“quote~ originator
Cosmic Cyclone is a 2.1 Extreme Demon mega-collaboration level hosted by Zimnyte and Riot, created by Cyclic and Zhander, decorated by the members of APTeam, and verified by DoSh7t on 29 November 2021.[1] placing #28 on the Demonlist. It is the sequel to Sonic Wave, with design elements of the remake Sonic Wave Infinity. Like its predecessor, Cosmic Cyclone is made in the style of Nine Circles levels, as well as having similar gameplay features as Sonic Wave with the addition of extensive 2.1 decoration. The difficulty of Cosmic Cyclone primarily stems from quadruple-speed wave parts with frequent changes in gravity and size, combined with narrow aisles between the blocks.
History
Cosmic Cyclone first appeared in 2017. On 28 November 2017, DollarC released its first stream. Sunix, Riot and Cyclic are all involved in gameplay of this level. The person to verify the level was planned to be Combined, and the person who would decorate was unknown. The first level preview was released the same day, showcasing a part of the wave.
In December 2017, Zhander released his version of the Cosmic Cyclone layout, which later became the official version until APTeam's layout nearly a year later. On 10 January 2018, Combined reached 36-100% on Zhander's layout.
However, after that, there was no news about the level for quite a long time, and there were even rumours that the level had been cancelled. However, on 20 August 2018, another redesigned layout was released by Zimnyte. This was later proved that the level had been handed over to APTeam. Brittank88 and Zhander participated in redesigning the level, with sections becoming much more complex, and some places such as the ship parts were completely changed. In addition, many parts of the level became more chaotic, with Zimnyte saying that this level should become a Top 1 difficulty Demon.
From that moment on, the APTeam's version of the level was considered official, and on 7 February 2019, APTeam released a mega-collaboration. In addition, the gameplay of ships had changed dramatically, with the unpleasant parts removed and replaced by cube gameplay, while the cube before drop has been replaced by ball sections.
On 15 April 2019, while the level was in production, Ossy Flawol built and released the unofficial but verified version of Cosmic Cyclone. Meatius Gaming was designated as the verifier of this version, and on 11 June 2019, Meatius got 53% on its version.
On 17 August 2019, Meatius get 90%. Unfortunately, since then there has been no other progress since this record. Later, Wolff was appointed as the verifier, but he made no significant progress.
On August 20, 2019, a video of the verification progress was released, and, on 29 February 2020, Zimnyte showed his part in Cosmic Cyclone. However, in the final version of the level, it was replaced with another version, the reason unknown.
The final preview was released on 24 April 2021. It showed significant changes in gameplay and decorations, and the ball section was completely changed, along with the gameplay before the ball was reverted to the ship. Apart from the ball, almost every part was decorated, with only optimization and bug fixes left.
After three years of construction, on 24 September 2021, the full version of Cosmic Cyclone was finally released. This level was supposed to be verified by Combined; however, he later dropped the level and DoSh7t became the new verifier. On 29 November 2021, DoSh7t verified the level in 12,000 attempts. In his opinion, this level is harder than Sonic Wave and Bloodlust, but easier than kowareta.
On 11 December 2021, the level was rated, and on 4 January 2022, it was placed on the Demonlist.
Gameplay
Template:Low-Faith/Section Cosmic Cyclone's gameplay is similar to its predecessor, Sonic Wave.
Cosmic Cyclone begins with a difficult red orb transition, leading to a green orb. Following that, there are more difficult jumps and transitions. The player then becomes a ship where they must fly through annoyingly tight spaces and diagonal pillars. After bouncing through a series of orbs and pads as a cube, the player becomes a ball, but unlike its predecessor, the speed is 1x, the former's speed being 0.5x. In this section the player must hit various orbs later and fit through small gaps between spikes, being a hard section of the level. After becoming a mini-dual like Sonic Wave, the player enters the infamous Nine Circles wave. However, unlike most Nine Circles levels, the speed is 4x, contradicting the classic 3x speed. In the wave, the player goes through ridiculously tight spaces and manoeuvres through gravity portals and size portals at a high rate, and later the player then becomes a cube at 2x speed, keeping up the consistent difficulty of the level with tight transitions off of orbs and incredibly difficult jumps. The player enters the second wave, this time with various speed changes and more gravity and size portals. This part also requires fast but precise spamming in the dual sections. In the final part, the player becomes a cube again. However, the gameplay is overall memory-based, being different from the rest of the level. After a brief rest, the player goes into the final Nine Circles wave, keeping the difficulty as the other two wave sections previously, ending by spamming over the name 'APTEAM' as the end screen appears. During the end screen, the words 'Cosmic Cyclone' appear, followed by end credits showing the creator names, and finally, a very detailed artwork depicting two planets ends the level.
Gallery
-
First cube part.
-
End Screen
Trivia
- The level is free to copy.
- The level contains 212,000 objects.
- The level is 1m 57s in length.
- The level was initially placed at #28 on the Demonlist on 4 January 2022, above Omega Interface (#29) and below Bloodlust (#27).
- This addition pushed Erebus into the Extended List and DMG CTRL into the Legacy List.
- Many people have said that Cosmic Cyclone was going to be harder than Sonic Wave Infinity, the former hardest Nine Circles Level.
- This was later proved not true as the level was placed in the Top 30 on the Demonlist.
- Zimnyte originally had plans to change much of the level's non-wave gameplay, but later reverted to the original non-wave gameplay Zhander created.
- Multiple decorators were cut from the official level. These creators were Isane, Zimnyte, Salamander, Artaire and Meox.
- Brittank88 also had a gameplay section originally, but it got removed.
- A creator contest was hosted for the first part of the level. Avati won.
- Cosmic Cyclone is the last 2.1 level published by APTeam.
- The placement of Destruction 19 on 25 June 2024 pushed Cosmic Cyclone into the Extended List of the Demonlist.