Windy Landscape
Windy Landscape is a 1.9/2.0 Insane Demon level by WOOGI1411. Soon after its release, WOOGI updated the level and slightly buffed it. It is one of the most famous levels and received acclaim for its music, gameplay, difficulty and design. Windy Landscape's difficulty primarily derives from an excess of decoration, narrow flying segments and numerous timings. During Update 1.9, it was regarded as a hard Insane Demon or an easy Extreme Demon in difficulty, though now it is generally considered to be one of the easiest Insane Demons.
Description
Windy Landscape begins with a simple mini-cube section featuring a few timings. Next, the player enters a moderately difficult ball segment with more tricky timings, followed by a mini-ship sequence with an awkward transition and flying section due to gravity portals. The next transition to the relatively simple cube is also quite irritating because it can fail if the player is flying too high, and could be considered a bug. The next cube is reasonably straightforward, although the triple spike jump may get the player a few times, followed by a moderately difficult mini-UFO with tricky timing. Next is a simple mini-wave, but then a harder normal wave with fairly tight spaces. Then, the player enters a double-speed cube section comprised of fairly tricky timings, followed by probably the hardest and most irritating part of the level, a ship sequence with lots of straight-flying, gravity and size changes in peculiar spots and tricky orbs. Afterwards is another fairly tight wave segment, and next is a UFO segment with even more fairly tricky timing, along with gravity portals. The UFO then shrinks and travels at half-speed as the music slows, with WOOGI1411's name at the top. The player must tap lightly once to hit a blue orb to avoid crashing into a spike in an otherwise auto segment.
The music then drops and heads into the first dual segment of Windy Landscape. The dual sequences are in sync and symmetrical; they are easy to get accustomed to. However, the entire dual segment is in triple-speed the whole way through, and the decoration there is very bright to try to mess with the player. The first cube segment is easy with only one timed jump, but the ball segment after has very tricky timings that require time to get used to, followed again by a slightly harder cube with more tricky timing, followed by a mini-ball with one click, which must be appropriately timed to avoid a bug that will cause the player to crash. It switches to a mini auto dual cube. A ship segment follows and is also quite tricky and difficult, with many fakes and gravity portals, with a few orbs as well, and a fair bit of tricky yet straightforward straight-flying. Afterwards is another simple cube with a few timed jumps and a difficult half-speed straight-fly mini-ship sequence.
The level then returns to double-speed with a cube with many tricky timings. It then switches to a ship sequence that is quite difficult, with an awkward transition and a weird gravity portal placement. It switches to a fairly easy cube with simple timings, then to an odd ship that is more timing-based than actually flying. The dual segment returns now at double speed, still symmetrical and in sync. It starts as a cube, then becomes a ball with even trickier timing. The last ship is infamous for failing multiple players and is a straight-fly segment with an irritating gravity portal in the middle. The level then goes to a half-speed cube section with one final jump, with the text saying 'THX'. Then, the level ends with a smiley face, added during Update 2.0 by WOOGI.
Gameplay
Trivia
- Windy Landscape was ranked #21 in GDToday's '100 Greatest Levels of All Time' list.
- Windy Landscape was not featured due to WOOGI using a copy of the original song 'Windfall' by TheFatRat, which was not accessible at the time. He later replaced the song when TheFatRat uploaded his songs to Newgrounds. On 9 March 2020, the level was featured.
- The remake 'If WL was L1' is rated and featured.
- Windy Landscape is included in the final section of the level Ultimate Demon Mix.
- The old gameplay of Windy Landscape, before it was buffed, had much easier flying segments, and the timings in the level were overall easier.
- On 4 June 2016, a 2.0 remake called Windy Landscape X was created by AngryBoy and WOOGI.
- A 2.1 Extreme Demon remake called Stormy Landscape, created by XLSpiral and others, was verified by Teno on 4 April 2021.
- A combination of Windy Landscape and The Golden called Verdant Landscape was verified by Nisha on 14 December 2021. The level was placed at #11 on the Demonlist on 18 January 2022. Verdant Landscape was also the second-hardest fully solo level, meaning the level's lone creator (Nisha) verified it himself.
- Due to the physics in Update 2.2, the slope jump at 3% became much more difficult.
- This is also the case in the Windy Landscape section of Ultimate Demon Mix.
- On 3 February 2024, this issue was fixed, and the jump can now be passed by not clicking, thanks to an invisible extension of the slope.
- A future update was released on 20 November 2025 that removed the invisible extension and made it required to time the slope jump instead of being automatic, much like the issue before, but more lenient and not frame-perfect timing.
Notable fails
- Slypp crashed at 97% twice due to not hearing his audio queue properly.
- Dorami crashed at 97%, 94%, and 92% twice.
- AleXPain24 crashed at 95% four times before he beat the actual level in the old version.
- The Universal Army, a Wiki member, crashed at 95% twice. He also had numerous unrecorded fails, or recorded footage of fails past 80% in the level that were not deleted.
- Danilkaz crashed at 92%.
- Roby crashed at 92%.
- Riot crashed at 88% while playing the old version.
- SixBeat crashed at 95% and 92% several times.
- Merg crashed at 77% and 95%.
- Creepium Gamer crashed at 92% twice, 95%, and 97% four times.
- MrSpud8 crashed at 79% twice, 80%, 85%, and 86%.
- Mosos crashed at 72%, 79%, and 85%.
- CometzCraft crashed at 95% twice.
- Colon crashed at 97%.