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every game i've left a rating or review on i have cleared.
clear list is only used for monumental or impactful clears, or my favourite clears.
(My favourite games tab is different to my clears tab).
Best clear: I wanna Ascend
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notmaxwell
For: Radiance
For: Radiance
very difficult setup needle game, looks somewhat interesting but the single screenshot of this game displayed on this site is basically the entire game, nothing outside of a 2 screen long room was even changed off the default engine template. I don't really know why you wouldn't put the minuscule amount of effort in to change anything in this game, it's frustrating as it's a very challenging game, so it's not a quick experience, with games of this difficulty it should be expected that the player spends quite a decent amount of time with them, so it's not really 'high quality' (or truthfully any quality at all) to just go in, place down some subpar needle gameplay and then do nothing with the game, the creator didn't even bother adding any saves into the game, there's just no effort or care across the whole board. As mentioned before, this game is just a single save across 2 screens, general structuring is probably the best thing this game has for offer, as it's pretty cool, background and tiles are decent although it's just recoloured guy tiles. The actual needle is sadly not great, I can't say there's a single jump in this whole game i'd really deem good, except for maybe the last sphincter of screen 1 but it's not a unique jump anyway. Screen 1 starts off with an annoying run-up to a forced cancel, it's just silly and a time-waster. The ledge plane's existence conveys to me that there's no real consideration for good intuitive needle gameplay. Screen 1 isn't anything too hard but it's just not very fun and feels terribly inconsistent and annoying to play. I don't like the turnaround with the prefinal jump (not sphincter) and i dont like the start of the final jump but those might just be nitpicks. There's also the 'double gate, 5 diagonals' jump in the middle, which is just an unfun usage of the most bare-bones basic named jumps. Screen 2 starts with whats likely the best jump of the whole save, which is a pretty fun (albeit easy) drop. Then it just throws 3 super f's at you for unknown reasons, it's also not particularly difficult it just asks the question of "why?". The water jump also brings the same notion except on a much larger scale, this is the only water usage in the whole game, and it's not a fitting jump, I don't know why it's here, it's unlike every other jump in this save so far and it's just arbitrary and inconsistent, the fact it's into a ledge aswell is kind of obnoxious. Then it's just a 1f corner, an invert and a double invert, plus a forced cancel in the middle of the screen. I'm unsure if any actual consideration was put into the needle gameplay of this game, as especially on screen 2 there's a good amount of just, random named jumps that don't bring anything worthwhile to the table. I didn't have a fun time with this game but I had atrocious hardware problems that ended up killing me at the final inverts ~7 times, etc. I believe someone could enjoy this game, and have a fun time with it, but I can't really say I think it's of decent quality either, everything in this game is just yoyoyo engine default, except 2 screens of mainly named jumps & unfun needle.
Review was a bit of a complain-sesh, but there's just not much *to* enjoy in this game. The general idea of the structuring is actually pretty neat though, if the needle was better then I could definitely see myself quite liking this game. I'm aware the default template stuff might be as a result of the creator trying to go for the "ftfa-like" genre, but the needle is not ftfa-like, alongside the menus, clear screen, etc.
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Review was a bit of a complain-sesh, but there's just not much *to* enjoy in this game. The general idea of the structuring is actually pretty neat though, if the needle was better then I could definitely see myself quite liking this game. I'm aware the default template stuff might be as a result of the creator trying to go for the "ftfa-like" genre, but the needle is not ftfa-like, alongside the menus, clear screen, etc.
Rating: 1.7 17
Difficulty: 92 92
May 3, 2026
notmaxwell
For: I Wanna ふなし The UFO
For: I Wanna ふなし The UFO
This game is broken and borderline unplayable on win11. I've tried patching it, using the optimization kit & compatibility settings but nothing seems to fix these problems. The game lags down to ~10fps for multiple seconds at a time every ~30 seconds or so, rendering an instant death. This happens absurdly commonly, to where it killed me deep into the save. This is already terrible for a ~90+ difficulty needle save, just having rng faultless deaths every less than a minute. To add onto this, there's input delay & 2 inputs on 1 frame is inconsistent, numpad is broken, 1f movement is also inconsistent and broken at times (and using numpad trick to move by 1f doesn't work, as it'll move you by 2f often), it's unplayable. Clearing this needle screen outside of this game is vastly easier than ingame, so i'd recommend to anyone looking to play this on windows 11 to make\use some port into a more updated current engine.
Actual gameplay is really questionable, there's an insanely difficult 14f 2-3p fj & fp turnaround, which is an insanely nasty jump deep into the save, followed up by another low pause off a long jumpheight, which is hardware-dependent, and the save overall has so many inconsistent jumps scattered around, there's multiple fp directional key jumps, some visually vague such as the bottom middle jump, overall these just end up feeling pretty mediocre to pull off and frustrating to die to. Top right jump to clear is actually pretty fun and cool, but it's considerably the easiest part of the save, so attempts never really get here. Valign shower in game window, which is cool, and fps counter aswell so you can see how many times the game lags down.
The visuals of this game are cool, and i think it's pretty interesting, i like the menus and difficulty select, so there's some positives. I wouldn't really suggest playing this, 100% against if you are on windows 11. Rating is not taking into account such windows 11 problems, even though this game is kinda recent (2022)
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Actual gameplay is really questionable, there's an insanely difficult 14f 2-3p fj & fp turnaround, which is an insanely nasty jump deep into the save, followed up by another low pause off a long jumpheight, which is hardware-dependent, and the save overall has so many inconsistent jumps scattered around, there's multiple fp directional key jumps, some visually vague such as the bottom middle jump, overall these just end up feeling pretty mediocre to pull off and frustrating to die to. Top right jump to clear is actually pretty fun and cool, but it's considerably the easiest part of the save, so attempts never really get here. Valign shower in game window, which is cool, and fps counter aswell so you can see how many times the game lags down.
The visuals of this game are cool, and i think it's pretty interesting, i like the menus and difficulty select, so there's some positives. I wouldn't really suggest playing this, 100% against if you are on windows 11. Rating is not taking into account such windows 11 problems, even though this game is kinda recent (2022)
Rating: 2.0 20
Difficulty: 91 91
Apr 28, 2026
notmaxwell
For: Blueberry Mochi
For: Blueberry Mochi
this version is harder than a maker clear, as there's no directional 1f tap fix and the fruit jump on scrn2 benefits heavily from such, alongside numpad rarely even let me do cancels \ 1fs here, and almost always ignored my inputs and did a 2f, which impacted my experience quite heavily aswell.
there's some very good needle gameplay here, some fun and consistent jumps, but there's also the 2 sphincters, both are the hardest jumps of the whole save by quite a bit, i personally found the one on scrn1 to be a good bit harder than the final jump. I'm unsure what i think of the balancing idea of putting a very hard choke jump at the end of a save like this, but i don't think i'm actually against such, I was more impacted by the movement problems and my own skill issue. I think i would prefer this save much more if the sphincter on scrn1 wasn't how it currently is, as it kinda detracted from that general notion and turned the save more infuriating.
the game has a cool background and good vibe though, gafro did well in porting this over from maker and it's not a low effort port, if interested in this game i'd just recommend expecting it to be a harsh experience.
[0] Likes
there's some very good needle gameplay here, some fun and consistent jumps, but there's also the 2 sphincters, both are the hardest jumps of the whole save by quite a bit, i personally found the one on scrn1 to be a good bit harder than the final jump. I'm unsure what i think of the balancing idea of putting a very hard choke jump at the end of a save like this, but i don't think i'm actually against such, I was more impacted by the movement problems and my own skill issue. I think i would prefer this save much more if the sphincter on scrn1 wasn't how it currently is, as it kinda detracted from that general notion and turned the save more infuriating.
the game has a cool background and good vibe though, gafro did well in porting this over from maker and it's not a low effort port, if interested in this game i'd just recommend expecting it to be a harsh experience.
Rating: 6.9 69
Difficulty: 80 80
Apr 26, 2026
notmaxwell
For: I wanna Ascend
For: I wanna Ascend
unbelievable,
incredible game, it stands out as one of (but likely) the best needle game of such insane difficulty, it's incredibly well put together in its gameplay, almost every single jump is difficult yet rewarding, and many are unique and interesting, alongside good screen structuring work ontop. I don't really know where to begin on something like this, I obviously have intense admiration for this game, and have so for years, but ignoring all that, it really is damn good and influential. obviously ascend is an ftfa-like, but it does it in a unique way, not visually persay (though the washed out tileset is a good idea, but nothing groundbreaking itself) but more in its gameplay structure and density, instead of trying to fit in a full screens-worth of jumps, ascend decides to place jumps sparingly, usually resulting in less than 5 notable ones per screen. This is a very good idea, ignoring just that it's a unique style that has unironically enough spawned it's own set of games and needle saves inspired by it, in general this idea allows it to refine these jumps to a higher quality standard and create a longer, more intense playing experience. I believe this is the main reason as to ascend's gameplay works so well, it's restrictive in the sense of 32px setup needle but less restrictive in the terms of it's own structuring, jumps are on floating blocks unconnected to anything, spikes too, which is usually considered lazy or poorly-designed but it's redone here to be turned back around into very good design. I don't know if ascend is the first to properly do this idea with an ftfa-like, but I'm extremely confident it's the first to pull it off on this level with such a good job. It's really good, and it's honestly the best type of ftfa-like i've ever played, it allows for the highlights of setup needle to be emphasized even moreso. Screen balancing is also well done here, screens get easier deeper into the save (for the most part, s4 & 5 could be argued as quite similar, but it's certainly not a drastic jump in difficulty), and it's done cleverly in the way that screens get less dense of jumps, and said jumps get more basic, instead of being more lenient on the frame windows (usually). I prefer this a lot over the counterpart of keeping the same amount of density but reducing the difficulty of jumps in later screens, these few jumps have personality and build a lot of suspense. Onto the actual jumps, insane, this game has some of my favourite setup needle jumps outright, and a lot of them, it's incredible, screens 4 to the end are near flawless, and i can't really point out any complaints, genuinely amazing gameplay that's intensely fun to just play over and over again, for this level of difficult making such a feat is extremely impressive. Screen 3 is also great, the 13f (\12f) is good, but I'm not a huge fan of the fist and last jumps, especially the last jump's initial 2f just felt off sometimes, truthfully this is nitpicking though and it's still a great screen. Screen 2 & 1 are sadly the reason I don't want to give this game a perfect rating, I just have small complaints on some jumps here that do genuinely start to become annoyances over time, namely with screen 1's third jump, it's poorly telegraphed and just a pretty awkward jump, it's not too precise or demanding of the player but at the sme time it's not really a setup needle jump, it stands out from it's peers and not in a good way, i found it to be mostly 'feeling-based' which resulted in some times where i'd suck at it since i overthought such feel for it, truthfully not much of a fan, and somewhat similar complaints could be said about screen 2's second jump, mainly in that the corner turnaround does feel pretty nasty at times with that start, but i'd say this jump is more akin to the rest of the game's catalogue. Also had some complaints with scrn1's final jump, mainly the 3f timing, but maybe that's just me. These jumps did detract from the experience a bit, just because the save is balanced in a way where screen 1 & 2 are quite difficult, so alas a lot of time is spent at these jumps that do get bothersome after a while. It's not that bad though, and it's not too detracting but i thought i might aswell mention it as it's the sole reason i'm not giving this game a 10\10 rating.
Overall, plays downright incredibly good for how difficult this game is, as stated before, it's the best option out there right now, and it's incredibly fun which is unbelievable. Some cool QOL aswell, "learning" difficulty has godmode, inf jump & the ability to save anywhere, the latter 2 being quite useful.
It's good, it's well made and has great gameplay to the point where it's influential itself while being an ftfa-like. Not much else to say, if you believe you have the ability to clear this then absolutely play it. I'd honestly even recommend playing through this game on learning and just messing around, it's genuinely fun.
GG
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incredible game, it stands out as one of (but likely) the best needle game of such insane difficulty, it's incredibly well put together in its gameplay, almost every single jump is difficult yet rewarding, and many are unique and interesting, alongside good screen structuring work ontop. I don't really know where to begin on something like this, I obviously have intense admiration for this game, and have so for years, but ignoring all that, it really is damn good and influential. obviously ascend is an ftfa-like, but it does it in a unique way, not visually persay (though the washed out tileset is a good idea, but nothing groundbreaking itself) but more in its gameplay structure and density, instead of trying to fit in a full screens-worth of jumps, ascend decides to place jumps sparingly, usually resulting in less than 5 notable ones per screen. This is a very good idea, ignoring just that it's a unique style that has unironically enough spawned it's own set of games and needle saves inspired by it, in general this idea allows it to refine these jumps to a higher quality standard and create a longer, more intense playing experience. I believe this is the main reason as to ascend's gameplay works so well, it's restrictive in the sense of 32px setup needle but less restrictive in the terms of it's own structuring, jumps are on floating blocks unconnected to anything, spikes too, which is usually considered lazy or poorly-designed but it's redone here to be turned back around into very good design. I don't know if ascend is the first to properly do this idea with an ftfa-like, but I'm extremely confident it's the first to pull it off on this level with such a good job. It's really good, and it's honestly the best type of ftfa-like i've ever played, it allows for the highlights of setup needle to be emphasized even moreso. Screen balancing is also well done here, screens get easier deeper into the save (for the most part, s4 & 5 could be argued as quite similar, but it's certainly not a drastic jump in difficulty), and it's done cleverly in the way that screens get less dense of jumps, and said jumps get more basic, instead of being more lenient on the frame windows (usually). I prefer this a lot over the counterpart of keeping the same amount of density but reducing the difficulty of jumps in later screens, these few jumps have personality and build a lot of suspense. Onto the actual jumps, insane, this game has some of my favourite setup needle jumps outright, and a lot of them, it's incredible, screens 4 to the end are near flawless, and i can't really point out any complaints, genuinely amazing gameplay that's intensely fun to just play over and over again, for this level of difficult making such a feat is extremely impressive. Screen 3 is also great, the 13f (\12f) is good, but I'm not a huge fan of the fist and last jumps, especially the last jump's initial 2f just felt off sometimes, truthfully this is nitpicking though and it's still a great screen. Screen 2 & 1 are sadly the reason I don't want to give this game a perfect rating, I just have small complaints on some jumps here that do genuinely start to become annoyances over time, namely with screen 1's third jump, it's poorly telegraphed and just a pretty awkward jump, it's not too precise or demanding of the player but at the sme time it's not really a setup needle jump, it stands out from it's peers and not in a good way, i found it to be mostly 'feeling-based' which resulted in some times where i'd suck at it since i overthought such feel for it, truthfully not much of a fan, and somewhat similar complaints could be said about screen 2's second jump, mainly in that the corner turnaround does feel pretty nasty at times with that start, but i'd say this jump is more akin to the rest of the game's catalogue. Also had some complaints with scrn1's final jump, mainly the 3f timing, but maybe that's just me. These jumps did detract from the experience a bit, just because the save is balanced in a way where screen 1 & 2 are quite difficult, so alas a lot of time is spent at these jumps that do get bothersome after a while. It's not that bad though, and it's not too detracting but i thought i might aswell mention it as it's the sole reason i'm not giving this game a 10\10 rating.
Overall, plays downright incredibly good for how difficult this game is, as stated before, it's the best option out there right now, and it's incredibly fun which is unbelievable. Some cool QOL aswell, "learning" difficulty has godmode, inf jump & the ability to save anywhere, the latter 2 being quite useful.
It's good, it's well made and has great gameplay to the point where it's influential itself while being an ftfa-like. Not much else to say, if you believe you have the ability to clear this then absolutely play it. I'd honestly even recommend playing through this game on learning and just messing around, it's genuinely fun.
GG
Rating: 9.8 98
Difficulty: 97 97
Apr 24, 2026
notmaxwell
For: Herald’s Machina Towers
For: Herald’s Machina Towers
rating based off intended mode
Present would be ~5, ~75.
Warning: Malding review. I'm complaining a lot here and some might be nonsensical. It's late at night and I just wrote passionately, there's no hard feelings here
To start off positively, this game has incredible visuals. I love the theme, the tower idea is done well especially how the gameplay is limited horizontally. Very nice stuff, title screen is also sick, menus are cool, and the clear screen is cool too. Screen movement is nice and the game's pacing is cool, I noticed the visuals kinda break a bit when paused, likely due to the instances being stopped when paused, and at the clear fade in it looks like it made the edges of my game white until I paused and it fixed itself, but these are just small nitpicks. Overall visually very cool, and the game sets itself up to be quite nice overall, has good potential, but I cannot say it delivers on the gameplay. The good:
There's some jumps i'm fine with, there's no real jumps I actually love but I generally liked the final jump of screen 1, and the fj 4f for screen 2. Both of these jumps are quite easy though, especially the former, so they're not really significant in the save's gameplay anyway. First 2 jumps of screen 2 are also decent, the djump up to the vine on the first one is obsessionally annoying but that's likely just me. Now is a good time to mention, this game has a gimmick, which plays an essential role in it's traumatic gameplay, where each vine is one-time-use. After jumping off a vine, it'll fall down and you can't use it anymore. Because of this, readjustment isn't viable, and most vine jumps in this game basically run on a "fucking ball it and pray" basis, and because of this gimmick, some vine jumps become incredibly awkward as a result, as for ones with a low enter it's impossible to jump up once to get better height and then jump over, you just have to immediately jump and pray that you did a low enough pause on the jump beforehand (this complaint is most relevant to the 2nd last jump of scrn1). This gimmick hinders this game more then it adds to it, the good vine jumps in this game, ie the first 2 on screen 2 would be completely unaffected if this gimmick didn't exist. It's only used in a way to make preexisting vine jumps just inconsistent and more awkward. That being said it also doesn't affect some of the worst vine jumps since they require 2-3f movement presses anyway.
Screen 1, starts off fine, first jump is alright but it starts the trend of '2-3f tap on vine. win' that for some unknown reason so many jumps use. 2nd jump is nothing, but the middle jump is ... insanity, starts off with 2 long jumps, first jump can be a fj or not, and then a very small pause and another fj, fine so far, into a pretty vague right press to get a optimally high vine grab and then, because i'm sure it needs to be like this, it's a 2-3f movement tap and immediate re-press of the same key afterwards. It's so, so, so, inconsistent, it feels unfathomably arbitrary and stamina based, the movement key repress also sucks since you can press it again too early and overshoot it way too much, it's all just really, really unfun, and it's the same thing, a tiny vine movement press. I'm not against 2fs or 3fs, not at all, but it's spam, there's just so so many of them, hell, after this jump is yet damn again, another tiny vine movement press and repress quickly after. It's the same painful, draining movement right again. And, the jump up to this, is yet again, a long jump with a short pause and a long jump after (since you want to grab the vine at a good height to pass the minispikes). It's painful and inconsistent and awkward as all hell. These 2 jumps aren't hard, they're not very precise, it's not tight or anything, matter of fact, most of this game isn't tight, only screen 3 truly is. It's just unfathomably damn awkward and feels so terrible to play, deaths feel completely faultless and uncontrollable since it's really hard on the hands to pull of some of these movements constantly and they're just so inconsistent and vague. I don't like this screen at all (1), thankfully the final jump is fine, but it's more of just a nothingburger since it's an easy setup with a 2f jump height window and a fj after. Dying to screen 2 pretty much always feels terrible since you get the knowledge that you have to deal with screen 1 which has more jumps that include micro-inputs on vines then jumps that don't. Screen 2 shows that Nick does make good vine gameplay in this style though, as mentioned previously the first 2 jumps here are pretty fine, first is a bit meh sometimes but the 2nd is actually pretty fun to pull off, it's good in isolation but brought down by what's before it. These 2 jumps show that Nick can make peak, but the rest just isn't. 3rd jump of this screen is fine, it's quite easy in comparison but then again nothing in this game is actually tight until the end of scrn2, just awkward. Then there's the diagonal jump into the vine, the diagonal jump is fine, all good there, but then, it's another one of these stupid 2-3f vine movement press and repress. I don't know why there's more. The repress here isn't actually too much of a problem since it's a good bit later so thankfully it's not as terrible as the 2 jumps on screen 1 in that department but the initial press is still just a 2-3f vine press and it's not interesting at all nor does it bring anything to the table that screen 1 hasn't. Jump after that is fine, and the fj 4f is decent. I'm not a fan of the 4f back up much, but it's nowhere near as devastating as the vine jumps. Screen 3 is a bit different, first jump is fine, and the platform jumps up are mediocre. I didn't like them much but I also don't think they're as daunting as the vine jumps in this save, it's inconsistent at first, sure, but they get better with time and truthfully i'll gladly take those over the other jumps this game throws at you, bit weird how you have to delay movement by 1\2f after jumping so it makes it a bit iffy, but it's fine. Now you have the final jump (except the golden area). The final jump here is my least favourite jump I have ever played in a fangame. I cannot think of a single jump that I have ever played that is worse than this jump, and the fact that it is after all the complaints I have had with the rest of this save is actually traumatic. It's the combination of all my complaints with this game plus an added cherry on top of horror at the end. This jump starts with, you know it, fj fj low pause to get over the fruit. Because you start on a platform you can often die to this from platform bhop which kills you to the top spikes, and before this is an incredibly visually vague left input press since you start the djump in a diagonal. After this, you pass the fruit, get given permanent catharsis water, and immediately met with ... a forced 2-3f vine press and even Worse repress than before. Incredible. I'm not gonna say it again but the repress here is very shortly after the intial tiny tap, badly conveyed, ofc inconsistent since for it to be properly consistent you'd have to be doing the same right press length, and feels actually terrible. And it's even harder than it seems since if you don't do it perfectly you'll have a bad enter into the final stutter and likely die. Tremendous. The final stutter is absurd, way harder than it seems or it should be and I don't know why it exists. Water diagonal stutter with a horrific enter at the end of all of this. Great. I died there ~6 times or some amount because it just feels like damned rng at this point, poorly conveyed inputs stacked upon poorly conveyed inputs that rely upon eachother and it's all arbitrary as all hell. It's the most agonizing, unfun, painful jump I have ever played. I cannot think of a jump this bad, awkward and almost fp left press into the middle of a diagonal (that's delayed from jump input too) into fj fj low pause (except you can't do it perfectly since if you do, you might get platform bhop and die!) into vine 2-3f and immediate repress that's so open and awkward into that stutter. Nick I don't know what you were on man, It's kind of impressive that you cooked this up but like ... what the hell dude :sob: I died here a shit ton, obviously, since it's fucking absurd, let alone putting THIS at the end of an already intensely problematic save is just unreasonable. It's not good. And the worst is that it's not the end, there's a choke section after. There's not much to say here except that it's the better side of gameplay even though it's just gates and a diagonal with catharsis water, but it's mean that there's a choke section after that final jump. It's aura though so I'll give it a pass and it would be awesome if the rest of the game's gameplay didn't make it hell to get to.
I'm sorry if i sound like an asshole, I don't blame nick or think he's a bad creator at all, I just can't say I think this game has good gameplay, it has the same few problematic inputs copied all over, and then merged into a demonic creation at the very end. It's also worth talking about the present difficulty I guess. It's weird, the saves are placed in incredibly odd spots, for some reason the final save is at the end of scrn2 so you have to do 3 deathless which is really messed up and quite likely the hardest by a good bit, and the first save forces you to do one of the agonizing scrn1 jumps from the start which is also pretty difficult. Some other saves in this mode are like, free, and are only separated by the non-problematic jumps. This game as a whole is basically just a few horrifying jumps separated by some fine jumps that become upsetting due to the knowledge of having to play the horrifying jumps everytime you die. I wouldn't recommend playing this, maybe play it on present difficulty but don't go any further than that.
Sorry nick for the negative review, I might've been pretty harsh here but as you probably can tell I'm quite passionate, no actual hate ofc, and i mean you cooked like crazy on the visuals
[0] Likes
Present would be ~5, ~75.
Warning: Malding review. I'm complaining a lot here and some might be nonsensical. It's late at night and I just wrote passionately, there's no hard feelings here
To start off positively, this game has incredible visuals. I love the theme, the tower idea is done well especially how the gameplay is limited horizontally. Very nice stuff, title screen is also sick, menus are cool, and the clear screen is cool too. Screen movement is nice and the game's pacing is cool, I noticed the visuals kinda break a bit when paused, likely due to the instances being stopped when paused, and at the clear fade in it looks like it made the edges of my game white until I paused and it fixed itself, but these are just small nitpicks. Overall visually very cool, and the game sets itself up to be quite nice overall, has good potential, but I cannot say it delivers on the gameplay. The good:
There's some jumps i'm fine with, there's no real jumps I actually love but I generally liked the final jump of screen 1, and the fj 4f for screen 2. Both of these jumps are quite easy though, especially the former, so they're not really significant in the save's gameplay anyway. First 2 jumps of screen 2 are also decent, the djump up to the vine on the first one is obsessionally annoying but that's likely just me. Now is a good time to mention, this game has a gimmick, which plays an essential role in it's traumatic gameplay, where each vine is one-time-use. After jumping off a vine, it'll fall down and you can't use it anymore. Because of this, readjustment isn't viable, and most vine jumps in this game basically run on a "fucking ball it and pray" basis, and because of this gimmick, some vine jumps become incredibly awkward as a result, as for ones with a low enter it's impossible to jump up once to get better height and then jump over, you just have to immediately jump and pray that you did a low enough pause on the jump beforehand (this complaint is most relevant to the 2nd last jump of scrn1). This gimmick hinders this game more then it adds to it, the good vine jumps in this game, ie the first 2 on screen 2 would be completely unaffected if this gimmick didn't exist. It's only used in a way to make preexisting vine jumps just inconsistent and more awkward. That being said it also doesn't affect some of the worst vine jumps since they require 2-3f movement presses anyway.
Screen 1, starts off fine, first jump is alright but it starts the trend of '2-3f tap on vine. win' that for some unknown reason so many jumps use. 2nd jump is nothing, but the middle jump is ... insanity, starts off with 2 long jumps, first jump can be a fj or not, and then a very small pause and another fj, fine so far, into a pretty vague right press to get a optimally high vine grab and then, because i'm sure it needs to be like this, it's a 2-3f movement tap and immediate re-press of the same key afterwards. It's so, so, so, inconsistent, it feels unfathomably arbitrary and stamina based, the movement key repress also sucks since you can press it again too early and overshoot it way too much, it's all just really, really unfun, and it's the same thing, a tiny vine movement press. I'm not against 2fs or 3fs, not at all, but it's spam, there's just so so many of them, hell, after this jump is yet damn again, another tiny vine movement press and repress quickly after. It's the same painful, draining movement right again. And, the jump up to this, is yet again, a long jump with a short pause and a long jump after (since you want to grab the vine at a good height to pass the minispikes). It's painful and inconsistent and awkward as all hell. These 2 jumps aren't hard, they're not very precise, it's not tight or anything, matter of fact, most of this game isn't tight, only screen 3 truly is. It's just unfathomably damn awkward and feels so terrible to play, deaths feel completely faultless and uncontrollable since it's really hard on the hands to pull of some of these movements constantly and they're just so inconsistent and vague. I don't like this screen at all (1), thankfully the final jump is fine, but it's more of just a nothingburger since it's an easy setup with a 2f jump height window and a fj after. Dying to screen 2 pretty much always feels terrible since you get the knowledge that you have to deal with screen 1 which has more jumps that include micro-inputs on vines then jumps that don't. Screen 2 shows that Nick does make good vine gameplay in this style though, as mentioned previously the first 2 jumps here are pretty fine, first is a bit meh sometimes but the 2nd is actually pretty fun to pull off, it's good in isolation but brought down by what's before it. These 2 jumps show that Nick can make peak, but the rest just isn't. 3rd jump of this screen is fine, it's quite easy in comparison but then again nothing in this game is actually tight until the end of scrn2, just awkward. Then there's the diagonal jump into the vine, the diagonal jump is fine, all good there, but then, it's another one of these stupid 2-3f vine movement press and repress. I don't know why there's more. The repress here isn't actually too much of a problem since it's a good bit later so thankfully it's not as terrible as the 2 jumps on screen 1 in that department but the initial press is still just a 2-3f vine press and it's not interesting at all nor does it bring anything to the table that screen 1 hasn't. Jump after that is fine, and the fj 4f is decent. I'm not a fan of the 4f back up much, but it's nowhere near as devastating as the vine jumps. Screen 3 is a bit different, first jump is fine, and the platform jumps up are mediocre. I didn't like them much but I also don't think they're as daunting as the vine jumps in this save, it's inconsistent at first, sure, but they get better with time and truthfully i'll gladly take those over the other jumps this game throws at you, bit weird how you have to delay movement by 1\2f after jumping so it makes it a bit iffy, but it's fine. Now you have the final jump (except the golden area). The final jump here is my least favourite jump I have ever played in a fangame. I cannot think of a single jump that I have ever played that is worse than this jump, and the fact that it is after all the complaints I have had with the rest of this save is actually traumatic. It's the combination of all my complaints with this game plus an added cherry on top of horror at the end. This jump starts with, you know it, fj fj low pause to get over the fruit. Because you start on a platform you can often die to this from platform bhop which kills you to the top spikes, and before this is an incredibly visually vague left input press since you start the djump in a diagonal. After this, you pass the fruit, get given permanent catharsis water, and immediately met with ... a forced 2-3f vine press and even Worse repress than before. Incredible. I'm not gonna say it again but the repress here is very shortly after the intial tiny tap, badly conveyed, ofc inconsistent since for it to be properly consistent you'd have to be doing the same right press length, and feels actually terrible. And it's even harder than it seems since if you don't do it perfectly you'll have a bad enter into the final stutter and likely die. Tremendous. The final stutter is absurd, way harder than it seems or it should be and I don't know why it exists. Water diagonal stutter with a horrific enter at the end of all of this. Great. I died there ~6 times or some amount because it just feels like damned rng at this point, poorly conveyed inputs stacked upon poorly conveyed inputs that rely upon eachother and it's all arbitrary as all hell. It's the most agonizing, unfun, painful jump I have ever played. I cannot think of a jump this bad, awkward and almost fp left press into the middle of a diagonal (that's delayed from jump input too) into fj fj low pause (except you can't do it perfectly since if you do, you might get platform bhop and die!) into vine 2-3f and immediate repress that's so open and awkward into that stutter. Nick I don't know what you were on man, It's kind of impressive that you cooked this up but like ... what the hell dude :sob: I died here a shit ton, obviously, since it's fucking absurd, let alone putting THIS at the end of an already intensely problematic save is just unreasonable. It's not good. And the worst is that it's not the end, there's a choke section after. There's not much to say here except that it's the better side of gameplay even though it's just gates and a diagonal with catharsis water, but it's mean that there's a choke section after that final jump. It's aura though so I'll give it a pass and it would be awesome if the rest of the game's gameplay didn't make it hell to get to.
I'm sorry if i sound like an asshole, I don't blame nick or think he's a bad creator at all, I just can't say I think this game has good gameplay, it has the same few problematic inputs copied all over, and then merged into a demonic creation at the very end. It's also worth talking about the present difficulty I guess. It's weird, the saves are placed in incredibly odd spots, for some reason the final save is at the end of scrn2 so you have to do 3 deathless which is really messed up and quite likely the hardest by a good bit, and the first save forces you to do one of the agonizing scrn1 jumps from the start which is also pretty difficult. Some other saves in this mode are like, free, and are only separated by the non-problematic jumps. This game as a whole is basically just a few horrifying jumps separated by some fine jumps that become upsetting due to the knowledge of having to play the horrifying jumps everytime you die. I wouldn't recommend playing this, maybe play it on present difficulty but don't go any further than that.
Sorry nick for the negative review, I might've been pretty harsh here but as you probably can tell I'm quite passionate, no actual hate ofc, and i mean you cooked like crazy on the visuals
Rating: 2.0 20
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Apr 11, 2026
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