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NotAJapaneseGuy
For: I wanna redacted the redacted
For: I wanna redacted the redacted
Lol this was the troll game i made when i was 11 back in 2014 lmao
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Rating: 0.0 0
Difficulty: 30 30
Jul 7, 2023
Jopagu
For: I Wanna Be The Guy Remastered
For: I Wanna Be The Guy Remastered
So, I finally got around to playing this after playing somewhere around 300 of its fangames. Even a few days later, it's hard to put my thoughts into words. This is a game I have known about for almost a decade, ever since I played Super Meat Boy. It's sort of poetic that a game I was introduced to when I first developed my love for precision platformers has served as the basis for all the games I play now, at the culmination of my 10 year journey. I have been waiting to play Guy itself until the moment felt right, and last week it finally did, and I embarked on a journey through a game that felt both familiar and nostalgic.
I'll be honest, when I launched the game I was fully prepared to leave this review without a rating. That is, I thought I would hate this game. I was giving a special exemption from rating, since it would've felt inappropriate to give this game a 4/10 16 years after it released, and with my standards built upon a decade of iterating on its design. I was expecting to suffer through an archaic game whose design does not hold up, and who I would appreciate solely for its historical context. I cannot express how happy I felt once I got a few screens in and realized that I would be eating crow on that prediction. I found myself enjoying almost every second of the game. It surprised me to find that this game got famous for a reason, it spawned 12,000 fangames for a reason, and that reason was that it's just a through and through good game.
Now, I do need to elucidate a few thoughts regarding my perfect score. If I had not spent so much time playing fangames, this would not be a 10/10. It would certainly still be high, probably a bit higher than an 8, but in a vacuum I do not think this game deserves the highest possible rating. It is the context of the fangames I've played and the community around them that made this such a great experience. However, these points are not being given just based on Guy's historical merit. Rather, I think playing fangames made this a legitimately more enjoyable experience. I rate games mostly based on how much I liked playing them, and in this case I enjoyed Guy a 10/10 amount due to my prior fangame experience. I know this may be controversial, to rate something not in a vacuum but with context taken into account, but I could not bring myself to do anything different.
To explain what I mean by that a little more, I think that Guy is made more fun due to recognizability and nostalgia, but also by the opposite of those things. It's of course a blast to see the originals of all the famous screens and bosses - from the iconic Guy Tower to the oft referenced Kraidgief fight. The frequent reuse of these things never makes them feel bland or boring, but rather it makes playing the originals like making a holy pilgrimage. But on the other hand, I also found myself being constantly surprised by how much of this game I didn't know. The sheer number of screens that I had never seen before was shocking; and what's even more so is the quality of those screens. It feels like fangames have constantly drawn from the same few parts of this game, to the point that Guy still feels like an untapped gold mine, despite how many fangames exist. Stuff like enemies that knock you back rather than killing, flowy momentum based sections using boost vines, and traps that are reactable rather than guaranteed deaths, and plenty of others I don't feel like listing. All these things are certainly present in other fangames to varying degrees, but those are rare occasions, and I wound up wishing that those aspects of design had been picked up by the community.
Ultimately, Guy doesn't feel like any of the fangames that followed it (barring maybe Fangame). So much of the design we take for granted in fangames really feels like it is heavily divorced from the game design of the original. I love fangames, and there's plenty of things Guy could learn from later iterations, but there's also a lot of stuff in Guy that I wish fangames had learned from. It's an incredible, unique, and nostalgic experience that has something to offer even to those of us who've played hundreds of derivatives. If you still haven't played Guy, I'd really recommend getting around to it, it's a blast seeing what inspired the games you know and love, and also discovering new surprises.
P.S. Massive thanks to the Remaster team for turning what is reputedly a buggy, unstable game into something much easier to enjoy.
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I'll be honest, when I launched the game I was fully prepared to leave this review without a rating. That is, I thought I would hate this game. I was giving a special exemption from rating, since it would've felt inappropriate to give this game a 4/10 16 years after it released, and with my standards built upon a decade of iterating on its design. I was expecting to suffer through an archaic game whose design does not hold up, and who I would appreciate solely for its historical context. I cannot express how happy I felt once I got a few screens in and realized that I would be eating crow on that prediction. I found myself enjoying almost every second of the game. It surprised me to find that this game got famous for a reason, it spawned 12,000 fangames for a reason, and that reason was that it's just a through and through good game.
Now, I do need to elucidate a few thoughts regarding my perfect score. If I had not spent so much time playing fangames, this would not be a 10/10. It would certainly still be high, probably a bit higher than an 8, but in a vacuum I do not think this game deserves the highest possible rating. It is the context of the fangames I've played and the community around them that made this such a great experience. However, these points are not being given just based on Guy's historical merit. Rather, I think playing fangames made this a legitimately more enjoyable experience. I rate games mostly based on how much I liked playing them, and in this case I enjoyed Guy a 10/10 amount due to my prior fangame experience. I know this may be controversial, to rate something not in a vacuum but with context taken into account, but I could not bring myself to do anything different.
To explain what I mean by that a little more, I think that Guy is made more fun due to recognizability and nostalgia, but also by the opposite of those things. It's of course a blast to see the originals of all the famous screens and bosses - from the iconic Guy Tower to the oft referenced Kraidgief fight. The frequent reuse of these things never makes them feel bland or boring, but rather it makes playing the originals like making a holy pilgrimage. But on the other hand, I also found myself being constantly surprised by how much of this game I didn't know. The sheer number of screens that I had never seen before was shocking; and what's even more so is the quality of those screens. It feels like fangames have constantly drawn from the same few parts of this game, to the point that Guy still feels like an untapped gold mine, despite how many fangames exist. Stuff like enemies that knock you back rather than killing, flowy momentum based sections using boost vines, and traps that are reactable rather than guaranteed deaths, and plenty of others I don't feel like listing. All these things are certainly present in other fangames to varying degrees, but those are rare occasions, and I wound up wishing that those aspects of design had been picked up by the community.
Ultimately, Guy doesn't feel like any of the fangames that followed it (barring maybe Fangame). So much of the design we take for granted in fangames really feels like it is heavily divorced from the game design of the original. I love fangames, and there's plenty of things Guy could learn from later iterations, but there's also a lot of stuff in Guy that I wish fangames had learned from. It's an incredible, unique, and nostalgic experience that has something to offer even to those of us who've played hundreds of derivatives. If you still haven't played Guy, I'd really recommend getting around to it, it's a blast seeing what inspired the games you know and love, and also discovering new surprises.
P.S. Massive thanks to the Remaster team for turning what is reputedly a buggy, unstable game into something much easier to enjoy.
Rating: 10.0 100
Difficulty: 50 50
Jul 7, 2023
Riot3_1_2_1
For: I wanna be the Kid who can endure it
For: I wanna be the Kid who can endure it
rng is too bad
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Rating: 2.0 20
Difficulty: 50 50
Jul 7, 2023
Riot3_1_2_1
For: I wanna fun the Noel
For: I wanna fun the Noel
fun and chill aimai like avoidance
I would put 9 if it weren't for the instagibs on the second verve and at the end
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I would put 9 if it weren't for the instagibs on the second verve and at the end
Rating: 8.0 80
Difficulty: 30 30
Jul 7, 2023
3__3
For: I Wanna Be The Guy Remastered
For: I Wanna Be The Guy Remastered
better than the original because it doesn't crash
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Rating: N/A
Difficulty: N/A
Jul 7, 2023
theTics
For: I wanna challenge the Needle Fight
For: I wanna challenge the Needle Fight
Tagged as: Needle
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Rating: 1.0 10
Difficulty: 73 73
Jul 7, 2023
kdnh
For: I wanna be the YonezawaTrap
For: I wanna be the YonezawaTrap
Rating includes Ex.
After generic needle, you meet a boss in the style of BigKid in lovetrap. But it give one-jump water and two random-angle bullet. The worst thing is, if you kill the boss, the spike below you don't disappear but the later water disappears, which means when you kill the boss, you should near it and jump into the water and jump to right.
But the creator didn't show the Hp of the boss, and you cannot count the Hp because there is no animation of the boss when it is attacked.
Ex, you meet this boss with faster water and bullet (maybe more Hp).I have meant to give up it, but i find i can use autofire and stand near the feet of the boss (I don't know if the creator does it purposefully).
After you beat the Ex boss, you are transported to select room with no save.
I think it is end.
Oh, the only trap I find in the first save of first screen.
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After generic needle, you meet a boss in the style of BigKid in lovetrap. But it give one-jump water and two random-angle bullet. The worst thing is, if you kill the boss, the spike below you don't disappear but the later water disappears, which means when you kill the boss, you should near it and jump into the water and jump to right.
But the creator didn't show the Hp of the boss, and you cannot count the Hp because there is no animation of the boss when it is attacked.
Ex, you meet this boss with faster water and bullet (maybe more Hp).I have meant to give up it, but i find i can use autofire and stand near the feet of the boss (I don't know if the creator does it purposefully).
After you beat the Ex boss, you are transported to select room with no save.
I think it is end.
Oh, the only trap I find in the first save of first screen.
Rating: 2.0 20
Difficulty: 45 45
Jul 7, 2023
kdnh
For: I wanna you know that
For: I wanna you know that
You listen a song (you can choose not to listen).
Then you enter game and you clear.
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Then you enter game and you clear.
Rating: N/A
Difficulty: 0 0
Jul 7, 2023