Abort! 2

[Ally 🌠]

Abort! 2

I know it's been a while, but...

Are you ready to jump?

In a prequel to Ally's world famous* VVVVVV experience** Abort!, a young captain struggles with self-doubt and makes a mess. A young officer fails to see the bigger picture and messes things up further. And most importantly, a young, dumb girl flies too close to the sun and struggles to find herself. In this VVVVVV story-based level, you'll see a heart-breaking story, groundbreaking scripting and a liiitle too much gameplay. Or not enough, if you hate cutscenes. But the level doesn't really need those, because it's all silly jokes.
Because it's all just memes, right?
But it's all just memes, right?
It's all just memes, right?
This isn't real, right?
It's not real, right?
It's not real, right?
None of this is real, right?

are you okay?


* not actually world famous
** level


Download:
Try to play in VVVVVV 2.4. If not, just pretend Viridian is red during metaspace I guess??
https://ally.moe/abort2/abort2.zip
https://ally.moe/abort2/abort2part2.zip

Soundtrack:
https://nyakorita.bandcamp.com/album/abort-2

[Kuro.mp3]

hope this is fire

[i don't use this site anymore, please don't look at my posts]

Logging back in for the first time since like 2018 to say this level is an absolute emotional rollercoaster and I hope Ally feels pride in the four years it took to deliver this thing

[uugr]

Worth the wait

[Dynaboom4]

Incredible level, because i did 2 videos on the level i will not comment more than it's fantastic.
(The videos are not top quality, i'm french so i speak poorly, and those were my first videos.)
So these are my thought on the level as i play them :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIgK3KReUt0 First part
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40a7xM4U0Y8 Second part

[Dav999]

This is amazing and impressive! The storytelling is amazing, the humor is great, the gameplay is also fun (definitely not too difficult - I may have died a lot, especially for optional trinket challenges, but I'm not that good and I also blame it on being sleepy lol). It has great graphics and music.

It may have taken four years, but don't fret about that (we all know how spare-time development goes), the present is what matters.

❤️

[moth 🦋]

so glad this is finally out!!! i loved the gameplay but more importantly the story is incredibly poignant. and it's got a great sense of humor throughout! so glad you made this even after all this time

[allison]

this RULED, i still need to think on this a lot to put coherent thoughts together but it hit rly hard

[Joshua]

The story speaks for itself and I don't want to spoil it here.

Looking back at it and having checked for some secrets in Ved this is a great level with some really interesting mechanics.

For me some of the early parts where way too hard (perhaps just a skill issue) and with me wanting to avoid invincibility mode as much as possible, those got really frustrating. But thinking back to the level as a whole and assuming that I would have just skipped those way sooner, I see no issue with the level otherwise.
I do think though, that generally there is a bit of a danger in putting the most difficult part right at the start in pretty much anything, in regards to how it may lead to a lot of early frustration and less willingness to overcome following difficult areas.


Regarding the big question "Was it worth the wait?"

I disagree with this being a relevant question. I don't think that levels (other things too) have any obligation to justify the time they where in progress. It's to some extend interesting for how much effort went into something. What's going on in your life I can't know. How much time you have, what projects you want to work on and what you want to do with them should be up to you. How much would I even expect? What could I do in that time? Do I need to do more for some time to justify doing less at another time. I doubt that would be the right approach.

Was it worth the wait?
The answer doesn't matter, it was a good level.