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Gaborro
For: Chungo's Gauntlet
For: Chungo's Gauntlet
Can finally agree with the fangame awards on this one; probably the best in balance between easily accessible and great humor all around. The physics are very weird on this one but the gameplay works perfectly fine with them. Lots of good hits in the humor for me and the bosses were a fun time as well.
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Rating: 9.0 90
Difficulty: 30 30
Aug 28, 2023
Riechert
For: Free Mind
For: Free Mind
good game, 3 stages of classic needle with some gimmicks like catharsis water, platform jumps, very chill very short. one think i found in the last stage you can skip a full screen in the save where the warp is below from where you start, just go "out of bounds" and drop to the warp, idk if you can skip other screen in another stages
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Rating: 9.0 90
Difficulty: 45 45
Aug 28, 2023
PlutoTheThing
For: Irkara Needle
For: Irkara Needle
This review is based on a 100% Clear
I was pleasantly surprised by this one, Irkara Needle is charming climb through a tall, nearly 100 floor tall needle tower, clearing inspired by various fangames, mostly the first two Crimson Needle games, but also with hints of NANG, Kamilia 3, and more. For a 100f needle game, there's a robust amount of content, with the main game, plus hidden achievements, boss fights, and an extra stage. While nothing in the game truly blew me away, I really had fun with it throughout, with very few saves or jumps sticking out as annoying. Something about this needle style just clicks with me, and it just feels good to play. I think the secret bosses are the least interesting point of the game, they all feel kinda underbaked, especially the third one, but the final boss is pretty cool, it's a crimson fight which is a lot easier than the needle but it's still fun. Difficulty balance is a bit all over the place, but nothing truly egregious to me. Extra was also a fun bonus, and a cool way to cap off the whole thing. All in all while it's nothing that's gonna change how you view needle as a genre in it's entirety, Irkara was fun for me at least, and is some of my favorite non-gimmick needle I've played!
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I was pleasantly surprised by this one, Irkara Needle is charming climb through a tall, nearly 100 floor tall needle tower, clearing inspired by various fangames, mostly the first two Crimson Needle games, but also with hints of NANG, Kamilia 3, and more. For a 100f needle game, there's a robust amount of content, with the main game, plus hidden achievements, boss fights, and an extra stage. While nothing in the game truly blew me away, I really had fun with it throughout, with very few saves or jumps sticking out as annoying. Something about this needle style just clicks with me, and it just feels good to play. I think the secret bosses are the least interesting point of the game, they all feel kinda underbaked, especially the third one, but the final boss is pretty cool, it's a crimson fight which is a lot easier than the needle but it's still fun. Difficulty balance is a bit all over the place, but nothing truly egregious to me. Extra was also a fun bonus, and a cool way to cap off the whole thing. All in all while it's nothing that's gonna change how you view needle as a genre in it's entirety, Irkara was fun for me at least, and is some of my favorite non-gimmick needle I've played!
Rating: 8.3 83
Difficulty: 78 78
Aug 28, 2023
LastTISisLife
For: Ellipsis
For: Ellipsis
It was pretty okay for the most part. SCP5637 did best, in terms of flow, needle, even despite it's just 32px needle. Ywave also did very good job with their stage, even despite some saves are quite rough, especially in first half; second half was superb tho. Jicforgot tried to make fun vine needle with heavy usage of air vines (not really my favourite gimmick) and he kinda succeeded, but not everywhere - some saves suffers from having hard jumps at the end, and overall stage feels lacking at points. But in general i had fun pretty much with everything in this game, can recommend
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Rating: 7.4 74
Difficulty: 68 68
Aug 27, 2023
EternallyEve
For: I wanna kill the Guy
For: I wanna kill the Guy
An absolutely quintessential fan game and a game I would recommend as the immediate first fan game to play following the original IWBTG. It's a shame it was never finished but even just being unfinished its quite long and at times pretty challenging.
Highlights include the Ukigumo opening, the great music choices, the unique gimmicks in platforming, enemies and puzzles alike - and who could forget what probably brought a lot of us here DJ SRAY, the kickass optional boss combining Space Channel 5 with Cave Story in a rhythm boss so iconic it would end up getting a revival with the Friday Night Funkin' mod "Funk the Guy" . Beyond that famous fight, there's equally as fun and frustrating fights against the likes of Pac-Man, Exor a Piranha Plant and of course Boshy . Though unfortunately, the final boss Geezer while pretty cool, does lead to a bit of a deflating ending due to the game remaining unfinished.
Despite all of that, this is forever going to remain part of the fan game Hall of Fame. It's more than earned it's rating over the years, and if you haven't already played it - do so!
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Highlights include the Ukigumo opening, the great music choices, the unique gimmicks in platforming, enemies and puzzles alike - and who could forget what probably brought a lot of us here DJ SRAY, the kickass optional boss combining Space Channel 5 with Cave Story in a rhythm boss so iconic it would end up getting a revival with the Friday Night Funkin' mod "Funk the Guy" . Beyond that famous fight, there's equally as fun and frustrating fights against the likes of Pac-Man, Exor a Piranha Plant and of course Boshy . Though unfortunately, the final boss Geezer while pretty cool, does lead to a bit of a deflating ending due to the game remaining unfinished.
Despite all of that, this is forever going to remain part of the fan game Hall of Fame. It's more than earned it's rating over the years, and if you haven't already played it - do so!
Rating: 9.0 90
Difficulty: 54 54
Aug 27, 2023
nami
For: I wanna break the five wanna 3 HK
For: I wanna break the five wanna 3 HK
Hardest thing you do in this game is wait through the credits
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Rating: 3.0 30
Difficulty: 5 5
Aug 27, 2023
Kilgour22
For: I wanna Bestow the Great Hugs
For: I wanna Bestow the Great Hugs
Hard jump-refresher needle with a Phineas and Ferb theme.
Tagged as: Needle
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Rating: N/A
Difficulty: N/A
Aug 27, 2023
LastTISisLife
For: I Wanna Different Journey
For: I Wanna Different Journey
Starts as precision, becomes more about consistency, with some cool jumps and pathing all around. Also maker provides some tips on screens, which is always appreciated
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Rating: 8.7 87
Difficulty: 68 68
Aug 27, 2023