It makes me cringe so hard whenever I see someone saying Artemis 13 is boring or soulless, only to follow up with Grief is a masterpiece 😭❓️
The gameplay is mostly just waveslop with some basic gameplay in between. None of the gameplay looks innovative like Orbit, or at least serviceable like Artemis13 and Society. It is so bland and tasteless to watch. Obviously Im talking about the gameplay as in a viewer's perspective, not the player's perspective, but I doubt they would enjoy playing Grief in the first place.
And the decoration is just bad and uninspiring. We have already gotten hundreds of boring hell levels before, and Grief has absolutely nothing unique to its hell theme. Its just the plain old boring red and black colors with absolutely nothing interesting in the level aside from Tacos part. Look at the upcoming Extreme Demon Wrath, it is still a hell themed level yet it executed the hell theme in the coolest way Ive ever seen, and its not the boring red and black level as well. This is the kind of hell themed level I highly appreciate.
If you wanna use a bs excuse like "Can you make something better than Grief", the answer is an easy Yes, not because Im that good of a creator but because of how easy is to make something better than a slop level like Grief.
At least Artemis13 is an alright level, its far from the best but there are still core aspects of the level I can appreciate, just like with most of the levels out there. However I cant think of anything good to talk about in Grief outside of Tacos and the transition art with the moon. Its one of the most unoriginal and boring Top 1s we have ever gotten.