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bereavement
For: Phonotaxis
For: Phonotaxis
Some parts had really annoying maneuvers to do, such as the water wrap arounds and a few platform ones.
Tagged as: Needle
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Rating: 8.0 80
Difficulty: 80 80
Sep 12, 2026
KingSlendy
For: Crimson Needle 2.5
For: Crimson Needle 2.5
Rating based on getting Chapter 3 Ending with all secrets.
I can't give this game a rating lower than 10/10, because it's a masterpiece and an insane showcase of what fangames are capable of being, with an insane amount of content with tons of love and care put into it.
I don't really have much to say in the positives that other people haven't already said.
However, and this is where some people will probably get upset at me, I personally can't love this game as much as everyone else does, if you haven't played this game before, please do, as I will get into spoiler territory.
Chapter 1 is quite honestly the best needle I've ever played, it's exactly the needle I enjoy playing with minor complains, saves flow very nicely, the level design is varied and clever, music is good, visually stunning, fun secrets and floor 100 is my favorite save ever made. Sadly, and it pains me to say this, the game peaked right here for me, I could never quite reach the same amount of enjoyment out of the next parts of the game even if I liked a lot of things about them.
Chapter 2 has you getting back to all the stages to figure out all the secrets and this part is extremely cool, all of them are very cleverly hidden, the best secrets I've seen out of a fangame really, which then reveals the guest stages... and these are very hit or miss, the variety of them makes it unavoidable and there were quite a lot of them that I hated or just didn't enjoy purely due to my tastes, I even had to pause the game for several months because playing these was sometimes unenjoyable.
Shoutouts to a few of the guest stages which I absolutely adored, namely EchoMask (my favorite guest stage by a long shot), Cherry Treehouse (extremely long tho), RandomErik, PlasmaNapkin (even if the stage was very tiring due to the length), Qwylwright, Verve. Just to name a few, I liked other stages but these were the ones I enjoyed the most.
After doing all of the guest stages you get the final boss, which I for the most part didn't enjoy, phase 1 was very annoying to figure out for me and executing the phase when you know what to do wasn't very fun for me either, I just overall found this more annoying than fun. Phase 2 I enjoyed a bit more but there were some stuff that I found frustrating like the barely-visible stars of blue phase, the length of yellow phase and the stupid skull phase, so yeah solid fight but didn't enjoy much, the quality of it was very pretty tho.
Chapter 3... oh boy, I know people will want to murder me, but I didn't enjoy this chapter as much as I thought, the premise and the content is extremely insane and high quality, but as a mostly pure needle enjoyer... yeah I suffered through a lot of gimmicks I didn't like, it was agonizing sometimes, the saves I enjoyed I really loved but the ones I didn't I just straight up hated.
The Metroidvania aspect is something I'm very conflicted with, I love the idea in theory but in execution not so much, huge thanks to Huse for basically backseating the hell out of me with his maps and tips and overall guidance because I would've abandoned the game right here without him. The world is extremely huge, I imagine you can get lost on where to go without a map, and you are mostly just going from short section to short section, but sadly after beating the section there's just no more meaning on going back, it's basically just a very confusing linear section that sometimes makes you repeat stuff for no particular reason. The secrets were very clever but I didn't wanna do them on my own.
I know all of that might sound very negative, and yes it is, it pains me that I didn't just absolutely adored this game like most people, because this game is at its core a masterpiece and a must for all needle enjoyers, particularly gimmick needle enjoyers. As it stands it just goes in a direction that barely misses what I enjoy in fangames. Even then the journey was something special and I liked experiencing this game, everyone should!
Maybe if I complete New Game+ I will update this review, in the meantime, it was an amazing journey.
I can't give this game a rating lower than 10/10, because it's a masterpiece and an insane showcase of what fangames are capable of being, with an insane amount of content with tons of love and care put into it.
I don't really have much to say in the positives that other people haven't already said.
However, and this is where some people will probably get upset at me, I personally can't love this game as much as everyone else does, if you haven't played this game before, please do, as I will get into spoiler territory.
Chapter 1 is quite honestly the best needle I've ever played, it's exactly the needle I enjoy playing with minor complains, saves flow very nicely, the level design is varied and clever, music is good, visually stunning, fun secrets and floor 100 is my favorite save ever made. Sadly, and it pains me to say this, the game peaked right here for me, I could never quite reach the same amount of enjoyment out of the next parts of the game even if I liked a lot of things about them.
Chapter 2 has you getting back to all the stages to figure out all the secrets and this part is extremely cool, all of them are very cleverly hidden, the best secrets I've seen out of a fangame really, which then reveals the guest stages... and these are very hit or miss, the variety of them makes it unavoidable and there were quite a lot of them that I hated or just didn't enjoy purely due to my tastes, I even had to pause the game for several months because playing these was sometimes unenjoyable.
Shoutouts to a few of the guest stages which I absolutely adored, namely EchoMask (my favorite guest stage by a long shot), Cherry Treehouse (extremely long tho), RandomErik, PlasmaNapkin (even if the stage was very tiring due to the length), Qwylwright, Verve. Just to name a few, I liked other stages but these were the ones I enjoyed the most.
After doing all of the guest stages you get the final boss, which I for the most part didn't enjoy, phase 1 was very annoying to figure out for me and executing the phase when you know what to do wasn't very fun for me either, I just overall found this more annoying than fun. Phase 2 I enjoyed a bit more but there were some stuff that I found frustrating like the barely-visible stars of blue phase, the length of yellow phase and the stupid skull phase, so yeah solid fight but didn't enjoy much, the quality of it was very pretty tho.
Chapter 3... oh boy, I know people will want to murder me, but I didn't enjoy this chapter as much as I thought, the premise and the content is extremely insane and high quality, but as a mostly pure needle enjoyer... yeah I suffered through a lot of gimmicks I didn't like, it was agonizing sometimes, the saves I enjoyed I really loved but the ones I didn't I just straight up hated.
The Metroidvania aspect is something I'm very conflicted with, I love the idea in theory but in execution not so much, huge thanks to Huse for basically backseating the hell out of me with his maps and tips and overall guidance because I would've abandoned the game right here without him. The world is extremely huge, I imagine you can get lost on where to go without a map, and you are mostly just going from short section to short section, but sadly after beating the section there's just no more meaning on going back, it's basically just a very confusing linear section that sometimes makes you repeat stuff for no particular reason. The secrets were very clever but I didn't wanna do them on my own.
I know all of that might sound very negative, and yes it is, it pains me that I didn't just absolutely adored this game like most people, because this game is at its core a masterpiece and a must for all needle enjoyers, particularly gimmick needle enjoyers. As it stands it just goes in a direction that barely misses what I enjoy in fangames. Even then the journey was something special and I liked experiencing this game, everyone should!
Maybe if I complete New Game+ I will update this review, in the meantime, it was an amazing journey.
Tagged as: Needle
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Rating: 10.0 100
Difficulty: 85 85
Sep 12, 2026
Renko97
For: I wanna go to flip
For: I wanna go to flip
Needle game que usa la gimmick de VVVVVV que son screens de otros juegos (Happil1, boshy, diverse, etc) y otras que creo que son originales.
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Rating: 5.6 56
Difficulty: 46 46
Sep 12, 2026
Renko97
For: I wanna スコアアタック
For: I wanna スコアアタック
Clear...i guess
Tagged as: Special
[0] Likes
Rating: 6.0 60
Difficulty: 14 14
Sep 12, 2026
gourdladle
For: Bassline Crack
For: Bassline Crack
cluttering up the screen ≠ good visual
[3] Likes
Rating: 4.0 40
Difficulty: 50 50
Sep 12, 2026
Faucet
For: I wanna go across the Rainbow
For: I wanna go across the Rainbow
Decent game, I liked the idea of making each stage a color in the rainbow and there are some cool ideas here and there but overall I found most of the game pretty uninteresting and generic. The secret hunting is also quite tedious although a bit fun.
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Rating: 6.9 69
Difficulty: 46 46
Sep 11, 2026
Faucet
For: I wanna be Friends
For: I wanna be Friends
Fun little adventure game. Would recommend if you like Wonderful's style of adventure games.
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Rating: 7.8 78
Difficulty: 49 49
Sep 11, 2026
Bugen
For: I wanna be the Tori Another
For: I wanna be the Tori Another
Tagged as: Needle
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Rating: N/A
Difficulty: 55 55
Sep 11, 2026