Gauntlet Dark Legacy Maze of Illusions

[@jonathangerbino2621]

_"Dare to walk where no path is found."_

[@Senneih_cram]

for the rune stone ! xD

[@keltsune]

Best quote in the game. 🖤

[@francisdemeules1123]

Aww, Maze of Illusion... I think this level is probably, to my eyes, the most creative from Dark Legacy: Starting with the infinite stair illusion, then the invisible plateforms, following with the rotating landscape (Waterfall gravity if you have all noticed), the transition between days and nights especially on the long bridge to give us the feeling to run faster and finally, the moving tiles in the end which we do stand around and we don't move a single bit. All the movements with the level itself, plateforms and such, really give this level its charm. On a plus from me, it's one of the longest level you do enter around!

[@WarDragonOfTheLight]

Could you imagine how this stage would even look mapped out?

[@alexandergeppert3174]

Im currently replaying gauntlet and i cant wait to get their since ive never been to dreamworld since i was 5 or 6 when i played this maybe 7 but that sounds great i thought id never get toplay it again so i found the music a while back

[@EmberCelica]

@@alexandergeppert3174 Did you ever get there or end up beating the game?

[@austinmorrison6953]

That’s why I love dream levels in games. So much creative potential

[@DanielFleiss2343]

Austin Powers: ' That sounds really psychedelic ! '

[@qmto]

That moment when you forget to hit the switch to lower the last runestone and your path back to the switch is blocked so you gotta start over to grab it...

[@InsightReasoning]

Happened to me just the other day replaying this game...

[@beaniboy1000]

Takes a long time to progress in levels like this one. But when you get the damn rune stone, the payoff is amazing.

[@Exrier]

Every time

[@untoldtemple01]

F

[@beaniboy1000]

Ah. I remember playing this game with my dad on the PS2. I'd play the valkyrie and I lost a lot of health so often, the phrase "Green Valkyrie needs food badly" became an inside family joke.

[@randallfinkbonner5476]

I stepped on so many traps as the Jester that it became a family joke to yell "ME EYE" whenever somebody got hurt

[@MischiefProLion]

Huh, I always heard "YAIYE!!" 😂

[@thespectrumgamer7320]

When I was a little kid, my dad and I would play this a lot. He always helped me get to this level because it was, and still is, my #1 favorite level in the whole game! I love the soundtrack, and I love how random this level is. I even thought that if you stood on the moving floors for too long, you'd die, lol. I would go into this level and just listen to the music for a long time!

[@PravusTheKid]

before vaporwave was cool

[@Sibernethy]

I feel like this is a place not even the wizards or Sumner for that matter could fathom, but the Jester somehow does, as if he's lived there all his life.

[@zerwardzelaiine7622]

I mean...jester _does_ live there...

[@Sibernethy]

@@zerwardzelaiine7622 The Jester understands his domain and greater things about the universe above the mortal planes that mortals do not see. That's what I was alluding to. The Dream Realm is a place of secret knowledge and pure, unconstrained imagination.

[@Jtgop7]

I loved everything about this level

[@DakariKingMykan]

The music... the hidden paths... the flipping and flopping... but most of all: finding the 12th Runestone!!

[@glndlbro83]

2:55-4:07 is the best part!

[@alucardfu2]

God damn I love this level, so cool how it switchs from night to day and the music helps with the distortion of reality around you 🙌

[@supersmashbro596]

as someone whose just getting into this game. i didnt know about this amazing level. great stage, great music. jesters world is probably the best in the whole game. i just love this guy.

[@dakotastein9499]

very intrancing...this level alone is quite a marvel...but that begs the question how the design of the dreamwolrd went down with the developers. head of team: okay,we need one more world...and it has to be mystifying and defy reality..i want you all to take this LSD and come back tomorrow with fresh ideas.

[@keithholm7493]

Don't forget the runestone.

[@calebchild4467]

Easily the coolest level in the game. Possibly the coolest level for that whole generation.

[@gamewhale01]

I hate/love this level. It’s so cool and so confusing.

[@jonathangerbino2621]

Right, the environments just seem like too much to take in sometimes. Though I s'pose that's what they were going for.

[@andrewexists4517]

This was the only hopeful/ happy esc. Level in the game and I loved it

[@djbaconbitzinc]

this stage was trippy as F@%k

[@commonengram5258]

I came to look at this music because my brother was showing me his fortnite locker and the music called "old school anthem" reminded me alot of this

[@anothertoast77]

This place made my head hurt hard and i loved every second of it.

[@knightshousegames]

I remember the first time I beat this level Sumner yelling something like "GOOD LUCK HEROES!" at the end of this level, since it was the last normal level in the game, and he never yelled it again on replays, and that made me kinda sad.

[@jesseyancey7159]

I'm suffering from a nostalgia attack.

[@commonengram5258]

same

[@Adam-yo3bt]

i need to play this game again

[@starless4146]

The only thing that had me annoyed about that stage.... is when your on a platform (With SPIKES ON IT), and the platform flips upside down and then you flip right back up (all while the spike trap is going in and out)- you Get HIT by it even if you didn't Move on the spikes. Lol it's hard to explain. >__

[@JustChill_1031]

Yeah I actually know what you're talking about! That part was annoying for me too! xD

[@freelanceangel8962]

Spending every coin I had on Levitation was what saved my precious Blue Jester from those spikes.

[@gameboycolor47]

your worst nightmare was freaky and all but non euclidean geometry freaked me out much more. Especially when trying to 100%

[@KaiserInGilroy2K]

“Twelve...Runestones...have been found.”

[@charismapher]

DAMN. Vaporwave aside, I'm getting Mannheim Steamroller vibes. Gotta replay me some Gauntlet soon. You best believe I'll be the Jester.

[@paraplonk7269]

I would love to like, go inside this game and sit on a floating platform away from everything and watch the entire level move around as I eat a sammich.

[@DakariKingMykan]

I'm not going anywhere without that last Runestone!!

[@iwattasandwich8672]

This level is a visualization of MC Escher's dreams.

[@gddiggy3828]

Welcome to *headache land*

[@garitobee7541]

Sounds a bit like Terry Riley’s A Rainbow in Curved Air

[@thomasellis350]

this sounds like it came from the ghosts and goblins games to me

[@TheAireaidLord]

This level crashed on my PS2 and then never would load after that. Had to get an entirely new game disc for it to work at all.

[@KarlSturmgewher]

If this were digital on Switch, it'd be a different story!

[@TheAireaidLord]

@@KarlSturmgewher yeah I really want an HD version of this game. Maybe one day

[@artemisarrow179]

Getting the runestone here was always a pill lol

[@austina7989]

Sounds like a song from an fps

[@JustChill_1031]

Kinda of a stupid question, but just out of curiosity, but why would a maze of illusion be in a Dream realm?

[@Gabri_Lovecraft]

They probably were originally gonna call it "Acid Trip" instead

[@thespectrumgamer7320]

It is a place beyond dreams. If you pay attention, the Maze of Illusions does not come until after the nightmare. Perhaps it is a ppace where dreams within dreams happen. There's also the possibility of it being a parallel universe folding inside of itself, or your mind entering a state of Limbo, hense the confusion and illusions this level is famous for.

[@reginlief1]

It’s essentially abstract thought given physical domain.

[@xignitioncrowx5061]

Because the jester is a weird asshole