I wanna let my balloons go

Creator: Phooey

Average Rating
8.3 / 10
Average Difficulty
50.7 / 100
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Tags:

Adventure (1) Needle (6) Gimmick (7) Boss (6) Based (1)

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Creator's Comments:

Phooey [Creator]
This is a short gimmick game made in a few weeks as a joke.
It's my first fangame, so hopefully it turned out well.
Fair warning, the music in this game is from actual bands and is probably copyrighted. If you stream the game, it might not be a bad idea to turn off music if this is a concern. (Then again, fangames have been getting away with using vocaloid music which is also copyrighted for years now, so it's probably not a big deal.)


Credits just in case you haven't read the readme

Title / clear screen art:
citrus

Made using:
Seph engine by Sephalos
Game Maker 8.2 by renex and Floogle

Testers:
SleepySage
citrus
YaBoiMarcAntony
MKey
KittyGame
Rossiter
IanBoy141
Sanctuspaladin
Patrick
onod

Music (Spoiler):
[ Title ] Elephant Gym - Intro
[ Song 1 ] You Me The Switch - Sky Scraping
[ Song 2 ] a picture of her - picnic-perfect
[ Boss ] Mouse on the Keys - Plateau
[ Gallery ] PRIMITIVE ART ORCHESTRA - qualia
[ Credits ] Clever Girl - Elm

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Rating: N/A       Difficulty: 50 50
Jul 27, 2021

23 Reviews:

PlutoTheThing
This game feels like micro-dosing on the Kermit series, it's honestly really nice and chill. The underlying gimmick is this cool balloon mechanic which is really nice. The game even has a final boss, which is quite tricky, I found the purple attacks pretty tough. Enjoy this one a lot, very short and very sweet.

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Rating: 8.7 87       Difficulty: 48 48
May 21, 2023
Jopagu
Really fun gimmick needle game, with a boss. The needle has a few gimmicks, all focused on speed and momentum. The game is quite short, I feel like some of the gimmicks had more potential. But at the same time, the shooting mechanic felt primed to be awkward if used much more. The final boss is pretty cool, but it suffers from some nasty attack imbalance, and the main gimmick of the game is only used for one attack, which was kind of a let down. Overall, recommended for people who like needle with uncommon gimmicks.

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Rating: 8.3 83       Difficulty: 50 50
Jun 22, 2022
TehDude
balon

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Rating: 9.5 95       Difficulty: 40 40
May 14, 2022
popop614
Great game overall, however the boss is like hard

Insane for a first fangame though. Good job!

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Rating: 8.0 80       Difficulty: 53 53
Jul 30, 2021
roaming97
One rainy night, you find yourself unable to cross a seemingly endless row of spikes.

Extremely cute and fun gimmick needle game, needless to say the quality of this is very good for a first. You take control of a pink kid, who explores a park full of spikes and will encounter a variety of simple yet enjoyable gimmicks, being the star of these: the balloon! The balloon gimmick feels natural to an extent to use, especially with how dynamic its movement can become by the press of several keystrokes, it can sometimes get a little confusing but it doesn't take too long to learn its quirks. The needle itself doesn't become too strict even with the huge "advantage" this gimmick might seemingly give to the player right away, and the progression seems organic and it's just the right length.

The boss as a lot of people have mentioned, resembles a lot the final boss from I wanna be the Destination, it borrows the color scheme and structure of it and by design, it is quite lengthy. Evidently, it is way harder than the platforming, but it's mostly learning how every attack is performed. The final phase of the boss feels superfluous though.

The visuals and music used are possibly some of my favorites in a fangame, more than the individual themes picked it's rather how they blend together what makes the general aesthetic for this game so fresh and special.

I think it's pretty obvious by now, I highly recommend this game, it is truly a short but very sweet experience.

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Tagged as: Needle Gimmick Boss
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Rating: 8.6 86       Difficulty: 55 55
Jul 30, 2021