Heartstrings (Niko15)
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For the story by Noodlekin, see Heartstrings.
Heartstrings is a first level created by Niko15. Used song and level's style are lighthearted.
Layout
At the beginning a heart composed of five rectangles appears in the middle. A short rectangles then appear on top and bottom, they are bases of visualizers. Every second is cyan and the rest is light cyan and one unit narrower. When everything is settled, a heart starts to sway, spawning pulsating circles coming in random directions.
When vocals start, circles stop spawning and visualizers begin to narrow from left to right twice. After that four individual bars moved to center and their ends launch in horizontal direction. Vizualizers narrow again, this time from right to left, only once. Last top bar also launches it's end in horizontal direction. Then seventh, eighth and ninth top and bottom bars narrow and rearrange their exposure until they hide. Meanwhile third and fourth top bars cross the map much farer than ever and launch their ends. Before the checkpoint, three short rectangles descend from the place of fifth, sixth and seventh bar.
Checkpoint 1
Four more rectangles descend from first, second, ninth and tenth bar spot. After that all bars narrow, each pair acts the same, but every pair on right is delayed. Bars are rising and falling and narrowing more. Meanwhile a wave of rectangles falling from top bars is slowly coming from right to left. At the end all bars hide.
Checkpoint 2
In this checkpoint a burst of five bars are appearing and launching five bars' ends. The first one is from left top bars, second is right bottom. Third burst is on the center bottom bars and the first bar reaches the top line of bars, making a shockwave, their launching rectangles are moving on left and right. Fourth burst comes from extreme left and right top bars, making shockwave on bottom line, where the highest bar is on center.
Fifth burst comes from slightly left, top bars. Sixth is on edge right from top and bottom bars, making slight shockwaves on both lines. Their launching bullets are covering most of the screen. Seventh burst is on edge left bottom and eighth is a continuation on top bars. The final burst doesn't launch rectangles.
Checkpoint 3
Multiple bars are descending from the ceiling leaving some gaps to dash into. Together they act like a waterfall. During this part, a heart disappears unnoticed.
As all bars disappear, map starts moving right and all bars are rapigly rising/falling from bottom and top alternately every verse. When the chorus repeats, bars at bottom ascend with a short rectangle floating above them. Bars at top also descend with a short rectangle below them which are touching the bottom ones, but before their verse ends, they are moving away from the bottom. Bottom bars are then rising and pushing the endings higher and then they fall and disappear. Lastly, top edges are pushed down, where they disappear.
Map goes back to left, where a heart composed of helpers is waiting. Individual bars begin to appear at different positions (not randomized) with a small splash wave. Each of them is launching six edge rectangles, shortening them.
Checkpoint 4
Heart's rectangles at the center are blinking from side to side and pulsating circles are spraying from top to bottom alternately. Meanwhile an event simmilar to the first checkpoint happens, but bottom bars are inverted horizontally. Eventually short rectangles rise and fall similarly to Checkpoint 3.
Next goes eight bursts of seven bars at different positions without helpers and launching endings.
Checkpoint 5
Camera zooms in and out. Events from Checkpoint 2 occurs but all bars are inverted horizontally and vertically. A swaying heart returns.
Checkpoint 6
Map again moves right. This time two bursts of five short rectangles are crossing map alternately from top and bottom every verse. At third and fourth verse rectangles fall on every second spot followed by four more rectangles falling.
Later rectangles ascend from the center to left and right, but the first stops in the middle until it crosses map horizontally. Two more beam-like lines appear while one bar is crossing map vertically making two shockwaves. Finally ten squares ascend in a burst of five shots. First shot makes massive shockwave on bottom, followed by a beam on edge right, making simmilar shockwave on top.
Map returns to primal position and another waterfall starts falling. When it ends, two bars begin falling on a heart at the center acting like water, which flows around the obstacle. Level ends with credits and swaying heart disappearance.
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Trivia
- There is a reference to this wiki in credits.