17 Reviews:
shign
Good needle game even if a bit short. Not a huge fan of the last screen, but I like the style of the others. Clear screen has "NSFW" (it's just anime girl with a bit of skin exposed), I don't think you have to worry if you stream it but better knowing it just in case.
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Rating: 7.8 78
Difficulty: 50 50
Jun 5, 2022
phgQED
One of the most enjoyable vanilla needle games I've played in a while. It uses a plain colored tileset which allows for strong design choices in both aesthetics and level routing. Most screens have an aesthetic commitment which results in interesting consequences for jumps and execution. There's a strong reliance on unnamed jumps while retaining some basic principles. Later on the game features more traditional corners and diagonals, but it allows for and almost demands usage of setups, which make the jumps a lot less intimidating. There's a concept of something like 'authorial trust', that essentially means the more an artist demonstrates their sensibilities and concern for your experience early on, the more willing you'll be later on to take risks or tolerate experimentation, because they've built up a type of 'credit' with you. This game does that very well, to the extent that I feel it's almost trying to 'teach' you something, which would perfectly fit the title of the game. The clear screen, as mentioned, is NSFW, but the music is banging, and it almost seems intended directly as a reward—like, once you've conquered these needle screens and learned their concepts, you've 'grown up' and are no longer a child. That's a lot of reading into an abstract premise for a game just about moving through spikes, but that's kind of the whole exercise of needle in general, isn't it?
Either way, absolute banger, and would recommend to everyone. Actually not as hard as it seems due to very well-crafted setup implementation.
Time: ~30min
Deaths: 533
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Either way, absolute banger, and would recommend to everyone. Actually not as hard as it seems due to very well-crafted setup implementation.
Time: ~30min
Deaths: 533
Rating: 9.5 95
Difficulty: 45 45
Jun 5, 2022
Kilgour22
Pretty basic needle. It has a cool bfall jump that was fun to do.
The clear screen is NSFW but there's no nudity.
Cleartime and deaths: 8:51, 138
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The clear screen is NSFW but there's no nudity.
Cleartime and deaths: 8:51, 138
Rating: 6.0 60
Difficulty: 52 52
Jun 4, 2022