrored cube section with several red cross decorations, a couple of jumps across pillars in anti-gravity and a few tricky timing-based yellow orb inputs. Following this, the player goes into a small one-block-wide gap between two thin pillars and falls onto yellow pads as the level fades to black. Note that at ~53%, the player must jump once to make it onto the thin pillar, and then shortly after, at ~54%, jump from the edge of the pillar to make it to the next section. Simply dropping down onto the pads will not work. Afterwards, the music dies down a little, and the player enters a highly detailed mirrored ship sequence with a background filled with chains and pulsating objects. There are several gravity portals and a few tight spaces throughout this section, followed by a cube section (via an invisible cube portal and blue mirror portal) with strange gameplay. Observing the timings, the player must carefully 'jump' to avoid falling and hitting the spikes on the ground while not colliding with the few spikes located above the player. Shooting stars appear in the background twice. The beat of the music becomes normal again, and after clearing a short mirrored ball segment with a few tricky timings, the figure of a man appears again.
• 74-100% (Cyclic): Following this is a tricky cube section with some more timings and decoration resembling a devil at 75%. Then, grave cross decorations appear again, and the player must switch gravity while jumping over single spikes before jumping across a large spike pit using darkened yellow orbs. Here, the player can also see falling stars in the background as the music beat grows. Note that the player must skip the first orb here section, or they will not be able to make it to the next section. Then, there is a narrow-spaced ball segment with black cloud decorations, grave cross decorations and large spike obstacles. Afterwards is a difficult mirrored ship sequence featuring tight spaces to manoeuvre around, with little room to execute. Following this is one final ball segment with more cross decorations and narrow spaces, then a cave-themed ship sequence with a couple of gravity portals, tight spaces and a bunch of torch-like decorations. Afterwards, the player enters an auto cube section showing text saying, 'The H e l l Zone Exit', as well as the names of all four creators, with a line going through each. Finally, the player is launched by one final yellow pad as the level ends.

Confession

'I used verify hack to verify The Hell Zone. Both 1st and 2nd version. For the video, I used 4 cuts. One at Koreaqwer's first part (the transition), one at 31%, one at 36%, and one at the end of the level (just before the icon disappears) (this was to make look like verified with the same attempt as the beginning) Now I verified the 3rd version legit but I don't have a video cause I gave my laptop to my sister and I can only use a computer which all my family members use it and I can't record it cause of lag.

You don't have to believe me because I don't deserve it. I'm very sorry that I tried to trick all geometry dash players and I'm especially sorry to my collab members: 1234, Koreaqwer, and Ryan LC. I had only 3 days left till my sister takes my laptop so I tried to verify in 3 days but I couldn't so I used verify hack...'

-Cyclic

Trivia

• The level's password is 753159.
• The level contains 29,444 objects.
• The level's duration is 1m 37s.
• The level was initially placed at #11 on the Demonlist on 12 February 2017, above Conical Depression (#12) and below Hatred (#10).
  • This change pushed Asymmetry into the Legacy List.
  • The Hell Zone was moved up from #89 to #74 on 31 January 2020, pushing Bass Cave into the Extended List.
• It took Cyclic over 18,000 attempts to 'verify' this level.
  • However, Cyclic claimed that The Hell Zone and Sonic Wave were hacked.
    • At 1:16, the figure disappears for a split second.
• Stormfly verified the official version, which is mostly unnerfed. However, Cyclic's part was slightly nerfed from the copy that was reuploaded by Cyrillic under a fake Cyclic account.
• It is widely debated whether the level belongs to the Hell Series remakes Stormfly hosted. While Stormfly says such, the level is very different from the self-host remakes that were to follow.
• Many people criticized the level for its deemed unfun gameplay. Because of this, not many people played this level due to inconsistency. Those players often believe that the gameplay is not too bad but a bit unbalanced and possibly underrated.
• Luqualizer was the first victor of this level, followed by GoodSmile and Mullsy as the second and third victors respectively.
• It was the only level in the Hell series with user coins until Stormfly removed them in a bug-fix update.
• This level is significantly harder on 60FPS than 144FPS due to extreme timings.
• Stormfly legitimately verified the original version by Sohn0924 on 29 August 2020.
• The original version of The Hell Zone is the sixth former Top 1 in the game's history.
• On 24 October 2021 when The Hell Zone was at #148 and about to be pushed into the Legacy List, the level suddenly moved to #107. This change is likely due to the level's inaccessibility on higher refresh rates as the level was adjusted to 60FPS, causing bugs on higher refresh rates.
  • An example is a frame-perfect orb jump at the beginning of the level on higher refresh rates, such as 120/144/240FPS.
    • However, the level received an update, nerfing that jump no longer frame-perfect on high refresh rates.
• The placement of Gustavo Fring on 6 July 2022 pushed The Hell Zone into the Legacy List of the Demonlist.

Videos

• The hacked completion by Cyclic. Original video by Cyclic. Reuploaded by Water.
  The hacked completion by Cyclic. Original video by Cyclic. Reuploaded by Water.