Solar Flare
Solar Flare
ID
90390075
Verifier(s)
swiborg
Created
Last updated
Solar Flare is a 2.1 Extreme Demon collaboration level created by Linear2 and rynoxious, published by Linear2 and verified by swiborg. It is a superbuffed remake of the 1.9 Medium Demon Solar Circles.
Solar Flare is themed around stars, in particular the Sun, and features yellow and orange shades with predominant use of dark grey in the background, and blue for lightening structures and hazards like crystals.
Gameplay
- 0-15%: Solar Flare begins as a mini-cube at half speed before being changed into normal speed. The player must navigate tight spaces while dealing with challenging orb timings.
- 15-27%: Next is a double-speed ship segment with very difficult straight-flying and a two-path at 19-20%, where the player must go down rather than up.
- 27-35%: Afterwards, the player goes into a ball part at normal speed with numerous difficult timings and a text at 31% saying 'GLHF' at half speed. Later, after the ball comes an easy cube part at normal speed with just one pink orb hit.
- 35-92%: The drop begins. Like any other challenging Nine Circles levels, Solar Flare has very tight wave parts and frequent size and speed changes throughout this part, at 40-41% and 46-47%, there are memory parts in constellation appearances. Texts are saying 'up next' and '>>>' at 58%, telling that the player now faces the dual section of the part. At 91-92%, there is a mini-wave spam section of the level, similar to Down Bass; however, Solar Flare has a normal-size portal and an invisible quadruple-speed change in the middle of the spam section before the second mini-size portal and the invisible double-speed change.
- 92-100%: Lastly, the player enters a short cube part at half speed with tricky timings and an invisible normal-speed change at 95% right before the level ends.
First 10 victors
| Victor # | Player | Date Completed | Total Attempts | Furthest Fail | Video |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Verifier | swiborg | 29 April 2023 | ~20,000 | 87% | YouTube |
| 1 | Zoink | 4 May 2023 | ? | ? | YouTube |
| 2 | nybia | 30 May 2023 | 31,077 | 86% | YouTube |
| 3 | Yuuwi | 12 August 2023 | 54,270 | 93% | YouTube |
| 4 | teraaa | 18 August 2023 | 17,662 | 93% | YouTube |
| 5 | EastShark1 | 24 August 2023 | 169,160 | 91% | YouTube |
| 6 | Cuatrocientos | 4 October 2023 | ? | 80% | YouTube |
| 7 | zGabriel | 31 October 2023 | 59,530 | 88% | YouTube |
| 8 | Trick | 5 November 2023 | ? | ? | YouTube |
| 9 | PersonHuman42 | 20 November 2023 | ? | ? | YouTube |
| 10 | i43 | 29 November 2023 | ? | 96% | YouTube |
Trivia
- Solar Flare was placed at #21 on the Demonlist on 10 June 2023, above Trueffet and below Tartarus.
- This addition pushed Deimos into the Extended List and Delebit Oblivio into the Legacy List for the second time.
- Solar Flare is currently the fourth-hardest Nine Circles level in the game, behind Sakupen Circles, The Hallucination and Subsuming Vortex.
- The smiley-faced sun in Solar Flare is named Janet.
- If the player crashes at any point during the first half of the wave, Janet will gain a sad face.
- Solar flare contains 89 60FPS frame perfects.
- The character at the bottom-right corner of the end screen is Toyosatomimi no Miko from the Touhou Project franchise,
- This image specifically comes from the thirteenth official installment of the franchise, Ten Desires.
- Solar Circles, the inspiration of Solar Flare, was the final Demon level rated in Update 1.9.
- The placement of Stellar Night on 1 April 2026 pushed Solar Flare out of the Top 50 of the Demonlist, which is ironic considering Solar Flare is themed around the sun, which is associated with mornings.