Small but clever, and the funny thing is that the final move is fail-proof. Either you hit your target or you take another shot next time, but once you hit it everything works out and you can't go wrong - except if you mess up (accidentally swap) your portals.

Playthrough
So, this really can't be called a blindrun of any kind due to the fact that OBS glitched and my first recording was screwed up - it was just a still frame for the entire video and a bunch of random Portal 2 sounds because it still captured that properly. I did mess up once so it isn't a completely clean run anyway. Last time it only took me a minute longer, and the very first time I played it it did take me a while.

Difficulty: 5.5/10
Design: 9.25/10
Enjoyed: 7.75/10

Just re-played this map. Played it back in 2019 and didn't remember the solution, so I went at it again. I'll bet it took me half the time to solve this time because of what I've learned playing your other maps. Very nice challenge.

Another tricky one. Thanks!

What a design! Kudos!

there's a short jump near the start of the puzzle that allows you to skip most of the puzzling

This one is an extraordinarily great design Demon. I played it a few years ago and just had a lot of intrigue figuring it all out again. Thank you for making it.

I would have given up on this level if I didn't trust Demon Arisen to have designed a simple, elegant yet challenging puzzle. Because of that, I kept at it, and felt immense satisfaction when II eventually solved it. These levels are a great guide to me when thinking of ones to design.

The core of this puzzle is still good.

Well, this one took me a while because I actually believed you when you said your maps didn't contain any ninja moves. Once I opened my mind to the possibilities things became clear. Thanks for your work.

Thanks canticle, congrats on the solve! Glad you enjoyed it :)

This puzzle epitomized me saying "this is what I will do" and just as I about have "this" set up, I see why it will not work...but then see another option that actually was part of the solution to the puzzle. To use a StarTrekism: my quantum signature was slightly out of phase with this puzzle the whole time. As always, clever and well laid out--hindsight for me, but foresight by the author!

My mid-air aiming is crap :) Love the puzzle though!

But then again, maybe I did things wrong.

Still a good puzzle, thumbs up. But didn't like a couple of things. 1 not being able to see if the cube drops in front of the laser. 2 aligning the portal under the cube on the jump. Would have been nice to have a platform were you can see the cube and adjust the portal. Nice map though, thanks.

Wow! Another great challenge.

My playthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFmHtxv8-Xw

I know jumping on cubes is unintended in your book, but it is extremely easy to use the cube to reach the floor panels underneath the laser , letting you skip using the funnel (except for the exit condition, of course). Still, excellent work!

@bullfrog Hey Bullfrog! Ah don't worry about it, I always do that sort of thing as well - overcomplicating puzzles is just part of being a puzzle player :P

Hi Demon, I first played this Dec 15 and added it to favourites then. I note that since then a walkthrough has been added and now realise that I was making things unnecessarily difficult i.e. I would F6 then use faith plate to fling self out of angled panel and shoot portal under block whilst in mid air and if I failed, which I did on many occasions, I’d immediately F7 and try again, as opposed to just shooting a portal on floor where I’d landed, then use faith plate to fling vertically which is much easier to pull off . Ho hum :)

Very nice

I enjoyed that very much. Very nice use of the elements. Here's my blind run: https://youtu.be/w83W5_ZJ74E

@qrioso Thanks so much! Glad you liked it - I definitely have a soft spot for it too

This map is so elegant and well designed. Favorite and thanks

Let the video speak for itself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY09d-JCKmU&feature=youtu.be

@Requiemsoul Wow, thank you! :) Those are some of my favourites too. Glad you enjoyed them :)

Yesteday I played 20 maps of yours lol. I didn´t played your maps a long time ago. I like so much a map called "Toxic" and "Splatter advanced" . I added "The Best of Demon Arisen" to my favorites.

SOLUTION: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xVfSfSbTpo

just played this map and i enjoyed
walkthrough was not done by anyone. so here is the intended solution. https://youtu.be/xhsOB8SAjO8

@bullfrog Yay, I'm pleased you persevered and managed to solve it after so long! This is definitely one of my hardest tests, and one of the ones I'm most proud of.

Brilliant, brilliant puzzle and, at long last, I've cracked it – this has been in my queue for almost two weeks and I've tried to do it most days!!!! Even when I worked out that I had to shoot portal in mid air at the cube blocking the laser (which took me many attempts as my ninja skills are rubbish) , I still wasn’t exactly sure what would happen until it did. Thanks

Nice! I picture it as a redux to Mevious's map Piston. Thumbs up and Favorited.

very nice map!

Good map! Figuring it out made me feel like my brain still works.

"When stuck, remember our motto..."

Nice work (dang I feel late saying this :P)

Excellent! Thank you

@kimist108 Mwahahahaha! :D
@h99pilot I'm glad you enjoyed it!

That was fun.

Oh, it seems so simple, once you figure it out!

Thanks WGS, Zigzag, | \_/ (), and ozchamp, I'm glad you all had fun! I'm very pleased with this one, reckon it's one of my best.

Terrific chamber!

Very good!

Also it didn't immediately occur to me that you had to use the funnel to move the cube up to the laser platform but it just randomly occured to me while trying to figure out how to solve the puzzle. You don't see that often either. Keep up the amazing work.

Amazing test chamber! My favorite to date. I have never seen puzzle mechanics used in this fashion before to solve a puzzle. Also the most challenging of yours IMO. Had to take a break and solve it the next day to solve. I can't believe that I missed using the angled panel to get into the funnel/faith plate room to move on! I just didn't how to get into that room while having the portal on the angled panel so I could fling myself over to the final platform and move on from there at first! Which was my biggest difficulty.

Shook my head at the start, very clever puzzle, enjoyed

@quaternary :D

@stormsend I'm so pleased you enjoyed it so much!

@dire.fcs @jgaultney @Innocentive I'm glad you all had fun!

I can't believe I solved this. Great puzzle. Loved it. Really fine design. Fav.

:D

Nice map.