This level can blind you really well. Like several people have said the path makes perfect sense once you finally see it, but the varying routes and differences in stepcount at each lock makes this level extremely difficult to isolate exactly where the steps should be cut from and what exactly the return is out of setting up the varying shortcuts. Even after finally getting the major trick down there are still ways to be off. Really a fantastic level. Would rate 6 stars if I could!
This is such a hard level and has many of the qualities that I attribute with "Grandmaster" style levels. Several of the sections "compete" with each other for path superiority and they all boast several somewhat tough to find 2 or 4 step cuts that will leave you at completely optimal 297 or 299 paths. The final 295 is just a great mix of many of the competing paths brought together with the correct timing.
293 tries for my first solve ages ago and 75 on my second. Still a monster of a level.
Oups, that was your level, Flashback. I wondered why that one was in my unpublished levels so I decided to change it a little (a second version is coming). Maybe it's time to delete this :D
This level gave me quite some troubles. At first I couldn't figure out, what to do. Once, I got that, I didn't worry about how to store ''resource''. It is really painful, if you're two off in a level like this, and several times. And you KNOW, where you are losing steps, but you're not sure, how to stop it. But, that aside, I like the concept of the level.
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