A Bizarre Phantasm

A Bizarre Phantasm (ABP) is a 2.0 Extreme Demon mega-collaboration created by the members of Team N2. The level utilizes 2.0 effects in its bright designs with blue as the theme color and has numerous invisible portals demarked only by small decorations. The gameplay includes frequent tight spaces, timings, and tricks. It is one of the most popular Extreme Demons in Geometry Dash and received praise for its design and memory-based gameplay.

The first version of the level was verified by Cyclic. However, Cyclic later alleged that the verification was hacked. Later, the level received a harder update, which was verified by GoodSmile. It is currently #51 on the GD Mobile Lists, above Atmosphere (#52), and below Azure Fiesta (#50).

Gameplay[]

Note: If a player's name is italicized, the player has created gameplay in the section featured. If a player's name is underlined, the player has created decoration in the section featured

Hermes & Zelda (0-8%): The level starts with Hermes's part, a rather simple (for an Extreme Demon) cube section with gravity portals and blue jump rings. It is somewhat tricky but not too extreme.
Motu & Zelda (8-13%): The level then progresses to a much higher difficulty with his part; a half-speed wave segment with Acropolis-like spacing and invisible gravity portals that make this wave significantly more difficult than it may seem. In LDM, it is impossible to see where the gravity portals are going, so some people use visibility hacks to beat this. They usually get exposed, however.
COSINE & Yuri (13-22%): The level then progresses to COSINE's part, which consists of a double-speed ball segment which is fairly simple (for an Extreme Demon), and of a ship sequence where the player only needs to fly straight.
Reple & Zelda (22-28%): Reple's part follows up. It is a tricky UFO sequence with some awkward timings, followed by a slow ball sequence with tricks and tight spaces.
Ryan LC & Zelda (28-34%): Reple's part is followed by CJ Blast's part. It starts with a dual mini-ship sequence, then changes to a ship/UFO mixed dual. It then goes into a triple-speed wave, which quickly changes into a half-speed one.
Luneth (34-40%): This part starts with a very tricky wave segment with tight spaces and invisible size portals the player must be aware of. It then changes to a triple-speed UFO sequence with even trickier timings than the previous wave segment and many more gravity portals and spikes to trick the player.
Koreaqwer (40-47%): Here, the song picks up intensity. This part is ridiculously difficult. It is a double-speed mini-wave segment comprised of numerous tight spaces, awkward timing and mixed in with invisible gravity portals which are again only marked by decoration that easily blends with the background. It changes to a regular-size wave but continues to throw invisible gravity portals and tight spaces at the player.
RedDragon (47-52%): The difficulty then cools down a lot with RedDragon's part, which is a fairly simple (for an Extreme Demon) ship sequence with some good straight-flying skills required.
WOOGI1411 (52-57%): This part is quite tricky and difficult because of some very fast and awkward timings the player must perform in a window of about 5 seconds, first as a ball, then in a cube with many random objects to add to the player's confusion.
ZenthicAlpha (57-64%): The cube switches to a wave that marks the beginning of Zenthic's part. It is significantly easier than the first two wave segments before this one, but still has tight spaces and contains a few gravity portals and tricky timings. It then switches to a moderately difficult ship with tight spaces, and then a short but tricky mini-ball.
Miner & Yuri (64-70%): This part is insanely difficult due to the wave and end of the ship part. First, the wave has very tight spaces that seem to be marked by blue and yellow swirls. However, they represent an opposite gravity portal, so the player must be careful. The wave then goes mini and into some very tight spaces that the player must squeeze through carefully. The player then turns into a dual ship which is ridiculously annoying, since the screen goes dark and the player still has to navigate through obstacles that they can no longer see.
Zelda (70-83%): This is a mixed dual that changes halfway through and is very tricky and difficult to do without good practice. It has even more invisible gravity portals and jump rings, and very short and crucial timings that must be executed perfectly. The mixed dual then switches to a fairly easy wave (for an Extreme Demon), but then goes into one last hard leg of the level, a mini ship with more invisible gravity portals and this time, invisible jump rings.
Yuri (83-100%): This is a rather unique wave segment, as the player must memorize which keys they must obtain in order not to crash at a very infuriating point in the level. If the player finishes this wave part, they will turn into a cube that shows a list of all the people who created the level and a free user coin which is a reward for beating the level. The level ends alongside a note that it was verified by GoodSmile (Cyclic in the old version).

User coins[]

User coin 1: Located at 13%. The player needs to approach the word "COSINE" at the bottom and its spikes above to get the coin that is near the said word.
User coin 2: Located at 43%. The player, instead of staying in the middle, must go high up and find their way back down to collect the coin without dying.
User coin 3: Located at 98%. It is a reward for completing the level, and therefore, is a free coin at the end of the level.

Fails[]

TrusTa crashed at 71%.
kRuBeX crashed at 72%.
BlassCFB crashed at 77%.
- BlassCFB also crashed at 71% and 73% beforehand.
Riot crashed at 79%.
- Riot also crashed nearly 70% 20+ times.
GoodSmile crashed at 82%.
- GoodSmile also crashed at 78% beforehand.
- GoodSmile has also crashed many times at Miner's Wave part however, the count of this is unknown.
Parkourmaster2906 crashed at 95%.
Danilkaz crashed at 97% twice.
- Danilkaz also crashed at 71% once beforehand.

Errors[]

In Miner's wave part, the player was able to skip a very large portion of the difficult segment which has caused many skilled players to fail by going up and touching the ceiling. This has been fixed in the new version verified by GoodSmile.
In the second wave segment of the level, the player can skip the mini-portal. This, however, does not change the difficulty very much.
It is possible to activate the triggers without touching the keys on Yuri's part due to the hitboxes of the triggers being slightly bigger than those of the keys. This happened to GuitarHeroStyles on stream.

Trivia[]

The level cannot be copied.
The level contains 39,686 objects.
The level is 1m 57s in length.
The level was ranked #73 in GDToday's 100 Greatest Levels of All Time list.
This is Team N2's second-rated creation and is also their second Demon.
The level was initially placed at #11 on the Demonlist on 4 January 2017, above Red World Rebirth (#12) and below Audio Extraction (#10).
If you look closely at Yuri's part, the right keys are differently colored (more cyan) than others. This color was also used in the ending, where Team N2's names are labeled in cyan.
Zelda, one of the creators, designed a very large majority of the level.
This is one of two well-known 2.0 Demons to use a song by Goukisan, the other being Betrayal of Fate by weoweoteo.
- Curiously, both use the same song, named Betrayal of Fate.
GoodSmile, the verifier of Audio Excursion, verified the updated version (which fixed the secret way in Miner's wave part) of the level legitimately. He has also said that he was so wrong to say that this level is easier than Ice Carbon Diablo X. The update also added a low-detail mode.
Although Cyclic confessed to having allegedly hack verified the original version, it remains unknown whether or not this was true as there is yet to be concrete evidence discovered in Cyclic’s footage that would prove his illegitimacy.
Toward the end, where it says the creators of the level and "We are N2", Luneth's name was misspelled as "Luenth". It was probably not made on purpose, as this was later fixed in an update of the level.
- Also in the old update, "verified" was spelled "verifyed". This was fixed in the later update.
The order of keys in Yuri's part is as follows: 121322313212321312213, where 1 is the key on top, 2 is the one in the middle, and 3 is the one at the bottom. In the level, it is marked by a red arrow, with the words: "Just Remember".
This is the only Team N2 level that is a memory level, caused by tricky segments, invisible portals and obstacles, and the memory wave.
The level was originally entitled Heliopolis and the color scheme was originally brown and orange. The song was originally Bloom by Envy.
There is a spiritual sequel to this level called Blade of Justice which was verified by RicoLP.
The placement of Cold Sweat on 21 September 2020 pushed A Bizarre Phantasm into the Legacy List of the Demonlist.
- This is also the second Team N2 level to fall into the Legacy List.