Hypnotic Travel

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“	Longest rated GD level with 9:30 minutes... (hopefully) LAST UPDATE: Fixed 98% and 69% transitions that were buggy :)	”
―Alkatraz

Hypnotic Travel is a 2.1 solo Hard Demon created, verified and published by Alkatraz. It is the seventh longest rated non-minigame level and third longest Hard Demon, being 9 minutes and 26 seconds long.

The story of Hypnotic Travel is continued in Deep Travel.

Gameplay[]

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Hypnotic Travel is similar to the other XXL Travel levels, like Lonely Travel. Note: The song has lyrics in the original version.

0-2%: The level starts with a first cube sequence. It is the part that is more learned sync in the cube segment.
2-4%: Next, the ship part, the player must fly then click the black orb during the part, in the UFO part, it has more sync than clicking the gravity portals before the robot part.
5-9%: The robot part syncs and the player must click the green orb then jump two times before clicking the green orb along with two yellow orbs again before the lyrics start. Next is a ball part that has more sync during the lyrics. The player must avoid the spikes in the ball sequence including the spider sequence while on the sync.
9-12%: Now the level starts in the first dual part after the transition. The Symmetrical Dual is easy, but a little Asymmetrical requires little timing, then the second player will jump when the first player is auto part, and both players will follow the sync while on the lyrics before holding the green dash orb.
12-15%: Now in the ship part, the player must fly towards, then the wave part, the player will dodge the slopes with some gravity portal (Note: It is possible to skip the gravity portal during the wave part).
15-17%: The level starts with a first and second spammy part in the UFO segment, but the player must follow the lyrics with some click inputs.
17-20%: After the UFO part, the ball and spider part have little sync to follow to learn some switching gravities, then in the spider part, the player will switch gravity in one gap.
20-23%: The cube segment has more sync during the lyrics, and it is more learned in this part, while in the robot part, the part same goes with cube segment then the player will click the four blue orbs.
23-26%: The player will follow the chain with pulsing objects while flying during the ship part with changing the size portal, and it contains two green jump orbs that can still possibly skip it. Then the cube part, the player will jump three times before clicking the black jump orb.
26-29%: In the dual part, the part requires more timings during the asymmetrical dual in the cube part, then the player will avoid the slopes excluding the D block. Now it will become auto in 5 seconds after the dual part.
29-32%: After the lyrics of "Who've lost its own", the player will click the yellow orb, then jump near the ship portal, and then do a curve flying like Astral Divinity. Now the ball and cube part, the player requires to click the four jump orbs along with the dash orb in the ball part. Then in UFO and ship segment, the player will click three times for the UFO part, and the ship part will fly up to the cube portal. Afterward, the player will jump three times while changing the size and the wave segment. It must avoid some slopes, and then in the robot part, the player will jump two times and click the ten jump orbs while on click inputs and timings before holding the dash orb.
32-33%: The part is easy in the cube part with a little dual part with some jumps, and the player will spam the red jump orbs within 4-7 clicks per second and then click the four blue jump orbs.
34-36%: Now in the ship part, the player will fly towards with some changing invisible size portals, and in the UFO part, the part has more sync excluding the pink dash orb, and then the part will fade black before the cube part.
36-39%: The level starts with a cube part, but the player must click the red orb eight times with eight Michigun spikes, then the player must click the two blue jump orbs.
39-44%: Now the part starts at the UFO Segment but the player will click some 9-12 inputs within the 3-5 clicks per second, then the ship segment, the player will fly towards and avoid the spikes but in the dual part, the second player will click the red orb while the first player will flying towards.
44-49%: The ball and spider part has more synchronized in this part. It consists of some jump and dash orbs. Then, the cube part becomes auto within 14 seconds before the half.
49-55%: The level starts with the half, but the song becomes calmer. In the cube part, the player must follow the sync before the second lyrics start and the ball part. Afterward, the player must follow the sync during the lyrics in the ball part, then the cube part the player will hold in a second with three blocks.
55-58%: The next one is the ship part and similar to the level Dear Nostalgists, the player must follow the arrows and avoid the portals of the following this part: 1x speed, 2x speed, 3x speed, 4x speed, cube, ball, spider and dual. Then the cube part, the player must jump before the dual part.
58-61%: Now the dual part, the player will jump in the cube part while the on ship part is doing the straight fly. The cube part consists of pink and the black orb during the chain.
61-64%: After the dual part, the part starts with the UFO part but the player must follow the circles, then the player must click five times on the spider part while on wave part is 3-6 times. Next, in the ball part, the player must follow the sync during the lyrics. After that, the player must fly during the ship part.
64-66%: After the lyrics of "The robot remembered a memory", the player will fly towards the pulsing saw blades between up or down and must follow the changing clock time before the cube part.
66-68%: The player must follow the traced line-arrows during the cube and robot part then the player will click the pink orb before the spider part.
68-71%: While on the spider part, the player will follow the less sync gameplay while on the lyrics, then the 0.2-0.7 second cube part will click the black orb.
71-74%: In the UFO part, the part has more click inputs and 0.5 seconds of three spam parts than the 15-17% gameplay before the auto cube part.
74-77%: After the lyrics of the auto cube part of "His robotic shell", the part is easier with some jumps along with jump orbs and dash orbs. Then in the dual part, the player will jump once before the final wave segment.
77-79%: In the final wave part, the player must avoid the 22.5° slopes. The theme is around the ocean.
79-82%: In the mini ball part, the color themes are blue, cyan and green, while on the normal ball part, the color will change to red and orange, and the lyrics will get a lot more intense during the ball segment.
82-88%: After the lyrics of "He was breaking down", the player must follow the arrows during the ship and 4x speed segment in any direction. The player must avoid the saw blades during the part.
89-95%: After that, the song becomes calmer than the 4x speed part, and the cube part is easier before the final lyrics. In the final lyrics, the cube segment requires more timings and click inputs while during the sync then the ball and spider part, same with goes with the cube part, and the final lyrics end with the cube part before the dual segment.
95-100%: After the lyrics end at "Together Happily", the player must avoid the spikes during the dual segment, then the ship part, the player must avoid the three spikes at 99.00%-99.53%, causing the player a lot of rages.

Errors[]

It is possible to:

Skip a jump at 9-10% while holding a pink dash orb.
Skip a black orb at 25%.
Jump at Sneaky in 33%, but the player must jump late.
Skip a green orb while holding a green dash orb at 44%.
Skip a black orb and yellow pad during a ball part at 54%, but the player must click near the yellow gravitation portal.
Skip a spider portal during the UFO part at 62%.
Crash at 63-64% during the ball part if the player click too early.
Skip two pink dash orbs at 75%, and the player must jump before clicking the green dash orb.
Crash at 89.19% rarely but the cube portal was stacked at invisible pink pad instead of yellow pad.
Skip a black orb at 93% If a player click a yellow orb lately.

User coins[]

All coins are located at 99% and free to collect if the player collects all the collectibles throughout the level.

To collect the first coin, you need to collect two skulls:
- The first skull is at 12%, in the ship sequence. To collect it, you need to fly in a narrow space. The skull is red.
- The second skull is at 65%, in the ship sequence. To collect it, you need to fly down. It is blue in color.
To collect the second coin, you need to collect two flasks:
- The first flask is at 39%, in the UFO segment. To collect it, you do not need to fly to a size portal but go above, also jittering. The flask is yellow.
- The second flask is at 77%, in the wave segment. To collect it, you need to go in an alternative way by flying up. The flask is blue.
To collect the third and final coin, you need to collect two hearts:
- The first heart is at 56% ship sequence. To collect it, you need to fly above the cube portal. The heart is green in color.
- The second heart is at 85% (ship stage). To collect you need to change the path. You must not fly up, but instead, fly down between the saw blades. It is pink in color.

Trivia[]

The level is free to copy.
The level contains 95,130 objects.
The level is 9m 26s in length.
RobTop left a comment on this level, saying: "Soooo..... LOOOOOOOOOONG".
The whole level is at slow speed, except for a tricky ship sequence near the end of the level, which is in quadruple speed.
Hypnotic Travel was the longest rated non-minigame level. The record was finally beaten by The Long Walk Home on December 19, 2021, being 11 minutes and 20 seconds long.
- It beat out the previous record-holder Dark Travel by over three minutes.
The three coins are obtained at the very end, but each has its own collectable throughout the level.
The ship part through the maze of portals may have been inspired by a similar part in Dear Nostalgists, where the ship must be flown through an area with both obstacles and 3x speed portals.
The LDM orb at the beginning of the level do not seem to have an effect when the level is loaded in Low Detail Mode; however, the Low Detail Mode key before the final dual cube does via eliminating the spiral effect of the background title screen.
This level has 138 game mode changes throughout its entire duration.
Hypnotic Travel is sometimes considered an Insane Demon due to its length.

Hypnotic Travel

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Gameplay[]

Errors[]

User coins[]

Trivia[]

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