Which is harder?

[Rad Dad]

Which world is harder? Light cotten alley or Dark Rapture? I'm trying to decide which on to do a no death run on first.

[Spike]

From what I remember, dark rapture is harder. And certainly if you're only using meat boy.

[shadowbat5557]

I need help my volume isnt working in game but in the settings it is on 100

[Starlit]

Light cotton is more difficult if you can use a few characters on dark rapture

[squerc]

mmh I say cotton is harder,dark rapture has quite some levels where you can switch char to make it ez

[chaoticenigma]

I found Dark Rapture harder, and that was using the Kid for almost every level on it.

Some of the people that speedrun the game have even said that Dark Rapture might be harder than Dark Cotton Alley too. I think those 2 Dark Worlds are about the same in difficulty though.

[Starlit]

Dark rapture is best done with some characters people rarely use though at times, for instance Tim for 5-9x or naija for 5-5x, flywrench for 5-10x etc etc In meat boy only terms or even meat boy and kid it can be alot more difficult.

Dark cotton is very stable in execution but levels like 7-9x, 7-7x and 7-16x all require excellent finger memory.

Light cotton isnt really bad, 7-4 and 7-16 stand out to me as annoying levels but since I started practicing it recently it's not nearly as daunting as it was, I might grab it by accident in a run at some stage I feel.

[Rad Dad]

Thanks for the comments I think I have my anwser now.

[TheNixedOne]

Light World Cotton Alley, it just beats it by one level. 7-20 can go ♥♥♥♥ itself

[SimpleGamesLover]

I had far less trouble with "Girl Boy" than "Zombie Boy".Do note that there are some tricks (or chars in zombie boy) that trivialize several levels.

[Starlit]

Originally posted by SimpleGamesLover:

I had far less trouble with "Girl Boy" than "Zombie Boy".Do note that there are some tricks (or chars in zombie boy) that trivialize several levels.

I actually did some routing there for it after this thread, realistically speaking the levels that arent trivial or relatively easy are:

5-17x, 5-20x (tricky)
and
5-3x, 5-4x, 5-8x, 5-12x, 5-17x, 5-18x (not too bad)

but the mechanics I'm using on several of the levels arent very well known or widely used, e.g. its almost impossible to die on 5-9x or 5-13x if you know how to do them whereas 5-9x is one of the hardest deathless levels in the game without abusing mechanics

[Peats]

Dark rapture is easier. You can very easily complete skip half of the first level with the aqua girl once you realize how her jumping ability works. The kid is nice in a lot of levels, and viridian can help a lot in that level where the key is dropping from the top center of the level

[tenpayne.yanu]

rapture is harder, the levels are more punishing and demanding then cotton alley in the dark world

[thatguythatgames20]

Rapture Dark is more difficult, however Cotton Alley locks you into Bandage Girl, not providing as many cheeses as Rapture.