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I play fangames or stuff.
I try rating game compared to what they are trying to achieve rather than compared to fangames as a whole, and with knowledge of what you're getting into; If I rate a corridor needle game, I assume the person reading the review wants to play corridor needle, as if they don't they shouldn't bother playing it anyway. With that said, I tend to be very generous on needle ratings while being very skimpy on avoidances (although you likely won't see it as if I'd give it less than a 7 I just won't clear it instead).
don't expect diff ratings to be very accurate.
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Cthaere
For: I Wanna Play with Mrs. Witch
For: I Wanna Play with Mrs. Witch
A cute Halloween themed collab, with 6 distinct stages of mostly needle and a final boss. Unfortunately the Halloween theme is entirely superficial, with standard needle featuring themed tilesets and sometimes appropriate music, and is not even properly capitalized on in the trap stage, which I feel was a big missed opportunity. Even without considering the theme, the collab stands on its own fairly well and provides a solid mix of needle and a bit of something else.
Rong: A big interconnected maze where your goal is to find 5 separate collectibles. While you have access to all of them at the start, two of them will make access to the other 3 impossible, and so you have to find them in the correct order. Level design accommodates the final two collectables shenanigans and gives the feeling of exploring old areas anew. While needle is a bit simplistic, it is not the focus and it does not get in the way, and lets the exploration side shine. If I had to pick a favorite, this would be a strong contender.
Taoshu: Very cramped needle, with 1 save with 4-5 somewhat precise/awkward jumps per screen. Has some vstring setup in one of the screens that you'll have to figure out. Interesting, and still decently fun, but probably also my least favorite stage.
Jushi: A mishmash stage, with both needle that has you do a loop through a 2x2 room ending with a very interesting trivia question, a few rooms ending with triggers each, and a special gimmick at the end I'd rather not spoil. The needle is generic, but is overall fun aside from a couple of saves that stand out as bad. I'd say this is the most interesting stage.
Qinchui: A trap stage which manages to elevate your run of the mill moving spikes/fake blocks/invisible blocks traps into a fun battle of wits, accomplishing it by combining both generic applications and very unexpected ones in the level design. Final screen has a punishment room which is really annoying since one of the entrances to it is incredibly cheap. Aside from that, this was a good deal of fun and a nice break from needle.
Zeroyume: An easy needle stage in a more modern style. The needle is good and the atmosphere is comfy, taking a break from the usual Halloween theming. Not much more to say. Straightforward good and fun.
Wujian: Pathing needle focused around water and conservation of the player's double jump. The stage manages to remain fun in execution while juggling the pathing requirements, and on top of that manages to make the needle seem far scarier than it actually is, which was nice. My favorite stage in terms of needle.
Final boss: I had a few issues with it, admittedly. First, it can randomly teleport, which drastically changes how frequently you can shoot at it as well as how dangerous it is. Second, it has revenge bullets, which make the first point way more pronounced. The funniest aspect is that those points also lead me to the third problem: The boss can choose to become entire free, as the point of origin of the revenge bullets is the center of the sprite, but the hitbox of the boss is pretty big, meaning there are certain positions where you can continuously shoot the boss on ground level without ever being in danger by the revenge bullets. This not only trivializes the bossfight but (at least for me) encouraged an extremely reckless playstyle hoping to get it low, have it teleport to the good position, then finish it off. The boss itself is extremely balanced and very fun when played slowly, but becomes a bit of a meatgrind when trying to rush it. The boss also has an avoidance phase after you bring it down, which thankfully has good indicators for instagibs and is overall great fun despite being nervewracking until the very last attack, which amps things up to 11 and feels like it might be rng dependent due to several factors such as projectile speed, arena layout and attack pattern. Still, I had quite a bit of fun with it, but those points definitely hampered my mood a bit.
Overall this is a solid collab with content ranging from "good" to "great", with nothing spectacularly good or beyond mildly bad, which works very well as a collab, even if not a Halloween one.
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Rong: A big interconnected maze where your goal is to find 5 separate collectibles. While you have access to all of them at the start, two of them will make access to the other 3 impossible, and so you have to find them in the correct order. Level design accommodates the final two collectables shenanigans and gives the feeling of exploring old areas anew. While needle is a bit simplistic, it is not the focus and it does not get in the way, and lets the exploration side shine. If I had to pick a favorite, this would be a strong contender.
Taoshu: Very cramped needle, with 1 save with 4-5 somewhat precise/awkward jumps per screen. Has some vstring setup in one of the screens that you'll have to figure out. Interesting, and still decently fun, but probably also my least favorite stage.
Jushi: A mishmash stage, with both needle that has you do a loop through a 2x2 room ending with a very interesting trivia question, a few rooms ending with triggers each, and a special gimmick at the end I'd rather not spoil. The needle is generic, but is overall fun aside from a couple of saves that stand out as bad. I'd say this is the most interesting stage.
Qinchui: A trap stage which manages to elevate your run of the mill moving spikes/fake blocks/invisible blocks traps into a fun battle of wits, accomplishing it by combining both generic applications and very unexpected ones in the level design. Final screen has a punishment room which is really annoying since one of the entrances to it is incredibly cheap. Aside from that, this was a good deal of fun and a nice break from needle.
Zeroyume: An easy needle stage in a more modern style. The needle is good and the atmosphere is comfy, taking a break from the usual Halloween theming. Not much more to say. Straightforward good and fun.
Wujian: Pathing needle focused around water and conservation of the player's double jump. The stage manages to remain fun in execution while juggling the pathing requirements, and on top of that manages to make the needle seem far scarier than it actually is, which was nice. My favorite stage in terms of needle.
Final boss: I had a few issues with it, admittedly. First, it can randomly teleport, which drastically changes how frequently you can shoot at it as well as how dangerous it is. Second, it has revenge bullets, which make the first point way more pronounced. The funniest aspect is that those points also lead me to the third problem: The boss can choose to become entire free, as the point of origin of the revenge bullets is the center of the sprite, but the hitbox of the boss is pretty big, meaning there are certain positions where you can continuously shoot the boss on ground level without ever being in danger by the revenge bullets. This not only trivializes the bossfight but (at least for me) encouraged an extremely reckless playstyle hoping to get it low, have it teleport to the good position, then finish it off. The boss itself is extremely balanced and very fun when played slowly, but becomes a bit of a meatgrind when trying to rush it. The boss also has an avoidance phase after you bring it down, which thankfully has good indicators for instagibs and is overall great fun despite being nervewracking until the very last attack, which amps things up to 11 and feels like it might be rng dependent due to several factors such as projectile speed, arena layout and attack pattern. Still, I had quite a bit of fun with it, but those points definitely hampered my mood a bit.
Overall this is a solid collab with content ranging from "good" to "great", with nothing spectacularly good or beyond mildly bad, which works very well as a collab, even if not a Halloween one.
Rating: 8.2 82
Difficulty: 60 60
Jan 10, 2021
Cthaere
For: I Wanna Enjoy My Dreams
For: I Wanna Enjoy My Dreams
Enjoy My Dreams is a 10 screen needle game of average difficulty. Difficulty progression is pretty weird, starting at the easiest and ending at the hardest, but devolving into complete chaos in the middle. The needle style in theory focuses on weaves and turnarounds in a freeform environment, but in practice it is overshadowed by overuse of fulljumps, which also mean that it takes a while to move between jumps and so interrupt the weaving flow, as well as short save length which also interrupts the general screen progression flow. Above all, though, the game feels incohesive. The 10 screens are divided into 5 groups of 2 with a unique song and tileset each, with some featuring significant changes to gameplay, and due to the low-ish difficulty of most of them they go by fairly quickly resulting in the game having no cohesive identity. Despite everything I've said, there is some fun to be had here, although not as much as I would expect to see in a year or two from this maker. Not bad for a first fangame, and I wouldn't recommend against playing it, but there are improvements to be made both on the needle and the general gamemaking side of things before it can truly shine.
Tagged as: Needle
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Rating: 5.5 55
Difficulty: 50 50
Jan 9, 2021
Cthaere
For: I wanna scale the Red Needle
For: I wanna scale the Red Needle
I wanna Scale the Red Needle is a needle game of 8 saves placed inside an ascending tower, in a style that is an unprecedented fusion of the extremely claustrophobic and cramped style with the modern freeform weaving engine-gimmick-heavy style to result in a game that asks for a long stream of inputs that require just enough precision that you have to be accurate and pay attention in every one without making anything too hard or meatgrindy. The needle and especially the style are the highlights of the game, providing a very unique needle experience that feels hard and hectic without actually requiring too much of the player, and is surprisingly easy to build consistency in. The difficulty curve is exponential, with all the difficulty coming from the final save, which is a giant banger and extremely fun to grind. The game has a spotlight effect, which when combined with the already dark screen results in difficulties in ascertaining future jumps in a save beyond the very next one, and the general darkness may cause strain when trying to execute precise setups, which occur infrequently throughout the game but don't take away from the freeform focus. Overall I will say that this game was a blast to grind and I am proud that it is my hardest clear at the time of writing this, and that it's a shame more people don't know of it. I'd highly recommend it to anyone looking for a serious needle challenge and isn't afraid of 16px or claustrophobic design.
Tagged as: Needle
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Rating: 9.0 90
Difficulty: 91 91
Jan 8, 2021
Cthaere
For: I Wanna Vibe With The Gods
For: I Wanna Vibe With The Gods
I usually have a fairly strict policy on high ratings: To rate a game 9/10 or above means that I feel the game is special to me in some way, and is of outstanding quality. A 10/10, consequentially, is a game I care about deeply, a game that I love despite any flaws it may have, sometimes precisely because of those flaws.
Within a week, I have encountered 2 exceptions to that policy, one of which is this game. I couldn't bring myself to rate it less, despite not meeting my criteria.
I wanna vibe with the gods is a game best described as a gimmick+boss game, with 10 rooms of gimmicks of varying levels of thinking, learning and execution requirements. Thankfully, none of these get too esoteric and those that might gatekeep people from the rest of the game can be skipped. Despite using established gimmicks, they are for the most part used in extremely interesting ways that I have not seen before and force even players familiar with the gimmicks to stop and think, with some design concepts that absolutely blew me away.
Despite the level of quality in the platforming, the final boss easily outshines it. It is a loosely Crimson-style boss built on themes of attack complexity and learning factor, forcing the player to find a strat, then replace it with a better one, then polish it, then abandon it for an even better one, and so on and so forth for the vast majority of attacks in the fight, which is achieved in no small part by giving the player a much higher degree of control over attacks without placing restrictions on movement in the process.
Unfortunately, this review has been left intentionally vague so as to not spoil anything important, since this game in particular is extremely prone to it. However, this is a must-play to anyone who does not have a deep and innate distaste to either gimmicks or bosses and has the required skill to beat it without spending exorbitant amounts of time.
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Within a week, I have encountered 2 exceptions to that policy, one of which is this game. I couldn't bring myself to rate it less, despite not meeting my criteria.
I wanna vibe with the gods is a game best described as a gimmick+boss game, with 10 rooms of gimmicks of varying levels of thinking, learning and execution requirements. Thankfully, none of these get too esoteric and those that might gatekeep people from the rest of the game can be skipped. Despite using established gimmicks, they are for the most part used in extremely interesting ways that I have not seen before and force even players familiar with the gimmicks to stop and think, with some design concepts that absolutely blew me away.
Despite the level of quality in the platforming, the final boss easily outshines it. It is a loosely Crimson-style boss built on themes of attack complexity and learning factor, forcing the player to find a strat, then replace it with a better one, then polish it, then abandon it for an even better one, and so on and so forth for the vast majority of attacks in the fight, which is achieved in no small part by giving the player a much higher degree of control over attacks without placing restrictions on movement in the process.
Unfortunately, this review has been left intentionally vague so as to not spoil anything important, since this game in particular is extremely prone to it. However, this is a must-play to anyone who does not have a deep and innate distaste to either gimmicks or bosses and has the required skill to beat it without spending exorbitant amounts of time.
Rating: 10.0 100
Difficulty: 70 70
Jan 2, 2021
Cthaere
For: Another Bad Barrage
For: Another Bad Barrage
A simple barrage on the easier side. Comes with a hit mode that allows you to find out that the avoidance is much longer than you'd initially expect, and find out the spots that might give you trouble in advance. There are some rough transitions and attacks that would cause inexperienced players a bit of trouble, and I also think that there could have been a better way to map the intro to make it interesting while not taking the spotlight off the more intense parts rather than have it be much easier than most of the attacks later on, but it was overall decently fun. Would probably recommend to intermediate avoidance players as a chill 30 minutes or less session.
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Rating: 7.0 70
Difficulty: 40 40
Dec 29, 2020
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26 Favorite Games
| Game | Difficulty | User's Rating |
|---|---|---|
| I wanna be the SSR2 | 78.0 | 8.2 |
| アイワナ制作のいいネタが思いつかなかったから作ったアイワナ | 40.0 | 8.5 |
| I Wanna Be the Butterfly | 73.0 | 7.8 |
| I wanna be the semantic compositions on death and its meaning | N/A | N/A |
| I wanna kill the Kermit 2 | 72.0 | 10.0 |
| I wanna be Time Characters | 62.0 | 8.0 |
| I wanna run the Marathon | N/A | N/A |
| I wanna scale the Red Needle | 91.0 | 9.0 |
| I Wanna Be The Boring Needle | 70.0 | 8.0 |
| I wanna be the Grave | 75.0 | 9.5 |
| I wanna shiver | 70.0 | 9.5 |
| I wanna GO the 森 | 55.0 | 7.5 |
| I Wanna Tin Plate Dance | N/A | 9.5 |
| I wanna DO the JORNEY | 68.0 | 7.0 |
| I Wanna Be The Sustenance | 82.0 | 9.5 |
| Needle Hatena | 68.0 | 8.9 |
| I wanna Hydrate | 73.0 | 10.0 |
| Alphazetica | 64.0 | 9.5 |
| Cookie Temptation | 45.0 | 8.5 |
| I Wanna XD | 55.0 | N/A |
| I wanna Vine Journey | 53.0 | 8.2 |
| I Wanna Pointillism | 73.0 | 10.0 |
| I Wanna Go Back To Basics | 75.0 | N/A |
| Love. Memory. Hope. Forgiveness. Tragedy. Death... | N/A | 9.3 |
| Crickets! | 15.0 | 8.5 |
| I Wanna Vibe With The Gods | 70.0 | 10.0 |
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