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Cosmoing
For: I wanna CoinStack 1000
For: I wanna CoinStack 1000
CoinStack 1000 is a collectathon fangame that ultimately fails at being a great collectathon, while succeeding in every other aspect. And that's not a bad thing.
Let's start with the production value: it's unquestionably one of the best in this category. Everything was drawn by Denferok himself and there's a ton of detail everywhere. Lots of animations on creatures and details, great backgrounds and tilesets. There's really nothing else you could ask from this game on the visual side.
For the platforming in this game, you're accompanied by 2 simple yet powerful mechanics. The ability to jump from any wall, and the ability to dash in 8 directions. These may feel a bit strange at first, especially the wall jump, but the easier levels near the beginning of the game will help you get used to them and once you do get used to them, they feel like a very welcome addition to your arsenal most of the time. The wall jump and wall slide in particular feel very well used most of the time in the level design. The dash leaves a bit more to be questioned, as I often found myself struggling to figure out the dash distances or do multiple dashes in different directions in a row. The diamond dash in 20 never quite felt right to me, and I think that's something that should feel comfortable unless you completely mess something up.
The level design is pretty top-tier as a whole here. There's a few levels that I may not have enjoyed as much as the others but it doesn't detriment from the experience enough to warrant making a negative out of it. There's some great usages of the double jump, wall jump and dash all over the place, and there's something unique in every level so nothing ever gets too repetitive.
And to me, this is why you should play this game. You should go into this game expecting some great platforming challenges revolving around the mechanics you're given as a player, not expecting a collectathon. Some of the early levels do revolve around a more open-ended approach with various paths and small challenges to obtain coins, but the harder parts of the game quickly abandon this aspect and the coins become an afterthought to the platforming, mostly just there to help show the path. There may be a universe where CoinStack 1000 is a very non-linear adventure game with various tiny challenges and I would gladly be a part of that universe, but this is not that universe and I'm also fine with that. This game is still excellent nonetheless.
I think there's not much to say to wrap this review up. I can't recommend this as a needle game, an adventure game or a gimmick game: what I can do, is recommend this as a platformer. It's a full experience and really goes beyond what you might expect from a typical fangame.
Let's start with the production value: it's unquestionably one of the best in this category. Everything was drawn by Denferok himself and there's a ton of detail everywhere. Lots of animations on creatures and details, great backgrounds and tilesets. There's really nothing else you could ask from this game on the visual side.
For the platforming in this game, you're accompanied by 2 simple yet powerful mechanics. The ability to jump from any wall, and the ability to dash in 8 directions. These may feel a bit strange at first, especially the wall jump, but the easier levels near the beginning of the game will help you get used to them and once you do get used to them, they feel like a very welcome addition to your arsenal most of the time. The wall jump and wall slide in particular feel very well used most of the time in the level design. The dash leaves a bit more to be questioned, as I often found myself struggling to figure out the dash distances or do multiple dashes in different directions in a row. The diamond dash in 20 never quite felt right to me, and I think that's something that should feel comfortable unless you completely mess something up.
The level design is pretty top-tier as a whole here. There's a few levels that I may not have enjoyed as much as the others but it doesn't detriment from the experience enough to warrant making a negative out of it. There's some great usages of the double jump, wall jump and dash all over the place, and there's something unique in every level so nothing ever gets too repetitive.
And to me, this is why you should play this game. You should go into this game expecting some great platforming challenges revolving around the mechanics you're given as a player, not expecting a collectathon. Some of the early levels do revolve around a more open-ended approach with various paths and small challenges to obtain coins, but the harder parts of the game quickly abandon this aspect and the coins become an afterthought to the platforming, mostly just there to help show the path. There may be a universe where CoinStack 1000 is a very non-linear adventure game with various tiny challenges and I would gladly be a part of that universe, but this is not that universe and I'm also fine with that. This game is still excellent nonetheless.
I think there's not much to say to wrap this review up. I can't recommend this as a needle game, an adventure game or a gimmick game: what I can do, is recommend this as a platformer. It's a full experience and really goes beyond what you might expect from a typical fangame.
Tagged as: Collectathon
[2] Likes
Rating: 9.0 90
Difficulty: 60 60
Mar 9, 2021
Cosmoing
For: I wanna be the サイコロで決めたver2.00
For: I wanna be the サイコロで決めたver2.00
Quick edit, didn't understand how this game works properly. Moogy got it right. Leaving OG review below for posterity or whatever
The gimmick with this game is that it uses dice rolls to construct the jumps in each screen. I'm not 100% sure how this works, and I don't know how I didn't see this coming, but it very quickly devolves into a high amount of diamonds and double diamonds if you get unlucky. Other types of default jumps can be seen but it gets repetitive pretty quickly, and stays repetitive for 21 screens. Combine that with default megaman music and blocks, and restarting music, and you've got this game. Probably stay away unless the prospect of 21 default needle screens with wildly varied difficulty appeals to you.
The gimmick with this game is that it uses dice rolls to construct the jumps in each screen. I'm not 100% sure how this works, and I don't know how I didn't see this coming, but it very quickly devolves into a high amount of diamonds and double diamonds if you get unlucky. Other types of default jumps can be seen but it gets repetitive pretty quickly, and stays repetitive for 21 screens. Combine that with default megaman music and blocks, and restarting music, and you've got this game. Probably stay away unless the prospect of 21 default needle screens with wildly varied difficulty appeals to you.
Tagged as: Needle
[0] Likes
Rating: 1.5 15
Difficulty: 65 65
Mar 2, 2021
Cosmoing
For: I wanna kill the Neon
For: I wanna kill the Neon
2 Yakisoban-style boss fights, and the first one basically acts as a tutorial for the second one, which is the real big boy. If you're not familiar with these, it basically plays out like a fight from Megaman Battle Network. I won't go into much detail for the first one since it's really easy in comparison to the second one (like a 55, maybe a 60 difficulty boss at most).
ヤキソバン NZ is the real core of this game and you will spend a long time learning how to deal with his insane attacks, of which you have to dodge many to finally deplete his HP bar. The fight as a whole is very very fast paced which is great fun if you're able to deal with it, and every attack feels consistently beatable once you learn it. There is one exception to this, the missile attack, which is nearly impossible to dodge to even if you prepare for it, as it requires high reaction speed combined with fast reading. Or luck.
Despite the one flaw, I had a blast playing this boss (6 hours in 2 days) and highly recommend it to anyone who might enjoy this kind of boss fight.
ヤキソバン NZ is the real core of this game and you will spend a long time learning how to deal with his insane attacks, of which you have to dodge many to finally deplete his HP bar. The fight as a whole is very very fast paced which is great fun if you're able to deal with it, and every attack feels consistently beatable once you learn it. There is one exception to this, the missile attack, which is nearly impossible to dodge to even if you prepare for it, as it requires high reaction speed combined with fast reading. Or luck.
Despite the one flaw, I had a blast playing this boss (6 hours in 2 days) and highly recommend it to anyone who might enjoy this kind of boss fight.
Tagged as: Yakisoban
[0] Likes
Rating: 8.0 80
Difficulty: 85 85
Feb 25, 2021
Cosmoing
For: I wanna stop the MELTDOWN
For: I wanna stop the MELTDOWN
As I finally beat this game after my third attempt at actually going through it, I found out it's just as unpleasant as I remember it being years ago. The style of needle in this game can only really be described as "claustrophobic", and I hope I never see it again as it actually feels bad to play, which is honestly hard for a needle game. Even generic 32px needle is pleasant compared to this. The only saves in the game I didn't find myself hating were a couple saves in stage 4, and maybe like the first gate in stage 1.
The bosses in this game are actually pretty alright however and are the highlights for me, most of them being pretty balanced avoidances that could be first tried without prior knowledge. The third one felt the best of them all and is by far the high point of the game, and the second one is the only one that isn't good by virtue of limited player space and just way too much brown.
Other notes about the production: Art is overall decent to good, most of the problems I had with it are with a lack of distinction sometimes between spikes and blocks (looking at you, stage 2) and it can look a little one-tone at times. I personally hate the music choices used throughout the game but that's a personal thing, so I'm not changing my rating for it. The death sound is however atrocious: it sounds like you just hit a button in some flash puzzle game or something. Other SFX were good.
It's my least favorite needle game of all time, but clearly this is not the opinion of the majority, so perhaps the reader of this review may end up enjoying the game. I'd say give it a shot, but if you reach the second stage and the needle isn't to your liking, then it's wiser to bail out.
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The bosses in this game are actually pretty alright however and are the highlights for me, most of them being pretty balanced avoidances that could be first tried without prior knowledge. The third one felt the best of them all and is by far the high point of the game, and the second one is the only one that isn't good by virtue of limited player space and just way too much brown.
Other notes about the production: Art is overall decent to good, most of the problems I had with it are with a lack of distinction sometimes between spikes and blocks (looking at you, stage 2) and it can look a little one-tone at times. I personally hate the music choices used throughout the game but that's a personal thing, so I'm not changing my rating for it. The death sound is however atrocious: it sounds like you just hit a button in some flash puzzle game or something. Other SFX were good.
It's my least favorite needle game of all time, but clearly this is not the opinion of the majority, so perhaps the reader of this review may end up enjoying the game. I'd say give it a shot, but if you reach the second stage and the needle isn't to your liking, then it's wiser to bail out.
Rating: 3.5 35
Difficulty: 70 70
Feb 21, 2021
Cosmoing
For: I wanna catch 1 coin
For: I wanna catch 1 coin
Rating includes EX.
Great new fangame by the maker of 6 islands and other number-titled fangames, with a pretty heavy focus on gimmicks and puzzles involving those gimmicks this time around.
Production value has increased pretty nicely from his previous titles. Backgrounds, tilesets, good music, some animations, there's clearly some care put into this. It's not outstanding but very nice nonetheless. Cutscenes are back from Colorize the 4 stones with pretty much no text and still managing to tell a pretty decently funny story, which I do have to give high praise for. On top of that, all text in this game is either simple English or both Japanese and English, so no translation needed.
Outside of the prologue, every stage in this game features a central gimmick and makes you use your brain with that gimmick. This maker is very good at various degrees of puzzles in terms of difficulty and they're all good fun to solve. There's also some traps earlier on in the game and they're all actually pretty good, although they tend to be stacked towards the end of the save which can be slightly annoying sometimes. The EX stage is very puzzle forward and makes up most of the difficulty in this game, although it is incredibly worth playing.
The bosses in this game are also pretty creative and fun to play. They all make good use of the stage's gimmick without being overly challenging, although there's an RNG element to being able to attack sometimes, which I can't say is ever really a good idea.
Overall, this is a great addition to this maker's library of games. Well worth the couple of hours it might take you and a high recommend from me.
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Great new fangame by the maker of 6 islands and other number-titled fangames, with a pretty heavy focus on gimmicks and puzzles involving those gimmicks this time around.
Production value has increased pretty nicely from his previous titles. Backgrounds, tilesets, good music, some animations, there's clearly some care put into this. It's not outstanding but very nice nonetheless. Cutscenes are back from Colorize the 4 stones with pretty much no text and still managing to tell a pretty decently funny story, which I do have to give high praise for. On top of that, all text in this game is either simple English or both Japanese and English, so no translation needed.
Outside of the prologue, every stage in this game features a central gimmick and makes you use your brain with that gimmick. This maker is very good at various degrees of puzzles in terms of difficulty and they're all good fun to solve. There's also some traps earlier on in the game and they're all actually pretty good, although they tend to be stacked towards the end of the save which can be slightly annoying sometimes. The EX stage is very puzzle forward and makes up most of the difficulty in this game, although it is incredibly worth playing.
The bosses in this game are also pretty creative and fun to play. They all make good use of the stage's gimmick without being overly challenging, although there's an RNG element to being able to attack sometimes, which I can't say is ever really a good idea.
Overall, this is a great addition to this maker's library of games. Well worth the couple of hours it might take you and a high recommend from me.
Rating: 8.5 85
Difficulty: 65 65
Jan 23, 2021
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| Game | Difficulty | Average Rating | # of Ratings |
|---|---|---|---|
| I wanna fly with a friend | N/A | N/A | 2 |
| No one can hear you turn in space | 55.3 | 6.0 | 5 |
| Shortventure 3 - Resources | N/A | 10.0 | 5 |
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