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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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For: I wanna go the Parallel World
I was expecting a much more difficult game than I was told by the average said by 14 reviews (57.1 before I publish this), but it is quite manageable. The game knows its influences well and, this being a collab, it has interesting ideas. At the end, it wants to be a super-ambitious expansion of Kayin's original great game, so it is 50% Kayin, 35% references to mainstream games (with a notorious fixation on Mario) and 15% a medley (excluding the I Wanna Be The Guy universe concept). It is a worthy adventure, something I wouldn't revisit, but something I wouldn't hesitate to play at least once. It's long enough and the variety at display is fine. Nice graphics as well.
The last boss, I feel, is a letdown, but the fact that this gave me a modest Run The Marathon vibe in the Pokemon segment is a plus for it.
For: I wanna be the GB
I have always loathed the trap subgenre and this is no exception, but my younger brother just saw me play my first blind playthrough and he was laughing his soul off, especially during the Kirby section, at almost every troll I got. I must admit a few were genuinely funny. Half of the times, I did feel in a Game Boy or Game Boy Color game. The game saves the best for last and the last boss rush, despite an obvious and non-creative troll joke, is not so bad to experience. It is the whole preceeding rest the one that is quite the mindtrip.
But don't tell me that the Conquer the Blow Game trilogy is better than this. This game is better than the three combined. There are more memorable moments here than in those games, and there is an undeniable passion at the act of trying to imprint a Game Boy vibe with an astonishing variety of origial games for the classic videogame geek; it carries that homage spirit of Kayin.
It is very inconsistent, but before watching the average rating, I was expecting the worse thing ever. It wasn't. It's just a mess with more good than bad. The opening screen, for some bizarre reason, has been referenced endless times, like the Plan 9 From Outer Space of fangames. It's fine. That screen has been reinvented more times in troll ways than I can remember. It's not a bad screen really if you really enjoy trap games except for a very frame-precise trigger near the save.
This left a legacy behind, not to mention one of the most famous memes by Chilean fangame legend Vardoc. I wouldn't mind revisiting it. I Wanna Enjoy the Game was boring. Extremely. I still have nausea from it.
So not the worst most famous fangame out there, and I don't regret playing this at all. Now I know what everyone was talking about, including fangame developers, and it was worth it.
For: I wanna Trick or Treat
Not for me, so sorry, folks.
For: I wanna clear 50 neon floors
-Creative jumps
-Appealing visual design
-Excellent, pumped-up soundtrack (this is my favorite after I Wanna Be The Neon)
-DotKid sections
The latter point is a detriment to the rating, since I have never liked that gimmick, but at least there are 5 screens out of 50 in total containing it, and the screens weren't so bad, so nice move there.
I must highlight the difficulty. Even if there are only 50 screens, the curve is quite merciless. I didn't suffer as much as in Neonize the Needle (that little bastard gave me exactly 10,000 deaths during my first playthrough) and here I didn't even have the third part of that amount, but the game felt lengthy due to its difficulty. Particularly memorable for me were screens 45 and 49. 50 not so much. There is that infamous section where you must fall off a platform from the right and quickly sidetrack a pink pyramid through the left. The solution is simple: you just need to align yourself with the upper green wall and you're good to go, because timing will be less challenging.
Overall, it is in the Top 3 of his standalone games. Screens and jumps are memorable, and the song during screens 21 to 30 was my favorite! I will be listening to that quite often: best music choice since Alloud for I Wanna Be The Neon.
Recommended.
For: I wanna colorize the needle
Nevertheless, audiovisually, he always delivers and constantly makes me smile. And more if you have no DotKid sections.
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