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I used to be here four years ago but I left. I was Guitarsage2k/Parallax5.

These fangames mean a lot to me (attempt at order)

1. I Wanna Kill the Kermit 3
2. I Wanna Walk Out in the Morning Dew
3. I Wanna Be the Volatile Presence: Stagnant Edition
4. Crimson Needle 3
5. I Wanna Kill the Kermit 2
6. I Wanna Figure
7. Phonotransmitter
8. VoVoVo
9. I Wanna Reach the Moon
10. untitled needle game
11. I Wanna Burnmind
12. Domu
13. I Want To Meet Miki
14. I Wanna Go Across the Rainbow
15. Alphazetica
16. I Wanna Stop the Simulation
17. I Wanna Hydrate
18. I Wanna Be the Ocean Princess
19. I Wanna Vibe with the Gods
20. I Wanna Be the Vandal
21. I Wanna Pray to the Platform God
22. I Want
23. I Wanna Pointillism
24. I Wanna Be Far From Home
25. I Wanna Be the RO

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237 Reviews!
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276 Games

GameDifficultyUser's Rating
Crimson Needle 3 90.0 10.0
I Wanna Kill the Kermit 3 80.0 10.0
I wanna Figure 88.0 10.0
I wanna Burnmind 55.0 10.0
I wanna kill the Kermit 2 72.0 10.0
I wanna be the Volatile Presence: Stagnant Edition 85.0 10.0
Domu 60.0 10.0
I wanna Walk Out In The Morning Dew 88.0 10.0
I wanna stop crying myself to sleep 85.0 9.5
VoVoVo 63.0 9.5
I Wanna Vibe With The Gods 70.0 9.5
I Wanna be the Vandal 75.0 9.5
Alphazetica 70.0 9.5
I want 60.0 9.5
I Wanna Pray to the Platform God 70.0 9.5
I Wanna Be 1 in 100 60.0 9.5
Phonotransmitter 78.0 9.5
I wanna kill the Kermit 70.0 9.5
I wanna stop the Simulation 54.0 9.5
I wanna be far from home 70.0 9.5
I wanna reach the Moon 50.0 9.5
I wanna be the 3lt@s4x9uo 45.0 9.5
I wanna go across the Rainbow 40.0 9.5
Everhood Colonel 75.0 9.3
untitled needle game 82.0 9.3
I wanna be the Magnificent Stumble 78.0 9.0
I Wanna be the Zeus 65.0 9.0
I wanna enjoy the Galvanized Peppermint Dandy 47.0 9.0
I wanna be the Ocean Princess 70.0 9.0
I wanna follow it 25.0 9.0
I wanna shiver 74.0 9.0
I wanna be the Neon 3 70.0 9.0
Not Another VVVVVV Game 55.0 9.0
I wanna be the Krypton 53.0 9.0
I wanna kill the 3sweepor 60.0 9.0
I Wanna Pointillism 75.0 9.0
I Wanna Duloxetine 60.0 9.0
I wanna be the Volatile Presence 77.0 9.0
Extreme Depths 2 70.0 9.0
WannaFest 22 60.0 9.0
Not Another Needle Contest 2 75.0 9.0
You give me butterflies, and I take them away 55.0 9.0
I Wanna Escape Into My Mind 50.0 9.0
I Want to Meet Miki 45.0 9.0
I Wanna Save My Boy 70.0 9.0
Summer Feast Needle 2020 80.0 9.0
Love. Memory. Hope. Forgiveness. Tragedy. Death... 70.0 8.9
I wanna tuck you into bed and hold your hand until you fall asleep 76.0 8.9
I wanna find my way out 73.0 8.9
I wanna climb the Witch's Tower 60.0 8.9
I wanna be the linearity 2 42.0 8.9
Selected Needle Works 21-23 83.0 8.8
XIFT 60.0 8.8
I Wanna be the RO 70.0 8.7
I wanna love Utopia 40.0 8.5
Full Techno Jackass 50.0 8.5
I wanna hear Okurimono Sunday 30.0 8.5
I wanna be the Paradox 43.0 8.5
I wanna be Friends 40.0 8.5
I wanna Anachronic 75.0 8.5
The Real Roaka Area 45.0 8.5
I wanna maimaimilk 43.0 8.5
I wanna best the needle 4 50.0 8.5
I Wanna Enjoy the Stimulated Strawberry Lollipop Dandy 55.0 8.5
I Wanna Be The Dreamroamer 35.0 8.5
I wanna Hydrate 70.0 8.5
i wanna fix what's wrong 55.0 8.5
The REAL JRocker Area 45.0 8.5
Star Compass 60.0 8.5
i've promulgated the clandestine needle 62.0 8.5
I Wanna be the Dononite 54.0 8.5
Panasonic Bluray 53.0 8.5
I wanna put out the cigarette 75.0 8.5
I'm bored 2 43.0 8.5
I wanna Hibikusuku 45.0 8.5
I wanna qowulu 100 40.0 8.5
Needle Hatena 70.0 8.5
I Wanna Be The Caretaker 55.0 8.5
I Wanna Leave This Hell 64.0 8.0
I wanna be the GravityRain 47.0 8.0
The Day Thereafter 30.0 8.0
I wanna enjoy the Electrified Butterscotch Dandy 50.0 8.0
I wanna be the Nyx 55.0 8.0
I wanna uplift the needle 53.0 8.0
Weirdle sp 70.0 8.0
I wanna be the PS 65.0 8.0
I Wanna Temporal Spire 40.0 8.0
I wanna Fall into Depression and never be Happy Again 67.0 8.0
I wanna Explore Space 45.0 8.0
I wanna be the MMM 85.0 8.0
I wanna be the SSR2 78.0 8.0
I wanna colorize the needle 42.0 8.0
I wanna be the Kaleidoscope 40.0 8.0
Ebb Needle 2022 58.0 7.7
I wanna be the I 55.0 7.5
I Wanna be the Matryoshka Special Edition 50.0 7.5
I wanna be the GR 70.0 7.5
I wanna be Anime 55.0 7.5
I wanna feel the colours 60.0 7.5
For my Valentine 35.0 7.5
I Wanna Get Some Drip 35.0 7.5
I wanna be Abducted 53.0 7.5
I wanna Relax with Needle 2 37.0 7.5
I Wanna Eclipse 57.0 7.5
I Wanna Look Inside 55.0 7.5
I wanna be the Salt 40.0 7.5
I wanna be the Kataribe 40.0 7.5
I Wanna be the Liquid 44.0 7.5
A Minimal Adventure 35.0 7.5
I wanna sort myself out 65.0 7.5
I wanna be the Neurosis 50.0 7.5
Hydrohomies 75.0 7.5
I wanna be the Lucien Needle 40.0 7.5
On Transience 65.0 7.5
I Wanna Stress 30.0 7.0
I wanna escape the Colorless Dimension 60.0 7.0
I wanna be the Neon 2 45.0 7.0
I Wanna Find My Butthole 50.0 7.0
I wanna clear 50 neon floors 47.0 7.0
I wanna seize the day 55.0 7.0
I wanna be the Vidro 30.0 7.0
I Wanna Defeat the Discord Makers: FM Side 60.0 7.0
efficient 55.0 7.0
I wanna be the Udon 36.0 7.0
I wanna be the G 49.0 7.0
I Wanna Find a Cure 57.0 7.0
Chew 023 50.0 7.0
Chill Needle 40.0 7.0
I wanna get used to Needle Game 30.0 7.0
I wanna Vine Journey 57.0 7.0
I Wanna be the Yuyuko 40.0 7.0
I wanna be the Mars 60.0 7.0
I Wanna be the Matryoshka 60.0 7.0
EchoVision 30.0 7.0
I wanna be the Monochrome Perception 67.0 7.0
Moonstone 68.0 7.0
Pusspatch 68.0 7.0
I Wanna Take The Neon Highway 68.0 7.0
I Wanna Take the L+ 50.0 7.0
I wanna be the Strongest Fairy 25.0 7.0
I Wanna Get Cultured 2 70.0 7.0
I Wanna Tell The World v1.1 (REMAKE. ver) 25.0 7.0
I wanna qoqoqo origin 35.0 7.0
I wanna reach Heaven 60.0 7.0
I wanna Wake Up 40.0 7.0
I Wanna Race (Rerelease) 57.0 7.0
I wanna be Cyan 65.0 7.0
I wanna be the World Apart 65.0 7.0
I wanna Traverse the Neon Rainbow 50.0 7.0
Stars 30.0 7.0
I Wanna Spook Jam 45.0 7.0
I Wanna Defeat The Eater Of Dreams 25.0 6.9
I wanna be the Colorful Adventure 38.0 6.9
I wanna get the Yellow Star 30.0 6.9
I wanna be the Arcfox Needle 67.0 6.9
I wanna CUBETECH 40.0 6.9
I wanna fall into the snow 50.0 6.9
I wanna Remember my lovely Cat 35.0 6.8
I wanna Discover 50 Shades of Crimson 73.0 6.8
Love Her Madly 60.0 6.7
I wanna scale the Red Needle 85.0 6.7
I Wanna be the AIW 60.0 6.7
Melancholy Needle 3 72.0 6.7
I wanna be the Little runner 20.0 6.5
I wanna Weave Through the Witch's Needle 65.0 6.5
I Wanna Sertraline 50.0 6.5
I Wanna Make the Marathon Needle 48.0 6.5
I wanna walk through solstice 70.0 6.5
I wanna be the Aisaka 40.0 6.5
I wanna beyond the sky 48.0 6.5
I wanna play with Dangerous Toys 40.0 6.5
I wanna be the microheaven 75.0 6.5
I Wanna Take the L 50.0 6.5
I Wanna be the BHG (共同開発) 50.0 6.5
Hang on 65.0 6.5
I wanna be Minimal 48.0 6.5
I wanna retort 40.0 6.5
Downer 60.0 6.5
I Wanna Wave 35.0 6.5
I wanna be the Umbrella 28.0 6.5
I wanna be the Schrodinger's Kitten 56.0 6.5
I Wanna Appreciate the Wolf's Enthusiasm 65.0 6.5
I wanna be the rushed creation 45.0 6.5
first awkward fumblings 55.0 6.5
I Cant Get Enough 65.0 6.5
I wanna be the Aidoru 47.0 6.3
I wanna be the Kaenbyou 22.0 6.3
I wanna eat the ER 25.0 6.0
I wanna be the Fidelity 50.0 6.0
I Wanna Enjoy My Dreams 50.0 6.0
I wanna be the MU-GEEEEEEEEE 32.0 6.0
I wanna clear the Easy Miku 2 30.0 6.0
I wanna be Fed up with path ;w; 25.0 6.0
I wanna be the Virtualance 42.0 6.0
I wanna be the Distant 45.0 6.0
I Don't Change 60.0 6.0
I wanna Cigarette 40.0 6.0
I wanna deride Kotaro- from aslant 30.0 6.0
I wanna be the Gus Needle 30.0 6.0
I Wanna Fleeting Pink 30.0 6.0
I wanna be the Best game N/A 6.0
I wanna be the Sharktooth 50.0 6.0
I wanna be the Gravity Master 30.0 6.0
I wanna best the needle 3 40.0 6.0
I Wanna LoveSpike 30.0 6.0
I wanna 15 cooking methods of AnChun 20.0 6.0
I wanna more beautiful and delicious 30.0 6.0
I cannot but go ahead through the way of the starlit sky 20.0 6.0
I wanna travel the needle world 45.0 6.0
I Wanna be the TsuTaMao 66.0 6.0
I wanna gensoukyo 50.0 6.0
Narsarsuaq 50.0 5.9
I Wanna Destroy the Needleverse 74.0 5.5
I wanna come from the north 82.0 5.5
indigo needle 35.0 5.5
I wanna give the cat some acid 55.0 5.5
I wanna be the Flower frozen 33.0 5.5
I wanna eat the Rori Girl 15.0 5.5
I wanna eat the lemon 25.0 5.5
I De La Piano 63.0 5.5
My Love Letter To Fangames Volume 1: Venus 60.0 5.5
I wanna go to Extreme Depths 53.0 5.5
I wanna be with you 37.0 5.5
2010 Needle Hole 48.0 5.5
I wanna purify 3 45.0 5.0
Thanks for 2015!! 20.0 5.0
I wanna water a flower 30.0 5.0
I wanna be the Block 85.0 5.0
I Wanna Rely The Needle 4.2 30.0 5.0
Solnyshko 30.0 5.0
2009 Needle Hole 47.0 5.0
I wanna Rainbow Rain 50.0 5.0
I Wanna Eat My Literature Textbook 55.0 5.0
I wanna be the 3200min 40.0 5.0
I wanna be the Prodigy 60.0 5.0
I wanna find the Sheep 35.0 5.0
Needle needle 50.0 5.0
I wanna be the Ingenuity 59.0 5.0
I wanna be the White Dot 40.0 5.0
The Great & Powerful Beginner 25.0 5.0
I wanna be the Gap2 32.0 5.0
I wanna type well 25.0 5.0
I wanna be the Haru 40.0 4.7
I wanna be the Crimson Needle 85.0 4.5
I wanna escape from the Needle Land 40.0 4.5
Untitled40 43.0 4.5
I wanna be the aq spike 50.0 4.5
Is The Order An I wanna ? 30.0 4.5
I wanna be the 初級者 10.0 4.3
I wanna be the Tethys 60.0 4.3
I wanna be the Alphabet 30.0 4.0
I wanna jump with panda 25.0 4.0
I wanna be the Amethyst 37.0 4.0
Wish me luck 2 30.0 4.0
I wanna keep on dancing 2 35.0 4.0
I wanna clear the Easy Miku 25.0 2.5
Frankie Teardrop N/A N/A
what they say goes N/A N/A
Strewn Detritus N/A N/A
Hey shitass 0.0 N/A
the dono files N/A N/A
A Sky Blue Denouement N/A N/A
I wanna Psyched Fevereiro N/A N/A
I wanna play some beginner needle 20.0 N/A
I Wanna DXNT N/A N/A
YoYoYo Engine (RBN Edition) N/A N/A
I Wanna be the Ziggomatic Drukqs N/A N/A
I Wanna Flying Disc N/A N/A
I Don't Wanna Dwell N/A N/A
renex engine N/A N/A
I wanna clear the Crime & Punishment Ver.W&B 60.0 N/A
April is the Cruelest Month N/A N/A
The Sunken Cathedral N/A N/A
I wanna walk to the store 10.0 N/A
I wanna buy the shungite N/A N/A
Nebulous Thoughts N/A N/A

237 Reviews

YaBoiMarcAntony
For: I wanna be the MMM
Rating without final boss = 9.0

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Tagged as: Needle Boss
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Rating: 8.0 80       Difficulty: 85 85
Jan 19, 2024
YaBoiMarcAntony
For: I wanna be the Block
Giving any sort of rating higher than 0 on a game that has a... 0 as its average rating? Well, it's a bit of a risky play, to say the least. It puts you in the position of looking strongly like some form of contrarian that wants to pretend there's something good where there's nothing gold. This is the position I find myself in now with Block, an antediluvian fangame that was at one point well renowned for its difficulty. Nowadays? Most of it isn't that bad, execution wise. For the most part, you're wandering through what one could almost call baby's first fangame, a lot of invisible block mazes, many highly jank parts that would not stand up to scrutiny in almost anyone else's hands, and a great deal of RNG dependent saves. All the same, I find myself coming away with a more positive feeling than I think even the creator would expect if asked about it now.

Make no mistake, this is a game that almost no one can enjoy, and my own enjoyment is at times in spite of itself rather than because of its own qualities that I suppose. Mainly, it comes from the fact that somehow, despite everything, this game truly does feel like it was made with intention. Certain decisions in its makeup force me to contend with the idea that the maker wasn't just spamming objects and seeing what could happen, it's as if they were intending on creating a cohesive experience with a certain ebb and flow to it. Perhaps it's accidental, but really I think it's a bit more than that. What really forced me towards this feeling was the fact that there was one certain structure that appears three times throughout the game. Once? Meaningless without any further context. Twice? Maybe it's just a coincidence, or maybe they just reused it out of laziness. Three times? And that third being in fact a variation on a theme? Well, I can't call it genius, but it's notable to me.

There are these moments that feel more like quality of life decisions rather than cases where you're breaking the game or cheating, many moments where you can abuse the fact that you can shoot through certain blocks or that saves have no save blockers. You could say this comes down to the maker's own inabilities, but then there are moments where there are in fact real blocks which stop you from abusing such a fact, so who's to say? Beyond that, there are these weird moments where a choice was made to offer you, for example, a safe space in the middle of a save for no reason, but then you find you can use that space to save. The hardest save by far in this game is itself neutered by the fact that there's a hidden save, one that you'd only find if you happened to be spamming shoot while playing this save.

It's decisions like these, moments that feel like callbacks to previous sections, choices that seem like they were made for - or distinctly against, the player's own benefit. These are the moments that remind me a real person made this. It's not some randomly generated game, nothing artificial spat this out, it's a real game made by a real human with real intentions behind their decisions. Maybe these intentions were meaningless, maybe it only came down to them just wanting to do things for the sake of it, but all the same it came about through their own efforts. It's not to say that something having intention behind it applies innately that there is worth, but in this case, I think it ultimately contextualized this game for me.

It's not like the game is a hidden work of art, mind you, this is still a game that I would recommend to essentially no one. I won't say it's bad but I liked playing it, I don't go for that sort of thing. It's an okay game and I liked it, but I think there are very few other people that would feel this way. I mean, really, this game does nothing right according to the rulebook. Like I said at first, it's chock full of unusual, time-consuming design choices that force waiting or continuous deaths to learn how to progress through a save. Add this on top of some genuinely not trivial moments as well as some highly RNG dependent sections, and you get something that most people will not consider worth their time. Essentially, I write about this game because it made me consider my first works as an artist - not as a fangame maker, but just as an artist altogether working with any given medium.

Thinking about my very first experiences creating, I remember making a lot of choices that simply would appear to others as being without reason or completely random. In fact, at one point while playing this game, a friend of mine asked how someone could possibly have come up with parts of this game. To me, the answer is simple: these choices just kind of come when you're first starting out making stuff because you truly have no inhibitions, no rules to hold yourself to. I think about the fangame screens I would draw in elementary art school and I think about the "gameplay decisions" I was making, and they don't abide by any conventions or tradition by any means, they simply were decisions made based on what was in my head at any given moment.

And to some degree, that's the impression this game gives me. It's like you've been dropped in the mind of a child who just wants to make a game and no one's told them the things they can and can't do. And hell, I can even see the story that was possibly playing out in the creator's head when they were making this, the impossible to glean story that's really nowhere but in the head of the maker - or, my own alone.

You begin in the i wanna engine screen, a legendary start screen. Thereafter, you go into another, similarly familiar screen, hearkening back to the original Guy. Once past that, however, things start to go off the rails a bit. You enter into this place which gives the impression of a liminal space, the somewhere inbetween. After this, a return is made to a part of the engine screen, but it's been remade and given a new spin. From here, things catapult off into space. Essentially the game moves between the various flavors of what I've just described, all the while consistently using what I will legitimately refer to as leitmotifs in the form of jump sections (the previously mentioned structure, several very similarly shaped diagonal sections, two small apple towers, etc.). Then, you get this impression of a story told about a fight with this great being that looks somewhat similar to you but dressed up in new clothes. Perhaps they're the alien form of you? Maybe they're your brother? All I know is, they're dedicated to trying to beat you, essentially fighting you three times. Of course, one can go from here to consider the boss fights before hand as being the sentinels which guard your great foe, each classic red orb being ways of the kid powering up so they can face them.

And then, once you've beaten him once and for all, you're faced with the true final boss, a block with a number on it itself protected by two other blocks which are all bouncing around fervently. I imagine this as some grand machine, like it's the core of something powerful that we, the kid, have come to destroy and that's what the sentinels and the other, potential alien kid, was protecting. One could even think we're the bad guy if you viewed the story in another light. Who's to say this machine should be destroyed? Maybe it's what powers the world this game lives within?

All of that of course is just fanfiction, really, there's no way to say this is what was in the maker's head when they made it, but these are the sorts of stories I would spin in my head. It's this level of creativity and imagination that becomes lost as you grow older, not necessarily through loss of innocence or what have you, but thanks to some undefinable quality either gained or lost, we essentially lose this ability to spin freeform stories which hold no structure agreed to by people who know what they're doing. Indeed, we lose this ability to be truly, earnestly creative. Or at least, most do. So, in some odd way, this game makes me recall the times when I could fall into my imagination and create without a worry toward anything making sense or holding to its own internal logic. Decisions didn't need explaining because they were made as a means to an end, or ultimately just for the sake of it. Really, it was all in good fun, and it's something I can't say I've really experienced or thought about consciously for a long, long time.

Remarkably, they for the most part create things that are palatable (at least... if you're willing to hear the game out - and you're patient), but even if it weren't a palatable experience, I think I would come away from this game with something positive to think about. It's just charming! That's the very best I can say about it, this is a charming game and it reminds me that there really is no reason to abide by the rules, I can break them as I choose and just see what comes out. As for why this differs for any of the other hundreds of fangames in this vein, I could not tell you. Maybe it just caught me on the right mood, or maybe there really is something special about this game. Whatever the case, I think it is an amazing example for me that even these 0 out of 10 games on delfruit can be worth my time. Perhaps not all the time, most of the time, or even half the time - but sometimes, they have something to offer.

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Tagged as: Adventure Trap Long
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Rating: 5.0 50       Difficulty: 85 85
Jan 14, 2024
YaBoiMarcAntony
For: I Wanna Leave This Hell
Rating based on good ending

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Tagged as: Adventure Needle Gimmick
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Rating: 8.0 80       Difficulty: 64 64
Jan 1, 2024
YaBoiMarcAntony
For: I Wanna Escape Into My Mind
To question the self and your very being, that is the question of today for many people, whether in literal or more figurative terms. I will not speak explicitly to whatever the creator thinks and feels nor will I try to speak to their plight as it is not my place nor is it something I am personally familiar enough with to really be able to get anywhere in the first place. All the same, it would be foolish to discuss this game without in some ways tackling the very meaning of it, or at least I would find it to be so.

The gameplay itself bears no discussion because it's just all high quality all the time. I do not need to talk of the effortlessly creative design that comes pouring out like hot lava, or the evocative artstyle that defines Escape Into My Mind. Indeed, this is a game one could use as a point on a graph to highlight the journey we've gone on as a community. To compare this to our earlier works like from that of carnival and the like, you may not find it to be a strictly better experience, but it is undeniable that this is a more clear and overt vision when it comes to what this game is trying to say. I don't deny that there has been something lost from times of old, a sort of nebulous concept of character and heart that people love the old fangames for, but to claim that there is no heart or character in fangames of today when people are making stuff like this? Well, it's a bit silly, to say the least.

The most impressive aspect of the game has to be in that mentioned clarity of vision. It is not enough to say that the game is clearly meaningful, it is so much more than that. I love most when games like this attempt to marry meaning with gameplay, and Escape succeeds in every way when it comes to this task. Even small choices seem to bear great meaning, such as that your heart in one of the latter stages tries to kill you throughout the stage - that each chosen character takes on a different style and in the end are all going against you, while I cannot say what every little choice in design means, I am certain that most if not all of it had purpose behind it beyond a mere capitulation to the "wacky" artstyle.

Particularly, the choice to make the final boss each character you took on at the end of previous stages was a great one. It is as if each character was originally an attempt to conform to this image that the main character believes they should look like if they want to be who they want to be - and in the end, the revelation comes that they should feel comfortable looking however the hell they damn well please so long as it fits into their own preferences. It's not a matter of looking like the image of what you want to be, but looking like what YOU want to be no matter how it ends up looking for other people.

It is this expression of individuality that I take away from this game, one that can work both as an artistic statement and a personal one. Indeed, the creator is one of a kind within our community even if their inspirations are obvious. Releases like this are what continue to assure me that our path as a community is surely the right one, or at least the one that I'm glad to be journeying on alongside the rest.

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Rating: 9.0 90       Difficulty: 50 50
Sep 25, 2023
YaBoiMarcAntony
For: Selected Needle Works 21-23
The creator's greatest solo project, a personal belief of theirs that I myself can attest to, acts as one also somewhat indicative of the times in the community. Unfortunately, it represents the time through the fact that no one really played it, there wasn't much of a fuss about it on release and to this day you don't really find anyone talking about it. In short, the community seems to be tired of these truly difficult needle games, and furthermore don't have as much room for the quiet, evocative releases like this one. There, for example, wasn't much discussion of avgustine's latest solo project, nor that of biogom's recent effort - both games very much worth your time, but games that captured few people's attention. For the latter release, one can draw similarities between this and that game as they're both simply too difficult for most people to easily approach. As such, it's hard to kind of blame anyone for missing out on this game or biogom's, but nevertheless it's a great shame indeed.

Yes, Selected Needle Works is quite difficult, representative of the sort of base level of difficulty for most needle games of this ilk, that of the more artistically inclined. I will say, this is probably the most difficult of the bunch within this vague genre type I've tried to briefly pin down here, but for those of us willing to chew on something like this, it proves to be more of a boon than anything. Setting aside the difficulty, there's also some outright malignant design choices throughout the game, malignant of course to get across a certain emotional concept rather than just as a screw you to the player. If you view long saves as a malignant decision in this respect, then there's plenty of that, but you'll also find a few stages designed around the concept of obfuscation - stages where it's difficult to truly see what you're doing if not almost impossible unless you really focus. I'm sure some will find it frustrating, but I find the way it's implemented to be far more thoughtful than that.

I will not attempt to pin down any themes within the game, but there is obviously intent behind a lot of the design throughout the game - and even beyond that obvious intent and what the creator is trying to convey, this effort lends itself to memorable imagery that you just won't find other makers creating. I mean, I cannot point to any other person's style that is truly similar to what Theo makes here. One can make comparisons to Morning Dew or that of dopamine's games, but certain aesthetic choices give the game a unique flair that in turn makes it undeniably Theo in nature. Particular highlights would be the stage somewhat based around roots covering jumps or, in particular, the second screen to the Tree of Life stage.

Insofar as the quality of the needle is concerned, it is absolutely rock solid. There is perhaps one jump I could point to as problematic insofar as myself is concerned, but I think it is through no fault of the implementation and instead merely that I just fundamentally dislike the idea (you'll find the jump in the stage based strongly around platforms, and you'll likely know exactly what jump I mean when you get to it). Nevertheless, one jump versus the many throughout the game? Well, it's a good batting average, I'll put it like that. I cannot claim to absolutely adore everything in the game, there is certainly variance in quality; on the subject, there inevitably will be a level of variance to this game that you won't find in others, a small lack in coherence inherent to the game's creation.

Selected Needle Works 21-23, it's a literal name, being made up of various screens and stages made throughout these years, and as such you'll get essentially a collage of the creator's journey throughout the years. With that in mind, the game really does have some surprising sense of cohesion, but it does not play like a game composed from beginning to end, more like one pieced together to form a whole - and that is not a critique! I find that this method of transcription tends to bring about particularly interesting and varied experiences, and while I will not claim that this is one of the most varied games I've ever played - it mostly boils down to longform needle along with some light gimmicks and experimentation strewn about, I won't claim that it is one of the most varied games ever, but I can't really claim any one stage as being totally alike another.

With all that in mind, it's clear that I have a lot of respect for this game. Certainly, there is some bias inherent to my feelings given that I am friends with the creator, but I promise you that none of what I say is meant to butter them up purely because of that reason. Whether I knew them well or absolutely hated them, I would not be able to deny the high quality of this release, one of the top releases of 2023 so far. Please, if you can handle the difficulty of this game, you owe it to yourself to give this game a try. I promise you won't find another game like it.

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Rating: 8.8 88       Difficulty: 83 83
Jul 17, 2023

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