Solved all of the LOTY2020 contest nominated levels. My entire LOTY 2020 replay collection is attached. The replays are by level title rather than the rank/level position name, as it's just a hassle to remember which level was which, especially the level pack they came from.
Also links to the LP videos where I show off my solutions to the LOTY 2020 levels.
Part 1:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X45PkuKxquo&list=PLbp2m4KlFpJtMnhs7r88FQV8gwj8gIn64&index=1Part 2:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOfdDpuk-YM&list=PLbp2m4KlFpJtMnhs7r88FQV8gwj8gIn64&index=2Part 3:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91srQ5dNciU&list=PLbp2m4KlFpJtMnhs7r88FQV8gwj8gIn64&index=3 Fortunately, I have already played almost all of these levels. Besides the 4 Gigalem's and Nessy's levels from the Festival Millas 2020 pack in the previous post that I haven't played until last week, I haven't played two of Armani's levels, both of which are previous LDC levels, with Secretly, Greatly! (single level that Armani originally wanted to be a contest level but he submitted another level in its place) I have played before, just didn't resolve the most recent version, as well as DireKrow's Shoestring Operation and Turrican's level, so really only 6 levels that I haven't played before and hence needed to solve, plus a resolve.
Out of the levels that I haven't played and solved, I think Armani's
Breaking the Cycle will need a bit of a fix, as I checked his intended solution after solving and mine is very different, although quite fiddly and messy. Possibly Turrican's level as well, although my solution uses the waiting game to get the right spacing/timing. It was quite a difficult level for me.
Armani's
The Gaema Plateau took me the longest to solve. I kept being a skill short, and I can definitely understand why Icho was stuck on this one too. Luckily, I just kept coming back and persevering and finally realized something that would help me solve the level. This is also one of my favorites!
The key was using a miner to get the basher underneath the steel and so that the climber can go over the top. Before I finally realized this, I kept trying to use both a builder and a platformer to get high enough to be able to mine through the wall. However, you run into the problem of releasing the crowd later when the climber needs to go over the top where the flags are.
Finally, I absolutely liked DireKrow's Shoestring Operation level. I can certainly see why this was a LDC winner. Really good 1-of-everything level that uses a lot of really neat tricks. Even though this level ended up taking me longer than it needed to, a lot of the parts were quite easy to figure out.
The digger and stacker took me a while, but everything else fell into place rather quickly.
All in all, great levels these LOTY2020 are
Nice work to everyone whose levels from 2020 got nominated.