[SMM2] Blades of Forsaken by Murmeli

Описание: Oh wow, what the hell just happened XD
TL/DR: I played the lvl for a long time, came back to it now after a longer break and fluked the entire 2nd half lmao

Well, that lvl has been an experience.
I've had 4 "grinds" of this lvl and always needed to abort the grind and come back way later.
The first one was pretty much when the level released and I played it for about 7h but I cannot recall that grind that much really.
The 2nd one was some time after (maybe 1 or 2 years). I played it for 21h10min and this grind was the time when I got really frustrated with the level. I didn't have problems with the lvl really BUT the prenai. The prenai was just super unnatural and really difficult to me. I probably spent like half the time just practicing that trick alone. The worst part about it was that the more I played BoF and especially the prenai, the worse I did at the prenai. I did not make progress or was at a plateau even which would have been fine for me. I actually made REGRESS. This continued to a point where I could only do the prenai like 2 or 3 times in an hour. Thus I needed to abort the grind again. In this grind I had 6 prenais.
The 3rd grind was last year in november I think. I didn't time this one but it probably was between 15 and 25 hours. In this grind I also played the prenai a lot but it happened what happened to me in the 2nd grind. This was incredibly frustrating as I thought the regression was only a "phase" which can happen in a grind but it seemed to be a bigger problem to me so I also decided to abort that one beause it just made no sense to me. I wanted to come back to the BoF once I actually feel ready for it. Btw I had 20.5 prenais and now nai (Idk where the .5 comes from anymore XD).

Now, the 4th and FINAL grind. That one lasted approximately 1-2h. Now that I've come back to maker fully I played the prenai again just to see whether it'd make sense to return now already. And I seemed to understand finally why I had such a horrible experience with the prenai. My problem seemed to be mainly that I pretty much overanalyzed the prenai. It turned out that my analysis was not really accurate though. I pretty much did the opposite of what now turned out to be the actual 'consistent' strat for me. The main issue was that I tried to jump rather low and I think my right throw timing of the spring was too early as well. Now I adjusted and it seemed like a rather high jump and late spring throw to the right are the aid I needed. High jump and late spring throw timing lead to the shell jump timing and spring recatch having a way bigger window in between. Back then I always either kicked the shell away or didn't grab the shell. Now I could do the sj way more chill. Even though this was very helpful and I knew that it would make me able to clear it hopefully I did NOT expect to clear it in the beginning of my first Actual session of the grind. The session yesterday was rather to get to know the lvl again a little. And yeah, I know the nai was EXTREMELY close. I was just surprised that I first tried the pre nai and then suddenly I'm done with the lvl.... like wow XD

Overall BoF is a pretty fun "mini juggle" (?) level. It's really tight and maybe a little intimidating in the beginning. Learning it may be the hardest part though. After that it's pretty fine imo. Also the prenai seems to be fine ONCE you actually got yourself a good undestanding of it. I recommend playing it if you like controlled things and juggle.
Also with this and DT, I've finally beaten my 2 "nemesis" levels pretty much. They both maltreated me back then and now I've revenged that :D

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