Shardscapes
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Shardscapes is a 2.1 solo Extreme Demon level created and published by Kiba and verified by eiruni on 6 May 2022.[1] The level is slow-paced and timing-based, containing only robot- and mini-robot gameplay. The gameplay is very tight without much room for error, with the player often having to carefully jump on the edges of spikes and hit orbs precisely. The level splits into two halves that contrast each other, with a bright background for the first half and a dark one for the second. The song complements the gameplay by building suspense during the first half of the level. A sequel, Nullscapes, was released in 2.2.
Gameplay
- 0-40%: The first half of Shardscapes is a long half-speed mini robot section. The player must carefully jump across the suspended structures, often required to make micro-clicks to avoid hitting blocks. There are several blue orbs the player must hit during this section, and having to double-click on two of them. After going through a tight gap, the screen fades to white and then changes to black as the second half begins.
- 40-90%: The second half of Shardscapes is a long normal-speed robot section. This section contains the same type of gameplay as the previous section but with quicker timings. The player must hit many yellow-, green-, and red orbs, some of which they should double-click on. At 74%, the player must triple-click on a green orb.
- 90-100%: At 89%, after the player double-clicks on a green orb, they will disappear as the level slowly fades to black. The background will go completely dark before the level ends.
Trivia
- The level is free to copy.
- The level contains 81,195 objects.
- The level is 1m 19s in length.
- The level is the 30,000th rated level in the game.
- The level was initially placed at #33 on the Demonlist on 13 June 2022, above Bloodlust (#34) and below Silent Club (#32).
- This addition pushed Sephiroth into the Extended List and Rate Demon into the Legacy List.
- This is the first level on the Demonlist containing no cube gameplay and only one single game-mode, which features only the robot game-mode.
- There is a sequel to this level called Nullscapes that was verified by Zoink on September 2, 2024 after over 90,000 attempts.[2] Zoink estimates the level to be around Top 5-10 difficulty on the Demonlist.
- The placement of ConClusion on 23 December 2023 pushed Shardscapes into the Extended List of the Demonlist.