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Slends
For: I wanna be the THM
For: I wanna be the THM
Kid wants to have a go at adventure island on the Famicom, but hes not allowed to play until he shows he can swim on 1 pixel of water on the cieling.
Nothing too special here, just a bunch of mashing shift while also spamming numpad to cancel and stay in the water. Curious, but nothing too impressive.
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Nothing too special here, just a bunch of mashing shift while also spamming numpad to cancel and stay in the water. Curious, but nothing too impressive.
Rating: 2.8 28
Difficulty: 46 46
Feb 12, 2025
xva
For: I wanna Lap Around
For: I wanna Lap Around
extremely fun and well-designed FTFA-like that spawned its own subgenre of needle games. it’s safe to say it’s one of the most influential, if not the most influential FTFA-like ever made. having a darker theme and sleeker, objectively nicer looking visuals than FTFA, it excels in many ways over the original. similarly, it’s also considered much harder than FTFA, having jumps that are more precise and require more technical knowledge. this only extends to certain align grabs which happen to be more intricate than FTFA’s. you can extend this idea of ‘additional intricacy’ to some valign tricks and more complex setups.
about the jumps themselves, there are often forced high framecount jumps (i.e. forced 20f 18f from the right pixel) which are quite difficult. saves which require several of these are considered the hardest. the ones that come to mind are save 8 and 17. they’re the least fun parts of the game since most of the time you can’t really intuitvely tell what you did wrong. the jumps can feel a bit RNG-based, where you either get them or you don’t. this is merely a skill issue and I feel if I had more needle skill this wouldn’t be an issue. there aren’t any 1fs or cancels unless you want to use them to make very specific sections easier. a very useful cancel in particular is used in save 14 after the ledge to give you a larger frame window (about 2 frames) to doublejump through the diagonal. other than that, cancels and other similar needle tech aren’t useful here
every jump is crafted in a surprisingly unique way, where no two jumps play quite the same. considering the game’s notable length (18 saves), this is very impressive. it has its own style without sticking to a formula which is an important distinction to make. it’s stylistic, not formulaic. this detail is beautiful and I truly noticed how well-made this game was when I first noticed it. the theming of this game is also very nice and sleek: no crazy visuals, black blocks, white spikes; and something not often seen up until this game’s release - the inclusion of white shoes to help with setups. these truly do you a lot of good, you’ll really notice when you’re playing another FTFA-like and they’re gone
overall a fantastic game, but unfortunately the last two saves are balanced pretty horribly and are really unfun. it leaves a bit of a sour taste at the end. the game isn’t poorly balanced at all up until the very end. perhaps poorly is a strong word, I just have strong negative feelings about the last two saves
highly recommended!!
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about the jumps themselves, there are often forced high framecount jumps (i.e. forced 20f 18f from the right pixel) which are quite difficult. saves which require several of these are considered the hardest. the ones that come to mind are save 8 and 17. they’re the least fun parts of the game since most of the time you can’t really intuitvely tell what you did wrong. the jumps can feel a bit RNG-based, where you either get them or you don’t. this is merely a skill issue and I feel if I had more needle skill this wouldn’t be an issue. there aren’t any 1fs or cancels unless you want to use them to make very specific sections easier. a very useful cancel in particular is used in save 14 after the ledge to give you a larger frame window (about 2 frames) to doublejump through the diagonal. other than that, cancels and other similar needle tech aren’t useful here
every jump is crafted in a surprisingly unique way, where no two jumps play quite the same. considering the game’s notable length (18 saves), this is very impressive. it has its own style without sticking to a formula which is an important distinction to make. it’s stylistic, not formulaic. this detail is beautiful and I truly noticed how well-made this game was when I first noticed it. the theming of this game is also very nice and sleek: no crazy visuals, black blocks, white spikes; and something not often seen up until this game’s release - the inclusion of white shoes to help with setups. these truly do you a lot of good, you’ll really notice when you’re playing another FTFA-like and they’re gone
overall a fantastic game, but unfortunately the last two saves are balanced pretty horribly and are really unfun. it leaves a bit of a sour taste at the end. the game isn’t poorly balanced at all up until the very end. perhaps poorly is a strong word, I just have strong negative feelings about the last two saves
highly recommended!!
Rating: 9.6 96
Difficulty: 84 84
Feb 12, 2025
LastTISisLife
For: I wanna Dream
For: I wanna Dream
Based on 100 % clear. Pretty outdated needleventure from the times when production value could carried your whole game and people would go cheers. However outside of production value, this game can't give you anything interesting. Needle is half-generic, half-bruh; gimmicks are non-existing basically as well as bosses, except strange skeleton chase, which was probably by far most interesting thing in the game. Secrets placement is mostly dumb and extra, that is unlocking after collecting every of them, is absolutely not worth it. Overall i not liked my experience and there's way more great needleventures to go nowadays
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Rating: 4.8 48
Difficulty: 67 67
Feb 12, 2025
EgSoRom
For: I wanna eat the lemon
For: I wanna eat the lemon
Nice, calm game. I liked this game.
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Rating: 8.0 80
Difficulty: 20 20
Feb 12, 2025
kdnh
For: I wanna be the MLP 2
For: I wanna be the MLP 2
Tagged as: Needle
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Rating: 6.0 60
Difficulty: 58 58
Feb 12, 2025
kdnh
For: I wanna difficurt
For: I wanna difficurt
Only one warp...
Tagged as: Needle
unfinished
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Rating: N/A
Difficulty: N/A
Feb 12, 2025