Minor is a 2.1 Hard 4* level created by Optical. It is a level made as an example for one of his contests, the WMC (Weekly Mini Contest) #22, where the goal of the contest was to make a full level with 1,000 objects or less.
Gameplay[]
The level starts with a cube section with some clouds and checkerboards in the background. You only need to avoid regular spikes, platforms but also some sort of lava.
Next, the player enters a ship sequence with, in the background, a cube following you by doing multiple rotations and plenty of '0's. In this part, you need to avoid some saws and platforms.
Afterward, there is a mini cube section with the same '0's in the background (but not the rotating cube, because he is too slow to follow you), and where you need to avoid again some spikes and platforms but also use red orbs and regular dash orbs, until you use the last dash orb. At this moment, you will be between two saws and you will change extremely fast from normal to mini and vice versa.
After this, there are plenty of little parts that last between one and five seconds, including a ship part where you need to fly straight (in this part, the background changes to several symbols moving quickly), a mini-wave part, a cube part, another ship sequence (where the background changes to a plurality of lines rotating all differently), a cube part again, a wave part and a robot part (with an empty background). Then, the level ends with an automatic ship sequence only containing a text saying 'Minor' and another one saying 'Optical'.
Trivia[]
- The level is free to copy.
- Although the WMC consisted of making a full level with 1,000 objects or less, Optical managed to put in his level exactly 1,000 objects.
- The rotating cube in the first ship part does not stop rotating even after it goes off-screen, meaning that the cube can be seen again in the endscreen by waiting about 15 seconds.
- As the level needed to have very few objects, there are some unintentional glitches:
- The six red orbs at ~57% can be skipped by not using the first one.
- Within the four dash orbs at ~66%, the second one can be skipped by holding the first one a bit longer.
- With the same four dash orbs, using the fourth one really late will result in skipping the gravity pads right after.
- The wave portal at 77% can be skipped, meaning that the mini-wave part can be done as a mini-ship.
- Likewise, the cube portal at 79% can be skipped (except if the wave portal was skipped), allowing the player to do the next two parts as a wave.
- The WMC #22 that caused the creation of this level also started the Levelution trend, a trend consisting of not putting too much time into a level and creating more simple levels that are still quality ones.
- This level received negative criticism because of its featured ranking, with some players saying that Minor got a feature only because of its creator's popularity.
- Minor is one of the few Optical starred levels that can be copied without any password, along with Lunar Traveling and Verve. This is most likely to allow everyone to check if the level did stay under the 1,000 objects limit.
- RobTop commented on the level, saying, "Cool :)".
Walkthrough[]
Optical - Minor
The verification of Minor. Credits to Optical.