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notmaxwell
For: I wanna walk mindlessly
For: I wanna walk mindlessly
This game is extremely unique. I`m unsure if i would recommend it.
This is a ftfa-like with only 6 jumps, although most jumps are seperated by very long walks, namely after the first and second jump. As for the quality of these jumps, it`s surprisingly high, the first jump is trivial but each jump afterwards requires some form of valign dependency, the 3rd jump requires a bhop, the 4th requires a specific valign range for a certain bonk force, and the prefinal & final jumps require a double and even triple cancel respectively. Each jump ramps up in difficulty, the 2nd jump is a 3f fj which is quite intuitive and consistent, the 3rd jump is a 23f 3p fj with a required valign dependent bhop, and the 4th jump is a 14f 3f. The 4th jump is a good bit harder than the 3rd, and then the 5th and final jumps are exponentially harder. Basically, the first 4 jumps are actually quite interesting and I`m a pretty big fan of them. And then there`s the last 2 jumps. The prefinal jump requires a 1+1+1 double cancel, with no leniency on the double cancel input (1+2+1 or 1+1+2 don't work) and then a frame perfect fj. It's extremely easy to mess up, especially after minutes of walking. But what comes after this jump is unfathomable. The final jump is a required 1+1+1+1 (Triple cancel) 22p 8+4. This jump is absurdly difficult- it's almost unreasonable but I love it. It's a really fun jump to do, pulling off the triple cancel feels incredible although it kills many, upon many deaths from the start of the save. The 8+4 also feels extremely intuitive and the fact that this jump was made on a 32px grid with no currently known alternative strats is insane to me, It's the most technically impressive 32px jump i've seen. This jump is partly why I don't mind the notion of putting it at the very end of a save, I've never been a fan of "mochi-likes" or other difficult needle saves where a common difficult jump is put at the end to farm deaths to, somewhat because in such aforementioned cases, the final jump is usually an extremely common and basic jump that lacks any interest. In this game, it's something absurd and rough by all means, but it's interesting and unique and honestly really cool. I haven't spoken at all about the walk, but it's not completely mindless, there's some extremely basic platforming to make sure the player isn't just holding down one key while doing something else. I don't mind it, it's fun to try to speedrun how quickly you can go through, but truthfully it all depends on the player's mentality anyway. I will say, it's basically guaranteed to die minutes into the save almost every attempt, as the first jump is quite easy, and the 2nd somewhat aswell, and to get up to the 3rd jump it's a ~3 minute long walk. Rough stuff, but i'm honestly extremely glad that i played this game, it's very unique and I'm glad it exists.
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This is a ftfa-like with only 6 jumps, although most jumps are seperated by very long walks, namely after the first and second jump. As for the quality of these jumps, it`s surprisingly high, the first jump is trivial but each jump afterwards requires some form of valign dependency, the 3rd jump requires a bhop, the 4th requires a specific valign range for a certain bonk force, and the prefinal & final jumps require a double and even triple cancel respectively. Each jump ramps up in difficulty, the 2nd jump is a 3f fj which is quite intuitive and consistent, the 3rd jump is a 23f 3p fj with a required valign dependent bhop, and the 4th jump is a 14f 3f. The 4th jump is a good bit harder than the 3rd, and then the 5th and final jumps are exponentially harder. Basically, the first 4 jumps are actually quite interesting and I`m a pretty big fan of them. And then there`s the last 2 jumps. The prefinal jump requires a 1+1+1 double cancel, with no leniency on the double cancel input (1+2+1 or 1+1+2 don't work) and then a frame perfect fj. It's extremely easy to mess up, especially after minutes of walking. But what comes after this jump is unfathomable. The final jump is a required 1+1+1+1 (Triple cancel) 22p 8+4. This jump is absurdly difficult- it's almost unreasonable but I love it. It's a really fun jump to do, pulling off the triple cancel feels incredible although it kills many, upon many deaths from the start of the save. The 8+4 also feels extremely intuitive and the fact that this jump was made on a 32px grid with no currently known alternative strats is insane to me, It's the most technically impressive 32px jump i've seen. This jump is partly why I don't mind the notion of putting it at the very end of a save, I've never been a fan of "mochi-likes" or other difficult needle saves where a common difficult jump is put at the end to farm deaths to, somewhat because in such aforementioned cases, the final jump is usually an extremely common and basic jump that lacks any interest. In this game, it's something absurd and rough by all means, but it's interesting and unique and honestly really cool. I haven't spoken at all about the walk, but it's not completely mindless, there's some extremely basic platforming to make sure the player isn't just holding down one key while doing something else. I don't mind it, it's fun to try to speedrun how quickly you can go through, but truthfully it all depends on the player's mentality anyway. I will say, it's basically guaranteed to die minutes into the save almost every attempt, as the first jump is quite easy, and the 2nd somewhat aswell, and to get up to the 3rd jump it's a ~3 minute long walk. Rough stuff, but i'm honestly extremely glad that i played this game, it's very unique and I'm glad it exists.
Rating: N/A
Difficulty: 96 96
Jul 3, 2026
notmaxwell
For: Xynchrome*
For: Xynchrome*
I love it
Visually really appealing, cool tileset with a nice background and some pulsing. Was a bit difficult to see the kid on the very edges of the screen which only mattered for the final save but I was also playing quite late at night so it's possibly my fault. Cool saves aswell and needle design is really nice, no minispikes and 16px placements make it look not messy while staying completely linear. Very clean stuff overall and I'm a big fan of the looks. Pause screen effect gets a special shoutout aswell.
Needle wise this game is incredible. I loved playing through this so much to the point it got addicting and I couldn't stop myself from just coming back to the game for more sessions in a single day- it's really enjoyable to figure out and perform each save, even the final ones. This game has a little bit of everything aswell, there's some saves that revolve around cancel or numpad usage (14, 15) or cancelling into a vine (4,5) and some saves that revolve heavily around quick and tight input strings (12, 13) etc. Some saves have cool utilization of platforms, water or vines aswell. There's genuinely an impressive amount of variance in terms of how each save plays & what it demands of the player. Because of this, figuring out this game and learning what to do is incredibly fun, practicing a save and figuring out what it requires and how to pull off some of these jumps is really rewarding and interesting since almost every save brings some unique-ness to the table. Special shoutouts to saves 6, 7, 10, 12, 13, etc. There's actually a good bit of leniency with some saves in this game aswell so some spots have different strategies (Such as cancelling out of the platform in save 6 compared to 1fing out, or skipping the platform and invert in save 9). The last 4 saves ramp up in difficulty a decent bit, but I don't think it's too severe to where it detracts from the experience. 12 is extremely enjoyable & consistent once you get the hang of it, and 13 utilizes an extremely input-dense and tight vine jump into a drop sphincter and plane, the former of which is quite difficult to get the movements down consistently for a while, but I still commend the save for being unique and interesting- and I found it consistent and enjoyable anyway (But I'm saying this to mention that this save (13) is what i'd consider the most volatile, nevertheless impressive).
My only criticism of this game revolves around the savepoint's hitboxes, you can skip save 12 & 13 by saving in the downwards plane, and for some saves such as 13, 4 or 5 you have to move to the edge of the block past where you can save every attempt, which can cause some extra strain after a while. The savefiles also don't properly show time & deaths. I don't think these are major issues, but the latter of the main two could bother some people quite a lot.
Overall I had a genuine blast playing this game, one of the best times i've ever had playing needle and it never felt like I was stuck or that the game felt tedious. I heavily recommend giving this game a try if interested.
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Visually really appealing, cool tileset with a nice background and some pulsing. Was a bit difficult to see the kid on the very edges of the screen which only mattered for the final save but I was also playing quite late at night so it's possibly my fault. Cool saves aswell and needle design is really nice, no minispikes and 16px placements make it look not messy while staying completely linear. Very clean stuff overall and I'm a big fan of the looks. Pause screen effect gets a special shoutout aswell.
Needle wise this game is incredible. I loved playing through this so much to the point it got addicting and I couldn't stop myself from just coming back to the game for more sessions in a single day- it's really enjoyable to figure out and perform each save, even the final ones. This game has a little bit of everything aswell, there's some saves that revolve around cancel or numpad usage (14, 15) or cancelling into a vine (4,5) and some saves that revolve heavily around quick and tight input strings (12, 13) etc. Some saves have cool utilization of platforms, water or vines aswell. There's genuinely an impressive amount of variance in terms of how each save plays & what it demands of the player. Because of this, figuring out this game and learning what to do is incredibly fun, practicing a save and figuring out what it requires and how to pull off some of these jumps is really rewarding and interesting since almost every save brings some unique-ness to the table. Special shoutouts to saves 6, 7, 10, 12, 13, etc. There's actually a good bit of leniency with some saves in this game aswell so some spots have different strategies (Such as cancelling out of the platform in save 6 compared to 1fing out, or skipping the platform and invert in save 9). The last 4 saves ramp up in difficulty a decent bit, but I don't think it's too severe to where it detracts from the experience. 12 is extremely enjoyable & consistent once you get the hang of it, and 13 utilizes an extremely input-dense and tight vine jump into a drop sphincter and plane, the former of which is quite difficult to get the movements down consistently for a while, but I still commend the save for being unique and interesting- and I found it consistent and enjoyable anyway (But I'm saying this to mention that this save (13) is what i'd consider the most volatile, nevertheless impressive).
My only criticism of this game revolves around the savepoint's hitboxes, you can skip save 12 & 13 by saving in the downwards plane, and for some saves such as 13, 4 or 5 you have to move to the edge of the block past where you can save every attempt, which can cause some extra strain after a while. The savefiles also don't properly show time & deaths. I don't think these are major issues, but the latter of the main two could bother some people quite a lot.
Overall I had a genuine blast playing this game, one of the best times i've ever had playing needle and it never felt like I was stuck or that the game felt tedious. I heavily recommend giving this game a try if interested.
Rating: 10.0 100
Difficulty: 90 90
Jun 28, 2026
notmaxwell
For: LCIS
For: LCIS
Playing this is like jumping off a cliff into fire to show other people that jumping off a cliff into fire is a bad idea.
You can get the general gist of this game from a single screenshot of the 1 save this game has to offer, but somehow there's even more nuance that detracts from the already unpleasant experience. First of all, the obvious, visuals are nonexistant, every single jump in this game is a named jump, and almost all of them aren't used in interesting ways, and the game uses an unreliable niche engine.
It gets worse though, for example on the left side you have to do a bad align corner, it's one or the other depending on what align you take but it's required to do so, which is not fun as neither jumps are simple corners. The super f's are fine, but the ledges and inverts at the top left aren't. These jumps are feel really bad to pull off, especially the first invert, and basically act as a consistency wall for most of the time, and it's also impossible to have good align for all these ledges. This left side also just has a lot of 5fs, not all are required (as you can 4f the inverts and survive, i did when clearing) but it's not really a lot of variance. The jump to the double invert is surprisingly easy to mess up and feels terrible when you do so, and the double invert can just be jumped over, which i don't think the creator noticed, although you have to regrab another ledge at a pretty high vspeed which is extremely inconsistent, especially this deep into the save.
Then it's the downwards planes. My god. It's so beautiful. Luckily, 5 out of 7 downwards planes can be made substantially easier by some setups resulting in hold left strats. But not all of them, as the 2 worst align downplanes require the player to just do them raw, with the worst align aswell. These setups are valign dependent, meaning this game had to have some pretty hefty valign strats for it to even be reasonably cleared, which in reality aren't *too* difficult, but it depends on your ability to tell apart a 1+1 to a 1+2 cancel in the moment for the raw downwards planes, and then act accordingly, and it's pretty easy to misread. It's also not perfect, even if played properly there's a ~10% chance that the valign setups that run on hopes and dreams don't work out, as you can't see your valign in game and even the best strats aren't perfect. After this is the upwards planes, which are also extremely easy to die to after everything. Then it's just another setup downwards plane with a 92% chance of working. Even though the bottom right looks to be absurdly difficult on first glance it's certainly the easiest section but it's also somewhat gambling, it's way more likely that you will be in the right valign range than not but it's nasty having something like this so deep, and the non-setup downwards planes with the worst align are extremely rough to say at the least.
I mentioned at the start of this review that this game has a 'niche engine', it's using Sephalos's engine. It's overall fine, but it does have some slight differences i noticed. While it does have some form of 1f directional key fix, it's inconsistent, and restarting sometimes requires 2 presses, i noticed a slight difference with vspeed on the middle jump resulting in the ledge grab on the right being a bit tighter, alongside this the game doesn't have double dance which killed off a theorized valign strat for the downwards planes (rip my beloved) and worst of all- the game is stuck with #1 priority, you can't minimize it at all, nothing can go above the game, it's basically stuck there on the screen unless you close it. The game also has guyrock.mp3 as the background music but the engine lets you mute it.
You don't need this review to say not to play this since you weren't going to anyways.
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You can get the general gist of this game from a single screenshot of the 1 save this game has to offer, but somehow there's even more nuance that detracts from the already unpleasant experience. First of all, the obvious, visuals are nonexistant, every single jump in this game is a named jump, and almost all of them aren't used in interesting ways, and the game uses an unreliable niche engine.
It gets worse though, for example on the left side you have to do a bad align corner, it's one or the other depending on what align you take but it's required to do so, which is not fun as neither jumps are simple corners. The super f's are fine, but the ledges and inverts at the top left aren't. These jumps are feel really bad to pull off, especially the first invert, and basically act as a consistency wall for most of the time, and it's also impossible to have good align for all these ledges. This left side also just has a lot of 5fs, not all are required (as you can 4f the inverts and survive, i did when clearing) but it's not really a lot of variance. The jump to the double invert is surprisingly easy to mess up and feels terrible when you do so, and the double invert can just be jumped over, which i don't think the creator noticed, although you have to regrab another ledge at a pretty high vspeed which is extremely inconsistent, especially this deep into the save.
Then it's the downwards planes. My god. It's so beautiful. Luckily, 5 out of 7 downwards planes can be made substantially easier by some setups resulting in hold left strats. But not all of them, as the 2 worst align downplanes require the player to just do them raw, with the worst align aswell. These setups are valign dependent, meaning this game had to have some pretty hefty valign strats for it to even be reasonably cleared, which in reality aren't *too* difficult, but it depends on your ability to tell apart a 1+1 to a 1+2 cancel in the moment for the raw downwards planes, and then act accordingly, and it's pretty easy to misread. It's also not perfect, even if played properly there's a ~10% chance that the valign setups that run on hopes and dreams don't work out, as you can't see your valign in game and even the best strats aren't perfect. After this is the upwards planes, which are also extremely easy to die to after everything. Then it's just another setup downwards plane with a 92% chance of working. Even though the bottom right looks to be absurdly difficult on first glance it's certainly the easiest section but it's also somewhat gambling, it's way more likely that you will be in the right valign range than not but it's nasty having something like this so deep, and the non-setup downwards planes with the worst align are extremely rough to say at the least.
I mentioned at the start of this review that this game has a 'niche engine', it's using Sephalos's engine. It's overall fine, but it does have some slight differences i noticed. While it does have some form of 1f directional key fix, it's inconsistent, and restarting sometimes requires 2 presses, i noticed a slight difference with vspeed on the middle jump resulting in the ledge grab on the right being a bit tighter, alongside this the game doesn't have double dance which killed off a theorized valign strat for the downwards planes (rip my beloved) and worst of all- the game is stuck with #1 priority, you can't minimize it at all, nothing can go above the game, it's basically stuck there on the screen unless you close it. The game also has guyrock.mp3 as the background music but the engine lets you mute it.
You don't need this review to say not to play this since you weren't going to anyways.
Rating: 0.2 2
Difficulty: 95 95
Jun 25, 2026
notmaxwell
For: Annihilate.
For: Annihilate.
Rating based on extra clear.
Quality rating for a normal clear would be ~7.5 \ 10.
I have an illogical attachment to the final save of extra, and basically this game as a whole. My rating for extra would be 10 \ 10 but realistically it isn't all that good.
This game has a good few saves that are quite a lot easier than the main few, notably saves 4 & 7 of the main game contain almost all the challenge. Extra first save is quite easy, and then the 2nd save is extremely difficult. The final save of extra is on a whole different level.
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Quality rating for a normal clear would be ~7.5 \ 10.
I have an illogical attachment to the final save of extra, and basically this game as a whole. My rating for extra would be 10 \ 10 but realistically it isn't all that good.
This game has a good few saves that are quite a lot easier than the main few, notably saves 4 & 7 of the main game contain almost all the challenge. Extra first save is quite easy, and then the 2nd save is extremely difficult. The final save of extra is on a whole different level.
Rating: N/A
Difficulty: 96 96
Jun 21, 2026
notmaxwell
For: I wanna drown drones
For: I wanna drown drones
Rating based on clearing all content.
Normal clear would be ~82 difficulty.
Highly recommend if interested in this kind of needle for both the normal clear & all clear.
This is an incredible fangame in both visuals and needle. It's currently some of my favourite setup needle that I have ever played, and it consistently throws extremely well-designed jumps at you, to where i'd even go as far to say that considerably more jumps in this entire game are interesting, fun, and generally really good than even mediocre jumps. It's really great. The game starts out with a really interesting and somewhat 'intimidating\scary' atmosphere, pair this with needle that looks extremely unforgiving and it makes for a really cool experience. I really love the visuals of the main game, i love the 'decaying' blocks, and the background & bgm fit quite well too. I'm unsure if the kid sprite was made for this game or is being repurposed from a prior fangame, but nevertheless i quite like it, it's easy to tell your location mid jump and it's very visible and I like how it looks. The needle is more experimental in the main game while the extra content is more 32px restrictive and 'ftfa-like', I think both ended out being incredible. The main game has a few screens that are less dense, such as screen 3 & 4 while the first 2 screens are a bit more claustrophobic. Screen 3 also has some very mild water usage but it's cool nevertheless. Some jumps in these screens are really cool, it would honestly take up too much space to list all the great jumps this game has as there's just so many, a lot use tight valign ranges or just generally feel really good visually and to perform, etc. Overall the main game stands up really well too, It's already some of the best setup needle i've played. Extra is also incredibly good, somewhat similar praises but it's worth mentioning some extra saves have an abundance of jumps that require frame-perfect long jumpheights, usually with valign ranges or whatnot aswell. Some of these jumps are really creative & feel quite good to improve at. Save balance is pretty good aswell, throughout the extra I didn't particularly find any singular save to be considerably harder than the others (and the base game also is well-balanced). Visuals for the extra are also pretty cool aswell. There's not much else to say, this game is basically perfect for what it is. It's really atmospheric and enticing to play, feels great, jumps are interesting, extremely fun for it's difficulty & I strongly recommend this to anyone interested in this kind of needle.
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Normal clear would be ~82 difficulty.
Highly recommend if interested in this kind of needle for both the normal clear & all clear.
This is an incredible fangame in both visuals and needle. It's currently some of my favourite setup needle that I have ever played, and it consistently throws extremely well-designed jumps at you, to where i'd even go as far to say that considerably more jumps in this entire game are interesting, fun, and generally really good than even mediocre jumps. It's really great. The game starts out with a really interesting and somewhat 'intimidating\scary' atmosphere, pair this with needle that looks extremely unforgiving and it makes for a really cool experience. I really love the visuals of the main game, i love the 'decaying' blocks, and the background & bgm fit quite well too. I'm unsure if the kid sprite was made for this game or is being repurposed from a prior fangame, but nevertheless i quite like it, it's easy to tell your location mid jump and it's very visible and I like how it looks. The needle is more experimental in the main game while the extra content is more 32px restrictive and 'ftfa-like', I think both ended out being incredible. The main game has a few screens that are less dense, such as screen 3 & 4 while the first 2 screens are a bit more claustrophobic. Screen 3 also has some very mild water usage but it's cool nevertheless. Some jumps in these screens are really cool, it would honestly take up too much space to list all the great jumps this game has as there's just so many, a lot use tight valign ranges or just generally feel really good visually and to perform, etc. Overall the main game stands up really well too, It's already some of the best setup needle i've played. Extra is also incredibly good, somewhat similar praises but it's worth mentioning some extra saves have an abundance of jumps that require frame-perfect long jumpheights, usually with valign ranges or whatnot aswell. Some of these jumps are really creative & feel quite good to improve at. Save balance is pretty good aswell, throughout the extra I didn't particularly find any singular save to be considerably harder than the others (and the base game also is well-balanced). Visuals for the extra are also pretty cool aswell. There's not much else to say, this game is basically perfect for what it is. It's really atmospheric and enticing to play, feels great, jumps are interesting, extremely fun for it's difficulty & I strongly recommend this to anyone interested in this kind of needle.
Rating: 10.0 100
Difficulty: 91 91
Jun 14, 2026
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