Windy Landscape

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Windy Landscape is a 1.9/2.0 solo Insane Demon created and published by WOOGI1411 and originally verified by GuitarHeroStyles. Soon after it was released, WOOGI updated the level and slightly buffed it. It is one of the most famous levels, and received acclaim for its music, gameplay, difficulty, and design. Windy Landscape's difficulty primarily derives from an excess of decoration, narrow flying segments and numerous timings. During 1.9, it was regarded as a hard Insane- or easy Extreme Demon in difficulty, though now it is generally considered as an easier Insane Demon.

Gameplay

The level starts with a fairly simple mini-cube section that features a few timings. Next, the player enters a moderately difficult ball segment that consists of more tricky timing, and then a mini-ship sequence afterward with an awkward transition and flying due to gravity portals. The next transition to the fairly simple cube is also quite irritating because it can fail if the player is flying too high, and could be considered a bug. The next cube is fairly easy, although the triple spike jump may get the player a few times. This is followed by a moderately difficult mini-UFO with tricky timing, then a fairly simple mini-wave but then a harder normal wave with fairly tight spaces. Then, the player enters a double speed cube section comprised of fairly tricky timings, followed by what is probably the hardest and most irritating part in the level; a ship sequence comprised of lots of straight-flying, gravity and size changes in very weird spots, and tricky jump rings. This is followed by another fairly tight wave segment, and then a UFO segment afterward with even more fairly tricky timing, along with gravity portals. The UFO then turns mini and into half speed, while the music slows down, with WOOGI1411's name on the top. The player must tap lightly once to hit a blue jump ring to avoid crashing into a spike in an otherwise auto segment.

The music then drops and heads into the first dual segment of Windy Landscape. The dual sequences are in sync and unmixed, however, so they are fairly easy to get accustomed to. However, the entire dual segment is in triple speed the whole way through, and the decoration there is very bright to try and mess with the player. The first cube segment is easy with only one timed jump, but the ball segment that follows has very tricky timings that require time to get used to. This is followed again by a slightly harder cube with more tricky timing, followed by a mini-ball with one click, which must be timed properly, however, to avoid a bug that will cause the player to crash. This switches to a mini auto dual cube. A ship segment follows and is also quite tricky and difficult, with many fakes and gravity portals, with a few jump rings as well, and a fair bit of simple but tricky straight-flying. This is followed by another simple cube with a few timed jumps, and then a difficult half speed mini straight-fly ship sequence.

The level then returns to double speed with a cube with many tricky timings. This then switches to a ship sequence that is quite difficult, with a very awkward transition and weird gravity portal placement. This switches to a fairly easy cube with simple timing, and then a weird ship that is more timing-based than actually flying. The dual segment comes back, still unmixed and in sync, but in double speed. It is a cube at first with some tricky timing, and then a ball with more tricky timing. The last ship is infamous for failing multiple players and is a straight-fly segment with an irritating gravity portal in the middle. The level then goes to a half-speed cube section with one final jump, with the text saying "THX." Then, the level ends with a smiley face, added during Update 2.0 by WOOGI.

Fails

• Slypp crashed at 97% twice due to not hearing his audio queue properly.
• Dorami crashed at 97%, 94%, and 92% twice.
• AleXPain24 crashed at 95%, four times before he beat the actual level, in the old version.
• The Universal Army, a Wiki member, crashed at 95% twice. He also had numerous unrecorded fails or recorded but not deleted footage of fails past 80% in the level.
• Danilkaz crashed at 92%.
• Roby crashed at 92%.
• Riot crashed at 88% while playing the old version.
• SixBeat crashed at 95% and 92% several times.
• Merg crashed at 77% and 95%.
• Creepium Gamer crashed at 92% twice, 95%, and 97% four times.
• MrSpud8 crashed at 79% twice, 80%, 85%, and 86%.
• Mosos crashed at 72%, 79%, and 85%.
• CometzCraft crashed at 95% twice.

Trivia

• The level is free to copy.
• The level contains 10,891 objects.
• The level is 1m 17s in length.
• The level was not featured due to WOOGI using a copy of the original song "Windfall" by TheFatRat which was not accessible at the time. He later replaced the song when TheFatRat uploaded his songs to Newgrounds. On March 9, 2020, the level was featured.
• The remake "If WL was L1" is rated and featured.
• The old gameplay before the level was buffed had much easier flying segments, and the timings in the level were overall easier.
• On June 4, 2016, a 2.0 remake called "Windy Landscape X" and was created by AngryBoy and WOOGI. It was verified by MaxiS9 and published by AngryBoy. However, the level remains unrated.
  • A remake of a 2.1 Extreme Demon called Stormy Landscape, created by XLSpiral and more was verified by Teno on April 4, 2021.
  • A combination of Windy Landscape and The Golden called Verdant Landscape was verified by Nisha on December 14, 2021. The level was placed at #11, above Kenos and below Zodiac in the Geometry Dash Demonlist on January 18, 2022. Verdant Landscape is also the second hardest "full-solo" level, meaning that the lone creator of the level (Nisha) also verified it himself.
• Due to the physics in 2.2, the third jump is physically impossible.

Walkthrough

File:Geometry Dash Insane Demon - Windy Landscape - By WOOGI1411

The full gameplay of the old Windy Landscape without any buffs. Credits to Creepy Dash.

File:Windy Landscape 100% (Originally beaten on 3-11-17) (Insane Demon)

The full gameplay of the new Windy Landscape with buffed gameplay. Credits to npesta.