UNKNOWN

Not to be confused with ' ' by nasgubb, as the game sometimes displays the level's name as 'unknown' due to the name (consisting of only one space) occasionally glitching.

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UNKNOWN is a 2.1 ExtremeDemon mega-collaboration level hosted by DrCuber, co-hosted and published by NineDice, and verified by Diamond. The level received a decoration update on June 11, 2022. It is a somewhat short grayscale ExtremeDemon decorated in the design style of a dark and mysterious atmosphere. The level's gameplay features narrow straight-flying segments, extremely tight wave sections, as well as generally difficult timings. kywy had a record of 95% on the old version until he dropped it and gave it to Diamond, who verified it after 35,818 attempts and a fail at 92%.

The old original version of UNKNOWN, which had 1.9-styled decoration, was created by Relayne and muriday and released on June 9, 2021. The redecoration update, hosted by DrCuber, updated the level's decoration and featured slight gameplay changes to improve its chances of being rated once verified and released. However, the old decoration of the level will be accessible through the level's Low Detail Mode.

History

Controversy

After the level's verification and initial placement on the Demonlist, a Twitter user and an impossible level creator by the username Skub made a series of threads, explaining that the original creators of UNKNOWN have never gained explicit permission to be redecorated by DrCuber's team, as well as they were never being credited in both the verification video and in the level. The screenshot in the thread also shows how Muriday expresses his frustration, wanting the level to be unrated out of hatred.

Gameplay

Note: Relayne created all the gameplay from 0-52%, and muriday created all the gameplay from 53-100%.

• 0-12% (GhostVandalf + Iris): GhostVandalf and Iris' part is a timing-based cube section described as deceivingly difficult. After jumping over a few sets of spikes and a tight spike pyramid inside a Clubstep Monster, the player must hit two blue orbs and jump over another spike. At 5%, they must jump off of an invisible short platform near the left edge of the following structure to get on top of it. After several tight timings involving orbs and blue pads, the player must jump early on top of the structure at 10% to land on the right-most edge, allowing them to jump again to clear some spikes at the bottom. The next part begins after they hit a pink orb inside another Clubstep monster.
• 12-25% (Gusearth): Gusearth's part continues the cube section from the previous part, beginning with a yellow orb that must be hit after jumping when directly under it. After a long segment of timings with gravity portals and orbs, the player must jump over a triple-spike at 23% and jump once more into a ship portal.
• 25-53% (DrCuber): DrCuber's part begins with a ship section. The player must first straight-fly between some spikes inside a Clubstep Monster and through a tight passage full of gravity portals with orbs inside them. At 30%, they must carefully enter the blue portal to avoid hitting spikes to the left when they go through a cube portal. The player must then jump over a spike and land on the left edge of the following block, allowing them to jump above to go through a yellow portal to hit a blue pad. After two jumps on sloped surfaces, the drop of the level begins. The player enters a fast wave section with extremely tight gaps and speed changes between triple- and double-speed. Following the wave section there is a short ship section with a straight-flying segment at the beginning and a few tight timings between gravity portals. The player then enters a triple-speed mini-cube section with two yellow orbs and two blue orbs that must be hit while they bounce between blue pads.
• 53-61% (NineDice): NineDice's part is a double-speed ball section where the player must carefully go through gaps between spikes and hit orbs. Structures in this part flash between normal design and hand-drawn line art design decoration.
• 61-67% (Iris): Iris' part in the level is a tight single-speed mini-wave section. Due to the decoration being difficult to see, the path the player should take is marked with bright white spike-like objects.
• 67-100% (Renn241): Renn241's part begins with a triple-speed mini-ship section where the player must go through some gravity portals and then straight-fly as a single-sized ship. Following this, the player enters a half-speed wave section that becomes double-speed as the player becomes a mini-wave. Following this are some mini-cube timings with yellow orbs with a short mini-ship section in the middle. Then, the player enters a tight triple-speed wave section that somewhat resembles River's part in Slaughterhouse, with tight hard-to-see gaps and a glowing Clubstep monster. The player is a mini-wave until going through the Clubstep monster, where they will become normal-size before becoming mini again directly after. The level ends with a single-speed cube section where the player must carefully jump over the triple-spike and hit a half-speed portal to land on the right edge of the triple-spike, allowing them to jump again to clear another spike below.

Wins

• Cursed became the first victor of the level on 12 February 2023.

First 10 victors

Victor #	Player	Date Completed	Total Attempts	Furthest Fail	Video
Verifier	Diamond	30 January 2023	35,818	92%	YouTube
1	Cursed	11 February 2023	20,702	97%	YouTube
2	Zoink	12 February 2023	6,491	94%	YouTube
3	summrs	14 February 2023	32825	82%	YouTube
4	Thnnder	16 February 2023	?	?	YouTube
5	pohgii	19 February 2023	28,543	97%	YouTube
6	Trick	19 March 2023	?	97%	YouTube
7	Netermind	25 March 2023	13,422	81%	YouTube
8	Cryonix6000	29 March 2023	~24,000	97%	YouTube
9	Denni	10 April 2023	33,764	95%	YouTube
10	Buter	16 May 2023	26,481	94%	YouTube

Trivia

• The level is free to copy.
• The old version of the level contains 13,028 objects, whilst the new version contains 41,984 objects.
• The level is 42s in length.
  • This makes it the fifth shortest ExtremeDemon in the game, behind Caution (41s), EXPLICIT (40s), no jokes (39s), CITRA (39s) and Cobwebs (30s).
• The level was rated on 9 February 2023.
• The level was initially placed at #14 on the Demonlist on 5 March 2023, above Tartarus (#15) and below The Hallucination (#13).
  • This addition pushed Kenos out of the Top 25, Plasma Pulse Finale into the Extended List, Sonic Wave out of the Top 100, and Framework into the Legacy List.
  • Three of which are notable levels and two former Top 1 levels in the game.
• The former replacement song for the level was Retro Dancer by Darule, with a Newgrounds ID of 1244. This replacement song is still used in the old version but not in the new version.
• The movement of Belladonna from #27 to #21 on 23 April 2024 pushed UNKNOWN out of the Top 25.

Walkthrough

VerificationShowcase

File:UNKNOWN Verified (ExtremeDemon) by NineDice, Relayne and more

The verification of UNKNOWN. Credits to Diamond.

File:UNKNOWN - FULL SHOWCASE -UNNERFED-

The full showcase of the new version of UNKNOWN. Credits to DrCuber.