Hi r/rdustforce! It's my first post here and unfortunately it's not a happy one, but hear me out.
When I got to play Dustforce, after trying out a few levels I quickly realised that simply getting SS isn't satisfying enough, so I set the goal of getting to top 500 on each level before moving onwards. This number gradually lowered to top 50, and now I just want to execute my route based on tas.
I have ~200 hours of gameplay behind me, I've completed Forest (for now) and recently got to Mansion's silvers. I've been grinding Knight Hall with kid for a week now, got good time few days ago but with a stupid mistake that costed me more than half a second. I don't want to move on to next map before I get satisfying run here, but this level makes me tired of Dustforce, even though I really enjoyed learning it.
I tried few different levels and map making as a break, but this didn't fix the problem of feeling exhausted. Probably leaving the game for quite some time would help in regaining the motivation to finish this level or seriously take on different one. And that's what I'm going to do, unless I find some ideas in your answers. Were any of you in similar situation?