Took me few days to figure it out. Excellent and fun puzzle.
It was hard, but I think I overthought about the last part solution.

1 : yes, you can bring cube to the button, using gel.
2 : if you got that funnel hallway gimmick, last one would be easy
3 : go in - bounce off - go out

Mevious maps do make you think. Last part had me confused for a bit but was simpler than I thought

This is a map I am very smitten by. So surprised with how much I enjoyed it. I find gel to be an element that's harder to make engaging than most. But the raw, creative move-set here is unrivaled. This was a super satisfying solve.

Painting the cube to launch itself into a funnel is impeccable. Haven't even seen that idea before. I also love the exit condition. The layout, although a little funky, is very readable to which I appreciate.

A smasher, faved!

Blindrun
Only took me 2 hours (may or may not have had a small nap near the start, lengthening it to around 3. Was very tired from sleep deprivation. I at the very least closed my eyes for a while). Not bad for a fresh Mevious map.

Having played BEN 77’s Underground series I’m actually a little disappointed I didn’t get the solution sooner. I tried some VERY off-the-wall things, but eventually realized “...there’s no way Mevious would intentionally write such a prone-to-failure step into his map on purpose”. I knew I was barking up the wrong tree. I then remembered the core mechanic in the first puzzle of that series as I stared at the ceiling of the starting area and what I had done below it… then it all came together.

Solution was a little less “epic” then I thought it was gonna be, but that’s my brain’s fault for kicking into overdrive :P Incredibly clever and novel tactics required as always, Mevious. Like Crimson the layout and geometry are a little messier than I'm used to but that’s not the most important thing.

Difficulty: 8.5/10
Enjoyed: 8/10

Great challenge. Took me a while to figure it out.

Great work, thank you!

Love the ah-ha moment.

Am I the only one that solved it using only four portals????

I was really stuck trying to find the final move. Standing in the entrance, the cube on the red button, my brain melting through my eras and then.... I found a really simple way using two portals over the angled pannel That is not the intended solution???

The first few steps were great. I found this skip while looking for the last step and I haven't seen anyone post it yet. It's probably not something that can be fixed, though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DG4du_JoB5E

5 hours and VICTORY =) very expert map )

That was a really hard one, but very satisfying in the end. I really need to remember with your maps that every single part of the map does contribute to the solution, even if it doesn't look like it at first glance.

Wow!!!

Good puzzle

I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to get the cube over to the button. Took a break, got takeout, and on the way back it hit me. Everything quickly fell into place after that :D

I got filtered by the ending puzzle

Super fun

I loved this chamber!
It was definitely one of the hardest fair chambers (and by that, I mean chambers that clearly show the puzze elements but are still hard to solve) that I've ever played!
I also wasn't too bothered by the backtracking, there was quite a lot of it but element reuse is something I love in puzzles.

The only nitpick I have is that it might have been a bit too deadly considering how long it takes to solve, espacially the jump from the catapult to the button area that sometimes flinged me into the red laser, but that's not a major problem.

That said, I had to break it to avenge myself, hope you enjoy this weird solution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX0XlrrtB5M :P

Another awesome puzzle, solved as intended. Eventually. Thank you for your efforts.

I consider myself lucky having found all those steps in a reasonable time ;-) imo it's not only the final move that is hard to find, there are a lot of steps that are unusual so you do not necessarily see their correlation. Anyway, enjoyable final move :-)
Would it be feasible to make the cube auto respawn? This way the player can save the portal exactly under the bounce drop on the ceiling without having to reshoot it :D

@Mevious. Actually, after looking through the videos again of those that solved it, I think it happens to be I was always looking at the ceiling while carrying the cube. Pretty sure I was deflecting myself with the cube. I probably just needed to look down at the floor as I hit the ceiling. Maybe that was why, or maybe it was just my load of P2 that did it. Hard to tell. No worries though, just glad that I had "solved" it correctly.

@mechtakendall, Sorry that happened to you. I also haven't seen anyone else hit this issue, and I never encountered it myself. I wonder if you were consistently stepping on the faith plate in a very particular spot that sent you going through the angled panel at a weird angle. Anyway, if you can reproduce it, I'd love to see a video to get an idea for how to fix it. Thanks for the comment!

Didn't find this as fun as others you've created. That said, I could not finish it because I could not pull off the final move. Thought I had it wrong, went and looked at other people's solution, it was right. It just would not work for me for some odd reason, no matter what I tried.

The repetitive backtrack was tedious. Fortunately, I caught on right away that I needed to pull myself back to the starting area and needed to do some momentum for the cube. When I tested the momentum, I knew it needed a "bounce" off the ceiling. So I got to that state in about 5 minutes, then spent a good 15 minutes attempting the final maneuver and kept missing the portal when I bounced off the ceiling. If I didn't carry the cube, I could do it by re-shooting the portal, but not once with the cube did it work. Everyone else seemed to effortlessly do it, so not sure why it didn't work for me.

it's quite tough but annoying as fuck

Amazing stuff. Very fun to figure out. Took me awhile

Glad to see new maps from you. New ones more difficult than oldest. Enjoyed a lot!

I was close to giving up but then it clicked. That final step wasn't that strongly connected to the other parts of the puzzle though. It's nothing extraordinary but since it wasn't set up as well as I think it could've been, I felt a bit cheated.

Still though, a great concept and a wonderful reuse of the blue gel and funnel.

I'd say this one was crazier than normal, but then none of your tests are normal. Great job!

Extremely satisfying final step.

Nice map with the ending move being a little bit of a wall for me, but I got there in the end

https://youtu.be/kMca2CJ1HRw

Thanks for all the comments and videos!

@Miami Mike Not sure if you figured it out or of anyone else is curious: The dripping water is only there to prevent blue gel from staying on the panel if you manage to paint it like asears16 .

Nice puzzle - staying true to Portal 2 by inflicting a little brain damage

ahh great map! i hate i needed a hint.

Last move by your maps always eludes me, but at least I got it after seeing gel pasted onto the roof of Entrance area, do something new everyday.

Amazing map, great job! Thank you. That very last move took me forever and I wasn't even smart enough to solve it the way it was intended:

Placed the gel on the ground instead the ceiling. Let the box bounce on the gel once and then kept it in a back and forth loop between the portals. Walked to area where you crossed the water with the funnel earlier, placed a portal up on the wall which launched the box out of the loop and caught it.
After checking other players solution, mine is kinda similar to "lapicidas" but after you already moved the surface farther away. But you've to nearly do all the same necessary steps first to get the gel there. Maybe moving the surface even farther away would prevent this (a little inconsistent) solution.

Really cool map with clever moves and reuses. Big thumbs up.

Excellent puzzle with several clever uses for the bounce gel!

Blind run: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud1IISK6TTg

Has anyone figured out the reason for the water dripping onto to the angled panel ?

Good thing i had a similar solution on my maps, i did it very fast!

Took me a while to see the last move. Pretty cool!

Excellent! No doubt about it, the king has returned to reclaim his throne.

it took me a long time, very good level

Funny map! Gel the ceiling

Very nice!

I watched the videos; I did the last move by a slightly different method, but it looks like just a variation and nothing that breaks it :)

Good fun and clever end move, thumbs up. I wasted a lot of time trying to get to the set up I wanted, for what I thought was the end move. It got a lot easier, once I gave up on a set up that I couldn’t achieve!

Very nice

Fantastic job,@Mevious! I really enjoyed it :)

Solution: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1oi4y1w7Mo