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CanusAntonius
For: I wanna take the Timemachine 2
For: I wanna take the Timemachine 2
A stunning mix of great production value, really good music, beautiful visuals, and terrible design choices. From watching the game it looked extremely cool, like it would be one of my favorite fangames, but then I actually took some time and played it. And yeah, in many ways it was extremely fun, but the majority of it was spent wondering why some decisions were made by Influcca to, in my opinion, lessen the player's experience for no real reason.
One of the core aspects of the game that struck me is that there is a currency system with additional weapons to unlock and upgrade, this is a really awesome system... except it is entirely useless for normal mode. When one of the most interesting points of the game is only available in a post-game playthrough, then in my opinion you are basically trashing the concept and ruining what the normal mode could have been. This should have been fully implemented into the normal mode, and while sure you technically can use the store from the beginning, the coin grind for normal difficulty stages would be so insanely obnoxious that there is no reason anyone would reasonably want to spend time doing that.
Another issue I had came from the absolute visual challenge of the next to last boss. At some point in the design process, a thought occurred which must have been the following: "What if the challenge here is that the player cannot see!". At this point, you've already started the process of making a terrible boss, and it was easily my least favorite in the game. It's a shame because I liked the other 4 bosses before it, they were incredibly fun and neat to learn, but this just felt like a very cheap level of difficulty that is the equivalent of making a purposely broken camera in a souls-like game.
I stopped on the final boss before writing this, though it's not too annoying actually, I do have fun with it, but the mega laser attack seems incredibly obnoxious and even after a hour I've managed to do it only once with no clue how it even works. All the other attacks seem fair though, so I don't think the boss is actually bad. However the health bar on it reminds me of another major issue, the fact that your gun has fake autofire. With the amount of HP bosses have, it should be genuine autofire, especially since the last boss has significantly larger health.
Overall, I do think this is worth playing, but you should be aware that going beyond Normal Mode is absolutely expected by the developer and the game has been designed around such.
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One of the core aspects of the game that struck me is that there is a currency system with additional weapons to unlock and upgrade, this is a really awesome system... except it is entirely useless for normal mode. When one of the most interesting points of the game is only available in a post-game playthrough, then in my opinion you are basically trashing the concept and ruining what the normal mode could have been. This should have been fully implemented into the normal mode, and while sure you technically can use the store from the beginning, the coin grind for normal difficulty stages would be so insanely obnoxious that there is no reason anyone would reasonably want to spend time doing that.
Another issue I had came from the absolute visual challenge of the next to last boss. At some point in the design process, a thought occurred which must have been the following: "What if the challenge here is that the player cannot see!". At this point, you've already started the process of making a terrible boss, and it was easily my least favorite in the game. It's a shame because I liked the other 4 bosses before it, they were incredibly fun and neat to learn, but this just felt like a very cheap level of difficulty that is the equivalent of making a purposely broken camera in a souls-like game.
I stopped on the final boss before writing this, though it's not too annoying actually, I do have fun with it, but the mega laser attack seems incredibly obnoxious and even after a hour I've managed to do it only once with no clue how it even works. All the other attacks seem fair though, so I don't think the boss is actually bad. However the health bar on it reminds me of another major issue, the fact that your gun has fake autofire. With the amount of HP bosses have, it should be genuine autofire, especially since the last boss has significantly larger health.
Overall, I do think this is worth playing, but you should be aware that going beyond Normal Mode is absolutely expected by the developer and the game has been designed around such.
Rating: 7.0 70
Difficulty: 65 65
Mar 30, 2022
DerpyHoovesIWBTG
For: I wanna Faker
For: I wanna Faker
Tagged as: L_Game
[0] Likes
Rating: N/A
Difficulty: 98 98
Mar 30, 2022
tuhkakuppi
For: Plume, Happybirthday!
For: Plume, Happybirthday!
Nine stage needle game with a mix of normal needle and precision needle stages. The precision stages were fantastic, and I especially loved the pink, light grey and dark grey stages.
Tagged as: Needle
[2] Likes
Rating: 8.0 80
Difficulty: 68 68
Mar 30, 2022
NightShark115
For: I wanna LTO 3 ~Leehetic~
For: I wanna LTO 3 ~Leehetic~
Literally just LTO 3 at double speed, and the last jump is still unchanged.
Tagged as: Needle
Impossible
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Rating: N/A
Difficulty: N/A
Mar 30, 2022
NightShark115
For: I wanna be the UNTI
For: I wanna be the UNTI
Tagged as: Needle
[0] Likes
Rating: N/A
Difficulty: N/A
Mar 30, 2022
Pigeon
For: Abigail
For: Abigail
Transitions and resets could have used a bit more polishing for a final version, it's really disorienting and can be straining. At least the visuals are pretty dark.
Needle felt pretty good.
Needle felt pretty good.
Tagged as: Needle
[0] Likes
Rating: 6.0 60
Difficulty: 40 40
Mar 30, 2022
BloggerOP
For: I Wanna Defeat the Discord Makers: FM Side
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For: I Wanna Defeat the Discord Makers: FM Side
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Rating: 7.5 75
Difficulty: 62 62
Mar 30, 2022
BloggerOP
For: I wanna sing a HANAGE
For: I wanna sing a HANAGE
Even though there are some luck elements and some parts where you just wait until next attack comes, reading and dodging in this avoidance was fairly satisfying and fun. The song is SourPls as well, OKEKE letter is a banger too. I would recommend this avoidance to people who have some experiences in easier avoidances.
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Rating: 7.5 75
Difficulty: 55 55
Mar 30, 2022