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Jdx83
For: I wanna be the Gene recombination
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For: I wanna be the Gene recombination
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Rating: 6.0 60
Difficulty: 40 40
Apr 26, 2022
ItzFallenFly
For: I wanna be in Intermediate
For: I wanna be in Intermediate
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Rating: 5.0 50
Difficulty: 61 61
Apr 26, 2022
Jdx83
For: I wanna be the Gerry Trap
For: I wanna be the Gerry Trap
Tagged as: Needle
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Rating: 5.5 55
Difficulty: 40 40
Apr 26, 2022
Nearigami
For: I Wanna be the AIW
For: I Wanna be the AIW
Disclaimer: I was a tester.
Pretty alright first attempt. I gave a lot of relatively extensive notes, but unfortunately forgot to address some save blocker problems. I addressed that the save balance was all over the place, and some individual jumps are stiff and awkward and not really in a fun way. It's overall a step in the right direction, though I would have loved to play the game a second time to iron out issues. Needle like this is bound to only go up in quality over time because there are occasionally some jumps where I legitimately went "that was really satisfying."
A lot of jumps feel simple and uninteresting as if they were built on autopilot. Ultimately this game has a problem of too many filler jumps on an individual level. At the same time, I would rather PHG work on this going forward rather than just polish these average maps over and over again.
Looking forward to seeing your evolution as a maker. There's some potential here.
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Pretty alright first attempt. I gave a lot of relatively extensive notes, but unfortunately forgot to address some save blocker problems. I addressed that the save balance was all over the place, and some individual jumps are stiff and awkward and not really in a fun way. It's overall a step in the right direction, though I would have loved to play the game a second time to iron out issues. Needle like this is bound to only go up in quality over time because there are occasionally some jumps where I legitimately went "that was really satisfying."
A lot of jumps feel simple and uninteresting as if they were built on autopilot. Ultimately this game has a problem of too many filler jumps on an individual level. At the same time, I would rather PHG work on this going forward rather than just polish these average maps over and over again.
Looking forward to seeing your evolution as a maker. There's some potential here.
Rating: 6.0 60
Difficulty: 60 60
Apr 26, 2022
Cutiefruity
For: I wanna shiver
For: I wanna shiver
A great needle collab with a climactic final stage and a climactic final save. I think most areas are either good or great, but plasma's stage really knocks it out of the park for me.
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Rating: 9.5 95
Difficulty: 72 72
Apr 26, 2022
Chatran
For: I Wanna be the AIW
For: I Wanna be the AIW
Excluding the ever so prestigious 1jump collab for obvious reasons, this is such a good first game from a new maker. It hit a lot of good marks, marks that took me 2-3 years to start hitting myself. But, it is a first game, and with that does come some issues.
The main thing, that has already been mentioned here, is the balancing. I didn't mind it so much and it makes for a pretty relaxing experience, but it s all over the place. Not in the sense that there's stuff that's randomly hard, in fact it's the opposite: there's a handful of saves that are just 1 jump that I feel probably would have been better off being incorporated into other segments instead. An additional issue that arises I found is that occasionally you can skip a jump by saving early. There are also two instances where a minispike is placed on the save, and due to the way the visuals are I didn't see and died; it's an easy game so I didn't mind but it is a thing. I do feel though, kind of as a consideration for something in the future: the save balancing would be cool if it were executed the same way XIFT did it, where you can't see the saves. I feel the almost unpredictability would do well for such an idea, probably better than XIFT did it as that game does get predictable in its placements.
The last main issue I found with the game was with the spotlight. Overall, I will say I liked it--it solves the issue of generally not being able to find where the player starts when changing screens in needle of this style. There are a handful of segments though where you do have to go into a jump blind. Just a small nitpick
The music is quite good, especially for being self-made. I do feel there's a bit of room to grow from that, as the first song of the game did get a little same-y after a while, and this was primarily an issue of the percussion not changing at all through the song (an issue that doesn't exist with the second song of the game). The songs also end a bit abruptly I felt.
Overall, an excellent initial foray into the realm of needle. I look forward to your future works.
[4] Likes
The main thing, that has already been mentioned here, is the balancing. I didn't mind it so much and it makes for a pretty relaxing experience, but it s all over the place. Not in the sense that there's stuff that's randomly hard, in fact it's the opposite: there's a handful of saves that are just 1 jump that I feel probably would have been better off being incorporated into other segments instead. An additional issue that arises I found is that occasionally you can skip a jump by saving early. There are also two instances where a minispike is placed on the save, and due to the way the visuals are I didn't see and died; it's an easy game so I didn't mind but it is a thing. I do feel though, kind of as a consideration for something in the future: the save balancing would be cool if it were executed the same way XIFT did it, where you can't see the saves. I feel the almost unpredictability would do well for such an idea, probably better than XIFT did it as that game does get predictable in its placements.
The last main issue I found with the game was with the spotlight. Overall, I will say I liked it--it solves the issue of generally not being able to find where the player starts when changing screens in needle of this style. There are a handful of segments though where you do have to go into a jump blind. Just a small nitpick
The music is quite good, especially for being self-made. I do feel there's a bit of room to grow from that, as the first song of the game did get a little same-y after a while, and this was primarily an issue of the percussion not changing at all through the song (an issue that doesn't exist with the second song of the game). The songs also end a bit abruptly I felt.
Overall, an excellent initial foray into the realm of needle. I look forward to your future works.
Rating: N/A
Difficulty: N/A
Apr 26, 2022
cLOUDDEAD
For: I just wanna play the Needle game
For: I just wanna play the Needle game
its complete trash, but somehow enjoyable to play
[0] Likes
Rating: N/A
Difficulty: 70 70
Apr 26, 2022