Layer 7 opinions?

[Chosen of Babylon]

I've completed layer 7 and damn i really did enjoy it.
Mannequins are unsettling as hell and fun to fight, projectile pary made it easier to fight aginst them so that also for plus
Bosses are enjoyable and 7-4 was just... woah.
But with pros there are also cons
For example 7-2 is quite hard to navigate, i found myself lost more times than id want to admit due to going left not forward and having to backtrack.
I think that levels despite being good are a bit... too big for my liking?
How do you feel about this layer ?

[Clover]

people may not like this update at all, but i ADORED the increased challenge. the music was AMAZING, the bosses were fun and the hooolllyyy ♥♥♥♥ the final boss had me shaking at the end due to the time limit. the update isnt any bad, so much love was put into it. just guessing some people dont really enjoy difficult level design as much as i do.

[Nicky Grimes]

Might be an unpopular opinion, but this is one of those times where I wish there was a map you could enable if you get lost. I'm thinking of restarting 7-1 because I've been wondering for 30 mins of where I'm supposed to go to next.

[Vault Dweller]

Awesome, although if the difficulty keeps increasing this much for the next layers i think normal people wont even be able to beat the game

[GENOSAD]

It's definitely a lot better than Heresy, but holy balls the levels are long and the last sequence of 7-4 turned the game into a PowerPoint slideshow. On the plus side, stepping into 7-2 blew my mind about as much as 1-1 did, which was much-needed after the flaccid ♥♥♥♥ that was 6-1's aesthetics. It actually made me want to play this game again, as opposed to Heresy, which just filled me with disappointment. Can't say the same for the new songs though, they're mostly more of the same baroque+Amen Break fusions, but at least it's not the heavy metal that I was already bored of when the second fight against Gabriel came long. I honestly wish that Violence's aesthetics leaned more into the realm of MC Escher, though.

[Kevin Crabcakes]

This layer would actually be fairly easy and only a light step-up from heresy's difficulty (like it should be) if the tanks weren't ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
There is no reason unparriable explosion machines on crack with twice the melee speed of a swordsmachine need to be as beefy as hideous masses

[Kevin Crabcakes]

At the same time I hope they're only slightly nerfed and that the current version is saved for like brutal mode or something

[Freddy Fisticuffs]

it goes hard.

[Hadster2015]

Guttertanks are just not fun to fight. A high hp pool with a ridiculous melee attack that has little lag and insane knockback is just cancer. Other than that this was update was really good.

[kanyedrpepper]

i got jumpscared by that ass looking horse in 7-1 like bro it makes sense that the king of lust minos didn't want your sorry ass he sent you to the abyss,oh and also i got lost in 7-2 and jumped right way where the guttertanks first appear.

[kanyedrpepper]

btw there is a funny,silly easter egg inside the bomb in 7-2,you can use noclip to see inside it

[Brig Lig Smoke]

引用自 nerf flywheel blaster：

i got jumpscared by that ass looking horse in 7-1 like bro it makes sense that the king of lust minos didn't want your sorry ass he sent you to the abyss,oh and also i got lost in 7-2 and jumped right way where the guttertanks first appear.

that's a bull

[kanyedrpepper]

引用自 Brig Lig Smoke：

引用自 nerf flywheel blaster：

i got jumpscared by that ass looking horse in 7-1 like bro it makes sense that the king of lust minos didn't want your sorry ass he sent you to the abyss,oh and also i got lost in 7-2 and jumped right way where the guttertanks first appear.

that's a bull

oh,well ♥♥♥♥ that bull then

[King Feraligatr]

I did like that the enemies infought on 7-3. It was a nice change of pace IMO.

[The Astral Traveller]

Hard initial impressions on Violent:
Please god optimize 7-3 finale and 7-4, the longer I played the less fun it got
Enemies feel like they're on the tankier side, but I'm also super rusty and my damage might just be garbage
Redman's punch is aggravating as hell with it range and frequency; I don't dislike enemies that are hard to get in on however, so maybe I just need to work on strategy. Gutterman's shield break feels very rewarding though.
Dodging blue orbs was honestly the hardest part of 7-3's finale, not sure how I feel about that.
Someone mentioned where to shoot Security System could use better readability, and I'd agree even if it only takes a few tries to figure out.

All that said I really, really enjoyed this update, especially after struggling to get back into the game for awhile now. Level design is varied, smart, and visually stunning while all fitting into its theme really well. 7-3's finale is pure hyperviolence and I love it despite my ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

Fraud is going to be super interesting with the how the different layers have been interpreted. People have mentioned getting lost on the new maps but I personally found them all to be really intuitive and straight forward, even 7-2, which feels like it has very clear and liner forwards-backwards path despite being completely open.

Secret weapon better be a flaming sword/arm.

[BrainDeadBoi2]

Really really good layer, only complaint is the guttertank melee feels a little bit insane and the boss was kinda mid. But 7-1 7-2 and 7-3 were all really fun levels, the mannequins are just fun to fight