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I used to be here four years ago but I left. I was Guitarsage2k/Parallax5.
These fangames mean a lot to me (attempt at order)
1. I Wanna Kill the Kermit 3
2. I Wanna Walk Out in the Morning Dew
3. I Wanna Be the Volatile Presence: Stagnant Edition
4. Crimson Needle 3
5. I Wanna Kill the Kermit 2
6. I Wanna Figure
7. Phonotransmitter
8. VoVoVo
9. I Wanna Reach the Moon
10. untitled needle game
11. I Wanna Burnmind
12. Domu
13. I Want To Meet Miki
14. I Wanna Go Across the Rainbow
15. Alphazetica
16. I Wanna Stop the Simulation
17. I Wanna Hydrate
18. I Wanna Be the Ocean Princess
19. I Wanna Vibe with the Gods
20. I Wanna Be the Vandal
21. I Wanna Pray to the Platform God
22. I Want
23. I Wanna Pointillism
24. I Wanna Be Far From Home
25. I Wanna Be the RO
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YaBoiMarcAntony
For: efficient
For: efficient
Extremely proficient pathing-based needle that really does not beat around the bush. There's no frills, no fancy design choices, no siree; this is needle almost pure as the day it was born. There are three stages, the third being the hardest and perhaps the worst, but only relative to the first two stages - and I only call it the worst as it was the only one to have a couple jumps that irritated me a bit. Aside from that, this is an extremely smooth experience worth the time and effort to partake in.
Tagged as: Needle
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Rating: 7.0 70
Difficulty: 55 55
Mar 29, 2021
YaBoiMarcAntony
For: I Wanna Be The Caretaker
For: I Wanna Be The Caretaker
I Wanna be the Caretaker is based off of the famous Caretaker album, Everywhere at the End of Time, each stage being based on one section of this massive musical experience - one that I have not personally partaken in both due to my own disinterest in it and just not really wanting to put in the time to do it. Nonetheless, it is not a necessity that you are familiar with the album sonically, the game can be consumed quite easily without having never heard it once, as I did. In fact, I might even suggest it to be a superior way of playing this game as it allows you to develop a stronger connection to the game itself rather than it being carried by your connection to the album.
Nonetheless, Caretaker (which is how I will be referring to the game from here on out), is a damn fine gimmick needle game which actually manages to innovate on some of its chosen gimmicks. Particularly, I found the last few stages to be especially good, the last one ESPECIALLY so thanks to its intelligent combination of the various gimmicks within previous stages. Visually, Gizmo chooses a more simplistic approach, succeeding greatly in what they set out to do. The game is at its best in this respect also at the last stage. Truly, the only problem I had with this game was with the platforms being a bit goofy, not allowing you to stand on them without issue. This made a couple saves more difficult than I'm sure they were intended to be - unless this was on purpose. If so, I do not get it, though I could come up with some reasons for it, I'm sure.
All that, however, doesn't truly matter. Whether or not Caretaker was made purely to recreate the album its based on or to meditate on the themes of that album, I do not know; however, speaking on Caretaker purely on its own merits, I believe it to be a genuinely thought-provoking experience. I have little experience with dementia, but I do know how it feels to see someone you love deteriorate, and the end result is one I don't think anyone should have to see. As such, if you have had the unfortunate weight on your mind of such an experience, then this game will likely resonate heavily with you. It offers insight into how it might feel to be on the other side of the wall, feeling yourself become all static and unfamiliar, suffering a fate worse than death - the death of one's own mind.
Do I even need to tell you this is a game well worth playing?
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Nonetheless, Caretaker (which is how I will be referring to the game from here on out), is a damn fine gimmick needle game which actually manages to innovate on some of its chosen gimmicks. Particularly, I found the last few stages to be especially good, the last one ESPECIALLY so thanks to its intelligent combination of the various gimmicks within previous stages. Visually, Gizmo chooses a more simplistic approach, succeeding greatly in what they set out to do. The game is at its best in this respect also at the last stage. Truly, the only problem I had with this game was with the platforms being a bit goofy, not allowing you to stand on them without issue. This made a couple saves more difficult than I'm sure they were intended to be - unless this was on purpose. If so, I do not get it, though I could come up with some reasons for it, I'm sure.
All that, however, doesn't truly matter. Whether or not Caretaker was made purely to recreate the album its based on or to meditate on the themes of that album, I do not know; however, speaking on Caretaker purely on its own merits, I believe it to be a genuinely thought-provoking experience. I have little experience with dementia, but I do know how it feels to see someone you love deteriorate, and the end result is one I don't think anyone should have to see. As such, if you have had the unfortunate weight on your mind of such an experience, then this game will likely resonate heavily with you. It offers insight into how it might feel to be on the other side of the wall, feeling yourself become all static and unfamiliar, suffering a fate worse than death - the death of one's own mind.
Do I even need to tell you this is a game well worth playing?
Rating: 8.5 85
Difficulty: 55 55
Mar 21, 2021
YaBoiMarcAntony
For: I Wanna Eat My Literature Textbook
For: I Wanna Eat My Literature Textbook
Generic needle that feels as if it were thrown together somewhere between five and fifteen minutes. With that said, I found it enjoyable for what it was, so maybe you will too.
Tagged as: Needle
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Rating: 5.0 50
Difficulty: 55 55
Mar 13, 2021
YaBoiMarcAntony
For: I wanna be the Volatile Presence
For: I wanna be the Volatile Presence
My original review was one not too related to the game but instead the controversy which surrounded it for a brief time. As this is a disservice to one of the most well-realized artistic statements I have ever experienced, I've decided to do away with that old review and instead give my thoughts on the game itself.
Volatile Presence is simply brilliant in every sense of the word and in every facet possible. While the gameplay is outright gorgeous, what I truly love most about the game is its cohesion in meaning and the inspiring level of thought put into the game's design inside and out. The big thing about this game is its core gimmick - not within the game, but instead how it is only available sometimes! Some may think of this as gimmicky for the sake of it, but to think of it as such would be missing the point to me. Personally, you can recognize the point of a gimmick and just not believe it works, that's quite alright, but then to just say there is no point behind the gimmick other than for the sake of it? Well, that's just ignorant. What, then, is the point of VP's gimmick? Answer: it's in the title!
Volatile Presence is itself a volatile presence online, being available sometimes and other times not with no pattern to said availability. This concept of volatility is also found within the game design itself, further strengthening its statement through ingenious means. All but one stage is comprised of one screen, and all of these stages focus on one unique gimmick, a design choice which necessitates those single screens being extremely dense and well made so as to eke out all of the quality available with each gimmick; furthermore, many of VP's stages change in some way how you're allowed to traverse the screens within. You're never allowed to get comfortable with any one gimmick as they're subject to change at the game's whim, and they always do change with success - at least, until the last stage.
So far as I'm concerned, this feels like a very personal statement or at least a presentation of a very personal concept - that of being yourself volatile, something I can relate to and hell, I imagine most people can relate to it too. It's fairly common to get this feeling of not being available all the time to the people surrounding you, that at any moment you'll force yourself to shut off and hide away from the people you love. Emotions control us all to some degree or another whether or not we want to admit it, and sometimes it feels hard to feel as if you have no part in the direction your life takes, no say in what you can and cannot do, no control. Thus is how Volatile Presence feels. There is no flexibility in what you're really allowed to do, you are simple forced to go about each screen exactly as intended, and never are you allowed to get comfortable enough with any one gimmick for that to become otherwise.
While this particular sense of volatility that VP deals in doesn't really hit home for me, it is inspiring the lengths vi took in order to bring this meaning to the forefront, the genius required to make it work as well as it does while also making consistently brilliant saves. I did not love every section of the game, but the overall experience is one you'll never find anywhere else.
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Volatile Presence is simply brilliant in every sense of the word and in every facet possible. While the gameplay is outright gorgeous, what I truly love most about the game is its cohesion in meaning and the inspiring level of thought put into the game's design inside and out. The big thing about this game is its core gimmick - not within the game, but instead how it is only available sometimes! Some may think of this as gimmicky for the sake of it, but to think of it as such would be missing the point to me. Personally, you can recognize the point of a gimmick and just not believe it works, that's quite alright, but then to just say there is no point behind the gimmick other than for the sake of it? Well, that's just ignorant. What, then, is the point of VP's gimmick? Answer: it's in the title!
Volatile Presence is itself a volatile presence online, being available sometimes and other times not with no pattern to said availability. This concept of volatility is also found within the game design itself, further strengthening its statement through ingenious means. All but one stage is comprised of one screen, and all of these stages focus on one unique gimmick, a design choice which necessitates those single screens being extremely dense and well made so as to eke out all of the quality available with each gimmick; furthermore, many of VP's stages change in some way how you're allowed to traverse the screens within. You're never allowed to get comfortable with any one gimmick as they're subject to change at the game's whim, and they always do change with success - at least, until the last stage.
So far as I'm concerned, this feels like a very personal statement or at least a presentation of a very personal concept - that of being yourself volatile, something I can relate to and hell, I imagine most people can relate to it too. It's fairly common to get this feeling of not being available all the time to the people surrounding you, that at any moment you'll force yourself to shut off and hide away from the people you love. Emotions control us all to some degree or another whether or not we want to admit it, and sometimes it feels hard to feel as if you have no part in the direction your life takes, no say in what you can and cannot do, no control. Thus is how Volatile Presence feels. There is no flexibility in what you're really allowed to do, you are simple forced to go about each screen exactly as intended, and never are you allowed to get comfortable enough with any one gimmick for that to become otherwise.
While this particular sense of volatility that VP deals in doesn't really hit home for me, it is inspiring the lengths vi took in order to bring this meaning to the forefront, the genius required to make it work as well as it does while also making consistently brilliant saves. I did not love every section of the game, but the overall experience is one you'll never find anywhere else.
Rating: 9.0 90
Difficulty: 77 77
Mar 10, 2021
YaBoiMarcAntony
For: I Wanna be the RO
For: I Wanna be the RO
I Wanna be the RO is a Rukito-like with emphasis on the -like rather than the Rukito. Really, the only Rukito elements you'll find here are the various triggers. In every other way, however, RO differs greatly from Rukito's various experiments - this, perhaps, is for the best. Rukito's genre is one that belongs to the classic era rather than the modern, though not in a disparaging sense. What point is there to further expand on something already perfected before? Funnily enough, I don't know that anyone has ever made a Rukito-like that really reminded me of his own games. They're always far too clean and kind, whereas something like MMM or RZ is anything but clean or kind, but then that is how you can really differentiate between the modern era of fangames and the old. Production value and whatnot, aside, the very feeling of a 2020 fangame versus a 2012 fangame is so completely different as to be essentially two separate things. This comes from the fact that makers in general are just getting better at what they do. As people make better games, others learn from these better games and in term make - wouldn't you know it, better games! We lift each other up every time any one of us makes a great game, whether through inspiration or innovation. As the years go by, we gradually sharpen our swords on the whetstone of Time and come to know more about our weapon, learn more and more how to use it in satisfying and enjoyable ways. I Wanna be the RO, in my humble opinion, shows us just how sharp that blade of ours has come to be.
Though it may be unnecessary to say at this point, Wolfie is perhaps the greatest maker in our community right now, barring a couple who made games personally meaningful to me. No one has their consistency, their adept understanding of what feels good to play, their heart and soul, no one. When you play a Wolfie game, you can feel the genuine love they put into their work, something that separates the good games from the truly brilliant ones. I believe it is truly impossible for them to turn out something uninspired because they simply don't have it in them to do something so insulting as that. Though RO is not their peak (I am unsure of if they've even created their best work by this point in time), it certainly is one of the best things they've ever made.
Now then, on the game itself. RO plays around beautifully with a concept we've all known and loved (or hated) for a long time, triggers. In one of the many differences between the modern and old, however, they are utilized in a fashion that accentuates maneuverability and the satisfaction of any given jump rather than as to merely add a movement or two to the save. This is something that, in recent times, has become more and more popular of a design choice, and one that I believe defines the very positive direction needle design is taking, in terms of the less abstract and more game-y sides of design. Though this is the largest feature of RO, each stage also sets out to meditate on a novel or well-known gimmick and take it to its natural limit, succeeding in every single attempt. My personal favorite stages, though it really doesn't matter which I call my favorites as they're all equally spectacular, would have to be Space, Time, and Mirage - that is, the entire latter-half of the game. Of these, I believe Time is where the trigger aspect of the game is taken to its quality limit, Space the gimmick aspect, and Mirage the overall limit. Time in particular has a standout save to cap off the stage, being a sort of chase where you push back a wall of cherries following you with various triggers in your path. This, I believe, will be the standout save for most people that play this game - and I hope desperately that it inspires every budding maker who plays through RO.
Wolfie also experiments with bosses in RO, succeeding somewhat. Of the two bosses, I enjoyed them both more or less the same amount. I think they're well-designed, enjoyable to fight, and more or less act as ways to give more variety to the game overall; however, I would point to them both as the weakest part of the game, through no fault of Wolfie's. I mean, how could they hope to create a boss fight that matches the astonishingly high heights of their needle quality - on their first go, no less? Nonetheless, I do hope this leads to more bosses from Wolfie as I believe he could create something truly special with more work.
I have little else to say, really. RO should be the template of all future needle games - rather, it should be what controls the direction that needle design takes. I believe whatever direction it leads us will be one well worth following.
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Though it may be unnecessary to say at this point, Wolfie is perhaps the greatest maker in our community right now, barring a couple who made games personally meaningful to me. No one has their consistency, their adept understanding of what feels good to play, their heart and soul, no one. When you play a Wolfie game, you can feel the genuine love they put into their work, something that separates the good games from the truly brilliant ones. I believe it is truly impossible for them to turn out something uninspired because they simply don't have it in them to do something so insulting as that. Though RO is not their peak (I am unsure of if they've even created their best work by this point in time), it certainly is one of the best things they've ever made.
Now then, on the game itself. RO plays around beautifully with a concept we've all known and loved (or hated) for a long time, triggers. In one of the many differences between the modern and old, however, they are utilized in a fashion that accentuates maneuverability and the satisfaction of any given jump rather than as to merely add a movement or two to the save. This is something that, in recent times, has become more and more popular of a design choice, and one that I believe defines the very positive direction needle design is taking, in terms of the less abstract and more game-y sides of design. Though this is the largest feature of RO, each stage also sets out to meditate on a novel or well-known gimmick and take it to its natural limit, succeeding in every single attempt. My personal favorite stages, though it really doesn't matter which I call my favorites as they're all equally spectacular, would have to be Space, Time, and Mirage - that is, the entire latter-half of the game. Of these, I believe Time is where the trigger aspect of the game is taken to its quality limit, Space the gimmick aspect, and Mirage the overall limit. Time in particular has a standout save to cap off the stage, being a sort of chase where you push back a wall of cherries following you with various triggers in your path. This, I believe, will be the standout save for most people that play this game - and I hope desperately that it inspires every budding maker who plays through RO.
Wolfie also experiments with bosses in RO, succeeding somewhat. Of the two bosses, I enjoyed them both more or less the same amount. I think they're well-designed, enjoyable to fight, and more or less act as ways to give more variety to the game overall; however, I would point to them both as the weakest part of the game, through no fault of Wolfie's. I mean, how could they hope to create a boss fight that matches the astonishingly high heights of their needle quality - on their first go, no less? Nonetheless, I do hope this leads to more bosses from Wolfie as I believe he could create something truly special with more work.
I have little else to say, really. RO should be the template of all future needle games - rather, it should be what controls the direction that needle design takes. I believe whatever direction it leads us will be one well worth following.
Rating: 8.7 87
Difficulty: 70 70
Mar 8, 2021
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| Game | Difficulty | Average Rating | # of Ratings |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Sky Blue Denouement | 89.8 | 8.2 | 5 |
| April is the Cruelest Month | 85.0 | 8.8 | 16 |
| I Wanna Flying Disc | 91.5 | 9.3 | 4 |
| Frankie Teardrop | 2.2 | 6.0 | 10 |
| I Don't Wanna Dwell | 69.2 | 7.3 | 14 |
| Nebulous Thoughts | 80.3 | 9.1 | 30 |
| Strewn Detritus | 69.0 | 7.3 | 14 |
| The Sunken Cathedral | 70.0 | 8.2 | 25 |
| I Wanna be the Ziggomatic Drukqs | 70.5 | 7.3 | 9 |
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