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PlutoTheThing
For: I wanna defeat the Discord Makers
For: I wanna defeat the Discord Makers
Discord Makers as a sub-genre of needle collab needs no introduction, the style of a bunch of stages from a bunch of makers in a bunch of style has lend itself to a lot of questionable game design choices and some of the hardest needle games this community has to offer. This game was the one to start it all, and it's quite something. The game is packed with absolutely bizarre decisions, which makes more sense when you realize a lot of these makers had made very few things before this collab apparently. There's some super weak stages, like Rkd's stage which is just filled with a lot of stupid obnoxious stuff, 17Years who kinda just made a really inconsistent thing, and Influcca who really likes low jumps. Despite that this game has highlights, Noah, Biogom, Shinobu, Medley, and shockingly Kamilia all brought some real quality to this game I think, albeit beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I also need to shoutout PowerNao for making precision needle I didn't hate. All in all, while DEEPLY flawed, I'm glad I played DM1, I probably wouldn't recommend people try to beat it, but playing it is at least an interesting experience.
[1] Like
Rating: 5.3 53
Difficulty: 88 88
Oct 17, 2023
Chance
For: I Wanna Pointillism
For: I Wanna Pointillism
amazing dotkid needle with creativity
[0] Likes
Rating: 8.8 88
Difficulty: 74 74
Oct 17, 2023
ElCochran90
For: I Wanna Develop An Appreciation For Music
For: I Wanna Develop An Appreciation For Music
*Cleared on 02/02/2023*
I owed my fellow Racic a live playthrough since ages, and by the time February came, I never released a review.
Truth to be told, fangame reviews were passed to a lower priority given many changes and events concerning my family’s health, my work, new ways of working at my job with a hybrid Home-Office / In-Presence model, and a recent engagement! My oh my, there will be another wedding in the IWC.
However, I personally established an obligation to review every single fangame I ever play because it’s a personal moral standard: there is a reason for my numbers, my appreciation matters, I share my worldviews with this unique community that still employs memes and humorous language I will never understand for the life of me, and, most importantly, all artists deserve feedback about their work and a review is the least they deserve.
Since day zero, I have always hated trap games. Also, as the community becomes desensitized with a brutally increasing trend of absurdly difficult games that will get today a difficulty rating of 71 even if in the old days they would be floating around a rating of 82, finding fun games of any genre becomes a challenge more today. That is why we, the less skilled ones, are each time more grateful for events like IWT (and there will still be outliers, like Know My Retribution or luck-based Crispy Fries).
This is where Racic and I share a tangency point in our vision:
“As an older, and far far less skilled player of fangames, I had noticed that newer games kept coming out with more complicated gimmicks, and the skill level kept getting higher and higher. One of my goals was to take fangames back to that old-school silly trap, dated references, fun.”
Why has this become rarer today? As a far far less skilled player of fangames myself as well, Racic wore the brave pants of creating a fangame, something I have no idea how to do (let alone having free time today to learn how to), and delivered this charm.
Prepare yourself for a surreal adventure trap game that will culture you with the basics of old-school hip hop, 90s Eurodance, vocaloids and country music (thanks a ton for the latter since it has been unjustly maligned and trashed).
The level of self-awareness is massive, and I think that’s the point of it all. “It is not a game that will change our lives”, but it’s just out there as a homage to the old days of not-frustrating fun. It’s a trap game, but the traps really don’t repeat themselves as much as old-school atrocities inspired by the legendary downloaders of Record My Jumps. The Sudoku-ish aspect of it makes it what it is: low production value goes along with the humor of the game.
I am not the meme-humor type, which pretty much excludes me from 95% of the Gen-Zers and 85% of the millennials (me being one), so the humor is lost on me. Many screens are frustratingly looking, and the traps do fall into generic territory most of the time. There is a punishment room, and it gets too cruel with the number of times intended for you to fall into it. It stops being funny and makes you begin to pray you don’t go there for the 17th time, especially if you have a terrible memory for traps (me).
The spikes sprites are a meme by this point, but why must all of them be poop? It’s kindergarten humor and you’ll have to endure it to the end. Still, what I love about Racic is that the upcoming sequel has “poop spikes addressed”, raising a middle finger to all. What can we do? Legend.
It’s a game that you can flush down the toilet, but it manages to do exactly what it aims to do: culture a little, restore the old Kayin days (who unironically gets trashed today) and makes you laugh. I laugh a couple of times, to which Racic said: “I don’t mind about your final Cochran rating: you’re having a good time and that’s enough for me”.
You have my respect, good sir.
[3] Likes
I owed my fellow Racic a live playthrough since ages, and by the time February came, I never released a review.
Truth to be told, fangame reviews were passed to a lower priority given many changes and events concerning my family’s health, my work, new ways of working at my job with a hybrid Home-Office / In-Presence model, and a recent engagement! My oh my, there will be another wedding in the IWC.
However, I personally established an obligation to review every single fangame I ever play because it’s a personal moral standard: there is a reason for my numbers, my appreciation matters, I share my worldviews with this unique community that still employs memes and humorous language I will never understand for the life of me, and, most importantly, all artists deserve feedback about their work and a review is the least they deserve.
Since day zero, I have always hated trap games. Also, as the community becomes desensitized with a brutally increasing trend of absurdly difficult games that will get today a difficulty rating of 71 even if in the old days they would be floating around a rating of 82, finding fun games of any genre becomes a challenge more today. That is why we, the less skilled ones, are each time more grateful for events like IWT (and there will still be outliers, like Know My Retribution or luck-based Crispy Fries).
This is where Racic and I share a tangency point in our vision:
“As an older, and far far less skilled player of fangames, I had noticed that newer games kept coming out with more complicated gimmicks, and the skill level kept getting higher and higher. One of my goals was to take fangames back to that old-school silly trap, dated references, fun.”
Why has this become rarer today? As a far far less skilled player of fangames myself as well, Racic wore the brave pants of creating a fangame, something I have no idea how to do (let alone having free time today to learn how to), and delivered this charm.
Prepare yourself for a surreal adventure trap game that will culture you with the basics of old-school hip hop, 90s Eurodance, vocaloids and country music (thanks a ton for the latter since it has been unjustly maligned and trashed).
The level of self-awareness is massive, and I think that’s the point of it all. “It is not a game that will change our lives”, but it’s just out there as a homage to the old days of not-frustrating fun. It’s a trap game, but the traps really don’t repeat themselves as much as old-school atrocities inspired by the legendary downloaders of Record My Jumps. The Sudoku-ish aspect of it makes it what it is: low production value goes along with the humor of the game.
I am not the meme-humor type, which pretty much excludes me from 95% of the Gen-Zers and 85% of the millennials (me being one), so the humor is lost on me. Many screens are frustratingly looking, and the traps do fall into generic territory most of the time. There is a punishment room, and it gets too cruel with the number of times intended for you to fall into it. It stops being funny and makes you begin to pray you don’t go there for the 17th time, especially if you have a terrible memory for traps (me).
The spikes sprites are a meme by this point, but why must all of them be poop? It’s kindergarten humor and you’ll have to endure it to the end. Still, what I love about Racic is that the upcoming sequel has “poop spikes addressed”, raising a middle finger to all. What can we do? Legend.
It’s a game that you can flush down the toilet, but it manages to do exactly what it aims to do: culture a little, restore the old Kayin days (who unironically gets trashed today) and makes you laugh. I laugh a couple of times, to which Racic said: “I don’t mind about your final Cochran rating: you’re having a good time and that’s enough for me”.
You have my respect, good sir.
Rating: 4.4 44
Difficulty: 45 45
Oct 17, 2023
LaFy_
For: I wanna Shine on you
For: I wanna Shine on you
Tagged as: Avoidance
[0] Likes
Rating: 8.1 81
Difficulty: N/A
Oct 17, 2023
LaFy_
For: I wanna Happiness Rabbit
For: I wanna Happiness Rabbit
Tagged as: Avoidance
[0] Likes
Rating: 8.5 85
Difficulty: N/A
Oct 17, 2023
LaFy_
For: Happy Fantazma
For: Happy Fantazma
Tagged as: Avoidance
[0] Likes
Rating: 7.0 70
Difficulty: N/A
Oct 17, 2023
Renko97
For: I wanna enjoy the Trip
For: I wanna enjoy the Trip
A great adventure game.
[0] Likes
Rating: 7.7 77
Difficulty: 48 48
Oct 17, 2023
Shaper
For: I think the best player is fumiya
For: I think the best player is fumiya
besides being bland as fuck, save balance is all over the place, sometimes u get one after 2 easy jumps and the very next one u get hit with 3 diamonds and an inverted gate lol
Tagged as: Needle
[0] Likes
Rating: 2.5 25
Difficulty: 55 55
Oct 16, 2023