Very fun level. I’m not normally very good at hole-filling levels but this one is constrained enough to feel pretty nice once you figure out how to even get to the end.
I haven't finished working on this yet, but it deserves a proper review, so:
In all honesty, this is one of if not the best "Ultra Grandmaster" levels in the game. For a long time I was pretty much the only person building stuff like this, to the point that I quite saturated the market and kinda gave up on the idea of making extremely hard puzzles.
A lot of people don't appreciate them, and they're a big pill to swallow, but this level is really a masterpiece from a construction perspective. It has a lot of totally unexpected techniques and it subverts expectations constantly. At first glance this puzzle looks bloated and monotonous but that couldn't be further from the truth. A lot of unique elements are on display here, and they come together quite cohesively to form something that is honestly more of a journey than a puzzle.
I do think this puzzle deserves applause and it's probably your best puzzle (and you have many good ones). I look forward to eventually finding my local minimum stepcount, at which point I will input it and probably walk away from the puzzle regardless of what happens to the record, but it's a really cool and really special puzzle regardless.
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