I've changed the review to 'OUTDATED' in the spreadsheet and have removed the notes. The imgur album will also be fixed when I go back and update all of them.

Cool, thanks!

Hopefully that contributes to preventing people from playing the obsolete version, and getting frustrated for completely unnecessary reasons. (There are enough reasons intentionally built into the level already for people to get frustrated. )

Any idea how I can get the old level removed or at least updated on the level archive website? That website gives no contact details.

Is it alright if I review the most recent version with a link to https://knyttstories.hoelzl.fr/ when that time comes?

Of course!

And feel free to rate it in whatever way you want. This level is, at least in some places, "nasty by design" and it is absolutely fine with me if people say that it is not to their taste.

(And furthermore, when I made the level, I tried to built in some novel game mechanics for the time, but working within the contraints of KS not everything could be achieved perfectly in the way I would have done it had I programmed the game from scratch. So I understand that not everything is perfect due to the workarounds I employed.)

But FYI: the link you give to my level "Above and below the waterfall" is incorrect. You are linking to a long outdated version that still had some bugs.

That version was uploaded to the Knytt Stories level archive without my authorisation and even though I have made it clear in the past that I am not okay with that (among other reasons, precisely for the unavoidable versioning issues that result).

The correct link to the last, and hopefully bug-free, version is https://knyttstories.hoelzl.fr/

Thanks for the heads up! 

I've changed the review to 'OUTDATED' in the spreadsheet and have removed the notes. The imgur album will also be fixed when I go back and update all of them.

My penultimate batch of reviews will be for levels that aren't on knyttlevels.com. Is it alright if I review the most recent version with a link to https://knyttstories.hoelzl.fr/ when that time comes?

Just noticed that the main entrance and exit of the Scarlet Hillside isn't marked with a red star. Don't recall seeing that anywhere else.

Also, while the spirits of Silverwood exploit has been mostly fixed, you can still make them invisible on the first screen if you warp to them without picking up the eye. Could probably be fixed by warping the player to an intermediary screen if they don't have the eye and forcing them to pick it up there before warping them to the Spirits of Silverwood. But it's hardly a big deal.

Edit: If you go to the Valley of Rust to save Gustav's lion and glide far enough to the right, you skip the auto save that's meant to happen before the evil wizards.

Edit 2: It would be nice if the game auto-saved after the cutscene where the Astral Corruption happens. Can be a bit annoying if you get killed on your way out of Penitence Village and have to watch it again.

Edit 3: Found another spot where you sink automatically.

v8: (May 6 2024)

reverted a sound to be closer to its source version

esmeralda starter plant moved and shouldnt have double dragons

valley of rust/dust snorkel should always work from the right side

refitted some credits covered by button or off the edge

xethiz fixed on quest guide

kalm traveller has 2 l's so i used that version

i know it is crazy but the save for c21 is in the ghost tunnel below lol.  this one is also meant to be pretty hard and annoying very early on

Going left from this screen in Autumn Village sends you two screens to the left. Is that deliberate?  -  going left here is supposed to take you up 1 screen but it takes you left 1 instead lol.

Twilight Falls when underwater sounds different

The barrier visor and the feather from the Salient Grounds should disappear in the moon's version of the guide after you've collected them.

fixed bench spot

fixed some spellings/words

I appreciate the added Special Thanks credit in the opening screen, but you misspelled my name.  - this is just the gangsta spelling  of it

Edit 3: The arrival of the evil wizards (or possibly already the consecration) seems to put Scorian Hollows in its post-Astral Corruption state even before said event occurs.   -  scorian changes with consecrate

Edit 7: The brown tiles on the left screen of the Azure Outpost don't get transformed by the Astral Corruption. -  azure outpost doesnt seem to get transformed in general by it and the purple tiles used in the rest of the forest zone are on a different tileset so im not sure how easily i could change that

Edit 8: Gustav can still teleport back to his farm while he's in Nyx's captivity. Was this impossible to fix? - now you cant go back after seeing him in captivity until after nyx

Edit 9: This screen in the Alabaster Woods is based on one in the Old Turt Pond that got changed in an update. But you didn't apply the change here, so it's no longer a full reference. - the ghost dream isnt meant to be an exact copy 

Edit 13: Gustav's fan still gets reactivated after obtaining the Angel Cape. - after you fix it, sometimes he likes it on sometimes he likes it off Lol

Edit 14: I managed to accidentally avoid picking up the golden spider after clearing the Pumpkin Village invasion by moving away quickly. Might not be possible to prevent that possibility.  -   i think i made it less likely but it can still happen if youre going really fast

Edit: As far as I'm concerned, the very last of the Eternal Annihilation phases has way too long of a time limit for what it asks of you. I can sometimes reach about the halfway point of the 18 seconds it tasks you with surviving, but rarely beyond that without the hologram. If the purpose of this part of the level is supposed to be falling action, then I think the rest works well, but this phase is far too difficult. I'm still at it at the time of this writing. I have to take a break right now because these trippy filters were starting to make me physically uncomfortable. 
This was my first time beating this level without any hologram abuse. I wrote a lot more about my experience with that in some of the video descriptions, but to put it simply, I would really appreciate if you could tone down the very last challenge in this level. For a screen of this danger level, I find the time limit to be way too long. It was one of the hardest challenges in the whole level, despite the fact it's not really meant to be one of them. And it happened during a part that I can't tolerate for excessive periods of time due to my photosensitivity.      -        This part IS meant to be really hard cause its the final final challenge.  I had nerfed it from 20 seconds early on.    I also put in some lighter trippy filter in the level folder,  so if anyone wants to try that section to be easier on the eyes just replace psych in the CO's folder with the new ones in the level folder.   It doesn't seem to help on every screen like this but maybe helps on many?  not using the holo is not recommended also though lol.   

#1: Don't get the point of the blue text here. The rest of it is white. And much of it is in front of the same kind of color.  -  I have a really hard time reading this middle section when its white

Granted, your appointment has been moved to 11:59 PM tonight.

I wish my landlady would clean out the dryer vents. I get paranoid about house fires