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Joined on: Feb 23, 2022

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Hideo game

my discord is squaredork or Square#7050 if you wanna ask me anything

i only review games that i enjoyed and felt i had something to say on

fav makers and why (not in order):
- Kurath: for making most of my biggest inspiration, The Farewell Medley, aswell as Ocean Princess, big reason i love platform needle as much as i do
- Wolfiexe: for making some of the best needle i've ever played (vandal (only got through 1-10), all of his contributions to The Farewell Medley (except farewell tower))
- anxKha: for making the first fangame i played, and still the one i call my favorite of all time (heavenly host)
- UbersawMedic: for having a great style and awesome design knowledge
- EchoMask: for making the best platform needle ever (traverse the precipice stage 1 (yes, the first 3 screens))
- Gustav: for making the Best Guy series, and Justice Guy, both of which have some of my favorite fangame bosses of all time
- lilly: for making the best trap needle
- Tralexium: for making some of the best bosses i've ever played, and his incredible art design skills

honorable mentions to RedBatNick and cLOUDDEAD/ava for making the only >80 difficulty games that are a great inspiration to my design philosophy and i have great respect for despite not being nearly skilled enough to experience (UNG/K3+)

honorable mention to G4lvatron and JonathanGD (specifically for Dark Travel) for introducing me to visual spectacle back when i still played geometry dash, and inspiring me to get better at making visuals

and a questionably honorable mention to Nearigami for making me wanna do this list by updating their own profile lmao

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SquareDork [Creator]
For: DIRDKILL
Made as a secret santa gift to Jqck, updated to version 1.1 yesterday (feb 20th 2023) (better late than never) with several nerfs, along with optional difficulty, and a secret.

Readme has extra commentary, and a changelog is included in the zip file.

I forgot to update the source code link in the readme for v1.1, so here's the v1.1 source code, if you're curious:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/wbucyvqmh09hcgt/DIRDKILL_1.1_Source.rar/file

(its ok i know the code is bad)

update: here's the v1.2 source code (jun 16th 2024):
https://mega.nz/file/xcdViIwY#PGNRkDrJtYmgUkDkXKsxA2ZOYTtqPIqRToeJFZVpzf4

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Rating: N/A       Difficulty: 50 50
Feb 21, 2023
SquareDork
For: I Wanna be the Kid Escape
massive day for fangame history

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Rating: 7.0 70       Difficulty: 1 1
Feb 13, 2023
SquareDork
For: My best gun
honestly really solid game, took me like 20 mins to clear so i hesitate from giving it a higher diff rating, canus already explained how the game works so i wont

one thing i think is always missing from adventure fangames is more action focused gameplay, different shot types, enemies that actually matter, more variety in general. this game delivers some really solid gameplay that wouldn't feel out of place in a game like in a classic mega man game

this game is what i feel action-focused fangames should strive to be like, creative enemy placement requiring you to think how you approach each situation, variety, and a spice of platforming

if this game was longer, had some gustav-style bosses, and perhaps more production value, i feel like it'd certainly earn its place among the best action fangames

sadly, it's unfinished, and judging by the release date, an update is unlikely, but i feel like there's enough in this game to be fun and inspiring, and that's pretty good for a game that is basically two stages and a boss

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Rating: 8.8 88       Difficulty: 25 25
Sep 18, 2022
SquareDork
For: Chungo's Gauntlet
/!\ SPOILER WARNING /!\

Grug know Delfruit no like spoiler on big review. Grug think review has spoiler for final boss and end.



Like everyone else's said thus far, not much what you'd expect from this site, but still quite excellent.

This is really one of those rare fangames where I recognized pretty much every song source, there were very few picks I either didn't immediately recognize, or didn't recognize.

I think one of few things I dislike about this game is the non-rebindable controls, the unchangeable volume settings, and of course the non-variable jump height. Those first two, I think are kind of inexcusable, but the third one's fine. I personally dislike it, but I never felt like any section of the game would've been massively improved with variable jump height, only kinda minorly throughout the game.

Another thing I kinda disliked was the final boss. Maybe that's just because this game is a wee bit below my preferred difficulty, but it felt a little anti-climactic. Perhaps some more HP or one more phase wouldn't hurt. That's not to say it was bad, just that I felt it ended a little too quickly.

I do appreciate the inclusion of a warp room at the end, even though I probably won't replay the game. It's very nice.

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Rating: 9.0 90       Difficulty: 30 30
May 20, 2022
SquareDork
For: I wanna be the knight in shining armor
Knight in shining armor is a pretty good game. I don't really remember it that much, given that I'm writing this review months after I initially played the game, but I think this is kind of an improvement over Kiduija... Even though this was released a year prior.

Kiduija has some more production value, but the gameplay suffers, and Knight in shining armor is, I believe, a suitable level of difficulty.

I don't really feel like narrating the entire game, or something like that, so just keep in mind that if you like adventure games and are around the skill level for this game, you should probably play it.

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Rating: 9.4 94       Difficulty: 40 40
May 18, 2022

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GameDifficultyAverage Rating# of Ratings
DIRDKILL 50.6 8.2 12