Mayhem
Not to be confused with mayhem by LazerBlitz.
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Mayhem is a 2.1 Extreme Demon mega-collaboration hosted by Vernam, created by the members of Cherry Team, verified, and published by LordVadercraft on August 7, 2022. It is the official sequel to Caution. It began development after Cherry Team's other project Firework was verified. The level is city- and construction-themed and primarily uses shades of yellow and gray. Like Firework, it is considered to feature good music sync, although it is not the main focus of the level.
Gameplay
- 0-10% (Vit12): Mayhem begins with Vit12's part, utilizing moving city-themed structures. The part consists of a long cube and robot section where the player must hit orbs very late and carefully hold down on dash orbs. The part contains many speed changes as well, but they are invisible.
- 12-24% (synd): The player is then flung into synd's part, which consists of quick timings using the ship, ball, and UFO game-modes. The player must make inputs to the beat of the song while going through invisible speed changes. This section is regarded by many as the hardest part in Mayhem.
- 24-39% (Konsi): After exiting a wave part, the player enters Konsi's part, which is very sync-based. The part focuses on repetitive gameplay to match the build-up of the song. It starts with a ball section before a spider section where the player needs to make fast timings between several structures. When the music speeds up, the player becomes a UFO and must hit orbs quickly. This segment may be confusing at first because of invisible teleport portals. At 36%, the player must hit several trigger orbs and enter a short mini wave section.
- 39-57% (DMSD): After a title-screen, the player enters the drop and DMSD's part. The part consists of many repeated gameplay segments, such as short dual cube timings, tight ship timings with orbs, and cube timings with yellow orbs. At 56%, the player enters a transition segment with tight wave timings.
- 57-74% (Sauzzeth): Sauzzeth's part is very effect-based, with glowing structures and long caution tape appearing on the sides of the screen. This part is focused on sync, containing fast timings in all game-modes. Some stand-out sections of the part are the spider timings with black orbs at 62-64% and 71-73%, the tight UFO timings between spikes, and the tight wave section at 73-74%.
- 74-98% (Enely + Thrasher): The final part of Mayhem, made by Enely and Thrasher, consists of extremely fast orb timings. The first two sections of the part are mini cube and spider, with a dash orb between the two sections and one afterward. At 83%, the player enters a robot section before a UFO section, both with tight orb timings. At 88%, the player becomes a mini cube and must jump over spikes and hold down on a dash orb. The level ends with one more jump over a long strip of spikes, which can be done if the player lets go of the dash orb at the right time.
- 90-100% (Sauzzeth + Vitchrose): The end-screen of Mayhem displays a crane with the Cherry Team insignia holding the "AY" in the title "MAYHEM".
Trivia
- The level is free to copy.
- The level contains 243,668 objects.
- The level is 1m 29s in length.
- The level was rated on August 17, 2022, and received a featured rating.
- The level was initially placed at #10 on the Demonlist on September 16, 2022, above Sonic Wave Infinity (#11) and below Tartarus (#9).
- This change pushed Spacial Rend into the Extended List, and Fabrication into the Legacy List.
- Mayhem has gone through several verifiers, including Cursed, Terakot, Victurkey, and RicoLP.
- Victurkey's name is misspelled in the end-screen as "Vickturkey".
- This level was heavilly disliked due to its unconventional gameplay; this plotted the reason why this level is unpopular on the Demonlist.
- The movement of Solar Flare on 8 November 2023 pushed Mayhem out of the Top 25 of the Demonlist.
- Mayhem was moved from #27 to #22 on 12 December 2023, returning the level back in the Top 25 and pushing Oblivion out of the Top 25. This change was most likely due to its gameplay that was said above.