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kurath
For: I wanna be the Angewel
For: I wanna be the Angewel
Pretty neat, really long adventure game with an explorable map. You're trying to find 48 different items (one per room in pretty much every room). Lots of gimmick rooms with interesting mechanics, but also a lot of questionable stuff. A -lot- of items just in fake walls or invisible trigger chasing.
Production wise, its old and out of date - restarting music, a lot of default tilesets (though they're short lived and mixed in with a ton of other ones) so that bit never gets too tiresome.
Platforming wise, tons of variety - mixing up doing gimmick rooms with secret hunting usually is interesting though sometimes confusing (and the game includes textfiles in japanese for hints if needed). The map definitely helps, without that it'd be a truly rough time (M to activate since its only detailed in the textfiles). There's some puzzles, some cycle stuff, traps, needle and so on.
Boss-wise, there's a few and they're in random chambers, so they are somewhat unpredictable which is neat. They're usually short and simple outside of the final boss which is a fairly long avoidance (I didn't actually beat it, 2 minutes of free intro into a one minute long final was just not that interesting, but not beating a final boss doesn't bother me so much).
Overall, its rough, very rough at times, but the variety and exploration is pretty interesting. If you don't mind beating games (since finding all the items is pretty tough), its fun to just run around in for a while.
Production wise, its old and out of date - restarting music, a lot of default tilesets (though they're short lived and mixed in with a ton of other ones) so that bit never gets too tiresome.
Platforming wise, tons of variety - mixing up doing gimmick rooms with secret hunting usually is interesting though sometimes confusing (and the game includes textfiles in japanese for hints if needed). The map definitely helps, without that it'd be a truly rough time (M to activate since its only detailed in the textfiles). There's some puzzles, some cycle stuff, traps, needle and so on.
Boss-wise, there's a few and they're in random chambers, so they are somewhat unpredictable which is neat. They're usually short and simple outside of the final boss which is a fairly long avoidance (I didn't actually beat it, 2 minutes of free intro into a one minute long final was just not that interesting, but not beating a final boss doesn't bother me so much).
Overall, its rough, very rough at times, but the variety and exploration is pretty interesting. If you don't mind beating games (since finding all the items is pretty tough), its fun to just run around in for a while.
Tagged as: Adventure
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Rating: 6.7 67
Difficulty: 60 60
Jun 20, 2021
kurath
For: I Want to Meet Miki
For: I Want to Meet Miki
Fairly sizable adventure game with a lot of neat ideas. Definitely recommended towards players who enjoy abstract or surreal environments, or players who like diverse, constantly changing gameplay as those are definitely its two strengths, but it is a solid adventure game overall.
The theming is generally very abstract and disjointed by design, making transitions between areas very surprising and certainly giving the player the feeling of being unsure whats coming next. This creates a lot of varied, interesting environments and mixes it up just as often with the gameplay mechanics. There's a ton of detail and depth in these decisions (not like areas are just being slapped together or anything), but it was a bit hit or miss for me. Still, the changeups are frequent and diverse and you'll always encounter something new to experience.
The platforming likewise is very varied, with a lot of different mechanics in shorter bursts. This works well in the game, as the stages are all quite short and the novelty never really wears off. If you like seeing new things, then it has you covered.
The bosses are very concentrated, which is a curious decision and somewhat of a disappointment for me because I happened across most of them early and then they were just... gone. With a taste for nonstandard fights, these were really fun and creative takes on the standard fangame boss formula, thus the disappointment was not with the fights themselves, but just that they stopped happening.
Overall, I enjoyed the majority of it but there were definitely weak spots. I didn't have much appreciation for the 'artistic' aspects as a lot of the visual design doesn't really appeal to my tastes so there was a lot more focus on the gameplay. This was, for the most part, quite good but some segments really just dragged on, or felt like a waste of time then - and as an unfortunate side effect of the ability to go different paths is that the game ended up somewhat anticlimactic to me.
The theming is generally very abstract and disjointed by design, making transitions between areas very surprising and certainly giving the player the feeling of being unsure whats coming next. This creates a lot of varied, interesting environments and mixes it up just as often with the gameplay mechanics. There's a ton of detail and depth in these decisions (not like areas are just being slapped together or anything), but it was a bit hit or miss for me. Still, the changeups are frequent and diverse and you'll always encounter something new to experience.
The platforming likewise is very varied, with a lot of different mechanics in shorter bursts. This works well in the game, as the stages are all quite short and the novelty never really wears off. If you like seeing new things, then it has you covered.
The bosses are very concentrated, which is a curious decision and somewhat of a disappointment for me because I happened across most of them early and then they were just... gone. With a taste for nonstandard fights, these were really fun and creative takes on the standard fangame boss formula, thus the disappointment was not with the fights themselves, but just that they stopped happening.
Overall, I enjoyed the majority of it but there were definitely weak spots. I didn't have much appreciation for the 'artistic' aspects as a lot of the visual design doesn't really appeal to my tastes so there was a lot more focus on the gameplay. This was, for the most part, quite good but some segments really just dragged on, or felt like a waste of time then - and as an unfortunate side effect of the ability to go different paths is that the game ended up somewhat anticlimactic to me.
Tagged as: Adventure
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Rating: 8.5 85
Difficulty: 45 45
Jun 5, 2021
kurath
For: I wanna be the flyingplatform
For: I wanna be the flyingplatform
Its an RNG based sudoku game extremely similar to flyingspike except with platforms, to the extent that it takes almost all of flyingspike's ideas and doesn't add much extra.
Its a design space I'd like to see more in, and its a competent enough entry and reasonably entertaining. It does introduce an aspect of sudoku style games that I do not enjoy, where you have to fight against bad physics - so if you're not a fan of that, this will likely be a lot less pleasant.
Overall, I enjoyed most of it, but the second to last screen kind of sucks. Relying largely on making the player uncontrollable for difficulty, and drags on for a long time, relying heavily on RNG that becomes less and less reactable as time goes on in a screen that requires largely nothing but full jumps or button mashing.
Either way, its still worth checking out if you like a silly RNG-a-thon, but expect to a larger proportion of the time praying and less playing versus flyingspike.
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Its a design space I'd like to see more in, and its a competent enough entry and reasonably entertaining. It does introduce an aspect of sudoku style games that I do not enjoy, where you have to fight against bad physics - so if you're not a fan of that, this will likely be a lot less pleasant.
Overall, I enjoyed most of it, but the second to last screen kind of sucks. Relying largely on making the player uncontrollable for difficulty, and drags on for a long time, relying heavily on RNG that becomes less and less reactable as time goes on in a screen that requires largely nothing but full jumps or button mashing.
Either way, its still worth checking out if you like a silly RNG-a-thon, but expect to a larger proportion of the time praying and less playing versus flyingspike.
Rating: 5.0 50
Difficulty: 60 60
May 30, 2021
kurath
For: I wanna stop the Heart Beats
For: I wanna stop the Heart Beats
A very solid, long adventure game based around a variety of mostly more contemporary games, which I really appreciated (not that there's anything wrong with it, but love seeing some more non-mario/kirby etc stages).
Note: the game has an optional death limit, I don't remember it clearly saying in game, but you can set it to 0 to disable it.
Production wise, its generally very good. The various games are captured very well, there's tons of small details and nice effects to polish it up and great application of sound effects and fitting music throughout. There were some small things from a production value that I wish were changed (such as the camera movement being awkwardly slow), but nothing major.
The platforming is probably the weaker part of the game, though its mostly good. The traps felt like afterthoughts and while there were a few good ones, they rarely felt like they added anything to the game, and sometimes detracted.
The bosses were the highlight, and theres a lot of them spanning the various different games or just sprinkled in besides that. Lots of variety and mostly being fair and fun.
The one major drawback the game had, which may be a side effect of being a competition/race game? was that there's a fair bit of time wasting. Bland traps at the end of saves or unskippable boss transitions/intros that are 15-20 seconds long really add up over time without adding much. This makes it a bit hard to recommend to an absolute new player, since resets will pile these up but for an experienced player, they'll likely just be more nuisances than actual problems. I wouldn't have minded if it were a small number of incidents, but there are a lot of them and it was far and away the least enjoyable aspect of the game.
Overall, it was really good. Anyone with a bit of experience under their belt, likes adventure/variety games and looking for something fairly easy to play should give this a shot. It has a great amount of quality content. As above, if you're a brand new fangame player, I'd probably wait a bit on it, but otherwise, give it a try.
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Note: the game has an optional death limit, I don't remember it clearly saying in game, but you can set it to 0 to disable it.
Production wise, its generally very good. The various games are captured very well, there's tons of small details and nice effects to polish it up and great application of sound effects and fitting music throughout. There were some small things from a production value that I wish were changed (such as the camera movement being awkwardly slow), but nothing major.
The platforming is probably the weaker part of the game, though its mostly good. The traps felt like afterthoughts and while there were a few good ones, they rarely felt like they added anything to the game, and sometimes detracted.
The bosses were the highlight, and theres a lot of them spanning the various different games or just sprinkled in besides that. Lots of variety and mostly being fair and fun.
The one major drawback the game had, which may be a side effect of being a competition/race game? was that there's a fair bit of time wasting. Bland traps at the end of saves or unskippable boss transitions/intros that are 15-20 seconds long really add up over time without adding much. This makes it a bit hard to recommend to an absolute new player, since resets will pile these up but for an experienced player, they'll likely just be more nuisances than actual problems. I wouldn't have minded if it were a small number of incidents, but there are a lot of them and it was far and away the least enjoyable aspect of the game.
Overall, it was really good. Anyone with a bit of experience under their belt, likes adventure/variety games and looking for something fairly easy to play should give this a shot. It has a great amount of quality content. As above, if you're a brand new fangame player, I'd probably wait a bit on it, but otherwise, give it a try.
Rating: 8.8 88
Difficulty: 45 45
May 29, 2021
kurath
For: I Wanna be the 512
For: I Wanna be the 512
The third in 128ups rukito-like trigger needle.
It definitely stays true to the source material, which unfortunately results in a lot of misses for me, but overall maintains a state as being a very competent needle game. The production is as you'd expect, with simple tilesets and backgrounds, default spikes and whimsical upbeat music. It steps it up a bit during bosses which is nice.
The bosses were much easier than the platforming and were a fun diversion but not the core of the game. Keeps up a theme of having a good arena-changing final boss, which I always get behind.
Platforming wise, this is the bulk of the game and presumably what you come for. I found the earlier game more palatable and a bit more diverse, and felt it got more frustrating and less fun as time went on. The balance was sketchy, as a few long saves really dominated the playtime and primarily just by virtue of backtracking. There were some good highlights in triggers, but it felt like much of the lategame trigger work was dominated by just that backtracking, which is where I found myself enjoying the game a lot less (Also do rukito games have to have a bad water segment?).
Its a solid continuation and a solid entry in the genre and if you're looking for more of the same, it does well. Its worth a play if you like the rukito needle style as its probably one of the more faithful in the trigger needle domain, but if not, I don't think it'll change your mind.
It definitely stays true to the source material, which unfortunately results in a lot of misses for me, but overall maintains a state as being a very competent needle game. The production is as you'd expect, with simple tilesets and backgrounds, default spikes and whimsical upbeat music. It steps it up a bit during bosses which is nice.
The bosses were much easier than the platforming and were a fun diversion but not the core of the game. Keeps up a theme of having a good arena-changing final boss, which I always get behind.
Platforming wise, this is the bulk of the game and presumably what you come for. I found the earlier game more palatable and a bit more diverse, and felt it got more frustrating and less fun as time went on. The balance was sketchy, as a few long saves really dominated the playtime and primarily just by virtue of backtracking. There were some good highlights in triggers, but it felt like much of the lategame trigger work was dominated by just that backtracking, which is where I found myself enjoying the game a lot less (Also do rukito games have to have a bad water segment?).
Its a solid continuation and a solid entry in the genre and if you're looking for more of the same, it does well. Its worth a play if you like the rukito needle style as its probably one of the more faithful in the trigger needle domain, but if not, I don't think it'll change your mind.
Tagged as: Needle
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Rating: 7.0 70
Difficulty: 75 75
Apr 30, 2021
4 Games
| Game | Difficulty | Average Rating | # of Ratings |
|---|---|---|---|
| I Wanna Fill In The Blanks | 34.8 | 8.1 | 29 |
| I Wanna Fill in the Blanks 2 | 50.1 | 9.0 | 14 |
| I wanna be the Ocean Princess | 69.1 | 9.4 | 33 |
| I Wanna Ponder | 69.4 | 9.8 | 28 |
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