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Bio:

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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I wanna be the My heart goes on 1.0 10.0
I wanna be the Co-op 60.0 9.2
I Wanna Kill The Kamilia 2 85.0 9.0
I Wanna Start A Party N/A 8.5
I wanna be the Overlord 50.0 8.5
I wanna Arcana of the Tarot 60.0 8.4
I wanna take the Timemachine 65.0 8.3
I wanna be the RUKIMIN!7(SEVEN!) 50.0 8.1
I Wanna Maker N/A 8.0
I wanna be the 8possible(一般公開版) 35.0 8.0
I wanna be the Catharsis 75.0 8.0
I wanna be the Boshy 80.0 7.8
I wanna find my Destiny 60.0 7.7
I wanna be the Guy 70.0 7.7
I wanna be the Fangame! 50.0 7.5
I wanna be The Cat 65.0 7.5
I wanna be the Destination 89.0 7.5
I wanna run the Marathon 50.0 7.3
I wannyaaaaaaaaaa 45.0 7.2
I wanna reach the Moon 55.0 7.2
I wanna Sunspike 85.0 7.1
I wanna warp the worlds 50.0 7.1
I wanna kill the troll king 50.0 7.1
I wanna be the Neon 3 80.0 7.0
Not Another Needle Game 70.0 7.0
I wanna be the knight in shining armor 45.0 7.0
I wanna be GENKI with you 45.0 7.0
I Wanna Be the Butterfly 80.0 7.0
I wanna be the Barrage 80.0 7.0
Chill Needle 2 75.0 6.9
I wanna be the Micromedley 50.0 6.9
I wanna be Easy! 25.0 6.8
Not Another VVVVVV Game 60.0 6.8
I wanna be the Contrary 87.0 6.7
I Wanna be the Scapegoat 65.0 6.6
I Wanna Be The GBC 83.0 6.6
I wanna be the Cloudburst 55.0 6.6
I wanna stop the Simulation 50.0 6.6
I Wanna Fill In The Blanks 40.0 6.5
I wanna be the Crimson 80.0 6.5
I wanna be the Machinary 30.0 6.5
I Wanna Find a Cure 55.0 6.4
I wanna be the Chargrilled dish of resurrection extra strength 45.0 6.4
I wanna kill the Guy 50.0 6.4
I wanna Go Ahead! 50.0 6.4
I Wanna Make It Breaking Out 86.0 6.4
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I wanna be the Neurosis 60.0 6.4
For my Valentine 40.0 6.3
I wanna Outbreak 50.0 6.3
I Wanna Be the Unknown 80.0 6.3
Jingle Jam 55.0 6.2
I wanna be the Blocktroid 2 45.0 6.2
I wanna be the Diverse 60.0 6.2
I Wanna Spook Jam 55.0 6.2
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I Wanna Defeat The Eater Of Dreams 35.0 6.0
I wanna be the GB 60.0 6.0
I wanna be the HeavenTrap 65.0 6.0
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EchoVision 35.0 5.9
I wanna clear 50 neon floors 65.0 5.9
I Wanna End My Growth 35.0 5.8
I wanna be the Octophobia 25.0 5.8
I Wanna Find A Test Player 20.0 5.7
I wanna be Friends 45.0 5.7
I wanna break the Neon Miku 50.0 5.6
I wanna be the Best Guy 2 55.0 5.6
I wanna qoqoqo 2 80.0 5.6
I wanna Happy Mid-autumn Festival 35.0 5.5
I wanna be the Black 90.0 5.5
I wanna have a good WiFi 40.0 5.5
I wanna be the Prism 55.0 5.5
I wanna be Minimal 55.0 5.5
I wanna play Kiduija 40.0 5.5
I Wanna Uhuhu Spike 2 50.0 5.5
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I wanna be the Colorful Adventure 50.0 5.5
I Wanna Go The Twourney 55.0 5.4
I wanna SlimeTrap 40.0 5.4
I Wanna Enjoy the Stimulated Strawberry Lollipop Dandy 60.0 5.4
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I wanna qowulu 100 45.0 5.3
I wanna eat the Rori Girl 20.0 5.3
I wanna sheep 100 60.0 5.2
indigo needle 35.0 5.2
I wanna enjoy the Galvanized Peppermint Dandy 60.0 5.2
I wanna destroy the pluto 60.0 5.2
I wanna healing spike 35.0 5.2
I wanna be the Aura 35.0 5.2
I wanna be the HeavenTrap2 50.0 5.1
I wanna be the rainbow MIKU 65.0 5.1
I wanna be the Conscience 55.0 5.1
I wanna enjoy the Electrified Butterscotch Dandy 60.0 5.1
I wanna feed Your Escapism 55.0 5.1
I wanna be the Animus 30.0 5.1
I wanna be the Neon 2 55.0 5.1
I wanna be the SSR2 85.0 5.1
I wanna Love the Winter 2 20.0 5.1
I wanna be the Graverobber 35.0 5.1
I wanna see the Barrage 1.0 5.0
I wanna Struggle Momentarily 35.0 5.0
I wanna be the Blocktroid 40.0 5.0
I wanna Neonize the Needle 65.0 5.0
Hipatya In I wanna world 25.0 5.0
I Wanna be the 512 82.0 5.0
I wanna Grow Up 45.0 5.0
I wanna be the Poronkusema 35.0 5.0
I wanna Relax with Needle 45.0 5.0
I Wanna Uhuhu Spike 50.0 5.0
I wanna be the Kaenbyou 2 25.0 4.9
I wanna be the Lucien Needle 45.0 4.9
A Minimal Adventure 40.0 4.9
I wanna be the Guy:Gaiden(本家2) 50.0 4.9
I cannot but go ahead through the way of the starlit sky 25.0 4.8
I wanna spread my wings 35.0 4.8
I wanna be the Kaenbyou 25.0 4.8
I wanna go the Trap Way 3 50.0 4.8
I wanna have a happy valentine 35.0 4.8
I wanna be the Kaleidoscope 50.0 4.8
I wanna Bread 35.0 4.8
I wanna be the Kaenbyou 3 30.0 4.7
I wanna get the gold ribbon 40.0 4.7
I wanna be the Mars 75.0 4.7
I wanna fa trap 20.0 4.7
I wanna be the Steak Temple 55.0 4.7
I wanna be the Zero Game 30.0 4.7
I wanna be the Vidro 35.0 4.7
I wanna be the Dieary 75.0 4.6
We Live Under The Stairs 20.0 4.6
I wanna be the Flower frozen 35.0 4.6
I wanna destroy the mercury 50.0 4.6
I wanna uhuhu spike 3 65.0 4.6
I wanna clear the Easy Miku 2 30.0 4.6
I wanna be Fed up with path ;w; 35.0 4.6
I wanna be the Noizu 45.0 4.6
I wanna be the 3200min 45.0 4.6
I wanna make the Novelty 55.0 4.6
I wanna be the Showdown 40.0 4.6
I wanna rely the Needle 4 50.0 4.5
I Wanna Go For Another Ride 45.0 4.5
I Wanna Be the Piyopiyo Trap 34.0 4.5
I wanna be the orbit trap 3 40.0 4.5
I wanna eat the lemon 30.0 4.5
I wanna be the Strongest Fairy 30.0 4.5
I wanna be the Venus 65.0 4.5
I Wanna Rely The Needle 4.2 35.0 4.5
I wanna Rose Gear 45.0 4.5
I Wanna Be the Symmetry 70.0 4.5
I Wanna Travel the Night 45.0 4.5
Super Kid Bros. 3 50.0 4.5
I wanna fa trap 2 25.0 4.5
I Wanna be the 256 86.0 4.5
I wanna appreciate Meteor stream 80.0 4.5
I wanna be the Earth 65.0 4.4
I Wanna Develop An Appreciation For Music 45.0 4.4
I wanna rely the Needle 2 60.0 4.4
I wanna be the 0x00FF00 65.0 4.4
I Wanna be the Yuyuko 40.0 4.4
I wanna go the DotKid! 88.0 4.4
I wanna be the Phantom 60.0 4.4
I Wanna Classic Adventure 40.0 4.4
I wanna go the Spook House 30.0 4.4
I wanna destroy the venus 65.0 4.4
I wanna Survive 40.0 4.4
3 Traps in 1 room 35.0 4.4
I wanna eat the New Year! 25.0 4.4
I wanna make the Novelty Ⅱ 55.0 4.3
I wanna be the Orbit Trap 40.0 4.3
I wanna be the Locus 75.0 4.3
I wanna T.R.A.P. 30.0 4.3
I wanna go the Parallel World 50.0 4.3
I wanna rely the Needle 3 50.0 4.3
I wanna enjoy the Game2 40.0 4.3
I wanna fall into the snow 50.0 4.3
I wanna VANILLA 30.0 4.3
I wanna be the Purple Zone 45.0 4.3
I wanna Jerryfish 25.0 4.2
I wanna go the JUN-G World 35.0 4.2
I wanna be the Emerald 45.0 4.2
I wanna rely the Needle 45.0 4.2
I wanna be the Yassan(21) 50.0 4.2
I wanna use Snow magic 40.0 4.2
I wanna be the orbit trap 2 40.0 4.2
Thanks for 2021!! 30.0 4.2
Designer L's Wacky Randventure! 70.0 4.1
I wanna be the Popularity 87.0 4.1
I wanna be the Bored II 50.0 4.1
I wanna be the RZ 87.0 4.1
I wanna be the Color 70.0 4.1
Thanks For 2022!! 25.0 4.1
I wanna run the Terminal! 44.0 4.1
I wanna be the Best Guy 55.0 4.0
I wanna see the Pink road 40.0 4.0
I Wanna Be the Hades 80.0 4.0
I wanna deride Kotaro- from aslant 35.0 4.0
I wanna be the ArioTrap 50.0 4.0
I Wanna Be the White Cherry 54.0 4.0
I Wanna Graduate From DT 40.0 4.0
I wanna HunyaaPunpun 30.0 3.9
Thanks for I wanna!! 25.0 3.9
I wanna QoQoQo 55.0 3.9
Thanks for 2020!! - Thanks for I wanna!! 25.0 3.9
I Wanna Escape the Silver Tower 50.0 3.9
I Wanna Wave 40.0 3.9
I wanna get the Yellow Star 35.0 3.8
I wanna be the Skyclad 50.0 3.8
I wanna go the Trap Way 2 35.0 3.8
Thanks for 2017!! 30.0 3.7
I wanna play the Rubber Trap 20.0 3.6
Thanks for 2015!! 25.0 3.6
I wanna be the Azure 70.0 3.6
I wanna be the Flower 65.0 3.6
I wanna be the Onelife 35.0 3.6
Pink 35.0 3.6
I wanna be the Dark Blue 35.0 3.6
I wanna try a Collab 65.0 3.6
I Wanna be the Needle Satan 80.0 3.5
I Wanna End the Blood Festival 75.0 3.5
I Wanna be the GreeeeN 35.0 3.5
Thanks for 2014!! 25.0 3.5
I wanna be the Distrust 70.0 3.5
I wanna N 50.0 3.5
I wanna Trick or Treat 60.0 3.5
Chill Needle 45.0 3.5
I wanna buy the Crayon 65.0 3.5
I wanna see the Entrance 1.0 3.5
I wanna be the Tribute 50.0 3.5
I wanna celebrate 100 40.0 3.5
I wanna CQ 50.0 3.5
I wanna be the Adapt 40.0 3.5
I Wanna Fleeting Pink 30.0 3.5
I Wanna Be the JK 60.0 3.5
I wanna get Freedom 30.0 3.5
I wanna be the Churatch 40.0 3.4
I wanna PP 100 40.0 3.4
I wanna qoqoqo origin 35.0 3.4
I wanna go the trap way 30.0 3.4
I wanna Diminish the Colors 60.0 3.4
I wanna Limitless 35.0 3.4
I wanna be the Rain 35.0 3.4
I Wanna Vanish Needles!! 20.0 3.3
I wanna be the Air 40.0 3.3
I wanna be the 128 80.0 3.3
I wanna be the starter 55.0 3.3
I wanna be the Little runner 25.0 3.3
I wanna wanna 20.0 3.3
I Wanna Be The Mercury 60.0 3.3
I Wanna Macaron 45.0 3.2
I wanna be the Best Guy 4 70.0 3.2
You're the Kid Now, Charlie Brown! 40.0 3.2
I wanna be the Sunflower Fairy 55.0 3.2
I wanna Become the Vegetable 2 35.0 3.2
I Wanna Be the Competitor 70.0 3.1
I wanna keep on dancing 2 45.0 3.1
I wanna be the Chair 65.0 3.1
I Wanna Meet The Gensokyo Remake 65.0 3.1
I wanna be the Payment 45.0 3.1
I wanna conquer the blow game 3 35.0 3.0
I wanna stop the Stars 50.0 3.0
I wanna be the White & Black 90.0 3.0
I wanna be the Best Guy 3 60.0 3.0
I wanna kill the Maker 70.0 2.9
I wanna be the Heart 35.0 2.9
I wanna be the Saturn 60.0 2.9
I Wanna be the Zeus 65.0 2.9
I wanna be the Bored 35.0 2.8
I wanna see the Moon 45.0 2.8
I wanna trial the simple needle 35.0 2.7
I wanna be the Device 70.0 2.6
I wanna Kill the Sacred C3 2 25.0 2.6
Wish me luck 30.0 2.6
I wanna be the Flow 25.0 2.6
ゆるい針ゲ 40.0 2.6
I wanna conquer the blow game 2 25.0 2.5
I Wanna Possible 65.0 2.5
I wanna kill the Weston Douglas Jones 40.0 2.5
I wanna Go the Run! 40.0 2.4
Wish me luck 2 30.0 2.4
I wanna be the Explorer 65.0 2.4
I Wanna Escape the Mysterious House 40.0 2.4
I Wanna My Girlfriend Play Fangame 15.0 2.4
I Wanna Be the Picture 75.0 2.4
I wanna HunyaaPunpun2 20.0 2.3
I wanna be the Strong 1.0 2.3
Is The Order An I wanna ? 35.0 2.3
I wanna be the Experience 35.0 2.2
I wanna be the Quarzious - Quarzious Mode 5.0 2.2
I wanna be the Shiny spark!! 60.0 2.2
I wanna be the Green Moon 45.0 2.1
I wanna make Better Life Choices 40.0 2.1
I wanna be the Uranus 45.0 2.1
I wanna be the Yes Cancel 45.0 2.1
I wanna 50map 50.0 2.0
I wanna Become the Vegetable 25.0 2.0
I Wanna Be the Fortress Returns 45.0 1.9
I wanna be the Avoider 15.0 1.9
I wanna kill the Mark Alan Vincent 50.0 1.8
Thanks For 2019 - Thanks for I wanna!! 25.0 1.8
Lover in the Dark 30.0 1.8
I wanna be the Neptune 60.0 1.7
I wanna clear the Easy Miku 25.0 1.7
I Wanna Be Beginner Friendly 10.0 1.6
I wanna be the Perfectionα 35.0 1.5
I wanna be the Nervous 65.0 1.5
I wanna brake the Eight beelzebubs 60.0 1.5
I Wanna Go Gambling 45.0 1.5
I Wanna Be Like Beautiful Starlight 55.0 1.5
I wanna conquer the blow game 20.0 1.5
I wanna be the Jupiter 40.0 1.5
I wanna kill the Matthew Samson Diogo 45.0 1.5
I wanna be the Bowl 45.0 1.5
I wanna be the CaballerosⅥ 60.0 1.4
I wanna break through Seven trials 80.0 1.4
I wanna Giripossible 20.0 1.4
I wanna be the Perfection AAA 35.0 1.4
I wanna enjoy the Game 25.0 1.3
I wanna be the GGM 15.0 1.3
I wanna be the Math Major 15.0 1.3
I wanna kill the Kamilia 60.0 1.3
I wanna PD Happy 35.0 1.2
I wanna be the GR 80.0 1.2
I wanna be the Perfection4 2.0 1.2
I wanna be the Perfection3 30.0 1.1
I wanna clear the Crime & Punishment Ver.W&B 45.0 1.1
I wanna be the Perfection 30.0 1.0
I wanna kill the Maxson Li Jew 45.0 1.0
I wanna kogda titkami devki tryasut 39.0 1.0
I wanna PD ♡ 45.0 0.9
I wanna meet the Ruka 2nd 60.0 0.9
I wanna be the PYF 85.0 0.9
I wanna L 80.0 0.9
I wanna be the Perfection5 35.0 0.9
I wanna be Sure in You 40.0 0.8
I Wanna Be The 4 Elements 70.0 0.8
I wanna be the Perfection2 35.0 0.8
I wanna a lot of Spike 45.0 0.8
I wanna Dorito 25.0 0.7
IWanna ^o^ 20.0 0.7
I wanna be the SSR 75.0 0.7
I Wanna Be the Sadist 81.0 0.7
I Wanna Pass The Inverted Gate Jump By Using The Easiest Way 5.0 0.6
I wanna be the NCE 35.0 0.6
I wanna go the Magical journey 1.0 0.5
I wanna be the corner jump 20.0 0.5
I wanna meet the Ruka 55.0 0.5
I wanna Noisepike 1.0 0.5
I just wanna play the Needle game 65.0 0.5
I wanna be the Chokochoko 5.0 0.5
I wanna be the Gate jump 5.0 0.5
I wanna be the Diamond Jump 25.0 0.5
I wanna be the 500 40.0 0.4
I Wanna Fuck Kamilia 45.0 0.4
I wanna be the 針ゲ練習 40.0 0.4
Simple Hentai 40.0 0.4
S - Stands For... 80.0 0.4
I wanna Meet the Ruka 3rd 80.0 0.4
配置ゲー作りたくなったから適当な配置ゲー作ってみたww 50.0 0.4
I Wanna Be The Red 40.0 0.3
I wanna be the 50 SGGK Riser 45.0 0.3
I wanna be the 100 SGGK Riser 45.0 0.2
I wanna explore giant anime girls 5.0 0.1
I Wanna BE the Tempest 87.0 0.1
I wanna be the No cancel 100.0 0.1
Boshy 2 1.0 0.1
Hey shitass 0.0 0.1
I wanna be the Justice easy ver N/A N/A
I Wanna Be The Guy Remastered N/A N/A

380 Reviews

ElCochran90
For: I Wanna Macaron
*Cleared on 07/10/2023*

Three screens with a metallic design with platforming that gets randomly tough around the edges (I’m looking at you, screen 2) and a weird sense of humor that finds corner jumps funny, followed by a terrible avoidance with one of my favorite vocaloids: ATOLS - MACARON feat. Hatsune Miku / マカロン feat. 初音ミク. It’s freaking fantastic. And this banger of a vocaloid plays during an avoidance that requires you not to move for exaggerate periods of time. TTBB says: “I didn’t know they made avoidances for statues”. Your mind can drift a lot because the attention span gets naturally lost, until that part of the song comes where you have to move. The price of dying to this great song is remaining still. I was dancing much more on stream than actually playing. The avoidance has visual inspiration from the original music video and the conceptual implementation is, perhaps, in its worst form.

Avoid.

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Tagged as: Needle Avoidance Short
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Rating: 3.2 32       Difficulty: 45 45
Nov 13, 2023
ElCochran90
For: I Wanna Vanish Needles!!
*Cleared on 07/10/2023*

From legendary and prolific maker クライン (Butterfly, Emperor, Meteor Stream, Flower, and many others) comes the most puzzling case he has ever made in terms of simplicity, idea, and design.

-Six warps to different stages, plus one that gets you to the final boss and ending
-If you go to the top warp first, it’ll be full of needles, making it extremely difficult to reach the warp for the ending
-The more stages you clear, the more needles of a particular color corresponding to said stage disappear
-Clearing one stage, or two at the top, will make it easy to reach the clear screen, rendering the remaining 67% of the game optional and useless

My stats for clearing 3 stages were 18 deaths and 07:13 minutes.

All stages are painfully plain in design and very short. Each one has a different gimmick and the sprites for the cherries are hilariously detailed. You can try many combinations for this game to see how the spikes remaining in the clear warp behave, but I don’t see the point. Restarting music, overused song choices (although I will never say no to the Forest Temple theme of Ocarina of Time), purely cherry bosses, and a final boss that can be first tried and is not even funny.

For the record, bottom right gimmick has the orange/pink spikes and the wind gimmick is obnoxious. It’s also the hardest one and if that’s your first, you might be discouraged to continue.

Maybe the creator was just killing time, and you will as well if you play this.

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Rating: 3.3 33       Difficulty: 20 20
Nov 13, 2023
ElCochran90
For: I wanna be the Heart
*Cleared on 07/10/2023*

It’s a fangame that exists from the maker of Rainbow Miku, believe it or not. One stage is LoveTrap themed but has its own twist. Nothing special. The stage to the right is standard platforming in both looks and execution except for a segment that has the gimmick of making a circle of cherries surround you and follow you, spawning new cherries towards you as you move. Taking too long will crowd the screen.

Bosses are cherries and very simple. The second boss can be even beaten without moving if you know what to do and analyze the size of the sprite of the boss.

The most frustrating part was finding the third stage, which requires a dumb move: it’s exactly above the right warp world in the main hub, and the screen transition is dumb. This stage is the only one I can call “original” even if it still looks plain, primary blue and boring; it ramps up the difficulty and screen transitions are garbage, so you’ll have to guess by dying. The structure of the level is decent; if it was a scroller section, it’d be more intriguing. The boss of this stage is hyperactive and funny, but it can’t be taken seriously with that song and it’s an easy first try no longer than 15 seconds.

The three stages open the true final boss which is a cherry that combines all the attacks of the three previous cherries in a funny, yet obnoxious way, and the song is dramatic for no reason.

You beat it. The end.

Passable and unforgettable, like Giripossible (but much less awful).

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Tagged as: Adventure Boss
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Rating: 2.9 29       Difficulty: 35 35
Nov 13, 2023
ElCochran90
For: I Wanna be the 512
*Cleared on 25/09/2023*

Perhaps it was the reviewing exercise of detailing my main complaints of 128 and 512 that will keep this review shorter, even if this is the entry that I found the most enjoyable out of the trilogy (does 724-ish count? Can we leave that as a “short-film-like” extension of the trilogy, like the godawful Disney’s Frozen short films?).

This was much easier and entertaining than 512. Many sins are still present: the Rukito-like aesthetics is an acquired taste and has never been my thing (not a sin, that’s more about me), there are traps, the last stages ramp up the difficulty, the are choke jumps right at the end of many saves, and the difficulty balance is not that balanced. Some random save in an intermediate section can be frustrating and harder than anything preceding it and following it within the stage: the most notorious example of this is the left vine jump you must pull off in Screen 3 of Stage 7, right at the bottom left. This overall save was so annoying (including this jump) it made me postpone finishing the game for like a week, and returning to it felt more like a self-imposed chore than what you’re supposed to feel when returning to a game. Also, the fact you must climb the vertical corridor with vines two times was just a no, and that is not even the ending of the save.

However, let’s get to the positive side and be less Cochran for a while. It has spirit, the bosses are a nice moment from 128-Up where you’re said “ye, here’s something different so take a break”. There are two bosses this time, so this is the game that follows even more the overall Rukito structure. 128-Up also places a lot of emphasis on what could be potential lazy level design: sometimes a gate has a wider window opportunity frame than 4 or 5 frames. The second screen of the first stage was an “oh-nah-a-carner-jamp” and we can’t even complain about it since it gives you the perfect align and positioning to make it. There’s a two-frame window, like a gate, for doing it, so it’s fun. This screen also has the best example I want to give about this: it’s considerate with the player. Consider the final save of Stage 1, which has said corner. When you go to the right side of the wall, you activate a trigger which opens a new route, and for coming back, the next thing you have to do is double jump all the way down to the bottom of the screen (beginning from the tile right to the middle cherry). If you’re observant, the trigger also did something convenient for your backtrack: the spike facing downwards (just left to the corner) gets nerfed, so it’s not a strict diagonal anymore: you can hug that wall and then time your arrival to the bottom block. Any lazy designer would leave it as it is and call it “added challenge”, but here, you see a creator aware of the length of the saves and the consistency required. This kind of “consideration” happens many times, but that’s the first thing you’ll find.

And to close this review, we have the core idea: this is a trigger game. Traps are less heavy, so I’m finally not tagging it as such. The path that opens with each new trigger is the way you head to, and it IS the place you were supposed to go. You then witness the screen reshaping to a new form: small arrangement changes can lead to big changes in platforming. This is how you do trigger. It’s well done. No more “jump all the way hugging this absolute random wall” or “I had a hidden fake block exit to pass the save lol” trash. Everything is intuitive and the trigger hitboxes are much more fair.

Ironically, while being the best of the series, this one doesn’t have something as grand as the last genius screen of 256, but it is what it is: the culmination of 128’s distinctive trigger implementation to Rukito’s (ugly) aesthetics.

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For: I wanna be the Azure
*Cleared on 03/08/2023*

I remember beating hours before the clock ticked midnight and the year of 2021 began, exactly like I finished Needle Satan around 18:00 CST during December 31st, 2019. What a throwback to good memories, back when I had a responsiveness in old fangames with Windows 7 because of something related to Windows Aero which ch...

I’m not even talking about Azure. My question is, why did I find out there was an extra extra stage to Locus 3 years later? If I had known back then, I would have done this immediately after Locus.

More accurately, why was this released separately? It makes no sense, but I have two plausible explanations with me doing zero research on the subject matter, and now that I think about it, possibly irrelevant since they are pure speculations, but oh well.

1) Both stages were planned for being in Locus, but felt repetitive having two extra stages, so one was left as a separate fangame for not having effort wasted
2) Laziness or a deadline that have to be met, but wasn’t

Still I find it troubling that I have to review and rate this separately from Locus when this has the actual final boss and the ENDING CREDITS OF LOCUS. Why? More than a “conglaturations for conquering all these previous stages”, it is more like “bro you didn’t know this was part of Locus, but now that you know, bro do you remember all these stages lol?”

For my two cents, if the first scenario is what happened, the best extra stage was chosen for Locus as it is the best part of the game and it contains the only avoidance boss (which I have spoken enough of in Locus).

This possibility of an extra stage is “45° platforming: the fangame”. It starts very rough, assuming you have beaten all stages of Locus quite recently, all decently warmed up, so there is not really a merciful difficulty curve. It’s whatever, and brutal. There’s a reason why the entirety of Locus and the “shortness” of Azure are rated around 70 of difficulty. The extra in Locus also had a lot of 45° hills with needle, but this one maximizes that challenge. You’re not used to tilted physics, and you move, to our perception, quite fast. Calculating 16px gaps is a horror story and is a must in this game. Granted, it’s not usual level design either and one appreciates an approach to creativity: none of the screens are the same. However, adding traps to many of the saves after 50% of their completion is the final insult. The gimmick is enough for the challenge so that now you have to time, adjust and adapt to traps.

The song? Amazing. Screw the Falcon Sound Team haters: Azure Arbitrator will always be insanely epic, and for this game, Mystic Core works terrifically: no loop, correlates with the game’s distinctive and pleasing color palette, and the colorful spikes. It just fits.

And yet, it is a short fangame with a final boss which difficulty has no relation to the brutal needle. It’ll take 20 minutes if you are not sufficiently skilled, and perhaps 3-5 tries to the ones used to respond quickly to attacks. The sprite is nice, the fight is just plain dumb. Why make something like this? And this is the point where you’re thanked for playing all Locus as well? What if you didn’t?

It is this disconnection with Locus, the game giving you zero room for warming up, the traps in 45° needle / platforming, the lack of correlation with the boss, and feeling more like a short extra stage of another fangame than as a self-sustaining, independent game which makes me not enjoy this.

I’d only recommend this for the ones that played Locus and want to theoretically 100% it, assuming you got all the items and the extra stage in the original Locus; otherwise, even the credits won’t make sense.

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