Delicious FruitI Wanna Nonamed Spike 2
Creators: AHS1222, Иyinmir, Medley, Dengol, PDplayer, gafro, Biogom, Whiteshadow, Soap, Shinobu, OccultCube, GlayTV, Mobiun
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gafro [Creator]
There is no matter if you treat this game as korean Discord Makers series.
A lot of efforts were put into this game (Shoutouts especially to the main creators AHS1222, Иyinmir,) so hope you guys have fun with this :)
Also happy new year everyone!
+ Also we are told that you can have some really odd stutters on Medley's area if you play on window 10 PC's, as far as we know it's due to some issues related to gamemaker 8.0.
For the reason I wrote above, we also compiled the game in gamemaker 8.1 so that we can make gm8.1 version which won't cause the issues anymore.
Try it if you have some lags in this game.
gm8.1 ver link: https://www.mediafire.com/file/zcxsqu688hyyw7c/I_Wanna_Nonamed_Spike_2_v1.16_%2528gm8.1_ver.%2529.zip/file
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A lot of efforts were put into this game (Shoutouts especially to the main creators AHS1222, Иyinmir,) so hope you guys have fun with this :)
Also happy new year everyone!
+ Also we are told that you can have some really odd stutters on Medley's area if you play on window 10 PC's, as far as we know it's due to some issues related to gamemaker 8.0.
For the reason I wrote above, we also compiled the game in gamemaker 8.1 so that we can make gm8.1 version which won't cause the issues anymore.
Try it if you have some lags in this game.
gm8.1 ver link: https://www.mediafire.com/file/zcxsqu688hyyw7c/I_Wanna_Nonamed_Spike_2_v1.16_%2528gm8.1_ver.%2529.zip/file
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Difficulty: N/A
Dec 31, 2019
14 Reviews:
Ywave
Based on normal clear
OccultCube ☆
Color jump spike is simple and fun, and there are many saves
Mobiun ★
The longer the ice Jimmy Kid is in the environment, the slower its movement speed will be. It needs to save (fire) to recover
Shinobu ★
Single stab surface, individual gear cutting point
Whiteshadow ★☆
Neon Jumping Sting is relatively simple
Dengol ★☆
Although it is on one side, there are actually four sides. The design of Refresh Stab is very ingenious
И yinmir ★★
Five different Jimmick Jump Stings, even combined with Avoidance
PDplayer ★★
It's funny. Jimmy jumps and stabs. It's a bit small
Medley ★★☆
Line wind+a very durable, there is a time to test
Biogom ★★★
0 section of water, it is not difficult to have long-term stability points in the middle
gafro ★★★
One side saving,I like it best
Soap ★★★☆
rukito_ Like mechanism jump spike, with two sides remaining forever
GlayTV ★★★★
Red, green and blue A/D switching is OK except for blind background
AHS1222 ★★★★★★★
It's hard to crush other areas,WHY????
Every jump is very limited. It's not easy to jump
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OccultCube ☆
Color jump spike is simple and fun, and there are many saves
Mobiun ★
The longer the ice Jimmy Kid is in the environment, the slower its movement speed will be. It needs to save (fire) to recover
Shinobu ★
Single stab surface, individual gear cutting point
Whiteshadow ★☆
Neon Jumping Sting is relatively simple
Dengol ★☆
Although it is on one side, there are actually four sides. The design of Refresh Stab is very ingenious
И yinmir ★★
Five different Jimmick Jump Stings, even combined with Avoidance
PDplayer ★★
It's funny. Jimmy jumps and stabs. It's a bit small
Medley ★★☆
Line wind+a very durable, there is a time to test
Biogom ★★★
0 section of water, it is not difficult to have long-term stability points in the middle
gafro ★★★
One side saving,I like it best
Soap ★★★☆
rukito_ Like mechanism jump spike, with two sides remaining forever
GlayTV ★★★★
Red, green and blue A/D switching is OK except for blind background
AHS1222 ★★★★★★★
It's hard to crush other areas,WHY????
Every jump is very limited. It's not easy to jump
Rating: 5.6
Difficulty: 84
Sep 17, 2022
BloggerOP
One of my favorite needle games, I love the variety this game has. Super unique experience. I'll write concise reviews for each stage.
Dengol : how?????????????????????????????? 9.5/10
Иyinmir : The gimmicks were very unique to me, had a lot of fun with this stage, third and fourth area was just lmao. 8/10
OccultCube : Nice easy short saves. 7/10
gafro : Really solid usage of vines and water, super good stage. 9.5/10
Shinobu : Nice L needle to add varieties, but I didn't like some saves which destroyed the balance of the stage. 6.5/10
Whiteshadow : Excellent visuals and needles, some jumps were meh but who cares. 9/10
Mobiun : Actually kinda fun gimmick and the execution was decent as well, surprisingly. 7/10
Biogom : Korea has Biogom. 9.5/10
PDplayer : and PD as well. 9/10
Medley : Visually appealing, smooth needle, honestly one of the best stages in the game. 9.5/10
Soap : Very fun trigger needle, somehow flows very smoothly. 9/10
GlayTV : Great atmosphere, gimmick/execution, and needle, I really love this stage. 9.5/10
AHS1222 : The main reason this game is 85 difficulty. Still I did like this area, it gets consistent as the time goes, however there were many wacky jumps I didn't like as well. This area left me a lot of memories. 6/10
And yes that's the game! Plus there is a graphic glitch thing which bothered me, I don't know it's just me. Overall I loved this game, I would recommend it to everyone. I will update this review if I clear extra.
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Dengol : how?????????????????????????????? 9.5/10
Иyinmir : The gimmicks were very unique to me, had a lot of fun with this stage, third and fourth area was just lmao. 8/10
OccultCube : Nice easy short saves. 7/10
gafro : Really solid usage of vines and water, super good stage. 9.5/10
Shinobu : Nice L needle to add varieties, but I didn't like some saves which destroyed the balance of the stage. 6.5/10
Whiteshadow : Excellent visuals and needles, some jumps were meh but who cares. 9/10
Mobiun : Actually kinda fun gimmick and the execution was decent as well, surprisingly. 7/10
Biogom : Korea has Biogom. 9.5/10
PDplayer : and PD as well. 9/10
Medley : Visually appealing, smooth needle, honestly one of the best stages in the game. 9.5/10
Soap : Very fun trigger needle, somehow flows very smoothly. 9/10
GlayTV : Great atmosphere, gimmick/execution, and needle, I really love this stage. 9.5/10
AHS1222 : The main reason this game is 85 difficulty. Still I did like this area, it gets consistent as the time goes, however there were many wacky jumps I didn't like as well. This area left me a lot of memories. 6/10
And yes that's the game! Plus there is a graphic glitch thing which bothered me, I don't know it's just me. Overall I loved this game, I would recommend it to everyone. I will update this review if I clear extra.
Rating: 9.5
Difficulty: 86
Apr 25, 2022
ninz
pretty fun game filled with a variety of stages, id recommend that everyone plays this game, but it's pretty hard. in particular, there is one stage i found way harder than the rest, which is Reveal Spoiler i think my favorite area of all the stages is probably soap area Reveal Spoiler
in the end id recommend this game to everyone, with the amount of variety in it, theres something for everyone to enjoy
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in the end id recommend this game to everyone, with the amount of variety in it, theres something for everyone to enjoy
Rating: 9.8
Difficulty: 82
Jan 4, 2020
PlutoTheThing
Edit: I still agree with this review to some degree, I really didn't enjoy this game, but some things I say don't reflect my current views on fangame design and stuff, so keep that in mind if you read it now :P
As of writing this review, this is my least favorite needle game currently. It would be unfair to focus on the negatives so let's start with the good. That is that Gafro, PDPlayer, Dengol, and Soap have pretty decent stages. Now they aren't great, but I would say they are good, and the only stages I would say were better than a 5/10. They also take up a small portion of playtime, as they are some of the easiest stages, except maybe Soap. If you play these 4 areas, you will have played the only parts of this game worth playing.
The following stages range from meh to absolutely atrocious, so let's climb down the ladder. The stages provided by OccultCube and Whiteshadow are very basic and uninteresting, they are easy and chill but also don't feel amazing to play and are kinda nothing. Where the game starts getting bad starts with Medley and Shinobu, Medley is just awkward and annoying (and ends with the worlds most unnecessary micro - avoidance) and Shinobu made precision needle, which is like not that bad, but two saves near the middle are way harder than the rest and also way less fun than the rest, especially then one with the plane into nerfed ledge. Biogom has a kinda cool catharsis water thing, but his saves tend to suffer from "the first jump fucking sucks" syndrome, Mobiun's stage is hyper basic with a kinda annoying gimmick which makes controlling the kid very awkward, GlayTV's stage is hyper basic with the most annoying visuals I've seen in a needle game, and then Иyinmir's stage, while it deserves respects for creativity, has bottom of the barrel level design which makes any kind of creativity uninteresting and unfun.
Combining all these together would make a game that is flawed and not great, but nothing deserving of such a scathing review, just a decently negative one. The issue however, is we haven't talked about the stage made by AHS. This is easily the worst needle I've ever played. It's consistency needle but for some reason, the maker decided to throw in the most horrendous, inconsistent, awkward, annoying jumps in every save. The visuals also suck for needle this hard, the edges of the spikes are barely visible and make it hard to tell if you are inside a 16 pixel. Save 1 is meh, save 4 just feels like a luck grind to get the drops, save 3 has an obnoxious ending, a random 2 frame after every hard jump for no reason, an ending where the warps visual effects can make it hard to time the final drop, and a double corner for literally no reason. The REALLY horrible one is save 2, which took up nearly 1/4th of my playtime for the entire game. There is nothing fun about this save, it's exclusively just horrible inconsistent jumps that aren't fun to execute, it's the worst experience I've ever had with a needle game. Overall AHS's area took up 3.5 hours, when the entire game took 8.5. That's a massive portion of the game, and all because one guy decided he should make his stage WAY harder than what anyone else made. Without this stage, my difficulty rating would be around 20 points lower, and that's not an exaggeration. The entirety of the game is covered in the shadow of this one horrible, way too hard stage. It's not inherently bad to make a hard stage, but when it's THIS hard compared to everything else, it creates a massive issue of difficulty balance and very easily overshadows other parts of the game, which is terrible for a collab in my opinion.
To say the least, I absolutely do not recommend this game. If you want to play a game that's mostly basic vanilla needle without very much of interest, do yourself a favor and roll a game on delfruit roulette, as you are almost guaranteed to find a much more fulfilling experience.
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As of writing this review, this is my least favorite needle game currently. It would be unfair to focus on the negatives so let's start with the good. That is that Gafro, PDPlayer, Dengol, and Soap have pretty decent stages. Now they aren't great, but I would say they are good, and the only stages I would say were better than a 5/10. They also take up a small portion of playtime, as they are some of the easiest stages, except maybe Soap. If you play these 4 areas, you will have played the only parts of this game worth playing.
The following stages range from meh to absolutely atrocious, so let's climb down the ladder. The stages provided by OccultCube and Whiteshadow are very basic and uninteresting, they are easy and chill but also don't feel amazing to play and are kinda nothing. Where the game starts getting bad starts with Medley and Shinobu, Medley is just awkward and annoying (and ends with the worlds most unnecessary micro - avoidance) and Shinobu made precision needle, which is like not that bad, but two saves near the middle are way harder than the rest and also way less fun than the rest, especially then one with the plane into nerfed ledge. Biogom has a kinda cool catharsis water thing, but his saves tend to suffer from "the first jump fucking sucks" syndrome, Mobiun's stage is hyper basic with a kinda annoying gimmick which makes controlling the kid very awkward, GlayTV's stage is hyper basic with the most annoying visuals I've seen in a needle game, and then Иyinmir's stage, while it deserves respects for creativity, has bottom of the barrel level design which makes any kind of creativity uninteresting and unfun.
Combining all these together would make a game that is flawed and not great, but nothing deserving of such a scathing review, just a decently negative one. The issue however, is we haven't talked about the stage made by AHS. This is easily the worst needle I've ever played. It's consistency needle but for some reason, the maker decided to throw in the most horrendous, inconsistent, awkward, annoying jumps in every save. The visuals also suck for needle this hard, the edges of the spikes are barely visible and make it hard to tell if you are inside a 16 pixel. Save 1 is meh, save 4 just feels like a luck grind to get the drops, save 3 has an obnoxious ending, a random 2 frame after every hard jump for no reason, an ending where the warps visual effects can make it hard to time the final drop, and a double corner for literally no reason. The REALLY horrible one is save 2, which took up nearly 1/4th of my playtime for the entire game. There is nothing fun about this save, it's exclusively just horrible inconsistent jumps that aren't fun to execute, it's the worst experience I've ever had with a needle game. Overall AHS's area took up 3.5 hours, when the entire game took 8.5. That's a massive portion of the game, and all because one guy decided he should make his stage WAY harder than what anyone else made. Without this stage, my difficulty rating would be around 20 points lower, and that's not an exaggeration. The entirety of the game is covered in the shadow of this one horrible, way too hard stage. It's not inherently bad to make a hard stage, but when it's THIS hard compared to everything else, it creates a massive issue of difficulty balance and very easily overshadows other parts of the game, which is terrible for a collab in my opinion.
To say the least, I absolutely do not recommend this game. If you want to play a game that's mostly basic vanilla needle without very much of interest, do yourself a favor and roll a game on delfruit roulette, as you are almost guaranteed to find a much more fulfilling experience.
Rating: 1.3
Difficulty: 86
Jun 17, 2023
FancyFishie
Rating does not include extra.
I Wanna Nonamed Spike 2 is a fantastic needle collab game, possibly the best I have played thus far. I rarely found myself bored while playing through its stages as each were unique in their own way. While this proves true, there were of course a few things that didn't particularly tickle my fancy, but in all fairness it's very difficult to create a perfect game. I consider myself to be a slightly less experienced needle player than some, however I will give my best thoughts on each stage of the game.
Gafro Stage: Difficulty 65/100
This stage consists of four one-save screens of somewhat challenging needle. There was one thing that bothered me, and it was a weird behavior with the saves. After resetting a certain amount of times my position after resetting would gradually change depending on which direction I was holding. It made grinding the last save a slight annoyance, for I had to correct my save location every now and then. This stage is certainly is one of the easier ones, and I spent more time on the final save than I would like to admit.
PDplayer Stage: Difficulty 65/100
The main gimmick of this stage is that in order to reach the end, you must touch all of the blocks a certain number of times depending on their color. For instance, if a block is red, you must touch it once, while if you touch an orange block, it becomes a red block afterwards. Additionally, once a block changes from red to black, it will kill you on contact. I enjoyed the first three screens of this area, however I found myself frustrated with the final two. The fourth save had moving apple wheels that were annoying to pass through, and the fifth save just felt weird with the platform.
Shinobu Stage: Difficulty 60/100
This stage is a single room of L needle which I particularly enjoyed; I would consider this stage to be my third favorite stage of the game.
Dengol Stage: Difficulty 70/100
Upon entering this stage, the screen is limited to a quadrant that is revealed to you based on your position. As you move around the screen, the area revealed to you follows you. Before you know it, you have made a loop around the room and the needle changes from what it previously was. I thought this gimmick was pretty cool, although a couple of times I felt that it obstructed my vision a little too much. Even still, it was a manageable problem to deal with and doesn't hinder the stage as a whole.
Biogom Stage: Difficulty 70/100
The main gimmick of this stage was the use of catharsis water submerging most or all of the screen. A few of the screens required you to collect keys in a particular order to reach the exit. Of these, the second screen contained jumps that felt much more precise compared to the other screens. This stage was fun, however I don't know if I would hold the same opinion if I found myself stuck on the second screen.
OccultCube Stage: Difficulty 70/100
This stage was another five screens of pure needle, however, did not limit the number of saves to one like the Gafro area did. The needle was good, however I did encounter a jump on one of the screens (I don't remember which) that was significantly more precise than every other in the stage. Aside from that, it flowed well and I would perhaps consider this my second favorite area in the game.
Mobiun Stage: Difficulty 55/100
This stage was weird. It felt much less polished than the other stages in the game up to this point, but that doesn't make it a bad stage. The saves are campfires (presumably drawn in ms paint) that warm up the kid. If you are too far away from a save for too long, the kid will get cold and his movement speed will be reduced. Overall this area wasn't nearly as hard as some of the other stages in the game, aside from screen four which took me a little bit longer than the rest due to the slightly unintuitive placement of triggers.
Whiteshadow Stage: Difficulty 70/100
Six screens of standard needle with both an attractive and somewhat distracting tile set. Nothing here particularly grabbed my attention, however I liked the aesthetic and the music.
GlayTV Stage: Difficulty 75/100
The first area that I tackled when playing this game. This stage is six screens long, however it's not really all that straightforward. You must first head to the right and collect an orb. Once you get it, different-colored spikes appear on each of the screens. No big deal, until you backtrack and head to the left to collect another orb. Once you collect this one, you now have the ability to press a button to flip which colored spikes you are able to collide with. The utilization of the gimmick made a lot of the needle interesting, however there was one save of corridor needle that gave me a really hard time compared to the rest of stage. Very good.
Иyinmir Stage: Difficulty 65/100
This stage contained the most variety out of the others. The game says this area is five screens long, but it's a little misleading. I would describe it as having five different segments. The first, you need to drop down into the lower room, where you suddenly become the big kid. Your hitbox is bigger, but you seem to move at the same speed. After climbing back up to the top screen, you reach the warp to head to the next area. The next area has weird diagonal blocks and platforms that you have to maneuver on. However, when you walk to the screen to the right there's a surprise short avoidance before you are allowed to move on. I don't remember which comes next, however I think it was kind of like an avoidance but not really. You have to dodge stuff while a song plays while doing needle to reach the end. Next up is the fourth segment, where all of a sudden you can't see where you are aside from a subtle orb of light around where the kid is supposed to be. Pretty neat, but I found some of the 16 pixels kind of mean. Last of all, is a single room of needle that is in the dark where you must hit triggers that unlock the way to the end.
AHS1222 Stage: Difficulty 85/100
Dear lord. This is by far the most difficult of the regular stages by a large margin. It's like the Gafro area in having four one save screens, except it's brutally difficult. Over half of my playtime and deaths come exclusively from this area, and it was the first time where I had to sit down to figure out some science in JTool. I wouldn't say the most detracting thing from this area was the platforming itself, as both the background and tile set were. The blocks and spikes are a bright blue on a bright background, which is searing to the eyes. Perhaps the worst part about this is the outline of the spikes being white. Because of this, it became very difficult to judge exactly where the edges of spikes were on the fly, and made some jumps look easier than they actually were. For example, there is a jump around the bottom left of the third screen that LOOKS like a decently open jump, but it turns out to be a 16 pixel. As for the screens themselves, the first and last ones weren't too bad. The second and third ones were the major time sink, as they were both long and had many challenging jumps. I don't mind the second screen too much, however I didn't enjoy the early downward diagonal spam at the beginning of the third. Certainly my least favorite stage, but not purely because of its difficulty. If you die to the last jump, don't worry... I died to the last jump on screen three.
Soap Stage: Difficulty 75/100
My favorite stage. This stage contains five screens of trigger needle that focus primarily on backtracking to hit triggers that open up after others are touched. The difficulty progression felt good, the first two screens did a good job at easing me into the style of needle. Towards the final three screens the difficulty picked up a little bit, of which two being one-save screens, and another having two short and one long save. Very fun area.
Medley Stage: Difficulty 75/100
A single, long, downwards tower of line needle that mixed in some unique platforming and art. The main draw of this stage, for me at least, was simply how the stage looked as I'm not too keen on line needle. Medley did a pretty nice job at creating images with the lines; it was pretty cool to look at. On the topic of platforming, a lot of it felt pretty claustrophobic, and there's another brief avoidance at the end.
All in all, this game was unlike a lot I have played beforehand. I don't think its 85 difficulty price tag is truly representative of everything in this game; I would say it is only accurate for the AHS1222 area. As a result, I would say the rest of the stages are feasibly possible for players who can clear 70-75 difficulty needle. I would strongly recommend this game if you're looking for a fun needle collab filled with variety.
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I Wanna Nonamed Spike 2 is a fantastic needle collab game, possibly the best I have played thus far. I rarely found myself bored while playing through its stages as each were unique in their own way. While this proves true, there were of course a few things that didn't particularly tickle my fancy, but in all fairness it's very difficult to create a perfect game. I consider myself to be a slightly less experienced needle player than some, however I will give my best thoughts on each stage of the game.
Gafro Stage: Difficulty 65/100
This stage consists of four one-save screens of somewhat challenging needle. There was one thing that bothered me, and it was a weird behavior with the saves. After resetting a certain amount of times my position after resetting would gradually change depending on which direction I was holding. It made grinding the last save a slight annoyance, for I had to correct my save location every now and then. This stage is certainly is one of the easier ones, and I spent more time on the final save than I would like to admit.
PDplayer Stage: Difficulty 65/100
The main gimmick of this stage is that in order to reach the end, you must touch all of the blocks a certain number of times depending on their color. For instance, if a block is red, you must touch it once, while if you touch an orange block, it becomes a red block afterwards. Additionally, once a block changes from red to black, it will kill you on contact. I enjoyed the first three screens of this area, however I found myself frustrated with the final two. The fourth save had moving apple wheels that were annoying to pass through, and the fifth save just felt weird with the platform.
Shinobu Stage: Difficulty 60/100
This stage is a single room of L needle which I particularly enjoyed; I would consider this stage to be my third favorite stage of the game.
Dengol Stage: Difficulty 70/100
Upon entering this stage, the screen is limited to a quadrant that is revealed to you based on your position. As you move around the screen, the area revealed to you follows you. Before you know it, you have made a loop around the room and the needle changes from what it previously was. I thought this gimmick was pretty cool, although a couple of times I felt that it obstructed my vision a little too much. Even still, it was a manageable problem to deal with and doesn't hinder the stage as a whole.
Biogom Stage: Difficulty 70/100
The main gimmick of this stage was the use of catharsis water submerging most or all of the screen. A few of the screens required you to collect keys in a particular order to reach the exit. Of these, the second screen contained jumps that felt much more precise compared to the other screens. This stage was fun, however I don't know if I would hold the same opinion if I found myself stuck on the second screen.
OccultCube Stage: Difficulty 70/100
This stage was another five screens of pure needle, however, did not limit the number of saves to one like the Gafro area did. The needle was good, however I did encounter a jump on one of the screens (I don't remember which) that was significantly more precise than every other in the stage. Aside from that, it flowed well and I would perhaps consider this my second favorite area in the game.
Mobiun Stage: Difficulty 55/100
This stage was weird. It felt much less polished than the other stages in the game up to this point, but that doesn't make it a bad stage. The saves are campfires (presumably drawn in ms paint) that warm up the kid. If you are too far away from a save for too long, the kid will get cold and his movement speed will be reduced. Overall this area wasn't nearly as hard as some of the other stages in the game, aside from screen four which took me a little bit longer than the rest due to the slightly unintuitive placement of triggers.
Whiteshadow Stage: Difficulty 70/100
Six screens of standard needle with both an attractive and somewhat distracting tile set. Nothing here particularly grabbed my attention, however I liked the aesthetic and the music.
GlayTV Stage: Difficulty 75/100
The first area that I tackled when playing this game. This stage is six screens long, however it's not really all that straightforward. You must first head to the right and collect an orb. Once you get it, different-colored spikes appear on each of the screens. No big deal, until you backtrack and head to the left to collect another orb. Once you collect this one, you now have the ability to press a button to flip which colored spikes you are able to collide with. The utilization of the gimmick made a lot of the needle interesting, however there was one save of corridor needle that gave me a really hard time compared to the rest of stage. Very good.
Иyinmir Stage: Difficulty 65/100
This stage contained the most variety out of the others. The game says this area is five screens long, but it's a little misleading. I would describe it as having five different segments. The first, you need to drop down into the lower room, where you suddenly become the big kid. Your hitbox is bigger, but you seem to move at the same speed. After climbing back up to the top screen, you reach the warp to head to the next area. The next area has weird diagonal blocks and platforms that you have to maneuver on. However, when you walk to the screen to the right there's a surprise short avoidance before you are allowed to move on. I don't remember which comes next, however I think it was kind of like an avoidance but not really. You have to dodge stuff while a song plays while doing needle to reach the end. Next up is the fourth segment, where all of a sudden you can't see where you are aside from a subtle orb of light around where the kid is supposed to be. Pretty neat, but I found some of the 16 pixels kind of mean. Last of all, is a single room of needle that is in the dark where you must hit triggers that unlock the way to the end.
AHS1222 Stage: Difficulty 85/100
Dear lord. This is by far the most difficult of the regular stages by a large margin. It's like the Gafro area in having four one save screens, except it's brutally difficult. Over half of my playtime and deaths come exclusively from this area, and it was the first time where I had to sit down to figure out some science in JTool. I wouldn't say the most detracting thing from this area was the platforming itself, as both the background and tile set were. The blocks and spikes are a bright blue on a bright background, which is searing to the eyes. Perhaps the worst part about this is the outline of the spikes being white. Because of this, it became very difficult to judge exactly where the edges of spikes were on the fly, and made some jumps look easier than they actually were. For example, there is a jump around the bottom left of the third screen that LOOKS like a decently open jump, but it turns out to be a 16 pixel. As for the screens themselves, the first and last ones weren't too bad. The second and third ones were the major time sink, as they were both long and had many challenging jumps. I don't mind the second screen too much, however I didn't enjoy the early downward diagonal spam at the beginning of the third. Certainly my least favorite stage, but not purely because of its difficulty. If you die to the last jump, don't worry... I died to the last jump on screen three.
Soap Stage: Difficulty 75/100
My favorite stage. This stage contains five screens of trigger needle that focus primarily on backtracking to hit triggers that open up after others are touched. The difficulty progression felt good, the first two screens did a good job at easing me into the style of needle. Towards the final three screens the difficulty picked up a little bit, of which two being one-save screens, and another having two short and one long save. Very fun area.
Medley Stage: Difficulty 75/100
A single, long, downwards tower of line needle that mixed in some unique platforming and art. The main draw of this stage, for me at least, was simply how the stage looked as I'm not too keen on line needle. Medley did a pretty nice job at creating images with the lines; it was pretty cool to look at. On the topic of platforming, a lot of it felt pretty claustrophobic, and there's another brief avoidance at the end.
All in all, this game was unlike a lot I have played beforehand. I don't think its 85 difficulty price tag is truly representative of everything in this game; I would say it is only accurate for the AHS1222 area. As a result, I would say the rest of the stages are feasibly possible for players who can clear 70-75 difficulty needle. I would strongly recommend this game if you're looking for a fun needle collab filled with variety.
Rating: 9.0 90
Difficulty: 85 85
Apr 13, 2021
LastTISisLife
At this time i not really remember this game that well, but i figured i need to leave review on it, since i think i will never clear it on 100 %, as i initially wanted. Sooo....
For any% stages:
-Gafro was pretty fun 1-save screens challenge, probably top-3 here
-Whiteshadow was okay i believe, this is the stage i almost don't remember, except it was quite easier than the rest
-Shinobu was kinda nice precision needle, but it was heavily disbalanced and has some notorious saves
-GlayTV was hard and great and has cool gimmick. And cool visuals imo as well. Best stage ig
-Dengol has interesting concept, but execution kinda sucks ass
-Иyinmir has clearly something on mind. Some of the most unique sections i've ever seen in needle collabs like this, but boy, it was awkward quite often, especially inviskid screens and basically sort of pattern avoidance save
-Medley was pretty cool actually. Some interesting outline design here and some funny twists
-OccultCube was kinda plain, but okay still
-Biogom was Zero from JP Side, but good
-Mobiun was based, but very dumb
-PDplayer has some really fucking great light-puzzle platforming. Top-2 stage for me
-Soap was cool trigger journey, last save was hard
-AHS stands quite apart, because it's by far the hardest stage in any%, like really by far. All saves were pretty subpar, but also not that bad, just kinda okay, but difficulty kinda drags them, i think if they were not 1-save they could be better, but whatever. Save 3 was hardest out of 4 and probably the worst as well
For extra stages (i beat 5/7):
-EX Dengol was insane, but honestly very interesting to play, despite being quite vertigo-inducing
-EX Mobuin was awful. Both saves were atrocious on their own different way
-EX Soap was fun very long trigger-chasing save. Twist at the end is very cruel (i respect it tho)
-EX Biogom was not that bad, but the last save kinda sucks balls
-EX Иyinmir was really bad, and again last save was real bitch
And the ones that i've not beaten, buuuut:
-EX AHS. Fuck it. Save 1 was already not okay, but save 2... Probably, worst needle save i've ever seriously attempted to beat, like it's actually almost bottom of the barrel. Save contains of absolutely non-sense difficult jumps that are placed in worst possible way balance-wise where hardest jumps are at the start and at the end. Most of those jumps make no sense even separately, but as a whole save... Yeah, lack of oneness and style in this save is absurdly large, and amount of bullshit is ridiculous. 15 hours was wasted in trash can, and the only thing that was left after it is literal headache and endless feeling of anger. This is the thing that forever turn me from dreaming about 100 %-ing this game, because i don't wanna experience this save ever in my life at this point
-EX GlayTV. I was always looking forward for that, but after playing a bit it seems that despite having some of the best tracks i've ever heard in needle and some occasional cool jumps, it just too hard for the sake of being too hard. Maybe i will change opinion and will give this a shot in future, but i doubt it
Overall, it was not bad collab when we talking about any%. Extra is downhill and you probably don't need to go through it, at least i will not recommend it. Final ratings based only on any% experience, but as you can already guess, if we count extra, enjoyment will fall drastically as well as difficulty will probably break through 90 bar
[0] Likes
For any% stages:
-Gafro was pretty fun 1-save screens challenge, probably top-3 here
-Whiteshadow was okay i believe, this is the stage i almost don't remember, except it was quite easier than the rest
-Shinobu was kinda nice precision needle, but it was heavily disbalanced and has some notorious saves
-GlayTV was hard and great and has cool gimmick. And cool visuals imo as well. Best stage ig
-Dengol has interesting concept, but execution kinda sucks ass
-Иyinmir has clearly something on mind. Some of the most unique sections i've ever seen in needle collabs like this, but boy, it was awkward quite often, especially inviskid screens and basically sort of pattern avoidance save
-Medley was pretty cool actually. Some interesting outline design here and some funny twists
-OccultCube was kinda plain, but okay still
-Biogom was Zero from JP Side, but good
-Mobiun was based, but very dumb
-PDplayer has some really fucking great light-puzzle platforming. Top-2 stage for me
-Soap was cool trigger journey, last save was hard
-AHS stands quite apart, because it's by far the hardest stage in any%, like really by far. All saves were pretty subpar, but also not that bad, just kinda okay, but difficulty kinda drags them, i think if they were not 1-save they could be better, but whatever. Save 3 was hardest out of 4 and probably the worst as well
For extra stages (i beat 5/7):
-EX Dengol was insane, but honestly very interesting to play, despite being quite vertigo-inducing
-EX Mobuin was awful. Both saves were atrocious on their own different way
-EX Soap was fun very long trigger-chasing save. Twist at the end is very cruel (i respect it tho)
-EX Biogom was not that bad, but the last save kinda sucks balls
-EX Иyinmir was really bad, and again last save was real bitch
And the ones that i've not beaten, buuuut:
-EX AHS. Fuck it. Save 1 was already not okay, but save 2... Probably, worst needle save i've ever seriously attempted to beat, like it's actually almost bottom of the barrel. Save contains of absolutely non-sense difficult jumps that are placed in worst possible way balance-wise where hardest jumps are at the start and at the end. Most of those jumps make no sense even separately, but as a whole save... Yeah, lack of oneness and style in this save is absurdly large, and amount of bullshit is ridiculous. 15 hours was wasted in trash can, and the only thing that was left after it is literal headache and endless feeling of anger. This is the thing that forever turn me from dreaming about 100 %-ing this game, because i don't wanna experience this save ever in my life at this point
-EX GlayTV. I was always looking forward for that, but after playing a bit it seems that despite having some of the best tracks i've ever heard in needle and some occasional cool jumps, it just too hard for the sake of being too hard. Maybe i will change opinion and will give this a shot in future, but i doubt it
Overall, it was not bad collab when we talking about any%. Extra is downhill and you probably don't need to go through it, at least i will not recommend it. Final ratings based only on any% experience, but as you can already guess, if we count extra, enjoyment will fall drastically as well as difficulty will probably break through 90 bar
Rating: 6.8 68
Difficulty: 86 86
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