26 Reviews:
Kilgour22
Needle with a bit of an edge to it. A good beginner challenge.
[1] Like
Rating: 6.5 65
Difficulty: 35 35
Oct 24, 2022
GaspacoZanis
Nepunowa's 2016 needle game, made with lower difficulty level, and, surprisingly, managing to be actually good beginner-ish needle game even nowadays.
According to Readme, this was the intended title of the game: '想像を破壊する:針のゲーム'. Author put the title in Weblio translator and got what we have now as a title of the game. If we look on DeepL translator nowadays, then the game is translated as 'Destroying Imagination: The Needle Game', which makes more sense than what we have right now.
However, the game itself did surprise me quite a lot. I did notice that the game was used in the B-side of FSR Needle Silver rank, but I was not sure about the quality level. And yet this game made me actually enjoy the whole process, although I am mostly Avoidance player, and I can get irritated by needle quite quickly.
I was expecting for the game to be easy, however, it is not necessarily free and is not generic at all. Game uses a lot of really cool layouts, jumps, and even slight visual touches, such as, slight effects for blocks that you have to pay attention to notice but that actually fit really well to not distract player. Background and music fits really well as well, even if the background is just a static image.
Game is not very long, but if you are not very good at needle, then it might take around 20-60 minutes. However, it is really worth it.
Doing jumps is really fun and while some saves might be a bit easier than others, I am still confident enough to say that the overall balance of the game is great.
It is really satisfying to perform the jumps, and not seeing the spam of generic jumps in your face, but like an actual attempt of visual and gameplay design. In some rooms you also have to think through to where you have to go and what to do exactly, which is really cool. There are also some very light platform jumps, that might need a bit to figure out, but they are actually not very hard, in my opinion, and are quite obvious strat-wise.
I am not sure what to add. Knowing that this is 2016 game is insane, and while I have heard good things about this author, I have actually never played their games, so it was also very pleasant first experience.
Would highly recommend.
According to Readme, this was the intended title of the game: '想像を破壊する:針のゲーム'. Author put the title in Weblio translator and got what we have now as a title of the game. If we look on DeepL translator nowadays, then the game is translated as 'Destroying Imagination: The Needle Game', which makes more sense than what we have right now.
However, the game itself did surprise me quite a lot. I did notice that the game was used in the B-side of FSR Needle Silver rank, but I was not sure about the quality level. And yet this game made me actually enjoy the whole process, although I am mostly Avoidance player, and I can get irritated by needle quite quickly.
I was expecting for the game to be easy, however, it is not necessarily free and is not generic at all. Game uses a lot of really cool layouts, jumps, and even slight visual touches, such as, slight effects for blocks that you have to pay attention to notice but that actually fit really well to not distract player. Background and music fits really well as well, even if the background is just a static image.
Game is not very long, but if you are not very good at needle, then it might take around 20-60 minutes. However, it is really worth it.
Doing jumps is really fun and while some saves might be a bit easier than others, I am still confident enough to say that the overall balance of the game is great.
It is really satisfying to perform the jumps, and not seeing the spam of generic jumps in your face, but like an actual attempt of visual and gameplay design. In some rooms you also have to think through to where you have to go and what to do exactly, which is really cool. There are also some very light platform jumps, that might need a bit to figure out, but they are actually not very hard, in my opinion, and are quite obvious strat-wise.
I am not sure what to add. Knowing that this is 2016 game is insane, and while I have heard good things about this author, I have actually never played their games, so it was also very pleasant first experience.
Would highly recommend.
Tagged as: Needle
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Rating: 7.5 75
Difficulty: 34 34
Feb 26, 2025
PlutoTheThing
Kinda basic and forgettable, does nothing particularly good or bad.
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Rating: 6.0 60
Difficulty: 23 23
Jul 10, 2024
Jopagu
While this game should be pretty rote for experienced players, I think it would be a good challenge for someone trying to push out of beginner games. Compared to other games at this difficulty, I found this one required a bit more thinking about jump principles, and understanding the Kid's movement.
Tagged as: Needle
[0] Likes
Rating: 7.0 70
Difficulty: 38 38
Feb 4, 2024