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Emperor is possibly the greatest adventure game ever made, and will probably stay that way for a considerable time. a true classic, and nothing has yet come close to beating it. every single inch of this game feels meticulously crafted. clearing this game on hard is one of the hardest things I've ever done, period. now, my detailed review of every single area in this game, since I've yet to see someone do it.
ultimatum needle world (Stage 1) - has some unfun platforming, i.e. forced 6f, vplanes, dplane, Fs and other uncomfortable jumps. generally not the worst of this game and didn't give me quite the right taste of what was to come. the diamond trigger part was interesting and an overall good idea. the funny moving plane is, despite it being funny, is actually not that bad of an idea too.
the boss is pretty lame admittedly, as it plays quite awkwardly and is generally not too difficult compared to the stage. you usually kill her in almost one cycle and that's all there is to it
detective world (Stage 2) - a puzzle at first, nothing too complicated. the platforming is fun but very easily chokable, leading to the first tilting screens of this game. dying far or on one of the orb cycles can cost a lot of time and motivation, which really annoyed me. textbox part made me a bit confused since the text didn't load properly.
the boss is an interesting concept once again, fairly well executed. made for some funny situations but I managed to persevere.
space world (Stage 3) - the first instance where hard mode made a stage substantially more difficult and made me question if doing this on hard was even a remote possibility. this area has mostly traps and difficult needle, as is usual for emperor. the required cancel on the second screen felt like it never truly got consistent (this was before I could do cancels regularly). the climb segment is good, even though the idea is reused again later in the game. after the climb, you reach a low gravity needle section. this was fun to figure out and I didn't mind the low gravity that much even after about half an hour of playing this part. aimed cherries + invisible blocks part was slightly problematic, but it didn't take too long to figure out.
boss is another good idea, despite the transitions being quite bad and often luck-based. this is going to be a trend, as Klein sort of doesn't understand how to make a properly difficult boss without it being complete bullshit. I'm not saying this is the case for captain jack, as it's far from the most difficult boss in the game.
reversed world (Stage 4) - probably the best stage in the game and by far the most fun I've had I think. a ton of classic screens that are often used in medleys, most prominently in Kamilia 3. despite being invariably easier than the K3 versions, I still found it quite fun. the perfect blend of traps and needle, making an amazing stage that's the perfect difficulty.
boss is weird, admittedly, and has a few awkward parts. green sort of just forces you to jump down as I found no consistent way to do green that involves staying in an area where you can still damage the boss. took a bit of patience as most things in this game do, eventually it just worked.
gimmick world (Stage 5) - some decent ideas mixed with one dogshit idea that unfortunately ruins most of the stage. the good ideas are the bouncing cherry shooting minigame thing and the trap sections, and the awful idea is the shooting death block idea. this is not fun to deal with and adds artificial difficulty that doesn't feel like it fits, making certain sections of the game (like the boss) a nightmare to play. I don't know how ninz does this stage's boss even semi-consistently. mind you, the "boss" of this area is actual trash, however this is only the second worst thing in this game.
deep cave world (Stage 6) - first save is terrible and requires quite a bit of waiting just to do a jump I never understood how to do. a moving double diamond is essentially what that is. you have to run at it when it's coming towards you and do the exact inputs for a double diamond, and it sometimes works. you can try to numpad this, which gives it a slightly higher success rate from what I've seen, but don't count on it because it's still wildly inconsistent. that was probably the worst part of the entire stage and the rest of it was fun. climb section (the one similar to the one from stage 3) is fun yet again, this time even more with the addition of buttons and spikes. the aimed cherries section near the end is interesting and I had fun figuring out where to stand in order to not die.
the boss is the worst boss in the game and is the most boring thing I've ever had to sit through in my entire life. I felt every living second scrape past during this garbage grind. this boss made me quit the game multiple times due to how insanely demotivating it was and how little fun I was having. this genuinely made me want to drop the game and cut my losses as I felt like this wasn't worth it. after dying to quite literally the last burst because I had nowhere to go and only getting walled about a septillion times throughout my whole ~6:40:00 grind, I finally beat my least favorite boss in all of fangames. This is a complete categorical failure of a boss and it serves no purpose in a game that is this otherwise great.
reminiscence world (Stage 7) - essentially a medley segment featuring Klein's other games. as far as I know the screens are buffed quite a bit, and on hard this world has the most difficult needle save in the entire game - the 2nd screen of Marvelous. that save alone took 2.5 hours and was made insanely difficult due to the lack of practice or any real consistency that the screen has due to it's immaculate difficulty. to my surprise however, it then immediately dropped off.
boss 7-1 is just a bit weird to deal with, as there's, yet again in true Klein fashion, a phase near the end that is super difficult to understand and deal with. it's generally quite a simple pattern, but god is it annoying to figure out.
immediately after boss 7-1, the next step screen made me sort of question what the fuck the game was going for because it felt like nothing that I played earlier and it felt like a random amalgamation of weird platforming. meteor stream was a welcome surprise, as that game is generally considered good.
boss 7-2 is insanely fun, reminds me of those old flash games where you popped bubbles. idk I thought it was really fun despite being really really easy.
after the funny splitting cherry boss, the needle world screen has one problem - the sphincters in the middle of the screen. these are very inconsistent, especially since on hard you have to do what is essentially a whole bunch of water gates to get to the part which you're going to otherwise repeatedly die to anyway. this is solely a hard mode issue, though. however, this issue reappears immediately, with off party 2 being followed by the trap tower screen with its weird aimed cherries gimmick. these never really cooperate, especially for the last corridor.
boss 7-3 is quite bad due to the phase 3 attack being completely luck-based and makes no sense whatsoever unless you memorize the exact spots where to stand, based on no visual cues and pure memory alone. this is a really dumb way to make this boss a whole lot harder and is by far the worst example of artificial difficulty in this game. I can really only call that the official drawback of this game, as I don't find too many concrete issues with the platforming altogether.
the final boss is the most difficult part of the game and will take most of your playtime to clear. this boss is absurdly difficult compared to the entire game before it, and if you've never played any version of the emperor miku fight this could take a whole lot of time to beat initially. the main problem being the lack of any substantial way to practice any of the phases and you having to essentially learn the whole fight by heart. phase 1 is free, phase 2 is quite difficult, phase 3 is simple but the RNG can often annihilate you, phase 4 is quite simple and almost boils down to pattern, phase 5 is difficult, phase 6 can wall you extremely easily, phase 7 is a pattern which you just have to learn, phase 8 is extremely chokable and awkward to do with a high heartrate. overall, my stats before the clear were:
100x+ phase 5; 61x phase 6; 25x phase 7 (10x of which were 2nd half) and ONE dreaded phase 8 death, being three shots away from the clear.
overall, Emperor is an immaculate and timeless game that will probably forever be regarded as one of the classics, up there with lovetrap, kamilia 3 and crimson. Emperor will likely forever be my favorite adventure game.
Time: 79:56:03
Deaths: 14884
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ultimatum needle world (Stage 1) - has some unfun platforming, i.e. forced 6f, vplanes, dplane, Fs and other uncomfortable jumps. generally not the worst of this game and didn't give me quite the right taste of what was to come. the diamond trigger part was interesting and an overall good idea. the funny moving plane is, despite it being funny, is actually not that bad of an idea too.
the boss is pretty lame admittedly, as it plays quite awkwardly and is generally not too difficult compared to the stage. you usually kill her in almost one cycle and that's all there is to it
detective world (Stage 2) - a puzzle at first, nothing too complicated. the platforming is fun but very easily chokable, leading to the first tilting screens of this game. dying far or on one of the orb cycles can cost a lot of time and motivation, which really annoyed me. textbox part made me a bit confused since the text didn't load properly.
the boss is an interesting concept once again, fairly well executed. made for some funny situations but I managed to persevere.
space world (Stage 3) - the first instance where hard mode made a stage substantially more difficult and made me question if doing this on hard was even a remote possibility. this area has mostly traps and difficult needle, as is usual for emperor. the required cancel on the second screen felt like it never truly got consistent (this was before I could do cancels regularly). the climb segment is good, even though the idea is reused again later in the game. after the climb, you reach a low gravity needle section. this was fun to figure out and I didn't mind the low gravity that much even after about half an hour of playing this part. aimed cherries + invisible blocks part was slightly problematic, but it didn't take too long to figure out.
boss is another good idea, despite the transitions being quite bad and often luck-based. this is going to be a trend, as Klein sort of doesn't understand how to make a properly difficult boss without it being complete bullshit. I'm not saying this is the case for captain jack, as it's far from the most difficult boss in the game.
reversed world (Stage 4) - probably the best stage in the game and by far the most fun I've had I think. a ton of classic screens that are often used in medleys, most prominently in Kamilia 3. despite being invariably easier than the K3 versions, I still found it quite fun. the perfect blend of traps and needle, making an amazing stage that's the perfect difficulty.
boss is weird, admittedly, and has a few awkward parts. green sort of just forces you to jump down as I found no consistent way to do green that involves staying in an area where you can still damage the boss. took a bit of patience as most things in this game do, eventually it just worked.
gimmick world (Stage 5) - some decent ideas mixed with one dogshit idea that unfortunately ruins most of the stage. the good ideas are the bouncing cherry shooting minigame thing and the trap sections, and the awful idea is the shooting death block idea. this is not fun to deal with and adds artificial difficulty that doesn't feel like it fits, making certain sections of the game (like the boss) a nightmare to play. I don't know how ninz does this stage's boss even semi-consistently. mind you, the "boss" of this area is actual trash, however this is only the second worst thing in this game.
deep cave world (Stage 6) - first save is terrible and requires quite a bit of waiting just to do a jump I never understood how to do. a moving double diamond is essentially what that is. you have to run at it when it's coming towards you and do the exact inputs for a double diamond, and it sometimes works. you can try to numpad this, which gives it a slightly higher success rate from what I've seen, but don't count on it because it's still wildly inconsistent. that was probably the worst part of the entire stage and the rest of it was fun. climb section (the one similar to the one from stage 3) is fun yet again, this time even more with the addition of buttons and spikes. the aimed cherries section near the end is interesting and I had fun figuring out where to stand in order to not die.
the boss is the worst boss in the game and is the most boring thing I've ever had to sit through in my entire life. I felt every living second scrape past during this garbage grind. this boss made me quit the game multiple times due to how insanely demotivating it was and how little fun I was having. this genuinely made me want to drop the game and cut my losses as I felt like this wasn't worth it. after dying to quite literally the last burst because I had nowhere to go and only getting walled about a septillion times throughout my whole ~6:40:00 grind, I finally beat my least favorite boss in all of fangames. This is a complete categorical failure of a boss and it serves no purpose in a game that is this otherwise great.
reminiscence world (Stage 7) - essentially a medley segment featuring Klein's other games. as far as I know the screens are buffed quite a bit, and on hard this world has the most difficult needle save in the entire game - the 2nd screen of Marvelous. that save alone took 2.5 hours and was made insanely difficult due to the lack of practice or any real consistency that the screen has due to it's immaculate difficulty. to my surprise however, it then immediately dropped off.
boss 7-1 is just a bit weird to deal with, as there's, yet again in true Klein fashion, a phase near the end that is super difficult to understand and deal with. it's generally quite a simple pattern, but god is it annoying to figure out.
immediately after boss 7-1, the next step screen made me sort of question what the fuck the game was going for because it felt like nothing that I played earlier and it felt like a random amalgamation of weird platforming. meteor stream was a welcome surprise, as that game is generally considered good.
boss 7-2 is insanely fun, reminds me of those old flash games where you popped bubbles. idk I thought it was really fun despite being really really easy.
after the funny splitting cherry boss, the needle world screen has one problem - the sphincters in the middle of the screen. these are very inconsistent, especially since on hard you have to do what is essentially a whole bunch of water gates to get to the part which you're going to otherwise repeatedly die to anyway. this is solely a hard mode issue, though. however, this issue reappears immediately, with off party 2 being followed by the trap tower screen with its weird aimed cherries gimmick. these never really cooperate, especially for the last corridor.
boss 7-3 is quite bad due to the phase 3 attack being completely luck-based and makes no sense whatsoever unless you memorize the exact spots where to stand, based on no visual cues and pure memory alone. this is a really dumb way to make this boss a whole lot harder and is by far the worst example of artificial difficulty in this game. I can really only call that the official drawback of this game, as I don't find too many concrete issues with the platforming altogether.
the final boss is the most difficult part of the game and will take most of your playtime to clear. this boss is absurdly difficult compared to the entire game before it, and if you've never played any version of the emperor miku fight this could take a whole lot of time to beat initially. the main problem being the lack of any substantial way to practice any of the phases and you having to essentially learn the whole fight by heart. phase 1 is free, phase 2 is quite difficult, phase 3 is simple but the RNG can often annihilate you, phase 4 is quite simple and almost boils down to pattern, phase 5 is difficult, phase 6 can wall you extremely easily, phase 7 is a pattern which you just have to learn, phase 8 is extremely chokable and awkward to do with a high heartrate. overall, my stats before the clear were:
100x+ phase 5; 61x phase 6; 25x phase 7 (10x of which were 2nd half) and ONE dreaded phase 8 death, being three shots away from the clear.
overall, Emperor is an immaculate and timeless game that will probably forever be regarded as one of the classics, up there with lovetrap, kamilia 3 and crimson. Emperor will likely forever be my favorite adventure game.
Time: 79:56:03
Deaths: 14884
Rating: 10.0 100
Difficulty: 87 87
Mar 31, 2024
PlutoTheThing
This game is great, it's a bit older so there's definitely some dated aspects to it but it still holds up amazingly, there's a lot of really fun and creative sections from some of the most unique boss ideas I've ever seen to really creative and fun needle with a decent number of traps, none of which are very egregious and often make the saves more engaging. It's definitely one of my favorite adventure games and a must play to those who like hard fangames. The only parts I disliked were the Reimu boss and Miku avoidance, but to compensate the final boss is AMAZING, one of the best fangame bosses ever imo. I love this one!
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Rating: 9.3 93
Difficulty: 84 84
Feb 21, 2023