Delicious Fruit
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by GaspacoZanis
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by GaspacoZanis
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by GaspacoZanis
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by GaspacoZanis
2 Reviews:
GaspacoZanis
When I initially heard about this game, I was thinking that this would just be 'I Don't Wanna Be The Gay ADVANCED', but this ended up being some unknown and never seen before game.
There is no info about if this was some old demo that was released on Domiki's blog, or just straight up unreleased game. Even .exe date is wrong. The only thing that can help on restoring the timeline of events would be audio files that do show their original creation date, and most likely when the game was actually being produced.
sndStage1.ogg - 05/Feb/2015
sndStage1Boss.ogg - 05/Feb/2015
sndTitle.ogg - 06/Feb/2015
sndOnDeath.ogg - 07/Feb/2015
sndClear.ogg - 08/Feb/2015
sndStage2.ogg - 09/Feb/2015
sndScare.ogg - 11/Feb/2015
The game is unfinished, and it does seem like it was a quite a short production in the early February of 2015.
This game tries to be Needle and Boss genre, instead of Traps, although the very few occasions where you can see traps, those are quite funny. But, yeah, this game has fully finished Stage 1 and Stage 2 only has needle part. The hardest thing in this game is the boss fight, and the hardest platforming is definitely Stage 2, but it is in like 50s in comparison with the boss.
You start the game for the very short Stage 1, which stylistically reminds of the area after VVVVVV stage in the original game, except this time you see raining. The section is not very hard, and you cannot even hear the music, just the raining.
After you finish the section, you get until the boss, and this is where the difficulty peaks. This boss is Billy Harrington, but it features a lot of things from the bosses from the original game, to the point that it feels like a medley. Some of the patterns are definitely tighter than you would like to. Especially the Korean lady section. And RNG is also not necessarily forgiving, which does not help being right after the tight patterns.
I liked the concept of the boss here, but I definitely did not feel like the boss was polished enough to say that it was good. It reminds me of the balance in the old versions of the original game, where author was experimenting and later on balancing everything out.
The boss is really tedious, and not necessarily intuitive. And honestly I was surprised to seeing the boss harder than the final boss in the base game. Maybe it is also because of the structure. Having the first part of pure long (poorly balanced) avoidance, and second shooting phase did not help either. Any late death will make you angry.
In the very end you do have a small trolling, but I am not sure if you can die after you kill the boss. But anyway, you do see Stage 1 clear sign, as if you were in some medley game.
Stage 2 is trigger needle, and it was fine. There was one moment where I skipped half of the save due to some poor testing of the water physics. You really wish to skip more, since the only interesting part of the needle are the triggers and movements. It is interesting seeing very different look to the game. But I am not sure if it was really necessary.
The one troll with the chest was actually hilarious, but replaying the whole long needle save for it is kind of meh.
But, hey, I did like the visuals and music. It did fit to the vibe.
In the very end there is an empty boss room, which by the form reminds of the Guy fight room from the original 'I wanna be the Guy'. I wonder if this was supposed to be that.
And, yes, there is nothing more to the game, since the game is unfinished.
This is an interesting demo, especially, considering that this was made by Domiki himself. You would not expect such thing to exist. And, yet, it does.
But, honestly, I would probably recommend just watching my YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlI9DnZ7-Co) video instead of playing this game.
The game has interesting concepts, but it is just not very fun to play in the current state. It has great visuals and the concept is interesting. But you can see that Domiki is not very experienced in a pure needle style and making harder bosses does require better balancing. I wish this game would have some update or something. That would be great. And yet I doubt that will ever happen.
As it stands, just play the original game. It is way more polished.
Would not recommend.
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There is no info about if this was some old demo that was released on Domiki's blog, or just straight up unreleased game. Even .exe date is wrong. The only thing that can help on restoring the timeline of events would be audio files that do show their original creation date, and most likely when the game was actually being produced.
sndStage1.ogg - 05/Feb/2015
sndStage1Boss.ogg - 05/Feb/2015
sndTitle.ogg - 06/Feb/2015
sndOnDeath.ogg - 07/Feb/2015
sndClear.ogg - 08/Feb/2015
sndStage2.ogg - 09/Feb/2015
sndScare.ogg - 11/Feb/2015
The game is unfinished, and it does seem like it was a quite a short production in the early February of 2015.
This game tries to be Needle and Boss genre, instead of Traps, although the very few occasions where you can see traps, those are quite funny. But, yeah, this game has fully finished Stage 1 and Stage 2 only has needle part. The hardest thing in this game is the boss fight, and the hardest platforming is definitely Stage 2, but it is in like 50s in comparison with the boss.
You start the game for the very short Stage 1, which stylistically reminds of the area after VVVVVV stage in the original game, except this time you see raining. The section is not very hard, and you cannot even hear the music, just the raining.
After you finish the section, you get until the boss, and this is where the difficulty peaks. This boss is Billy Harrington, but it features a lot of things from the bosses from the original game, to the point that it feels like a medley. Some of the patterns are definitely tighter than you would like to. Especially the Korean lady section. And RNG is also not necessarily forgiving, which does not help being right after the tight patterns.
I liked the concept of the boss here, but I definitely did not feel like the boss was polished enough to say that it was good. It reminds me of the balance in the old versions of the original game, where author was experimenting and later on balancing everything out.
The boss is really tedious, and not necessarily intuitive. And honestly I was surprised to seeing the boss harder than the final boss in the base game. Maybe it is also because of the structure. Having the first part of pure long (poorly balanced) avoidance, and second shooting phase did not help either. Any late death will make you angry.
In the very end you do have a small trolling, but I am not sure if you can die after you kill the boss. But anyway, you do see Stage 1 clear sign, as if you were in some medley game.
Stage 2 is trigger needle, and it was fine. There was one moment where I skipped half of the save due to some poor testing of the water physics. You really wish to skip more, since the only interesting part of the needle are the triggers and movements. It is interesting seeing very different look to the game. But I am not sure if it was really necessary.
The one troll with the chest was actually hilarious, but replaying the whole long needle save for it is kind of meh.
But, hey, I did like the visuals and music. It did fit to the vibe.
In the very end there is an empty boss room, which by the form reminds of the Guy fight room from the original 'I wanna be the Guy'. I wonder if this was supposed to be that.
And, yes, there is nothing more to the game, since the game is unfinished.
This is an interesting demo, especially, considering that this was made by Domiki himself. You would not expect such thing to exist. And, yet, it does.
But, honestly, I would probably recommend just watching my YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlI9DnZ7-Co) video instead of playing this game.
The game has interesting concepts, but it is just not very fun to play in the current state. It has great visuals and the concept is interesting. But you can see that Domiki is not very experienced in a pure needle style and making harder bosses does require better balancing. I wish this game would have some update or something. That would be great. And yet I doubt that will ever happen.
As it stands, just play the original game. It is way more polished.
Would not recommend.
Rating: 4.3 43
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Apr 23, 2025