this game has become indistinguishable with art. Props to the gd community, and props to cherryteam for pushing the boundaries of the editor so fucking far
everything before the drop hits is probably my favorite segment of any level ever, the song choice and the atmosphere created with this insane deco is just perfect, i literally have goosebumps
1:32 my only complain is this INSANELY GOOD ART for the end screen that they remove just to put their logo in the corner with a black screen. Listen, their logo in black and white on the previous end screen would look so much better.
Dude we all know non-gd players are gonna watch this level in yt at some point, let people appreciate the art without having to PAUSE THE VIDEO just to see it, cuz that's what I had to do.
Guys, everyone is complaining Bli's part doesn't fit the rest of the level. But imo this part is like flashback what happened to this city. After that part, level comes back to present and shows debris of city. I just love this level.
This is by far, my favorite level in Geometry Dash, and here the backstory as to why: When I saw the first trailer by fnm04, 2 years ago, what caught my eye (or ear) first was the song. The song is named NНΞЙ (meaning Hoarfrost) by Russian producer ΔXIUS LIИK and Russian singer ножевые ранения (meaning “stab/knife wounds”). Cherry Team itself is also Russian, so the song choice makes sense. The song's lyrics are a haunting portrayal of despair and entrapment. The singer, emotionally numb, describes a world of frozen hearts and a desperate longing for warmth, or fire. They feel suffocated, unable to reach the light, haunted by loneliness-a raw glimpse into human suffering, demonstrating empathy for their isolation and desperate search for solace in a seemingly cold world. I already knew this song, and when I first heard it on the level, my eyes went completely wide open. You all should’ve seen my face during the first watch. I already saw the theme of snow and ice from the very beginning, even though the beginning was the only part with more than just colors for decoration. At first, I thought they were going to just make another quick and lazy level like Firework, but boy was I wrong. I’ve loved watching the level grow, seeing creators like Culuc, Bli, CynixX, and more building the level. And when I saw the “Finale” video by QwidziT (9 months ago), I’ve been seeing a new theme pop up: A frozen city. That already is beautiful, and a fitting theme for the name of the song, meaning “hoarfrost”. During my watch, I saw very subtle effects, and while subtle, they tell a story in my opinion. And once I saw the finished level (this video), I was awestruck. Let me walk you through my thought process. The moment the level began, the first thing I saw was the text “Enter at your own risk”. Which took me a bit off guard, but I knew it meant something good was coming up. After many glitch effects and build-up through a frozen cave, we are greeted with a TV screen that shows a beautiful view of a frozen city, and the singer begins her verse. The singer’s voice is beautiful, and the view is incredible, but once you have grabbed your popcorn to appreciate it, it glitches again, and grows dark, indicating a silent “but”. We are taken to a scene of a city frozen over, destroyed, tilted, and corrupted. To remind us that this is not real, there is another effect with 1 subtle detail: the red dot, and a white arrow, indicating it’s a recording being sped forward. And we are now greeted with a symbol, the eye. Our new environment shows ice, destroyed buildings, and blood, but most importantly, the eye. The eye appears as we pass it as the player, surrounded by circular spinning patterns, blinks once, and disappears a second before the patterns follow suit. Now, I will never know what the eye truly represents, but my best guess is corruption, and power. I think it represents the greed of hierarchy, how strong you feel after seeing the view at the top of the mountain, but I also think it represents weakness, showing how those stuck in snow see a flame, only for that flame to cause more suffering, due to human instinct of making oneself suffer after seeing something you need, but don’t have. All of this is supported by the TV screen shown earlier, indicating this scene is a “was”, and it’s merely a reflection of our cruel world. The eye soon appears again quickly, but this time, it comes right at the screen and can actually scare you. This entire part groups up with glitches, red color changes, and blurriness, indicating a lost, corrupted world. And, right before the drop, all we are left with is a void that has ripped our skulls apart (the logo art before the drop). During the entire drop, we see the same effects, but amplified. Glitches, red colorations, blurriness, and destruction. But right before Bli’s part, we see another destroyed skull, which I think again, represents a void that has ripped our skulls apart. Bli’s part is much different from the other parts, and shows much more chaos that is both very cool to watch, but quite sad and fitting to the story. For the rest of the drop, it’s very similar, with a few more easter eggs and hidden stuff that I won’t spoil. And then, there is the end art (not the cherry team logo). It appears to be that same TV screen from the beginning of the singer’s verse. It shows a woman, taking a unique pose, while trapped in ice. The scenery is the same destroyed, frozen, gray world. The frame of the TV itself has many unique additions, such as a red+white color scheme, X’s on the eye symbol, and more symbols and art that I can’t really understand. But besides that, I can confidently say that "Waterfall" is a masterpiece that transcends the typical Geometry Dash experience. The combination of mesmerizing and underrated music and visuals demonstrates allows such a work of art to explore the complexities of the human condition, and it will forever hold a special place in my heart as my favorite GD level ever. (I just wanna say, all of this is only guessed based on my visual experience of the level, and the song itself. If there is lore or context I’m missing here, I would definitely appreciate the knowledge. I want to know more about the level.)
The player is going through a frozen dead city probably after brutal war and the whole world is in a nuclear winter. Player goes through debris but before Bli's part goes through skull that represents all that dead people. "So you want to know how this everything happened." And you have flashback, go back in a time and see a war and complete destruction of a city. After that, level comes back to the present. It's my interpretation of Bli's part.
Am I the ONLY person who is seeing Bli's part for what it is, ie, a flash to the past? Its literally supposed to show you a time when all of it was working. Thats why its different. Holy hell I did NOT expect so many commenters to be so bad at recognizing and utilising the most basic of comprehension skills.
This deserves legendary rating. Everything is so perfect in the level. I think this is my new favourite cherry team level. Thanks for the showcase fnm04!
When I first started playing the game, I actually thought level design couldnt get any better than Unity by Triaxis and Funnygame. Almost 8 years later...... levels like these are a thing. Holy god.
I'd have to agree on Bli's part feeling out of place. The rest of the level feels almost like this "city" or area is dead, frozen over following some event. But Bli's part takes that theme and throws it out the window, with drones, moving trains, explosions, etc. It's very cool on it's own, but it's super jarring compared to the rest of the level.
I agree that Bli’s part doesn’t fit at all but, my brain just likes to interpret it as how the city looked like in the past and why/how it was destroyed lol. Don’t throw bricks at me!🙂
for a collab it had to have problems such as sync issues or parts that doesn't have the best cohesion, so leaving that aside the level is almost perfect, only of course depending on how good the gp is. it's not a perfect level, has its flaws but as i said that's something common in many collabs, but the song, deco (leaving the parts that doesn't fit/changes drastically from each other), or ambience are so good
knowing rob, this'll probably get epic or featured but this masterpiece should be at LEAST rated Legendary if not Mythic. Awesome job to the Cherry Team and good luck to the verifier, I can't wait for this to get out!
Always appreciate witch house in gd levels aha. Such a damn vibe Also the level os freaking insame looking. Better be the first mythical extreme demon.
absolutely spectacular, but I also feel like there is too much going on with hardly any breathing space left. often times i don't even get close to digest a scene and boom, it's gone or covered by an intense effect. I think almost all parts suffer from this, but it's most noticeable on Bli's part imho.
a cube inside of Moscow has been spotted and has been described as "jumping over spikes", officials had tried and is still attempting to capture this "creature"
I feel like firework is like a nuclear blast: fast, bleak, and intense, while waterfall is the nuclear winter after the blast, and bli’s part is a literal blast to the time before the blast, like the player is reminiscing the time before everything changed
Bruh GD commentators need to be more gratefull when the deco is finished dont complain and dont compare cuzs the level is done and move on besides the story itself is giving the flashback on what happens to the city man u are english commentators u need to improve ur comprehention knowledges and u know what i think cherryteam is already decided to finished it cuzs they're tired on replacing its creators on this showcase am i right?
Just imagine, you make a simple block game in 2013 about jumping over obstacles, You would have no idea that in 11 years there would be 8K videos showcasing levels with lifelike detail and levels of difficulty so high it could drive one mad
Is it just me who feels that this entire level is incredibly jarring, the layout version just felt so cold and atmospheric, but that was totally thrown out for pure intensity even if the song doesnt match it, especially Blis part. And Im most upset they replaced the clean drop animation with this random skull. Cherry Team is truly falling
this game has become indistinguishable with art. Props to the gd community, and props to cherryteam for pushing the boundaries of the editor so fucking far
i like ur pfp
Gd is a art*
real
Knowing robtop, this is definetly atleast feature worthy
yeah at least star rate
Jokes aside, this'll get AT LEAST legendary, maybe even mythic, they worked 5 years on this an made something AMAZING, this is legendary imo
Meh, it's a star rate
*at most (robtop is extremely biased against extreme demons)
@@tnt_gaming21 not to mention he is also biased against realism, so it's not looking good as far as epic or legendary
This level is beautiful, the deco and gameplay fit the song so well
fr
Yes except for that one city part- like where did that come from? Doesn't fit the waterfall theme at all imo. But ye generally it looks amazing.
@@mrzeroskill yeah that’s probably my least favorite part of the level tbh
@@mrzeroskillwhick city part?
@@mrzeroskill Bli's part
everything before the drop hits is probably my favorite segment of any level ever, the song choice and the atmosphere created with this insane deco is just perfect, i literally have goosebumps
Это парт culuc
@@sold4200 good to know, culuc is da g.o.a.t.
@@nov3m472best creator ever
1:32 my only complain is this INSANELY GOOD ART for the end screen that they remove just to put their logo in the corner with a black screen. Listen, their logo in black and white on the previous end screen would look so much better.
FR idk why creators do this it makes completion screens so lame
@@LordVadercraft bro get back to verification what are you doing here 💀
@@LordVadercraftplease change it yourself, it looks like one of those PowerPoint transitions and you’re barely able to enjoy the art
Dude we all know non-gd players are gonna watch this level in yt at some point, let people appreciate the art without having to PAUSE THE VIDEO just to see it, cuz that's what I had to do.
And what's the point to show the logo with absolutely nothing else on the screen?, do a proper credits screen if that's the idea.
The transition before the endscreen is 🤯🔥
FIRE 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
NAH ITS 🥶
🤢🤢🤢
@@yowackliterally
Old better
Guys, everyone is complaining Bli's part doesn't fit the rest of the level. But imo this part is like flashback what happened to this city. After that part, level comes back to present and shows debris of city. I just love this level.
Same boat:)
Yeah, I think Bli's part is a little flashback on how the city were destroyed which is because of wars and then it came back to the current time.
The part is pretty cool looks like a city being destroyed by a extreme cold blizzard honestly
The Most Coldest Collab Ever!
🥶🥶🥶🥶
The coolest collab ever!!!!11!
bark
Bli’s part kind of feels like some sort of flashback or PTSD episode in context. Idk, i think it fits
Wow, never thought I could see such great theory about this level
YO I WAS THINKING THE SAME!
Final Destination with the train
I can't thank you enough for using the original song and not some modified version
same dude
for real the og hits way harder
The part where the giant skull appears is so neat! I love the clean brief zooming in-out animations.
This is by far, my favorite level in Geometry Dash, and here the backstory as to why:
When I saw the first trailer by fnm04, 2 years ago, what caught my eye (or ear) first was the song. The song is named NНΞЙ (meaning Hoarfrost) by Russian producer ΔXIUS LIИK and Russian singer ножевые ранения (meaning “stab/knife wounds”). Cherry Team itself is also Russian, so the song choice makes sense.
The song's lyrics are a haunting portrayal of despair and entrapment. The singer, emotionally numb, describes a world of frozen hearts and a desperate longing for warmth, or fire. They feel suffocated, unable to reach the light, haunted by loneliness-a raw glimpse into human suffering, demonstrating empathy for their isolation and desperate search for solace in a seemingly cold world.
I already knew this song, and when I first heard it on the level, my eyes went completely wide open. You all should’ve seen my face during the first watch. I already saw the theme of snow and ice from the very beginning, even though the beginning was the only part with more than just colors for decoration.
At first, I thought they were going to just make another quick and lazy level like Firework, but boy was I wrong. I’ve loved watching the level grow, seeing creators like Culuc, Bli, CynixX, and more building the level. And when I saw the “Finale” video by QwidziT (9 months ago), I’ve been seeing a new theme pop up:
A frozen city. That already is beautiful, and a fitting theme for the name of the song, meaning “hoarfrost”. During my watch, I saw very subtle effects, and while subtle, they tell a story in my opinion. And once I saw the finished level (this video), I was awestruck. Let me walk you through my thought process.
The moment the level began, the first thing I saw was the text “Enter at your own risk”. Which took me a bit off guard, but I knew it meant something good was coming up. After many glitch effects and build-up through a frozen cave, we are greeted with a TV screen that shows a beautiful view of a frozen city, and the singer begins her verse. The singer’s voice is beautiful, and the view is incredible, but once you have grabbed your popcorn to appreciate it, it glitches again, and grows dark, indicating a silent “but”. We are taken to a scene of a city frozen over, destroyed, tilted, and corrupted. To remind us that this is not real, there is another effect with 1 subtle detail: the red dot, and a white arrow, indicating it’s a recording being sped forward. And we are now greeted with a symbol, the eye. Our new environment shows ice, destroyed buildings, and blood, but most importantly, the eye. The eye appears as we pass it as the player, surrounded by circular spinning patterns, blinks once, and disappears a second before the patterns follow suit. Now, I will never know what the eye truly represents, but my best guess is corruption, and power. I think it represents the greed of hierarchy, how strong you feel after seeing the view at the top of the mountain, but I also think it represents weakness, showing how those stuck in snow see a flame, only for that flame to cause more suffering, due to human instinct of making oneself suffer after seeing something you need, but don’t have. All of this is supported by the TV screen shown earlier, indicating this scene is a “was”, and it’s merely a reflection of our cruel world. The eye soon appears again quickly, but this time, it comes right at the screen and can actually scare you. This entire part groups up with glitches, red color changes, and blurriness, indicating a lost, corrupted world. And, right before the drop, all we are left with is a void that has ripped our skulls apart (the logo art before the drop).
During the entire drop, we see the same effects, but amplified. Glitches, red colorations, blurriness, and destruction. But right before Bli’s part, we see another destroyed skull, which I think again, represents a void that has ripped our skulls apart. Bli’s part is much different from the other parts, and shows much more chaos that is both very cool to watch, but quite sad and fitting to the story.
For the rest of the drop, it’s very similar, with a few more easter eggs and hidden stuff that I won’t spoil.
And then, there is the end art (not the cherry team logo). It appears to be that same TV screen from the beginning of the singer’s verse. It shows a woman, taking a unique pose, while trapped in ice. The scenery is the same destroyed, frozen, gray world. The frame of the TV itself has many unique additions, such as a red+white color scheme, X’s on the eye symbol, and more symbols and art that I can’t really understand.
But besides that, I can confidently say that "Waterfall" is a masterpiece that transcends the typical Geometry Dash experience. The combination of mesmerizing and underrated music and visuals demonstrates allows such a work of art to explore the complexities of the human condition, and it will forever hold a special place in my heart as my favorite GD level ever.
(I just wanna say, all of this is only guessed based on my visual experience of the level, and the song itself. If there is lore or context I’m missing here, I would definitely appreciate the knowledge. I want to know more about the level.)
The player is going through a frozen dead city probably after brutal war and the whole world is in a nuclear winter. Player goes through debris but before Bli's part goes through skull that represents all that dead people. "So you want to know how this everything happened." And you have flashback, go back in a time and see a war and complete destruction of a city. After that, level comes back to the present. It's my interpretation of Bli's part.
@@MKJ8888 That makes a lot of sense. Bli's part is still just out of place compared to the rest of them. Still amazing tho
Dude... At this point, levels in Geometry Dash have it's own lore now.
@@zhenfermon.07 Yeah, it's crazy...
Underrated comment so fr
Finally, the official showcase
i was going to comment this
yass
official on vernam account
its not official showcase, the official showcase is on the vernam channel
we all joked that lvc was gonna verify it before the showcase lol
I like how every parts are replaced or improved but Bli's part still the same 🔥
CuLuC:
ye culuc's part wasnt changed either
@@leandrusguy144It actually did but only put horizontal black border left and right making it more cinematic
@@very1172 no those were there
@@leandrusguy144 Old waterfall
Cool level! Also this video was uploaded on my birthday. N o i c e
Absolutely incredible. Even looks fun at the drop (though predrop looks like a chore to get through)
1:12 guys is this skull a clubstep monster or no
Yo let this guy cook
No
In layout
@@Unknowngd_7 I already checked in the layout its not a clubstep monster sadly😔
But ill still call the decorated version clubstep monster anyway
hands down the best cherryteam level so far, atmosphere is executed perfectly and song representation is top notch. absolute peak
cytokinesis
@@zodiac506 it's cool but i don't think it's as good, idk if that's a hot take
@@zodiac506I actually prefer this over Cytokinesis
@@magicman256 how about crash game
@@elylove267 oh yeah that's cool too but it doesn't hit as hard and this levels been in the works for a while
1:05 The shattering dual😮
This level is insane!
Cherry Team just keeps getting better and better. Absolutely insane level one of my favourite extreme demons.
Looked awesome. Was incredible. The funny part is that I didn’t even notice I was on 480p the whole time.
I love how they replaced exen’s part and now they added it back in with the skeleton which is probably one of the most iconic parts of the level 1:04
decorator of tihs part is clever guy tho
0:37 somebody got cut (there is blood in the snow)
I am officially fall in love with this lvl
>Level called "Waterfall"
>Looks inside
>Ice
All jokes aside though, this level looks INSANE. GFL to LordVaderCraft
These are the Vorkuta waterfalls
the art right before the drop is ridiculous this should be mythic rated
1:14 “Maybe I won’t notice the transition to Bli’s- NEVERMIND
Am I the ONLY person who is seeing Bli's part for what it is, ie, a flash to the past? Its literally supposed to show you a time when all of it was working. Thats why its different. Holy hell I did NOT expect so many commenters to be so bad at recognizing and utilising the most basic of comprehension skills.
No you’re not. I also commented bout that when this showcase came out too.
@@littlestar4332 Phew what a relief
I also commented about that lol, this part is like flashback of what happened
THIS IS THE BEST LEVEL I'VE SEEN!!!! And the transitions in this level slaps
Seeing the first teaser 2 years ago, to seeing the full thing is amazing. Great job 👍
This deserves legendary rating. Everything is so perfect in the level. I think this is my new favourite cherry team level. Thanks for the showcase fnm04!
It's feature max since Rob is rob ☠️
"Hmmm... How about a three star?"
[cherry] Team absolutely cooking, like usual. Big fan of this level! :)
Everything is frozen, you don't know what lies in the waterfall city.
cool
You saw cursed spells and blood while walking past the frozen city, you wonder who did that and why he did that...
cherry team lore
Это воркута обычная, вы чего, такая же разруха и холод😂
Bli and the person who made the outro was cooking up 🥶
Dont forget the "skol" part
I know rob will rate this feature or just stars, but this lvl is more beautiful than any mythic or legendary rated lvl
Astralith is hard to beat but this is definitely atleast equal to it in my opinion
I mean he did rate KOCMOC epic, so you never know.
imagine painting a piece of art so big it takes about a hundred seconds for you to pan far enough to show the entire thing
THEY MADE IT PERFECTLY COLD 🥶❄️
1:04 shattering dual portal is cool
I’m speechless… that was gorgeous…
Bro give shardscapes a 9 and this a 8 what 😭😭😭😭😭
He also gave Anemesis higher than Firework and Kyouki before lol
He has shit opinions when know that
Holy shit the showcase is out I’m bring the popcorn
i love the atmosphere the "Realistic building" type deco
When I first started playing the game, I actually thought level design couldnt get any better than Unity by Triaxis and Funnygame. Almost 8 years later...... levels like these are a thing. Holy god.
The fact that there are so many more levels that can be decorated in this way is actually insane
In 0:49 there is a hidden AmongUs Lmao
I saw it😂😂😂
thanks, now i cant unsee that.
I'd have to agree on Bli's part feeling out of place. The rest of the level feels almost like this "city" or area is dead, frozen over following some event. But Bli's part takes that theme and throws it out the window, with drones, moving trains, explosions, etc. It's very cool on it's own, but it's super jarring compared to the rest of the level.
True. But part of the Bli still looks very dynamic.
almost like someone is trying to keep this place a secret..
His part is my favorite lol
I agree that Bli’s part doesn’t fit at all but, my brain just likes to interpret it as how the city looked like in the past and why/how it was destroyed lol. Don’t throw bricks at me!🙂
@@littlestar4332i’ve also decided to interpret it this way
So glad this level is being verified!
I'm so happy this got finished, yeah I'm definitely a huge fan of this. So much creating talent.
Ooooook.....Cherry REALLY stepped up their game for 2.2
For once, I'm going to say that I really like a level that they made
this is insane, especially that endscreen
😊😊
The train part is beautiful😮💨
Holy snow smokes, thats actually cool level came out so far
for a collab it had to have problems such as sync issues or parts that doesn't have the best cohesion, so leaving that aside the level is almost perfect, only of course depending on how good the gp is.
it's not a perfect level, has its flaws but as i said that's something common in many collabs, but the song, deco (leaving the parts that doesn't fit/changes drastically from each other), or ambience are so good
knowing rob, this'll probably get epic or featured but this masterpiece should be at LEAST rated Legendary if not Mythic. Awesome job to the Cherry Team and good luck to the verifier, I can't wait for this to get out!
Always appreciate witch house in gd levels aha. Such a damn vibe
Also the level os freaking insame looking. Better be the first mythical extreme demon.
This level is aweome
VERIFIED!
absolutely spectacular, but I also feel like there is too much going on with hardly any breathing space left. often times i don't even get close to digest a scene and boom, it's gone or covered by an intense effect. I think almost all parts suffer from this, but it's most noticeable on Bli's part imho.
New favourite extreme demon
pretty crazy to think bob ross himself created this level.
so true
Reminds me of Anamnesis, the gameplay looks similar, but Anamnesis was robbed of legendary while this level will probably not.
a cube inside of Moscow has been spotted and has been described as "jumping over spikes", officials had tried and is still attempting to capture this "creature"
best comment
0:54 bro this transitionnnnnn
beatiful lvl,go cherry
This level is super cool it just sucks that like 100 parts were scrapped for it because of bad hosting but glad the project can be layed to rest now.
am i the only one who watched it twice in a row because of how fire this is?
Frost fire
Nope
only twice?
I feel like firework is like a nuclear blast: fast, bleak, and intense, while waterfall is the nuclear winter after the blast, and bli’s part is a literal blast to the time before the blast, like the player is reminiscing the time before everything changed
this looks stunning
1:04 this transition... 🔥
the best level i have ever seen, except the leyak
LVC is doing such a great job with the verification.
I totally agree with you about bli's part, as much as i like how it looks, it doesn't really fit with the other parts in the level
wow this is now my second favourit Level!
damn bro the song is fire and the deco is basically better than modern day art
finally not a wave carried top level 😌
perfect level
Wow this looks awesome
Thanks for keep using the old song ❤
Этот коллаб становится лучше когда понимаешь что голос на фоне это вернам
Ну, в данной версии сонга - нет, это оригинал, тут не Вернам голосит))
cool level
*Firework sequel looking fire*
0:55 is my favorite part of the song
finally anothee good cherry team level agter Firework
Cytokinesis is definitely worth mentioning
Bruh GD commentators need to be more gratefull when the deco is finished dont complain and dont compare cuzs the level is done and move on
besides the story itself is giving the flashback on what happens to the city
man u are english commentators u need to improve ur comprehention knowledges
and u know what i think cherryteam is already decided to finished it cuzs they're tired on replacing its creators on this showcase am i right?
Just imagine, you make a simple block game in 2013 about jumping over obstacles, You would have no idea that in 11 years there would be 8K videos showcasing levels with lifelike detail and levels of difficulty so high it could drive one mad
This is mythic bro
this is stunning
bli my beloved
This is pure art.
atmospheric masterpiece
this is the best level in the game
They finally finished it. Maybe now they can work on KOCMOC UNLEASHED.
Ah yes, another amazing looking level only about 5 people can actually experience
It’s going to be top 30 so there will be dozens to hundreds of victors before it falls off the extended list
Just play it in practice mode or bot it
If you have a skill issue it is not top players fault
According to Robtop, this is a star rate at best
Absolutely Shii'sh🔥🔥
Is it just me who feels that this entire level is incredibly jarring, the layout version just felt so cold and atmospheric, but that was totally thrown out for pure intensity even if the song doesnt match it, especially Blis part. And Im most upset they replaced the clean drop animation with this random skull. Cherry Team is truly falling
I honestly thought the same thing, not to mention everything is incredibly hard to see.
0:56 drop
A masterpiece 🫡
1:17 White Space reference)))
konsi has quite an underated part