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About time I updated this bio.
Name: Edgar Cochran
Country: Mexico
Currently living in: Mexico City
-God's servant and one of his blessed sons (John 1:12; John 3:16).
-Lover of the entire animal and plant creation.
-Film lover and reviewer for Letterboxd.com (https://letterboxd.com/elcochran90).
-Adjunct professor and personal tutor of Statistical Inference, Business Forecasting, Marketing Research and Portfolio Theory.
Fangaming experience began in August 2018, so only modest achievements here. However, I'll describe some relevant FAQs here made to me during my stay here since 2018:
Q: Are videogames art?
A: Yes
Q: Are fangames videogames?
A: Yes
Q: Why are your reviews long and unconventional?
A: I am a film reviewer; in a way, I sort of unconsciously dragged my style of film reviewing to the world of fangames. I often involve personal experiences in my writing. Expect that structure; I'm not planning to change it.
Q: How are you rating games? Do you compare fangames as normal games that your ratings are lower than all other people ratings or are you just a critical person?
A: My ratings are not lower than people's ratings all of the time regarding fangames, but they are most of the time. However, this is not my intention. I am rating them as normal games, as in, I don't have a different spectrum for rating "normal", "official" games than fangames. They are in the same scale, because they are all videogames. I don't like to think myself as a critical person; ratings are just subjective numbers. However, I have realized that I rate games more harshly than I rate films/short films, which I do more often.
Q: What are your favorite fangames?
A: I have not played enough fangames to make a comprehensive and representative list, but this can be answered by going to my Favorites list. Anything getting 6.7 or higher will be considered immediately as a favorite.
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For: I wanna Become the Vegetable 2
The game made improvements and I am noticing a veeeery tempting affiliation from the maker with Destination. That's a very good sign. Picking up where we left off, the game begins with a hilarious and cute image, as a true sequel should. It is very nice to have Aolan around because he takes us back to what made old-school fangames good (and I will insist on the fact that we owe 90% of all elements to Kayin and his massively underrated original game). It is a trap game, which has never been of my liking, but there is this ONE trap that did make me laugh. Making me laugh is harder than making a stone laugh because I am a boring person, so there. For a change, not all traps are at the end of a save, so thanks for that too. It is a wee bit longer (although still not short for representing the old-school renaissance we really need), and has a couple more gimmicks, standard and overdone, but they are there. It also has the surprise Pikachu face meme and that always adds points by itself because surprise Pikachu face.
There is a platforming section I really dug just before the final boss, and the ending is even sweeter than last time. There is a strong message that we should embrace and, like if we were kids, we're being reminded of simple social principles. And all this from a fangame... Wow. Well, I guess my heart is made of stone.
This is a rare case. If you do have an appreciation for old fangames and can recognize what made them unique and created an era, you MUST play this. It is not optional. You will love it. It's simply not for me, but not because I don't like old fangames (my favorites happen to be mostly old ones), but because I am looking for a full adventure that picks all of those special pieces and become a memorable experience from beginning to end, something on the scale of See the Moon or Enjoy The Game 2, instead of becoming referential and not being fully authentic. The character and the ending, however, are very authentic, and those are the most valuable traits. That's the path to follow.
Yeah, ignore my rating.
For: I wanna Become the Vegetable
For: We Live Under The Stairs
Also, I spent half an hour getting an item because it wasn't intuitive at all: the rope. This killed the mood for me quite a bit. I will admit I am dumb with detective games, but I found this particular find problematic, unlike the other ones, which gave you clues.
The record scene is one for the ages.
Also, be sure to keep playing for a while after the "ending". The extra stuff is quite disturbing and, hey... could a sequel be made out of this??
For: Boshy 2
"Since, I am noticing you and your reviews I have one question, which I am interested in: how are you rating games? Like, do you compare fangames as normal games that your ratings are lower than all other people ratings or are you just a critical person?"
My answer was quite simple. "My ratings are not lower than people's ratings all of the time regarding fangames, but they are most of the time. However, this is not my intention. I am rating them as normal games, as in, I don't have a different spectrum for rating 'normal', 'official' games than fangames. They are in the same scale, because they are all videogames[...] I don't like to think myself as a critical person; ratings are just subjective numbers. However, I have realized that I rate games more harshly than I rate films/short films, which I do more often. I am not a gamer like my younger brother is, so my experience with games is really low[...]". I then sent him the link him to my GameFAQs profile, particularly my videogame ratings, in order to state examples of how I was placing fangames along the quality of other equally-rated official games, which he thanked. And so, my first good friendship was born in this site.
This is the second worst videogame I have ever played.
For: I wanna Giripossible
I did manage to get 0 deaths on my first playthrough until the Quiz at the end costed me four deaths because nihongo ga wakarimasen. That section is actually the fun one, but there isn't an English version, so if you're not learning Japanese like me or don't know it (or simply aren't Japanese kappa), it all then becomes an exercise of do and repeat until you get a pattern right, because the questions are always made in the same order.
Absolutely not recommended for anyone, espcially beginners looking forward to meet fangames. They will be scared away.
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