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moogy
For: the pusspatchening
For: the pusspatchening
Three stages of jtool needle, all quite fun and well-balanced. All of the jumps feel nice to perform and there's a good deal of variety in layouts/pathing while maintaining a consistent style.
This creator's games keep getting better, I'm excited to see their future output!
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This creator's games keep getting better, I'm excited to see their future output!
Rating: 7.5 75
Difficulty: 58 58
Nov 3, 2021
moogy
For: i wanna get lost
For: i wanna get lost
Pathing is pretty interesting, but the needle itself suffers a bit as a result. Lots of standard 32px stuff, can feel repetitive. It's also possible to skip quite a bit of the game by doing a 1f through a corner.
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Rating: 6.5 65
Difficulty: 61 61
Nov 2, 2021
moogy
For: Amaranth Needle
For: Amaranth Needle
A 100f game with a continual increase in difficulty from the very beginning to the very end. There are never any real spikes, but by the time you reach the 70s and 80s every save is brutal, and the difficulty continues to climb from there; you can expect to take as long on floors 91-100 as you did on the entire rest of the game.
Honestly, I respect Amaranth's commitment to its continually escalating difficulty level, especially since it's accomplished entirely via engine standard kill objects, all of which are static. No traps, triggers, or gimmicks; you can make every screen in jtool if you want. (There are a few exceptions, like collecting keys for secrets, but they're not really worth mentioning.)
Unfortunately, I think the resulting game is simply not very much fun to play most of the time. You're just going through screen after screen of bland needle with uninspired pathing and absolutely nothing to provide a change in pace. Later in the game, almost every save feels like it's "harder" (more frustrating and grindy) than it should be due to a handful of needlessly precise jumps. Apples are used constantly in annoying ways to complicate otherwise simple jump sequences, and at times the design devolves into just placing corners and planes in the middle of saves that are already hard. To the game's credit, there are a number of interesting jump sequences that feel satisfying to learn, but as a whole the design is dragged down by an obsession with making every save as hard as possible no matter what.
But hey, maybe I'm just not the target audience; there are clearly people who really enjoyed Amaranth. Maybe the parts I found tiresome were fascinating challenges to them. Maybe difficulty for its own sake isn't necessarily a bad thing, as long as you have the right mindset. I did keep coming back to the game myself, after all -- if nothing else, I clearly found the idea of overcoming it compelling, and it forced me to push past my limits.
But, uh, I think I'm good just playing through it once.
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Honestly, I respect Amaranth's commitment to its continually escalating difficulty level, especially since it's accomplished entirely via engine standard kill objects, all of which are static. No traps, triggers, or gimmicks; you can make every screen in jtool if you want. (There are a few exceptions, like collecting keys for secrets, but they're not really worth mentioning.)
Unfortunately, I think the resulting game is simply not very much fun to play most of the time. You're just going through screen after screen of bland needle with uninspired pathing and absolutely nothing to provide a change in pace. Later in the game, almost every save feels like it's "harder" (more frustrating and grindy) than it should be due to a handful of needlessly precise jumps. Apples are used constantly in annoying ways to complicate otherwise simple jump sequences, and at times the design devolves into just placing corners and planes in the middle of saves that are already hard. To the game's credit, there are a number of interesting jump sequences that feel satisfying to learn, but as a whole the design is dragged down by an obsession with making every save as hard as possible no matter what.
But hey, maybe I'm just not the target audience; there are clearly people who really enjoyed Amaranth. Maybe the parts I found tiresome were fascinating challenges to them. Maybe difficulty for its own sake isn't necessarily a bad thing, as long as you have the right mindset. I did keep coming back to the game myself, after all -- if nothing else, I clearly found the idea of overcoming it compelling, and it forced me to push past my limits.
But, uh, I think I'm good just playing through it once.
Rating: N/A
Difficulty: 90 90
Oct 25, 2021
moogy
For: I wanna thank you Patrickgh3
For: I wanna thank you Patrickgh3
If you don't get the gimmick, it's based on the old Kale game I wanna Thank You Thenewgeezer, featured in Crimson Needle 3.
Pretty much what you would expect from that description -- a bunch of CN3-esque screens with no attempt at cohesion or difficulty balance. Which is for the best, honestly. It has just the right amount of fangame jank and disregard for "good" game design to keep you interested. For better or worse this is a very "fangame-y" fangame, and pretty enjoyable in that sense imo.
I will say that I found the final screen way harder than the rest of the game, it took me like 500 deaths and felt like a spike in difficulty to the level of CN3 itself. Not really sure how to address it with nerfs though...
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Pretty much what you would expect from that description -- a bunch of CN3-esque screens with no attempt at cohesion or difficulty balance. Which is for the best, honestly. It has just the right amount of fangame jank and disregard for "good" game design to keep you interested. For better or worse this is a very "fangame-y" fangame, and pretty enjoyable in that sense imo.
I will say that I found the final screen way harder than the rest of the game, it took me like 500 deaths and felt like a spike in difficulty to the level of CN3 itself. Not really sure how to address it with nerfs though...
Rating: 7.0 70
Difficulty: 65 65
Oct 22, 2021
moogy
For: Phase 2-2
For: Phase 2-2
Rating includes "extra" (go off the top of the screen in the hub).
First, about the gimmicks: The wall jump mechanic is a lot better now, felt pretty natural to use and made for some fun pathing. The glider is fine, but the fact that grabbing onto a vine while equipped with a glider actually makes you go *faster* feels really weird and should probably be changed imo.
I did find it weird that neither the wall jump nor the glider were actually used in the rest of the game; it's just a bunch of jtool needle based around vines and water. This is fine, but it does make me question why the gimmick "tutorials" were included lol.
Catharsis water stage was the best because Catharsis water is the best.
The "extra" stage is mostly just kind of annoying so filling it with saves for the main game version was probably for the best.
Overall a fun little needle game even if it feels kind of disjointed overall.
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First, about the gimmicks: The wall jump mechanic is a lot better now, felt pretty natural to use and made for some fun pathing. The glider is fine, but the fact that grabbing onto a vine while equipped with a glider actually makes you go *faster* feels really weird and should probably be changed imo.
I did find it weird that neither the wall jump nor the glider were actually used in the rest of the game; it's just a bunch of jtool needle based around vines and water. This is fine, but it does make me question why the gimmick "tutorials" were included lol.
Catharsis water stage was the best because Catharsis water is the best.
The "extra" stage is mostly just kind of annoying so filling it with saves for the main game version was probably for the best.
Overall a fun little needle game even if it feels kind of disjointed overall.
Rating: 7.0 70
Difficulty: 59 59
Oct 17, 2021
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