Not to be confused with Yatagarasu. This page is about The Yatagarasu. For the remake, see The Hydragaryu.
| “ | The great thief has arrived and will steal your life. Do you have what it takes to survive? | ” |
―Manix648 | ||
The Yatagarasu is a 2.0 solo Hard Demon created, verified and published by Manix648. It is mainly known for detailed boss-fight sections, but it received a lot of criticism when it revealed that most of the art in this level was copied from other levels by nikrodox.
Gameplay[]
The level starts at a sky island cube segment with a stormy background. During this time, the text explains the behaviour of the Yatagarasu, which then transitions to a cloud area UFO segment with numerous pillars and brick structures. After this, the player falls into a stormy area with brick structures and mushrooms as a robot and cube. The Yatagarasu slowly descends from the clouds, quickly rises back up and initiates a boss-fight, during which the Yatagarasu shoots projectiles and dives at the player. However, the player soon escapes it.
After the boss-fight, the player goes to a nighttime cube segment with a city and a moon rising in the distance. However, the Yatagarasu catches up with the player again and chases them throughout the city, telling the player to "stop fleeing!" After dodging the Yatagarasu's fierce attacks, the player must collect three keys to shoot lasers at the Yatagarasu and kill it.
When the Yatagarasu is defeated, the player gets sent to the Distortion World, a cube segment with insanely tricky memorization. After traversing this area, the player enters a boss fight with a Mega Rayquaza-like entity, who attacks with monsters and numerous projectiles. If the player survives the onslaught, they charge up a laser and blast the entity, finishing the level and prompting the special thanks to appear on-screen.
User coins[]
- The first coin is located at 12%. To collect it, the player must jump over the pink pad, hit the blue orb to claim the coin and then return to the correct path.
- The second coin is located at 43%. To collect it, instead of falling onto the yellow pad below, jump at the last second to hit a blue pad on the bottom, fall up and obtain the coin.
- The third and final coin is located at 68%. To collect it, instead of falling, the player must jump under the top platform and then jump again at the very edge of that platform to fall up and claim the coin.
Trivia[]
- The password for the level is 648648.
- The level contains 79,559 objects.
- The level is 2m 18s in length.
- The level is infamous for its extreme hate due to numerous copied objects. The list of the copied objects consists of the Yatagarasu, mountains, rain, buildings, mushrooms, brick structures, Mega Rayquaza, the city, lasers, trees, and the moon, respectively.
- The level had been rated as a Medium Demon for a long time before being re-rated to a Hard Demon, the latter being its current rating.
- The final boss in the level is Mega Rayquaza, one of the few legendary mega evolutions in the Pokémon series. Its black colour scheme also indicates that it is a shiny Pokémon, a rare find in the Pokémon games.
- The Distortion World is based on the dimension of the same name from Pokémon Platinum Version.
- The text that appears during the first cube part is the catchphrase of Kay Faraday, the Great Thief Yatagarasu from the Ace Attorney franchise.
Video[]
My first art level! The Yatagarasu by Manix648 (me) -Easy XL Demon- (Edicts''s gameplay)
The verification of The Yatagarasu. Credits to Manix648.