Level Devil Is A Giant, Hilarious Middle Finger To You
You sometimes don't realize how much of game design is centered around expectations until they get messed with. For those of a certain age, there's nothing more expected than the basics of how a 2D platformer and its level design work. Level Devil knows this, and it's happy to give you and your expectations a giant middle finger with each and every level.
That might sound like a recipe for frustration, but instead my time with the game has been nothing if not consistently hilarious and delightful. Despite being someone who often finds the potential for lost progress in souls-likes to be off-putting, failing a level in Level Devil and incurring a similar level of setback elicits a hearty chuckle from me rather than an exasperated sigh.
Level Devil is a game that is deliberately trying to mess with you, and it's going to succeed more often than not. The creativity of the ways in which it does so makes for a consistent joy throughout--it's nothing if not spiteful.
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