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Paragus
For: I wanna qoqoqo 300 EasyVer
For: I wanna qoqoqo 300 EasyVer
I've been playing fangames for the better part of 6 or 7 years, and this will go down as one of the great all time needle experiences.
I started playing the non-EZ version and got frustrated during the terrible "no-save" stage and pretty much bailed on the game. I read the reviews here for this version and begrudgingly decided to give it a shot. This is easily the better version of the game. This should be the normal game, and the normal version should be considered hard mode. This version is NOT easy by any means. Personally I found the nature of difficulty in the other version to be terrible. A lot of 16px gaps and other questionable design choices made it more of a chore than anything. The creator is an absolute master of level design, but his method of injecting challenge into the platforming is lacking, and this version remedies most of those issues, but not all.
So just a quick recap, the game is one of those 100 floor needle games, just like the earlier entries into the series. Every 10 floors you get a shift in visuals, gimmicks, and music (all of which is spectacular). The journey to the top is an epic adventure to say the least, stumbling along the way with its "No save" stage and again a bit in the vine stage a little bit.
Each of these stages is capped with a needle labyrinth based around the stages gimmick. The design of these mazes are nothing short of brilliant in most cases. As goes the stages, also goes the game. Upon reaching the upper tier of floors, a brilliantly executed screen wrapping gimmick fills in the last 10 floors where each screen is a maze in on itself.
As if this wouldn't be a great ending, the real game starts at 100 as I probably spent an equal amount of time in the 100+ area as I did in the previous 99 screens. Then cubes show up. This alone could have been a fangame in its own right, and the game keeps chugging along and masterfully gives you the ability to move and spin the stage at any time to remove what could have been a disaster of design.
Even after the cubes, when the game has already delivered more than any needle game ever should, the classic final labyrinth shows up akin to what was at the end of the previous entry in the series. This beautiful monstrocity makes the maze at the end of the last game look like Disney Land in terms of its complexity and challenge. One of the single greatest feats of level design I've ever seen. Maddening in its size and scope, and brutal in its challenge, this is easily one of the most memorable fangame experiences. There's a map in the game files, be ready to use it and mark it up extensively if you want to have any chance at figuring it out.
There is one major flaw for me. Vines. The god damned vines. We saw it a little in the vine stage earlier in the game, but the problem with the vines is almost ruinous to the stage. The maker keeps forcing the player to do these low-frame vine jumps over and over and over and over. They are utter trash and drag the stage down in a big way. None of them are necessary to maintain the integrity of the maze, they are needlessly annoying and quite frequent. Every time the stage starts to flow, things come crashing to a halt because for some reason the creator is fixated on these low-frame vine jumps. Probably half of my time in this stage was wasted on these segments. It's the one thing that keeps this game from getting a perfect score, and I hope the maker and other would-be needle makers pay attention to this as an example of what not to do.
That being said, the game is worth the journey in a way few fangames these days manage to be. But be ready to deal with some pointlessly annoying vine jumps and come close to ruining what should be remembered as one of the greatest fangame needle experiences.
[4] Likes
I started playing the non-EZ version and got frustrated during the terrible "no-save" stage and pretty much bailed on the game. I read the reviews here for this version and begrudgingly decided to give it a shot. This is easily the better version of the game. This should be the normal game, and the normal version should be considered hard mode. This version is NOT easy by any means. Personally I found the nature of difficulty in the other version to be terrible. A lot of 16px gaps and other questionable design choices made it more of a chore than anything. The creator is an absolute master of level design, but his method of injecting challenge into the platforming is lacking, and this version remedies most of those issues, but not all.
So just a quick recap, the game is one of those 100 floor needle games, just like the earlier entries into the series. Every 10 floors you get a shift in visuals, gimmicks, and music (all of which is spectacular). The journey to the top is an epic adventure to say the least, stumbling along the way with its "No save" stage and again a bit in the vine stage a little bit.
Each of these stages is capped with a needle labyrinth based around the stages gimmick. The design of these mazes are nothing short of brilliant in most cases. As goes the stages, also goes the game. Upon reaching the upper tier of floors, a brilliantly executed screen wrapping gimmick fills in the last 10 floors where each screen is a maze in on itself.
As if this wouldn't be a great ending, the real game starts at 100 as I probably spent an equal amount of time in the 100+ area as I did in the previous 99 screens. Then cubes show up. This alone could have been a fangame in its own right, and the game keeps chugging along and masterfully gives you the ability to move and spin the stage at any time to remove what could have been a disaster of design.
Even after the cubes, when the game has already delivered more than any needle game ever should, the classic final labyrinth shows up akin to what was at the end of the previous entry in the series. This beautiful monstrocity makes the maze at the end of the last game look like Disney Land in terms of its complexity and challenge. One of the single greatest feats of level design I've ever seen. Maddening in its size and scope, and brutal in its challenge, this is easily one of the most memorable fangame experiences. There's a map in the game files, be ready to use it and mark it up extensively if you want to have any chance at figuring it out.
There is one major flaw for me. Vines. The god damned vines. We saw it a little in the vine stage earlier in the game, but the problem with the vines is almost ruinous to the stage. The maker keeps forcing the player to do these low-frame vine jumps over and over and over and over. They are utter trash and drag the stage down in a big way. None of them are necessary to maintain the integrity of the maze, they are needlessly annoying and quite frequent. Every time the stage starts to flow, things come crashing to a halt because for some reason the creator is fixated on these low-frame vine jumps. Probably half of my time in this stage was wasted on these segments. It's the one thing that keeps this game from getting a perfect score, and I hope the maker and other would-be needle makers pay attention to this as an example of what not to do.
That being said, the game is worth the journey in a way few fangames these days manage to be. But be ready to deal with some pointlessly annoying vine jumps and come close to ruining what should be remembered as one of the greatest fangame needle experiences.
Rating: 9.0 90
Difficulty: 70 70
Nov 12, 2018
Paragus
For: I wanna be the linearity
For: I wanna be the linearity
I'm a sucker for line graphics style needle. I thought this game was pretty interesting. Visually the creator has a few rooms that look like 3D optical illusions, and there's a few pretty interesting segments in here with moving parts to them. There's a few token bosses to break up the stages that are pretty easy and forgettable, but still a little something different than your standard needle game.
Tagged as: Needle
[1] Like
Rating: 7.5 75
Difficulty: 50 50
Nov 5, 2018
Paragus
For: I wanna escape the mansion
For: I wanna escape the mansion
It's short, but it's a nice little adventure game. The gimmick isn't super complicated and the design around it never makes it feel too annoying. I thought the voice acting was a nice touch, and the boss didn't seem too difficult for me. The day after playing it I still remember it, which is more than I can say for most fangames lately.
[7] Likes
Rating: 7.7 77
Difficulty: 40 40
Oct 29, 2018
Paragus
For: I wanna qowulu 100
For: I wanna qowulu 100
I really liked this game a lot more than I thought. It's a 10x10 room maze of fairly simple needle, where the player has to find the route to the next save. Once you reach that save, it fades out to avoid the confusion of accidentally saving at it again. The platforming is not overly difficult minus a few semi-tricky jumps in a few places, but the game is quite long and I really enjoyed trying to figure out how to use where you are now, to get to somewhere else.
There's obviously a massive amount of screen transitions and jumps through transitions, and the maker doesn't make these transitions dangerous in most cases, so it never feels cheap or unfair where you jump into a hole blind and fear landing on a spike. It's probably not for everyone, but I liked the concept and thought the maker did a great job weaving the screens together to make this massive maze.
[3] Likes
There's obviously a massive amount of screen transitions and jumps through transitions, and the maker doesn't make these transitions dangerous in most cases, so it never feels cheap or unfair where you jump into a hole blind and fear landing on a spike. It's probably not for everyone, but I liked the concept and thought the maker did a great job weaving the screens together to make this massive maze.
Rating: 8.0 80
Difficulty: 40 40
Aug 7, 2018
Paragus
For: I Wanna Classic Adventure
For: I Wanna Classic Adventure
A back-to-basics nice little adventure game that delivers on all fronts. A few stages with various gimmicks, well-produced bosses, and just an all around fun game.
[2] Likes
Rating: 8.5 85
Difficulty: 40 40
Jul 9, 2018
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