Talk:Nine Circles/@comment-27923012-20160818140830

Many people don't know if Jawbreaker is harder than Nine Circles or vice versa.

Jawbreaker is basically a memory demon: there aren't too tight spaces and awkward timing, but the whole level is full of fake lines and portals of every genre that force the player to memorise the correct timing. The pre-wave part isn't too long and can be cleared with a bit of practice.

Nine Circles is a mashing demon: the difficulty of the wave part is made only by mashing mini parts and quite but not too tight spaces. The route of the Nine Circles' wave is simplier because of very few portals and only a fake line, so memory abilities aren't requested. The pre-wave parts have Jawbreaker difficulty but are pretty longer. The last cube is cursed due to generate many terrible fails by many player. While a Nine Circles remake lasts usually 50/70 seconds, Nine Circles lasts 90 seconds.

Which is harder? Probably Nine Circles is slightly harder than Jawbreaker, but both the levels are generally too overvalued, since some remakes that are claimed to be medium demons (Sharp Minor, Sweet Dreams, Astronaut 13 and Headrush) are pretty harder than the first ones. But this is only my opinion.