Reviews List - Delicious Fruit

xva
For: I wanna medley the Retard's Game

a display of a bunch of not-so-great needle ideas thrown together in one short-ish needle game. commendably, the difficulty curve is logical - there are no issues on the balancing front. the first actual needle screen alone is a bit of a dumb idea and is rather unintuitive. I don't know why the maker felt it was necessary to add all these quirky WARPED-like gimmicks to more than half the screens. this is why I would have unironically rather titled this game "I wanna medley the Idiot's Game WARPED". the raw needle isn't actually that unfun when compared to whatever the gimmickier stuff is. Saveshitai in particular wasn't fun, it just felt unplaytested and awkward. the Justice screens are the real lowlights, as I found pretty much none of them fun - especially the last Justice room. the last few upside down jumps are really irritating and difficult for being so far into a save. this save is the sole reason for the 77 rating; without it it'd likely be somewhere in the low 70s. I found the clear screen save to be much more fun than the save before

don't really know what to think, I didn't really enjoy this game all too much. I think that may be because I expected named jump spam but got whatever this is instead

Tagged as: Needle Gimmick Medley

[0] Likes

Rating: 4.0 40 Difficulty: 77 77

Jul 4, 2025

PerliousFalcon
For: I Wanna Be the Emperor

Well, after over 53 hours, with 22-23 hours (potentially more for both counts), I finally did it.

I wanna be the Emperor is a fangame I wish I could have enjoyed more than I actually did but alas no.

I know that I have such a reputation for being a Negative Andy complaining about everything about this game, but I want to give Emperor a fair chance despite my many headaches with it.

Needle:

The stuff I particularly liked in Emperor was the Mystery Stage with the riddles and the ball balance, the climb against the collapsing cave and latter have was good and finally the Reminiscence World stage was good Needle to play through (Aside from Needle World) to finish off the Needle portion of Emperor. The rest that I didn't have issue with didn't feel memorable nor stood out to me as I can't remember them well.

And here comes my main complaint about Emperor. Almost every stage I find a save or jump that's particularly abrasive and often left wondering why was this design choice made. Second save of Cave World has a particular place in hell for me, fuck that save! It's one thing to find a part to not be pleasant or bad but another when this is consistent across multiple stages, leaving me wondering what happened there. It's what's holding back from being a good classic.

Bosses:

Pretty alright for the most part. Captain Jack is the highlight for me as the music choice for the Avoidance is peak. Mystery World boss is an interesting concept but not much going on. Reimu is one of the low parts to some but it's fine. I did find it amusing how you can completely avoid one of the attacks by standing behind her though. Last two bosses prior to the final stage are definitely the bottom two and which is worse depends on who you talk to.

Gimmick World has the shooting range boss in where you have little to no room for error. There is a rhythm to be found for the first two rounds but final I can never figure it out. Miku Avoidance in Cave World on the other hand is infamous for a good reason. It's a 5 minute long Avoidance with some nasty RNG gibs through out and hard to learn patterns such as the Lovetrap pattern being a major barrier. Not a fan of it myself but it's just a 5/10 Avoidance but absolutely overstays its welcome with the length and having those patterns so late too.

And finally, we have the main event, the part everyone thinks of when they here Emperor, Emperor Miku! A long and hard boss with 8 staggering phases to fight through. Depending on your background experience with other versions of this boss such as K3, this will for sure take you the longest time to beat compared to the rest of the game.

I'm not sure how I feel about Emperor Miku exactly. I often left the sessions prior to the clear frustrated and tilted. But because of the miracle second try I had in the winning session, I had a little higher opinion of the boss compared to even yesterday. The grind is mostly good when you're not having such a difficult time learning a phase or getting poor RNG. Emphasis on the two caveats here.

Former, Phase 4 in particular I had the HARDEST time learning. It is incredibly deceptively hard and was why I stopped grinding for a long time prior to finally learning. It's not even funny how easy it is once you finally nailed the rhythm. Phase 7 does get a honorable mention for being a hard to learn phase very late in that I can forsee many having a tough time learning (I did use practice in K3) Latter, the non pattern phases do have the tendency to sometimes wall you with Phase 6 being the worst offender. I definitely gotten better reading it thanks to practicing through K3 Ex Emperor's version but it's still rough with how late it is. Phase 8 is 360 Barrage to end off the boss. Not much to write home but the Nekoron Inf. Jump bug will be felt here, so be ready for that.

Like I said, I know that I have such a reputation of constantly complaining about this fangame, but I just want to say my final verdict is that Emperor is just a fine fangame overall. There are good parts but I don't feel they go beyond just being good and at worst, it's weighed down severely by the low parts. Emperor has the potential of being a truly great classic if those low points were polished more and the highlights further built upon in my opinion. Alas, I probably wouldn't recommend unless you're willing to look past the negatives and really enjoy classic experiences and challenges.

Delicious Fruit

Latest Reviews