32 Reviews:
Paragus
An amazing adventure game that has everything you'd want in a fangame. It's lengthy, it has amazing production, great platforming, and fair bosses. Each stage has it's own unique theme and gimmick, all of which are executed well. The bosses are fun and can be learned rather quickly.
The game has a great soundtrack and the platforming scales well overall. By the time you reach the later parts of the game, the platforming offers a pretty good challenge. There's a few segments here and there where the difficulty spiked a bit for me at least, and the last stage doesn't have a boss which can feel slightly anticlimactic, but you will get that style of humor in the cutscenes that you'd expect from a Gaywizard game.
Highly recommended.
The game has a great soundtrack and the platforming scales well overall. By the time you reach the later parts of the game, the platforming offers a pretty good challenge. There's a few segments here and there where the difficulty spiked a bit for me at least, and the last stage doesn't have a boss which can feel slightly anticlimactic, but you will get that style of humor in the cutscenes that you'd expect from a Gaywizard game.
Highly recommended.
Tagged as: Adventure
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Rating: 9.0 90
Difficulty: 60 60
Jan 19, 2016
PlutoTheThing
Fun needle based game, it's basically a 100f game with bosses every 10 floors divided into 10 stages, which is a good format. The platforming is usually in pretty small screens, each just one save, and each stage has a gimmick which could be surprisingly unique at times. The bosses are fun as well, some are a little learny but I think they are all fun. Very consistent game, I wouldn't really say it has any bad parts, it's kinda just a fun needle game you can play to chill, maybe literally given the christmas theme. Great stuff!
[2] Likes
Rating: 9.0 90
Difficulty: 57 57
Apr 9, 2023
PerliousFalcon
Long but great fangame. Might prefer Deliver a Letter for it was short and sweet but this is great and if you played one or the other, you'll enjoy the other game.
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Rating: 7.7 77
Difficulty: 62 62
Mar 17, 2024
CanusAntonius
This is truly one of the staple Needleventure games that have been made, and pretty much succeeds in most of what it sets out to do. Set in a style similar to a floor game, you have 10 rooms per stage, one save per each, and a boss at the end. Each stage features a few variances from each other, with some of them even including their own special gimmicks. This leads to what feels like a true journey throughout the game, especially due to the various amounts of visual changes that occur.
I do however also think the game has some shortcomings. For one, I feel as if the second half of the game is immediately much better than the first half, it almost seems as if they were made in two separate time periods. Some stages also left a sour taste in my mouth, such as one that requires you to quickly collect a powerup with barely any spare time as leeway. The stage with the spinning objects was also quite more difficult than most stuff, especially the first room itself. Another big issue is the amount of RNG in the bosses, it's pretty much every single one that overuses it, the fights being short is the only thing that saves this from being truly detrimental. To this end, I would say Christmas Deliveries 2 has greatly proven to be a successor and fixes a lot of these issues, so I would still recommend playing it if you didn't like this one.
Overall, I still think this game is truly pretty good, and will always hold up as a good mix between the Needle and Adventure genres. It can be pretty tough at times, but if you walk in prepared you can probably enjoy a lot of it.
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I do however also think the game has some shortcomings. For one, I feel as if the second half of the game is immediately much better than the first half, it almost seems as if they were made in two separate time periods. Some stages also left a sour taste in my mouth, such as one that requires you to quickly collect a powerup with barely any spare time as leeway. The stage with the spinning objects was also quite more difficult than most stuff, especially the first room itself. Another big issue is the amount of RNG in the bosses, it's pretty much every single one that overuses it, the fights being short is the only thing that saves this from being truly detrimental. To this end, I would say Christmas Deliveries 2 has greatly proven to be a successor and fixes a lot of these issues, so I would still recommend playing it if you didn't like this one.
Overall, I still think this game is truly pretty good, and will always hold up as a good mix between the Needle and Adventure genres. It can be pretty tough at times, but if you walk in prepared you can probably enjoy a lot of it.
Rating: 8.0 80
Difficulty: 60 60
Aug 26, 2022
kurath
This is an incredibly well executed game. The concept of the game is quite simple - stage with a gimmick, boss and repeat but its very well polished and designed. Gimmicks vary from pretty standard stuff to some neat creative things adapted from other games. I found every stage fun and bosses are all quite simple but fast paced and interesting.
Easily recommended for anyone looking for a moderate difficulty game with a lot of variety.
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Easily recommended for anyone looking for a moderate difficulty game with a lot of variety.
Rating: 9.5 95
Difficulty: 58 58
Mar 29, 2017