The Gauntlet Tier List (Geometry Dash)

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so the gauntlets either you love them or you hate them but either way you have to agree they're better than the map packs except for the parts where they have levels from the map packs I'm not a very big fan of the new gauntlets I think that they are kind of mid but what you might not know is that I think a lot of the gauntlets are kind of mid the gauntlets in my opinion are the biggest mixed bag this community has ever seen because there are some levels in them that are absolutely amazing and others that are absolute dumpster fires and you should only really beat for the simple fact of they give you in-game rewards and you're not going to end up enjoying them my opinion on the gauntlets are so strong in fact that I thought it would be entertaining if I made a geometry Das Gauntlet tier list it's exactly what it sounds like we're going to be ranking all of the gauntlets on a tier list now we're going to be reviewing the gauntlets as a whole and not every individual level in the gauntlets so what we'll be doing is placing each of the gauntlets in their entirety in a tier this also means that we're not going to go into detail on the specific levels within the gauntlets themselves as that would just make this video take too much time there will be levels that are important to bring up as obviously the thing that makes a gauntlet good or bad are the levels inside of them but we won't be going over every level just the ones that are important in the cases where I don't even bring up certain levels from the gauntlets it's most likely because that level has no bearing on my opinion of The Gauntlet usually because the level is just good it's not bad it's not good it's just a level you complete you don't hate it and it ends up just kind of being another level it literally does not affect the gauntlets quality in any way either to the direction of good or bad that all being said let's get into our rankings starting with the fire Gauntlet so first we have the fire Gauntlet and this Gauntlet is mainly just boring in my opinion it's definitely a good introductory first Gauntlet and that's what I think it aims to do however I just find this to be very underwhelming none of the levels really have a fire theme I mean I'd even accept a Machinery theme but they don't even really have that there's nothing it's just a very underwhelming Gauntlet uh most of these levels just feel like generic 2.16 stars and that's about it I will say though the two highlights of this Gauntlet are magmatic sanctuary and first race I point these out specifically because magmatic Sanctuary would have been the highlight of the gauntlet if not for the update I personally and I made a whole video reacting to the update but I personally feel like the update makes magmatic Sanctuary worse it's still a fine level it's pretty fun but it's significantly worse now than it used to be and I wish the update would get reverted as for first race yeah this this is a gauntlet level with a secret way so first race is funny because uh at some point this level was updated to have a bunch of 2.1 features and I presume what I'm about to talk about happened because the Creator did not want to verify these coins I believe the level was originally verified legitimately the gameplay changes were not so stuff like Dash orbs are illegitimately added to the level that being said the creator of this level used the ldm glitch now what is the ldm glitch basically it was an old bug in 2.1 not 2.11 specifically 2.1 when high graphics were disabled and the bug allowed you to enable ldm on a level verify it and then upload it without the option to use ldm so people wouldn't be able to access the secret way this wasn't discovered by me there's an entire video where you can see the discovery happen in real time it was discovered because a friend of mine named Sky the fen left Mega hacks Auto ldm setting on and it turned ldm on for first race even though it's not supposed to be possible to turn on ldm for first race because of that the secret way was discovered but the thing is in 2.11 it wasn't possible to do it in the vanilla game you needed a mod like Mega hack to turn ldm on however now in 2.2 ldm and extra ldm are vanilla features regardless of the level and uh yeah you can just do this secret way at will and it's really funny yeah there's literally like one invisible Spike and then it's just free that's it it's like one invisible Spike at 12% and that's not even that hard because if you use the music as a guideline you can just hold from a certain point and you'll jump over it every time the fact that the mods haven't caught this yet is insanely funny to me because if you don't know one of the things that made the map packs so bad is that all of the levels in the map packs have been updated over time and each of the updates have made the levels worse and worse and this is not a good sign for the gauntlets as a whole and here's the thing fire Gauntlet being the introduction to the gauntlets we're seeing so many cracks in the foundation right off the bat yeah I I think this isn't going well a lot of the mistakes in the fire Gauntlet are definitely forgivable especially because a lot of the levels are fun at their core however they lack identity and the fire Gauntlet I feel even though it's the first one is easily the least important of the gauntlets and because of that I'm going to give it a c tier next up we have the ice Gauntlet and this is a huge massive step up from the fire Gauntlet all of the levels follow the ice theme to some extent even if the ice theme is basically just there by having the color scheme be light blue honestly that's good enough I think a color really can do a lot of difference but on top of that the song Choices across the levels in these gauntlets fit with the icy theme really well I don't know how to describe it but they all have a very cold and distant feel to them like you're in an isolated cold area like I don't really know but the songs just feel cold as cheesy as that sounds and I really like it that way I think I think the song Choices are really solid here all of the levels are fun not a single one misses even the hard ones are still really really fun don't get me wrong there is still a little bit of Jang here like for example Geo bound people complain that the wave was too difficult even though I personally don't think it was that difficult but people thought it was difficult so the Creator just added a key to the beginning of the level that lets you turn the whole section Auto which is kind of funny to me cuz that wave in my opinion isn't even the hardest part of the level but I digress in my opinion the low point of the ice Gauntlet is the final level polyhedral and it's not even because the level's bad doesn't fit the theme anything like that I think the level's just frustrating to play that's about it it's it's not that great and my main gripe with polyhedral is just simply that there are these little saw blade decorations all over the place and it's really really hard to tell which ones do and don't kill you so I I mean my role of thumb in this level is just fly as straight as possible in the center of the screen and hope you don't die and I mean I don't know I just think the gameplay in this level's kind of lame but hey it still fits with the theme well and at worst it might just be a preference thing I do really like the levels in the ice Gauntlet I think the ice Gauntlet definitely makes the most sense as a gauntlet especially considering it actually uses the theming you know the ice theme pretty well all the levels are pretty solid and even for the fact I don't like polyhedral it's definitely not a bad level I think this is our first s tier Gauntlet I really like the ice Gauntlet next up we have the poison Gauntlet and this is a bad one first and foremost the obvious one right out of the way generation Retros in this Gauntlet I don't think I need to say more generation retro is just a bad level overheated yeah but definitely not you know good but on top of that this Gauntlet has acid Factory a level everyone else does seem to like I don't like this level I find it to be really buggy a lot of the gameplay feels very unintuitive and just in general it just looks ugly I get it the whole thing of the level is that it's it's supposed to look like an acid Factory but you can do the acidic theme in a way that doesn't look like a gritty I don't even know what to call it it's just like this dark green puke color it doesn't look good at all beyond that we have not one but two levels that just feel like geometr World levels yeah they're longer than that but they still feel that way the first one is obvious beast mode full it's a not a full version of beast mode because it still doesn't use the entire song but B it's just an extended gash World level why did this need to be in the gauntlets oh wait it has nothing to do with the GD World level it just uses the same song all the gameplay and Deco is different but even beyond all of that it doesn't fit with the theme at all so why is it here it makes no sense Ground Zero you can excuse it a little bit more because you can go off the logic that the level is themed around nukes and I mean nukes cause nuclear fallout which I I guess you could say that's definitely poisonous but I think you're kind of stretching but not as much as you have to stretch to justify shrimp being in the poison Gauntlet yeah okay in my opinion the poison Gauntlet is the worst one so far not only are the choice of levels just very weird it doesn't do any justice to the theme the levels aren't fun to play and just in general this Gauntlet is just I don't like it I'm going to give this one an e tier the shadow Gauntlet is so [ __ ] close to being a perfect Gauntlet I think the first three levels of this are pretty well picked don't get me wrong ghost house is kind of a lame level it's not is it even called ghost house ghost town is a pretty midlevel don't get me wrong but at the very least with the song choice and the decoration of the level it's more playful scary like Halloween decor scary but it kind of works I think ominous is a little bit cheesy mainly just cuz the song end is a remix of Lavender Town which is almost like it's trying too hard but the first level I think is perfect I know it's a little bit of a low hanging fruit to pick a surp punch level for a gauntlet but who cares the point of these levels are for them to be good levels for new players and I think that this level is a genuinely perfect choice of course the gauntlets had to be ruined for me by the last two levels there's fear Zone which does fit with the theme pretty well and I will say that is a good thing the first four levels are themed pretty well to The Gauntlet but with fear Zone specifically I just find this level to be way harder than everything else in this Gauntlet it's harder than the final level in The Gauntlet and considering what I'm about to criticize the final level four I got to be honest I don't know why fear Zone isn't the last level in this Gauntlet I think it'd make a lot more sense if fear Zone was the final level because of how hard it is but The Gauntlet ends on infusion infusion is just bad level I'm sorry I think this level is terrible I had to play it which is a rare thing for this video not a lot of these levels I had to go back and play again because I'm pretty familiar with them but with infusion I had to go back and play it cuz I honestly didn't remember what was even in the level and looking at it I can entirely see why I forgot I think what makes this final level so painful and so awful is that the gauntlet did a pretty good job sticking to the theme for a lot of it and then suddenly we get a generic glove 2.1 level that uses the Zelda OST what about Zelda is terrifying okay okay okay I fair point but this level doesn't do any of that I think what just makes this so painful entirely is that the shadow Gauntlet could have been a perfect Gauntlet if the final level was just a different Choice like the final level ruins this Gauntlet for me way more than it really should but I'm not going to Discount how good the other four levels in this Gauntlet are it's just a very lackluster end to a gauntlet but the rest of it pretty solid so I think it fits quite cleanly into either A or B I'm not really sure uh uh uh I'm going to put it in B the reason I'm putting it in B is mainly just cuz the last three levels I don't enjoy playing too much so yeah B seems pretty fine so we have the lava Gauntlet next and I need to get this off my chest why are there two levels using the same song at the very beginning of the lava Gauntlet who who the hell thought that that was a good idea what especially pains me about this is that both of the levels are of a completely different quality infernal arena is a really good level don't get me wrong it is just a Viking Arena remake it is just a remake of a Subzero level but it's still really good nonetheless whereas ior is a genuinely terrible level so you're telling me you couldn't just get rid of ior for something else just to have some sort of musical Variety in this Gauntlet to make matters worse the level immediately following those two is Frontline full we just had beast mode full two gauntlets ago I will give them this at least Frontline full is a significantly better level than beast mode full but still what is the point oh and then we have fire Aura do not get me started on this piece of dog sh I'm just going to say right now fire AA not a seven star this thing is an easy demon this thing is miserably difficult it is about the same difficulty as the robotic rush in my opinion this level is stupidly hard like just for a frame of reference let me show you my attempts on these so these intemp counts are going to be a little bit higher than what they used to be however the discrepancy will still make my point so front line full took me a little under 195 attempts I don't know exactly how much lower than this it would be but just assume it was a little bit lower but the ratio is about the same so 195 attempts on front line full fire Aura took me 1,661 attempts and then danger zone took me 137 this should be demon the gameplay of the level is dog [ __ ] and on top of that it's way harder than the final level hell harder than the entire Gauntlet combined it would be easier to beat all four of the other levels in one run than it would be just to beat fire Aura again it is unnecessarily difficult and either it should have been moved to the final level of the gauntlet or it shouldn't have been in here at all and I vote for the latter oh and the final level it sucks it just barely exists it's forgettable it's easy it doesn't matter it did you basically by the time you beat fire Aura you've basically beat this Gauntlet yeah I don't like the lava Gauntlet it's going an F I hate this Gauntlet with a burning passion no pun intended so next up we have the bonus Gauntlet and I will say these levels are pretty forgettable however I feel like that's more forgivable here as these are literally being pitched as just bonus levels they don't really exist to serve a theme or a purpose or anything they're just kind of there because the little extra content I don't know and that's how I've always interpreted this one because all the levels just seem to be playful and not really sticking to a theme they're just random levels stuff like crazy ball which everyone makes a joke about how the level has no ball sections but I'm pretty sure the level is crazy ball as in like crazy party because a ball is a type of party but whatever I will say the levels that stick out to me in particular with this are chamber which uses color blind by Panda eyes the level's fine I just hate the song because it was extremely overplayed in the earlier days of the community and then there's payload The Gauntlet ends with the level payload which well wouldn't be anything special and would be kind of below average wouldn't necessarily be a bad level if it wasn't for the problem of the jump rings at the beginning of the level not working see the way the creators decorated the jump rings in this level is they actually stacked a trigger orb on top of a regular jump ring the trigger orb sort of act as decoration as the jump ring would be invisible as you can see it's on group one the problem with this comes when you view the hit boxes as you can see because this orb is rotated what often happens is if you buffer you will end up clicking the trigger orb without clicking the regular orb meaning you won't jump at all you'll just activate the trigger orb fall through and die this is a very annoying bug and it happens consistently to people who play this level what sucks is a lot of people are blaming this orb thing on 2.2 but no I can vouch for the fact that it has been like this since 2.10 it has been always like this this level has always sucked and uh yeah it brings down the gauntlet pretty low for me here's the thing The Gauntlet would probably be a tier if it wasn't for payload but payload brings it down quite a bit and because of the awful ending to this Gauntlet even disregarding the fact that the other four levels are good payload has a problem that's so inexcusable that I can't help but drop it in D I need to put the bonus Gauntlet in D just simply because of how bad payload is it has been years other levels in the gauntlets have gotten updated like shock in magmatic sanctuary why not just go back update and fix payload there's no reason for it it gives a lot of people a problem and it is one of the most frustrating levels in the entirety of the gauntlets and that's not something I can just ignore next up we have the chaos Gauntlet and yes that's all I need to say just yes every single level in this Gauntlet slaps at worst I question why it's here while still enjoying the level that mainly goes for capitalism such an odd choice for the gauntlets I mean you got to keep in mind this is already in the map pack so why is this in the gauntlet but you know what out of any Gauntlet this could have happened with I'm glad it was the chaos one because at least I can arue AR that it fits with the theme because it's a chaotic decision I do want to specifically highlight Scarlet surge for a second though because a lot of people give Scarlet surge [ __ ] I love Scarlet surge don't get me wrong it's got a lot of those 1.9 trademark problems of stuff like bad mirror portal placements and a lot of copy paste in certain sections where sections just feel like a single section copy pasted over and over but ignoring that this level's pretty fun it never really comes across as frustrating I love the song in the level and I like the colors and the effects in this level it's just really solid I will say there was an annoying Herz bug in this level however 2.2 exists and so the Herz bug was fixed I also just want to thank robtop for a second for putting dark drop in the gauntlets you don't understand okay Alkali is a [ __ ] master of a Creator okay if there's any creator that deserves more attention in this community and that is extremely underrated it's Alkali my gameplay is kind of inspired by Alkali style I mean it's inspired by a lot of things like ice cave but it is especially inspired by Alkali and in particular I've always loved this part with all of the blue pads but then there's like one single blue orb you need to click to keep the auto section going I do that kind of [ __ ] all the time and it's because I loved it in this level just small things like that here and there it's a very engaging level for not being a demon yeah I in general just love the chaos Gauntlet I genuinely think it is one of the best gauntlets in all of GD like it's it's hard to top this it's it's really good I'm going to put it in s tier above the ice Gauntlet next up we have the demon Gauntlet now it would have been really really easy for robtop to just kind of throw together a bunch of really easy easy demons but he didn't do that he actually decided to put in some difficult stuff here what I like about the demon Gauntlet is that it doesn't go easy on the player it is very rough and you have to be ready for this Gauntlet and well it might not be a good thing that this is the one that the player has thrown right into as I feel like everything before this has been way easier and this is a massive difficulty spikes in the gauntlets I don't really care for this ranking because I'm not really considering where they are in between each other because people just play the gauntlets out of order anyway I'm just looking at the levels in the gauntlets themselves and there are some really good choices in here I think I think uh mechanical Showdown is just a genuinely solid level same with traction I think the only things I really have to call out as weird choices are I don't like s side step I think the level's very unenjoyable although I also think it's a bit overhated I don't enjoy it that much I'm not going to lie and then there's vibration this level doesn't exist you can't convince me that exists if you tell me that there is a level in the gauntlets named vibration that looks like what you're seeing on screen I'm just going to assume you're gaslighting me and ignore you and pretend that you don't exist just like I'm I'm I know this level L to exist I'm not pretending anything I'm I'm not in denial and then we have hell that's right another surp Pune level and here's the thing what I said before still applies yeah maybe picking a surp punch level is a little bit forced but I don't think that matters I think it's a great choice cuz in my opinion the gauntlets should highlight some of the best the community has put out and Hell by surp Pune is a god tier medium demon it used to be hard demon when it came out funnily enough which meant that this Gauntlet used to have two easy demons two medium demons and a hard demon but the difficulties have shifted quite a bit over time I do just want to acknowledge how difficult of a level hell is and I think it should be treated like a hard demon even though that's not what it's rated anymore because this level is very difficult in particular the transitions in this level are definitely enough to throw a player off I want to call special attention to this green orb click where the screen Fades to White while you're adjusting and entering into a straight fly [ __ ] you for that Sur pun but ignoring [ __ ] like that this might be one of the best levels in the gauntlets it's not quite surp pun's best as I still feel insanity is a better level than this but for a level in the gauntlets to break into my top favorite levels just in general yeah I think this was a pretty good pick I am very glad it was the final level of The Gauntlet as it would not have fit anywhere else yeah I think the demon Gauntlet is pretty solid however considering sidestep exists and I'm not a big fan of that plus for some reason the gauntlet only has four levels it seems to be missing a fifth level I'm I I'm pretty sure that there isn't a fifth level in the demon Gauntlet and I'm I'm totally not just dismissing it and acting like it doesn't exist so yeah that being said the demon Gauntlet goes into a tier I I think it's really good at what it does next up we have the time Gauntlet and I definitely think the levels in this one are significantly more solid and well put together I think my only issue with this is the first and last level which is annoying because that's the first impression and final impression of The Gauntlet but everything in the middle is very middle of the road and okay these do play with the time theme a little bit albeit not all of them are strongly tied into the theme but at least the theme is tied in pretty well uh I don't like the first level mind control for two reasons the first is that annoying part that I can only compare as being similar to the gameplay and save as uh which is a level intentionally designed not to be fun just really weird when I can compare a level's gaml to another level in which the gaml is bad on purpose for thematical purposes it's it's like you know probably not a good thing there's also the ending which I don't know if this is just me but I always felt like the hit boxes for this part were just wrong like I'd successfully jump over a spike visually but I'd still die I don't know this ending always just didn't work for me and then there's the final level which is a good level I will say I like rose but the problem with rose is that is way harder than everything else in the gauntlet which is kind of funny when you realize that both it and half 12 are seven star like no [ __ ] way this is significantly harder than halfast 12 either way my thoughts on this Gauntlet are that it's just okay it could be way better if the first level wasn't in The Gauntlet at all because the first level's honestly kind of annoying and I guess the final level in The Gauntlet is fine the only issue with it really is just that the difficulty is horribly misrepresented Ed in the in-game rating system which is a problem is we're not necessarily reviewing the levels we're reviewing the gauntlets themselves the levels themselves could be good just not good in the context of a gauntlet and I feel like rose ends up kind of hurting The Gauntlet mainly just due to its Mis rate so uh with all that considered I'm going to put the time Gauntlet in B tier so next we have the crystal Gauntlet and this one is really bad really really bad and it's not even because of a specific level pulling it down or anything like like that it is every level in this Gauntlet my main issue is two things really the first thing is that the whole gimmick of this Gauntlet is that everything is decorated to look like crystals and because of that unfortunately it can be very hard to tell what isn't isn't a death object and what isn't isn't a platform that you can land on and even when you do know that it's very hard to tell how much of the object can kill you and then we have Crystal Essence by Chase I hate this level in fact that actually go so far as saying honestly aside of s side step I really just don't like Chase's levels my big issue with a lot of these levels that chase makes is that a lot of them aren't demon this does apply to the demons but it's way worse for the levels that are not demon a lot of these levels are built like those really annoying easy demons where you have to buffer like every single click in existence and so what you end up with is a seven star that in raw difficulty is a seven star but in sheer gameplay just feels like an easy demon uh and a bad one at that it feels like a mat pack easy demon but if you Stripped Away the memory and put more emphasis on the weird gimmicky clicks the one Saving Grace this Gauntlet definitely has is sanctuary of Light by abstract dark I'm going to go on record and say I [ __ ] love abstract dark's levels all right but here's the thing as much as I like the gameplay in this level and I like the decoration this still suffers from the problem I mentioned before of it being hard to to tell what doesn't doesn't kill you and this level it's especially annoying because it happens in the boss fight at the end one of the attacks you actually have to not go inside of the beam of light that it shoots at you otherwise it kills you but then for another one of the attacks you have to go inside of the beam in light otherwise it kills you and uh that that's just really inconsistent and bad and and yeah I don't like that so yeah the crystal Gauntlet it would already be pretty low probably around D tier if the average problem existed of it just having a bunch of levels that had custom objects that made it unight readable and if it was for the fact that the decoration made it hard to tell what does and doesn't kill you however the problem is made significantly worse by the fact that Crystal Essence exists and because of that I'm going to put this Gauntlet in F tier below the lava Gauntlet so next up we have the magic Gauntlet so firstly we have kalaxian which just feels like the worst of the leftovers from the crystal Gauntlet it literally just feels like kalaxian was a level that was removed from the crystal Gauntlet and they're like oh we have this level still why don't we put this in the magic Gauntlet and yeah it certainly does feel like if it was in the crystal Gauntlet it would fit nicely but also be the worst level in there you also have not one but two viprin collabs so uh yeah viprin has two levels back to back in the gauntlets and they are both terrible although I will say the final level on The Gauntlet is significantly worse because Chase built the beginning and let me tell you uh this specific level it feels like they were doing a mega collab for a seven star and Chase didn't get the memo on how hard the level was supposed to be so we just built an easy demon section and then was later informed hey this is a seven star and they're like ah fine easy demon section it it's good enough the one Saving Grace for this Gauntlet in my opinion is that the level Aquarius exists this is a really good level genuinely like this is one of my favorite levels in all of of the gauntlets however there is still a major problem with it not the level itself the level is fine the major problem is with this being in the gauntlet um this is the magic Gauntlet why is there a water themed level here do you think you could have saved this for I don't know a water Gauntlet all the other levels fit the theme really well even if the game play is atrocious you get stuff like the levels having references to stuff like Harry Potter and the Minecraft Enchantment books which all could be considered magical related things so they fit the theme pretty well but then out of nowhere you get an aquarium themed level which doesn't make sense at all yeah no the magic Gauntlet I'd say is probably the most forgettable and it sucks cuz my favorite level in all of the gauntlets is in here but even that can't save it because it doesn't make sense thematically with the rest of the gauntlet I will say that keeps it out of f tier but I'm still going to put it an e tier because it's so damn close to being F tier it is bottom of etier and the only thing keeping it out of f tier is that Aquarius exists every other level in this is just insufferable to play next up we have the spike Gauntlet a lot of the levels in here are pretty Bare Bones in terms of their Deco especially the first two levels I will say with victim specifically though I'm just glad that there's a level in here that's fun to play cuz if you don't know victim is not always the level that used to be in here it used to be a Flappy Bird mini gamees level yeah victim makes this Gauntlet significantly better I do really like desert bounce I think this is the closest thematically to what the gauntlet was going for now I know it's just called the spike Gauntlet and so realistically all you need to fit the theme is to have a lot of spikes which these levels definitely fit the bill for but the actual art of The Gauntlet is like a bunch of Sandy rocks and so I've always pictured a desert and so with that I think desert bounce is basically the poster child for this Gauntlet it's it's the only level that makes sense thematically but at the same time I'm not going to harp on theme as much as I normally do because well I always pictured the spike Gauntlet is basically being the bonus Gauntlet too and when you look at it like that a lot of these choices are actually pretty solid I do specifically want to call out two levels here though I want to call out pure land for looking like the most generic and boring 2.1 level you can imagine and yet having some of the best gameplay in the entirety of the gauntlets pure land is shockingly fun and it's definitely a situation of gameplay over Deco which makes me respect it a lot and then there's powerful by GD Jose a fun level if you're just kind of going through the gauntlets and not caring however if you're going for all the coins in these levels powerful is kind of frustrating because if I remember correctly you can't get all the coins in one run so you have to beat it multiple times which is kind of uh you know I definitely think for being what I could describe mostly As the bonus Gauntlet 2 the spike gauntlet ended up coming out pretty solid and while it's got some weird things here and there most of the levels are all very solid and very fun I really like the spike Gauntlet I'm going to put it in a tier above the demon Gauntlet next up we have the monster Gauntlet and all of the levels in here are pretty solid aside of two which we'll get into in a second however I want to address the overall problem with this Gauntlet right off the bat the difficulty of this Gauntlet is really inconsistent basically all of the levels in here are going to be frustrating not cuz of the quality of the level themselves but because of their difficulty in contrast to The Gauntlet first of all the gauntlet opens up with a raffer level and now here's the thing I [ __ ] despise raffer levels I I hate them so fing much and there's a very very specific reason for that I hate how Rafer handles his coins I think Rafa's coins are some of the worst user coins I've seen in this game they're just atrocious I don't know what to say basically you have to do these entirely hyp specific movements to open up certain paths and then in those paths you have to take hypers specific actions and do these random monotonous and uous things and by doing those suddenly the coin will appear like for example in Slam by Rafer the level chosen for the gauntlet one of the requirements for the first coin is that you need to hold at the beginning of the level why there's nothing indicating to the player that they need to do that there's no reason for that just kind of happens you hold it seems like nothing happens but mysteriously it has contributed to the coin route like dude and what's annoying about this is that it's very easy to fall into the coin routes by accident while they're in a state where you literally cannot get through them this is just raffer levels in general I just do not like raffer levels I will say I tend to forget about mechanism it's just a level that I have a hard time remembering though I do remember being very impressed by a saw blade animation if I remember correctly I will say OMG aliens and monster Mischief are definitely the highlight of this Gauntlet I especially like monster Mischief because it does something interesting with its boss fight that I think should be done more as this is probably the best way to do an interactive boss fight in GD and that's have it to where you activate switches in the level itself to attack the boss like there might be a ball part where you don't have to click at all however to kill the boss which ultimately allows you to beat the level you have to do three clicks so that way you hit a button stuff like that's really cool and I just genuinely don't get why bosses don't take this approach more as it just kind of works but of course this Gauntlet which was on track for being just okay had to end with a Chase level and it is the worst level in the entirety of the gauntlets that is not a joke Hellgate Menace by Chase is easily my least favorite level in the entirety of the gauntlets first of all the obvious thing and this is the only part of this whole thing that isn't Chase's fault this level is Mis rated to [ __ ] it should very much be an easy demon there is no [ __ ] way this is not a demon this level has incredibly tight flying very unight readable gameplay it's just a mess all around but ignoring that in terms of the level itself the game play is annoying it's very unight readable it's unoptimized which is bad for the gauntlets cuz there are going to be people on mobile trying to beat this this is something you're required to do for the game's progression it's just around a bad level Hellgate Menace is easily my least favorite thing in the gauntlets and all I got to say is it's a Chase level and you get it it's just really really really bad I wanted to like this Gauntlet I really did but combined with the fact that the first level in The Gauntlet is a raer level and I don't like Rafer mixed with the fact that Hellgate Menace absolutely ruins this Gauntlet I'm going to put this one in C tier it would be way way higher if it wasn't for Hellgate Menace because at least would slam the levels fairly easy so after a practice run you can pretty much guaranteed to beat it and just move on and you can stop right before Hellgate Menace and just enjoy the levels before it I wouldn't recommend it because beating it is part of the game's progression but if you really don't care about the gauntlets you can just stop before Hellgate Menace and you know whatever so yeah I think c tier's a pretty good place for it so next up we have what is it the Doom Gauntlet the death okay it's the Doom Gauntlet I get these mixed up so yeah the Doom Gauntlet is effectively just the demon Gauntlet too and I will say I think this is a better demon Gauntlet than the demon Gauntlet it kind of makes me glad that the demon Gauntlet is locked until you beat the chaos Gauntlet specifically because I think this is where people should start with demons in the gauntlets Extinction is a really really good introduction to the concept of demons for players and just in general helps them ease themselves in Buried angel has some very strange gameplay that helps ease the player into more abstract and weird gameplay Concepts from there though I got to say I don't like shrill hallway and obviously no wise if you don't know is pretty easily the hardest level in the gauntlets like it clears everything else talking about no wise and darkness keeper for a second because I do want to focus my attention on these for a bit no wise comes fourth in The Gauntlet and darkness keeper comes last which is a bit weird because no wise is significantly harder and on top of that I just kind of don't like no wise the level is long not XL however it it it feels like an XL and I just don't enjoy the gameplay in no wise I'm going to be totally honest it was a slog to get through and that might just be because it was the hardest level in the gauntlets but I definitely feel like this was a lot to get through I don't necessarily mind that however because you know not everything can be free for a new player they need to eventually come across something to challenge them and to help them make that Gap I'm sure there are people that are able to beat hard and insane demons that got their skill boost purely from the gauntlets these are genuinely helpful Darkness keeper on the other hand yeah I'm not going to justify this one the gameplay in this level is very weird and as much as I love this level and I find it really fun and I love abstract dark's gameplay I do feel like this level is a bit of an odd choice for the gauntlets as the game play is just too weird for the gauntlets if if you know what I mean if I could do anything to improve this Gauntlet and I couldn't remove Darkness Keeper at all I would at the very least swap Darkness Keeper in no why so that the difficulty is more of a ramp because I think that makes more sense I may not like shrill hallway and I may think that Darkness keeper a really weird choice for the gauntlets just because of how weird and Abstract its gameplay is H get it abstract abstract dark I'm I am so sorry anyway yeah I think despite those problems I'm going to put this and S below the chaos Gauntlet and the specific reason why is cuz I just think the ramp in difficulty is so smooth in this Gauntlet like I would genuinely not be shocked if there were people who improved at this game purely just because they were trying to beat this Gauntlet alone so next up we have the death Gauntlet and this is just a perfect Gauntlet straight up I I see no issues with this in fact if I can give any advice for people going through the gauntlets beat Death Before you beat Doom trust me it will help you so ghoul I think is a kind of forgettable level with some very strange gameplay but it's not bad and overall the experience is pretty fun albeit the level is very hard shuriken is a very memorable level and it has a really good song it uses the song very well honestly half of why shuriken is memorable to me is because of the song usage I don't know why it's just a very good usage of a song in my opinion and then we have ADV I I mean Predator so sorry we have Predator this level should probably be a demon the gam playay in this level is just really rough especially the ship parts during the boss they are very difficult and yeah I definitely think this level is pretty hard I don't know but it's still fun if you can get past the fact its difficulty might be a tad bit Mis rated at the very least can we meet in the middle and say it's a Nine Star like my God eight star just feels like so little for this and then of course the level ends with two demons a dust in the behemoth easy demon and medium demon respectively a dust is just your typical easy demon it doesn't stand out it's very gameplay focused and the game play is kind of just okay I will say this though it might rival Extinction in being the easiest demon in the gauntlets which is why I tell people to go for this Gauntlet first as it eases people in a lot more easily because you have some easier eight Stars a harder what should be at least a nine star and then an easy demon and then a medium demon on that note the behemoth this is easily the best way the 2.1 gauntlets could have ended this level is an XL boss fight level and normally I hate that but with the gameplay in this level being so fun plus the feeling it invokes in me I think it's perfect and that feeling is this level feels like a journey to a boss fight which is what it is but more in particular it feels like you are going to fight something knowing you will probably die I really don't know how to describe the feeling but it feels like a hero's journey type thing I think it's the same feeling people get when they look at footage of the level vemo on top of that ignoring how well it works as the final level for all of the 2.1 gauntlets I genuinely just love the gameplay for this level the Behemoth is just a good level all around I don't feel like I have much more to say about it it's just a good level I definitely really like the death Gauntlet I think it goes perfectly hand inand with the Doom Gauntlet as being a good way to help the player exit the gauntlets you know what I mean sort of prepare them for what's to come after they beat all the gauntlets especially because everything we're going to be seeing after this is mostly demon difficulty stuff because of that I'm going to put the death Gauntlet below the Doom Gauntlet in s here I think it is an amazing Gauntlet and definitely helps the player a lot now we move on to the 2.2 gauntlets and this is where I got to stress this is going to make this video really outdated because inevitably we're going to get more gauntlets one of the things we know about 2.2 is that we're supposed to be getting over 30 new gauntlets uh so this is going to become very outdated so the world Gauntlet this is easily one of the best of the gauntlets like straight up right off the bat there's only one level in this Gauntlet I don't like and that's great white North and even then it's personal preference I've heard a lot of people say they love this level and I do think it is a good level I just didn't have a great experience with it nivel frostburn Peak Planet X and down on are absolute masterpieces though I especially like frostburn peak of course abstract dark making another Banger this is one of the coolest boss fight levels I've ever played plain and simple there's also Planet X which is quite literally just you going to the core of the earth and realizing it's this weird I guess alien like thing although I don't really think it's supposed to be specifically aliens it's supposed to just be this weird thing you end up in and it's a really trippy level here's the thing right the upside down game mode to me has never actually felt like I was upside down it just felt like another mode in the game right Planet X actually makes me feel like I'm upside down and it is really trippy and it really messes with my head overall I think the world Gauntlet is just very solid a very good first 2.2 Gauntlet and because of that I'm going to be putting this at the bottom of s tier I think it's not shocking that the 2.2 gauntlets are going to be some of the best but yeah controversially I like the ice Gauntlet more than this still a really solid Gauntlet though so then we have the universe galaxy I don't know I get both of these Gauntlet names confused with each other so we have the Galaxy Gauntlet and with this one I am definitely a little more divided in how I feel about the levels kup Mundy is a level that I want to like it is very good for most of it I'm just not a very big fan of the gameplay of the boss fight at the end I don't like boss fights where there really isn't any gameplay and the gameplay is just fly straight kind of unfun in my opinion fizzy fossils though is a really fun level I like that one as for coing Stein honestly it's just okay it's not bad it's not good and the last two levels I kind of already forgot what's in them I'm going to be totally honest the big problem with this Gauntlet and the next one is that they are extensions of the world Gauntlet contest originally only the top five from the world Gauntlet contest were supposed to win but instead the top 15 did as they ended up splitting it into three gauntlets origin Al I like this idea and I still kind of do because some levels that I wanted to get in got in in later gauntlets but in my opinion I think it would have been better if it was just one Gauntlet and that's it because the quality on these next two are definitely degraded in the Galaxy gauntlets case specifically zadu and zencha are just forgettable which is bad cuz these are supposed to represent real world places but like these are just really me level I do remember having a miserable experience playing zado do though my main opinion on the Galaxy Gauntlet is basically that it starts out really strong but ends up taking a massive dip in quality around the third level the coing Stein is pretty all right but the last two are just really boring and really forgettable and because of that I'm going to be putting the Galaxy Gauntlet in the C tier at the bottom and then we have the universe Gauntlet easily the worst of the world Gauntlet entries I will say Bismark is my favorite level out of all the entries and in my opinion in World Gauntlet it would have been cool if they just got rid of great white North and replaced it with bismar and put it at the end and then just got rid of the other two entirely because then I think it would have been perfect but nah instead it gets lumped in with all these other levels that are either forgettable or bad I don't remember what's in luta or aidol I'll be totally honest but I do know that I didn't like pabck because the diverging path gimmick ended up just kind of being a new more than anything and radel souls gameplay is genuinely God awful if it wasn't for bismar this would probably be an F tier Gauntlet yeah I think it's pretty clear that I don't like this however I do like bismar specifically and that does elevate it just a tiny bit but even then you have to play Rudd Del Soul to get there so uh yeah I'm going to put this in E it would be F if bismar wasn't in there it's going in bottom of e though next we have the Discord Gauntlet and uh yeah the Discord Gauntlet was also split into multiple gauntlets this time thankfully just two but it still does affect the quality significantly my main problem with the Discord Gauntlet in particular is that a lot of the levels in here don't use the gimmick that well if you don't know the idea of these gauntlets is that each of the levels have a split path at least two different paths you can take and that sounds really cool right and for a lot of them it is for levels like Double Dimension it works really well but then you snow flies and fog where all it does is change the time of day which is boring I genuinely don't get the point here and the Discord Gauntlet definitely got it bad as it doesn't have any of the demons and the demons just so happen to be the ones that put more effort into the theme Double Dimension is good and Afterlife by nasgo is good but aside of that I just don't care this is a very forgettable Gauntlet I think the Discord Gauntlet is definitely the most disappointing out of all the gauntlets it's not the worst just the most disappointing because like it's just bad like I don't know I just don't like a lot of these levels either the game play is bad the level's forgettable or it doesn't use the gimmick well and I definitely think it's overshadowed by the split Gauntlet which is much better we'll definitely talk about that one in a second but the Discord Gauntlet is just disappointing and because of that I'm going to put it in D tier below the bonus Gauntlet and then finally we have the split Gauntlet which is easily the better levels to come out of the Discord Gauntlet entry I genuin think that these are the better levels and honestly they're at that some of the best levels in all of the gauntlets I will say though in particular I wasn't a big fan of subdivision Zone because I found it really hard to tell what does and doesn't kill you in certain parts and I also wasn't a big fan of wild card I don't know why wild card was bad I just didn't enjoy the gameplay honestly I don't know why I just found it really unreadable which is odd for a level where every jump is indicated this one's probably skill issue though so whatever seasonal Haven is really good change of scene is really good I'm not a big fan of sinless Ash mainly just because of the bullet hell wave part at the end I think it's a little too much for an easy demon and just in general not fun it it reads to me as a very massive difficulty Spike on top of that it's one of the most unoptimized levels in the gauntlets the only one I had to use ldm on so yeah you know whatever I find that the split Gauntlet is obviously better than the Discord Gauntlet by a massive amount I mean change of scene alone elevates it pretty high however unfortunately there are still some bad levels in here and it's just kind of disappointing I didn't end up liking the 2.2 gauntlets all that much uh there were some really good levels in there but it really did just feel tedious getting through them all and because of that I'm going to be putting the split Gauntlet above the I don't know if that's Galaxy or Universe I can't tell the difference because of their names I'm putting it here I'm putting it below monster Gauntlet and with that here it is the final tier list now keep in mind some levels will be coming out in the future and maybe if enough time passes in between those maybe I'll make a follow-up video where I give updated thoughts on my opinions on all the gauntlets but for now this is my ranking and this is what I think of all these levels the gauntlets are definitely a mixed bag and I think that there are some very odd and very strange choices however I do tend to think that for the most part Gauntlet levels are pretty solid I will say though you can definitely see a small hint of that mat pack style Aging in these especially in the very early ones like the fire Gauntlet some of these have aged kind of badly I'm not going to lie but for the most part I'd say the gauntlets are pretty solid I mean we've definitely got a pretty even spread in quality on this tier list so you know but that being said I hope you enjoyed this video and if you did it'd be nice if you subscribed and commented and liked all the usual interaction reminder stuff and yeah thank you for watching
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