Promethean

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Promethean is a 2.1 Extreme Demon collaboration level created by EndLevel, RealVet, River and Connected, published by EndLevel, and verified by RicoLP on 22 May 2021. The level features an utmost hellish theme, half comes from the red and orange colour scheme and the other half comes from the rather intense song.

Gameplay

• 0-31% (EndLevel): The level starts subtly but instantly increases to double speed right as the player jumps over a wide array of spikes. After hitting the double-speed portal, the player must hit a green orb, which teleports the player into a blue orb. If the player continues to hold, they jump into a black orb and launch the player into a pink dash orb and a blue orb. After jumping from a platform, the player enters a mini-ship portal. However, first, they are instantly launched into a big-sized portal by a few yellow pads. Not only do these yellow pads lead into the big-sized portal, but they also lead into an anti-gravity portal, a straight-fly, and a green orb to end off the straight-fly. The green orb leads into a teleportation portal, leading to a quadruple-speed upward straight-fly that lasts around two seconds. To end the straight-fly, the player is led into a UFO portal where they must click twice to pass through. Afterwards, the player enters a wave portal. The following section is very similar (gameplay-wise and decoration-wise) to two other EndLevel creations, those being Aerial Gleam and Aquatic Auroras. The gameplay features a little wave manoeuvring with many anti-gravity portals and two speed changes, while the decoration features a mini spike on every edge. After the wave section, the player goes into a UFO section. It begins with two synced green orb timings, leading to a pink orb. The pink orb sends the player into a somewhat confusing array of anti-gravity portals with one green orb towards the bottom. To follow through this segment, the player must hit the first yellow portal, the green orb, the second blue portal, the third yellow portal, and the final blue portal. After timing the last jump in the array, the player must hit a green orb that leads into a pink orb. Then, the player must perform the same thing (the green orb and the pink orb array) again.
• 31-61% (RealVet): After the UFO section, there's a somewhat long ball section. It starts with two clicks that lead into a black orb, two more clicks, and four more clicks. After the fourth click, the player needs to hit a green orb, which the player goes in between two blocks. If the player clicks again, they head towards a blue orb going into a few yellow pads. The yellow pads all lead into a quadruple-speed portal, instantly preceded by a cube portal. After entering the cube portal, the player must time a blue orb and a green orb while a decently sized screen constantly blinks to obscure the player's vision. While it blinks, the player must hit a pink orb and then jump into a blue orb that leads into a green orb. Then, the player enters a two-second automatic segment that ends with a yellow orb, a green orb, a blue orb, and a jump. The speed proceeds to slow down to double-speed, and now the player must traverse through another ship section with constant upward/downward flying and a few gravity portals/speed portals. Next is a brief double-speed robot section that begins with the player needing to project themselves upwards and then timing a jump to hit two orbs, one being pink and the other green.
• 61-73% (River + Connected): The green orb leads the player into a triple-speed mini swing-copter section with considerably tight spaces and perfect timing. Afterwards, the player teleports to the very bottom of the screen. They become a ship, double-speed, and launched into a triple-speed straight-fly. After the triple-speed straight-fly, the player must traverse through a double-speed Clubstep monster featuring a brief downward straight-fly and an upward straight-fly. This ship section concludes with another downward straight-fly.
• 73-100% (EndLevel): As the song becomes quite a bit eerier, the level becomes significantly darker and slower. First, the game mode switches to a mini-cube, and the player must perform a blind jump and then proceed to get slightly projected into a green orb that leads into a blue orb. Then, after the player jumps again, they get launched into two blue orb timings. The second blue orb timing leads into two pink orbs, another blue orb, a jump, and a pink dash orb. After holding for a bit, the player must fall onto another platform and jump into a green orb and a pink dash orb. Finally, the player is led into a tight ship section, which, similar to 50%, features constant upward and downward flying. However, this section features many more gravity portals. At the very end of the ship section, the speed accelerates to triple-speed, and the player becomes upside down. It once again accelerates to quadruple speed. Two structures featuring a 'G' and a few spikes appear, and the level ends.

Fails

• RicoLP crashed at 98% two days before verifying the level.

Notable completions

• BrianTheBurger not only has the biggest fluke on the level at 69% but also has the lowest attempt count in 4,772 attempts.
  • However, the lowest attempt count of the level belongs to wPopoff, with 4,218 attempts on 28 January 2024, the same day he started practising it. Although BrianTheBurger beats Skarro's 76% fluke record.

Trivia

• The level's password is 789123.
• The level contains 56,344 objects.
• The level is 52s in length.
  • The level is the fifth shortest level on the Demonlist, behind kowareta, and above Sakupen Circles, Sakupen Hell, no jokes, and CITRA
• The level was rated on 8 June 2021.
• The level was initially placed at #10 on the Demonlist on 7 July 2021, above Calculator Core (#11) and below SARY NEVER CLEAR (#9).
  • This addition pushed Omicron into the Extended List and SHATTER into the Legacy List.
• On 24 October 2024, this level had its List % increased to 85%; the highest list % requirement of any level in the history of the Demonlist.
• Promethean references to Prometheus, the Greek God of fire and forethought.
• There is a sequel/remake of this level named Hephaestus that was verified by Blankb on 13 August 2022.
• Early in development, the level was codenamed 'The Merciless'.
• This is a reference to the osu! map of The Promethean Kings, infamous for its difficulty.
• This level is often heavily disliked due to its compressed gameplay.
• The placement of Belladonna on 22 December 2023 pushed Promethean out of the Top 50 of the Demonlist.

Video

File:Promethean VERIFIED - Top 5 Demon - by EndLevel & more

The verification of Promethean. Credits to RicoLP.