Rabid's Video of the Week #23 - Immersion by Lukking

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Also, if you enjoy me doing this let me know, because the last month or two I've gotten barely any response and I'm debating whether to keep doing it.

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THIS WEEK'S VIDEO: #130

Immersion by Lukking


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3KBICmUWbM

This was probably the peak of Lukking's Line Rider career. It was his last project before he tried branching out in his style and subsequently left. Halfway through the project, he posted a preview in LCC saying he was uninspired and not sure if he wanted to continue it because he thought it sucked. He got a positive response and so he did continue and release it.

He says in the description that he lost inspiration and he thinks the track sucks, so he didn't continue it for another month for his anniversary. However, there are several issues with this. 1) It's over a minute long and very intense so it's plenty long enough 2) He could just wait and release it on his anniversary 3) The intro says he's "ready for another year" - I guess we'll never really understand what was going through his head.

Speaking of the intro, this track's intro is very long and pointless:

lukking presents.....
lukking presents.....
his 2 year anniversary.....
and im ready for another year...
with more....
power...
speed...
line rider...
are you ready.....
for the ultimate expierience.....
lukking presents.....
immersion

Not only is it ridiculously long (45 seconds - nobody wants to sit through all of that), it switches from 3rd to 1st person, sentences, "I", and Line Rider are not capitalized, "I'm" is missing an apostrophe, and "experience" is misspelled. This became the classic example of a long and sloppy intro after this track was entered into ToC3.

And speaking of ToC3, after doing fairly well in rounds 1 and 2, Immersion barely beat out Polymer Blend and A Quirk From Quirk along with The Painting 23-22-20-14 to make it into the Sweet Sixteen, but promptly went us against Incito and lost 27-11 (though a surprising number of people voted for Immersion)

The track is really quite excellent, despite Lukking's signature unerased stacks and signature power without reason. It's quite enjoyable, varied while staying consistent, and really rather creative. It generated some controversy when it first came out (as Lukking's tracks always seemed to do) but as time has worn on people have come to recognize that it's a very good track. After all, its final rank was 11th in ToC3, in the upper half of the Sweet Sixteen. People can debate if this or Origin is Lukking's best track, but it undoubtedly falls as Lukking's best or second best.

Definitely a controversial track. Amazing to say the least, pushing the bars of stop-n-go quirk.

Lukking's tracks are probably the most ambivalent ever...which makes them pretty awesome if you ask me.

just had to bump ♥

I think I wrote my best review on this track. I definitely think Origin is better, but yeah this track is coolio.

Rabid Squirrel wrote:"I", and Line Rider are not capitalized, "I'm" is missing an apostrophe

Believe it or not, he did capitalize the first letters. The font he used is called Angelic War and the difference between lowercase and uppercase is just slight. Its a weird font, but I guess he really likes it considering he used it in every single one of his tracks