I wanna be the Guy

Creator: Kayin

Average Rating
6.9 / 10
Good
Average Difficulty
42.7 / 100
Novice
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145 Reviews:

nats
Respect your elders.
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Rating: 10.0       Difficulty: 50
Jan 10, 2025
Steingar
All time classic. What I'm particularly impressed with is how many of the modern fangame genres derive from this in some tangible way. Adventure and Boss is self explanatory, but as well as that, there's Needle (the section with the platform moving through the spikes), trap/troll (the game is filled with them), Puzzle (arguably the arkanoid section) and Avoidance Reveal Spoiler. There's even water physics for exactly one screen's worth.

A gem far ahead of its time, no other game could be better suited to launching a thousand emulations, derivatives and evolutions like it has. The physics is a bit funky and there are bugs, but it still holds up to this day.
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Rating: 8.5       Difficulty: 45
Mar 18, 2024
Atron
Cleared: 01/03/24. Awesome game. It was the first fan(?)game that I completed. The only downsides to the game are occasional crashes and volume resets on restart. I completed the game in nearly 10 hours, and I can say that I enjoyed it no matter what: the gimmicks and traps were cool and original (well, it's the first fan(?)game I've ever played, haha). I've played on the hard difficulty and I think it's just about the perfect difficulty for me personally, not too many saves, but not too few either. Enjoyable.

Yeah it's not a fangame. I just don't know how to call it.
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Rating: 9.0       Difficulty: 35
Jan 4, 2024
sofakingqaq
Classical game!
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Rating: 6.7       Difficulty: 42
Dec 30, 2023
Walkerain
No other game can give me the happiness that infiltrates my soul after clearance like this game.
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Rating: 10.0       Difficulty: 66
Mar 16, 2022
Faucet
Better than i thought. I was thinking that this was the worst game ever but I was mistaking.
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Rating: 6.9       Difficulty: 30
Sep 13, 2020
Noli
Compared to what developers make now, this is really bad if it would be a fangame. BUT, as an original game it's pretty good. It's very old, laggy, has 10/10 perfect physics, implemented perfect hitboxes and physics, which is VERY great. Technically very messy, has a lot of elements and references to other old retro games, fun traps, great character design and graphics on the original side. I mean the save thingy, the guy, the kid, spikes, delicious fruit, it doen't get old, even though it's a joke made in mspaint. Now it might seem very boring, but it doesn't make it worse. The traps are funny and necessary, i really loved the final boss, it is very funny. This game is a fun challenge for people who don't usually play fangames or only start them. The multimedia crashing is annoying.
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Rating: 7.2       Difficulty: 45
Apr 4, 2020
Mister_Fox202
Meh.. Game crash after every twenty restart.
Tagged as: Adventure Trap Boss Long
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Rating: 5.0       Difficulty: 48
Jan 29, 2020
Cubpletionist
I'm extremely biased here because I think trap games are extremely boring, but the platforming and traps didn't take up a lot of the game. The boss fights are basically all just massive cutscenes with a few inputs here and there. They're incredibly boring. Dracula fight was alright though.
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Rating: 2.0       Difficulty: 40
Aug 7, 2019
DerpyHoovesIWBTG
If the remake of this gets finished then this would absolutely be recommended, but as for now the physics are a bit clunky and it's very prone to crashing (just set it to Windows 95 in compatability mode). It's still a very good game which started it all but I just can't really go back to this game anymore even when it has some of the best platforming for an adventure game.

It also features 6 optional secret items which unlock a boss rush, but you can just unlock it by pressing B.
Tagged as: Adventure Trap Boss Secrets Original
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Rating: 7.0       Difficulty: 35
Jun 24, 2019