66 Reviews:
xva
fairly standard needle-only medley conforming to a combination of the K2 and K3 medley model. by this I mean that the titlecard looks like K2 and often features 1 screen per game, but the game has guest stages sort of like K3. some things are obviously lifted from those two as well, such as screenpicks. the game does okay in this regard, not suffering too greatly from Kamilia ripoff syndrome. there are a lot of games here that I've genuinely never heard of, i.e. the random 2-letter one in stage 1 and some others throughout the rest of the game. some screenpicks also go on for longer than one screen sort of arbitrarily, it's kind of rare but it notably happens with locus which has like 4 screens for no reason. you also picked the fucking screen in locus where the kid goes invisible btw
I feel this game would benefit greatly from bosses. the design choice to not have any sort of puzzles me, unless the intention was to make a needle-only medley game - sort of like Cultured 1. additionally, it's worth mentioning that there are only 4 guest stages, of which 2 are sub-par and 2 are pretty fun. the block-matching one is fun and not too difficult and the bad-apple-themed switching one is great, containing undoubtedly the best screens in the game. however, then comes eversion stage and the jet stage. eversion stage is very very long, and will take a good amount of time on your first playthrough. I'd recommend just looking up a video, since there's pretty much no way to know how the eversions work and what switch turns what into what. jet stage just has okay needle ruined by an annoying/bad gimmick, there's not much else to it
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I feel this game would benefit greatly from bosses. the design choice to not have any sort of puzzles me, unless the intention was to make a needle-only medley game - sort of like Cultured 1. additionally, it's worth mentioning that there are only 4 guest stages, of which 2 are sub-par and 2 are pretty fun. the block-matching one is fun and not too difficult and the bad-apple-themed switching one is great, containing undoubtedly the best screens in the game. however, then comes eversion stage and the jet stage. eversion stage is very very long, and will take a good amount of time on your first playthrough. I'd recommend just looking up a video, since there's pretty much no way to know how the eversions work and what switch turns what into what. jet stage just has okay needle ruined by an annoying/bad gimmick, there's not much else to it
Rating: 6.4 64
Difficulty: 59 59
Nov 1, 2024
PerliousFalcon
Just replayed this game on Hard Mode after beating it on Easy years ago. It's okay. The needle isn't terrible but it's not great either. Light Trap was the only screen pick which I can say was remarkably good. The rest is just generic needle.
Papaya Stages are easily the highlight with Eversion being my personal favorite and a bonus to P&A since I played Shift as a kid before.
I would recommend Easy mode if you want to play this.
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Papaya Stages are easily the highlight with Eversion being my personal favorite and a bonus to P&A since I played Shift as a kid before.
I would recommend Easy mode if you want to play this.
Rating: 6.0 60
Difficulty: 60 60
Oct 28, 2024
PlutoTheThing
This review is based on a clear of hard mode.
Platforming only medley, the medley content is fine, I would have liked to see some screens changed more considering the fact that most of the changes seen here are relatively bare bones nerfs. I think the screens themselves are fine and there's a few fun picks. Stage 6 was probably the highlight, Eversion is just a bunch of mindless busy work but the other three stages have cool gimmicks, especially the black and white stage is awesome. Generally a pretty cool game overall, could definitely be better in some spots but for what it is, pretty fun.
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Platforming only medley, the medley content is fine, I would have liked to see some screens changed more considering the fact that most of the changes seen here are relatively bare bones nerfs. I think the screens themselves are fine and there's a few fun picks. Stage 6 was probably the highlight, Eversion is just a bunch of mindless busy work but the other three stages have cool gimmicks, especially the black and white stage is awesome. Generally a pretty cool game overall, could definitely be better in some spots but for what it is, pretty fun.
Rating: 7.0 70
Difficulty: 51 51
Jul 12, 2024
zandalariplayer
It is a nice game of the overall. But I am forced to say that the Eversion area is NOT GOOD!! Great deal of painful! I've been liking almost everything else with exception of screens. but Eversion is really infun!
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Rating: 7.3 73
Difficulty: 73 73
Apr 29, 2024