Level of the Year 2025: Playing Phase

[IchoTolot]

Alright, so nominations are now closed. Before we open the voting, we first offer a period to play the levels again, to familiarize yourself with those you haven't yet played and review those you have.

The list of nominated levels can be found in the nominations topic, I see no need to duplicate it here. It also contains information on where to find these levels outside of my compilation here.

Download links:

- NL Levelpack of all nominated levels.

Every author with 3 or more levels in this category gets an own rank in the pack. At the end there is a mixed rank for the leftover levels. Extract the zip file inside the main NL folder.

- Music tracks

The custom music tacks of the nominated levels. Extract the zip file inside the main NL folder.

Note: The music packs for LOTY 2017 and 2018 are now removed due to space issues. You can still gather the music yourself or ask for it though. 

- Replay collection

Some gathered replays from a few of the nominated levels. As this was optional, only a part of the pack is covered here.

- Styles not found in the standard library


All other styles should be accesible over the standard NL styles library!

Playing phase will end: June 26th 2026

General level feedback and solution replays can be posted here in the topic if you want! Have fun playing!

If there are any errors I've made in the collection, don't hesitate to inform me here! As a reminder: This pack is nothing more than an optional service I provide as an attempt to make all nominated levels more easily accessible.

[JawaJuice]

Nice one, @Icho I think the Music tracks link might be broken though

[IchoTolot]

Nice one, @Icho I think the Music tracks link might be broken though

Thanks for the hint. The link should be fixed now. 

[kaywhyn]

Also, to be sure, you currently have the playing phase open for 2 months (closing on July 23). This conflicts a bit with what you posted in the LOTY2025 topic:

... keep the playing phase up for around a month.

I want to make sure there's no mistake here and whether the July 23 deadline is what you intended. Sorry, I'm being pedantic!

[JawaJuice]

Also, also... I don't think you've included the right version of the Save One level, 'Blues Walk With Me' 'Blues' was what the level was called originally, in the first release of Save One. IIRC the final version featured a button. @Guigui can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe this is the final version of the level (attached).

mod edit: Removed level attachment, per Icho's reply below. For LOTY in general, level updates should be left to the responsibility of the nominated authors themselves to post for Icho to include in the LOTY pack.

[IchoTolot]

@kaywhyn Yeah, I was looking at the wrong month in my kalendar. I changed the deadline to June 26th. Thanks for the notice!

@JawaJuice I just noticed today that Guigui's pm only sent me a part of the levels that were nominated, so I took the rest out of my download of "Save One" where I was told that there were no more backroutes in my solutions.
I was not aware of another update. If Guigui insits, i can update the pack with another version. 
@Guigui If you wish to update, please just pm or post your update here!

In general: This pack is nothing more than an optional service I provide as an attempt to make all nominated levels more easily accessible. I do not guarantee 100% correctness with the level versions!

[JawaJuice]

@IchoTolot I think what happened there is that you never backrouted that level in the first place - so saying there were no more backroutes in your solutions was technically true. Having watched your LP after I finished play-testing that pack, I noticed you hit on the intended solution first time more often than not. The many iterations of levels, and that level in particular, were down to the fact that some players (myself included) were persistently backrouting it!

Appreciate what you're saying about only curating this pack for peoples' convenience, I just thought I'd point it out.

[Guigui]

  Oh god, I did not even see that 3 levels from my pack got nominated ; I only sent one to IchoTolot 

I just sent the 2 missing ones, sorry for having everyone waiting and Icho doing the same thing over and over.

Also thanks to the anyone who nominated my levels, it came as a nice surprise to me.

[Mobiethian]

There are a lot of really nice nominations in the LOTY 2025 pack! I'll be trying to solve them all over the next week or two. Excellent job, all of you in the contest!

[IchoTolot]

Updated the pack with the new versions of Guigui's levels.