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melonbat
For: I wanna get Cultured
For: I wanna get Cultured
Fangame Clear #40
As someone who (at this point) wasn't fully involved within playing tens of fangames and bordering on hundreds, I didn't notice much of a problem with stage choices, references, etc. This review will be mostly talking about gameplay.
I liked the majority of this game despite a few issues. The stages in question had a ton of variance within its difficulty, i.e some screens of stage 5 were MUCH harder than others, which were freebies. Despite this, these stages were quite fun. I was kind of disappointed that the bosses were all kind of just jokes. As a medley/adventure game I felt quite left out of the boss-end of this game, and the one boss this game did have really sucked. The stage rush was quite cool, though the Locus screen was not fun. The final stage was the hardest by a very substantial amount, making the difficulty curve even more unbalanced.
The final boss is pretty atrocious and puts this from an 80 -> 60 in quality nearly instantly. A lot of the attacks themselves felt kind of random, and generally felt like a slog. This makes it infinitely worse to introduce modifiers to randomized screens from previous stages, meaning that your needle can either be very easy or complete hell on earth. Failing this needle sends you back to the avoidance, meaning that you must slog through more of basically random avoidance just to have another spin on the gimmick-wheel.
Overall, a generally fun experience with a lot of flaws, if you're playing this I would leave out the final fight. Not worth the time.
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As someone who (at this point) wasn't fully involved within playing tens of fangames and bordering on hundreds, I didn't notice much of a problem with stage choices, references, etc. This review will be mostly talking about gameplay.
I liked the majority of this game despite a few issues. The stages in question had a ton of variance within its difficulty, i.e some screens of stage 5 were MUCH harder than others, which were freebies. Despite this, these stages were quite fun. I was kind of disappointed that the bosses were all kind of just jokes. As a medley/adventure game I felt quite left out of the boss-end of this game, and the one boss this game did have really sucked. The stage rush was quite cool, though the Locus screen was not fun. The final stage was the hardest by a very substantial amount, making the difficulty curve even more unbalanced.
The final boss is pretty atrocious and puts this from an 80 -> 60 in quality nearly instantly. A lot of the attacks themselves felt kind of random, and generally felt like a slog. This makes it infinitely worse to introduce modifiers to randomized screens from previous stages, meaning that your needle can either be very easy or complete hell on earth. Failing this needle sends you back to the avoidance, meaning that you must slog through more of basically random avoidance just to have another spin on the gimmick-wheel.
Overall, a generally fun experience with a lot of flaws, if you're playing this I would leave out the final fight. Not worth the time.
Rating: 6.1 61
Difficulty: 47 47
Sep 5, 2023
melonbat
For: I wanna be soupreme
For: I wanna be soupreme
Fangame Clear #39
Big fan of this one. There are 4 stages relating to 4 different ingredients, each with their own "minigame" if that makes sense. Each of these were very well executed, and almost puzzle-like in a way. There are safe strats for a lot of the fish so that you don't die when missing their cycles. The egg stage was honestly not as much of a spike as many people have said it was (at least in my experience.) The fruit stage is probably my personal favorite, trying to find all of these safer spots to dodge in a cramped area was honestly quite enjoyable. The carrot stage is probably the most forgettable for me, but also the most polished of all of them.
The final boss is one of my favorite bosses ever made, combining all of these gimmicks into a randomized recipe while Gordon Ramsey throws knives at you being probably one of the most memorable and fun experiences I've had in a fangame. While it isn't the most polished, and each of these respective stages having their issues, I truly do believe this is a fun game, and do recommend it to novice fangame players.
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Big fan of this one. There are 4 stages relating to 4 different ingredients, each with their own "minigame" if that makes sense. Each of these were very well executed, and almost puzzle-like in a way. There are safe strats for a lot of the fish so that you don't die when missing their cycles. The egg stage was honestly not as much of a spike as many people have said it was (at least in my experience.) The fruit stage is probably my personal favorite, trying to find all of these safer spots to dodge in a cramped area was honestly quite enjoyable. The carrot stage is probably the most forgettable for me, but also the most polished of all of them.
The final boss is one of my favorite bosses ever made, combining all of these gimmicks into a randomized recipe while Gordon Ramsey throws knives at you being probably one of the most memorable and fun experiences I've had in a fangame. While it isn't the most polished, and each of these respective stages having their issues, I truly do believe this is a fun game, and do recommend it to novice fangame players.
Rating: 8.9 89
Difficulty: 45 45
Sep 5, 2023
melonbat
For: I wanna be the Mascarpone
For: I wanna be the Mascarpone
Fangame Clear #38
Annoying game filled with pretty terrible design choices, even excluding the trap spam there's not much substance here. Spike cycles without any indication are just a terrible idea, and a lot of the gameplay revolved around memorization more than execution. I wouldn't have much of a problem with the ice stage if it didn't try its best to literally blind you the entire time with what is basically white on white. The third stage is just the worst in terms of trap-spam and in terms of gimmicks, the sniper being one of the most annoying things I've had to deal with given that there was (again) zero indication on when the sniper would shoot. Not to mention the trap-spam gets particularly bad here, which is just awful combining it with waiting for sniper cycles. The boss is basically the only thing that's tolerable*, with an asterisk because the sniper gimmick is still in play.
Not the absolute worst, but pretty terrible. Do find something else.
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Annoying game filled with pretty terrible design choices, even excluding the trap spam there's not much substance here. Spike cycles without any indication are just a terrible idea, and a lot of the gameplay revolved around memorization more than execution. I wouldn't have much of a problem with the ice stage if it didn't try its best to literally blind you the entire time with what is basically white on white. The third stage is just the worst in terms of trap-spam and in terms of gimmicks, the sniper being one of the most annoying things I've had to deal with given that there was (again) zero indication on when the sniper would shoot. Not to mention the trap-spam gets particularly bad here, which is just awful combining it with waiting for sniper cycles. The boss is basically the only thing that's tolerable*, with an asterisk because the sniper gimmick is still in play.
Not the absolute worst, but pretty terrible. Do find something else.
Rating: 0.9 9
Difficulty: 43 43
Sep 5, 2023
Stitchball
For: I Wanna be the Goner
For: I Wanna be the Goner
Tagged as: Goner_Game
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Rating: N/A
Difficulty: 85 85
Sep 5, 2023
avurity
For: I wanna be the YYH
For: I wanna be the YYH
cool ptj game. hard, mostly because i had to figure out how to actually do ptj.
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Rating: 7.0 70
Difficulty: 80 80
Sep 5, 2023
Mounter_Watain
For: I wanna L
For: I wanna L
After playing this I will hate L game forever
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Rating: 5.0 50
Difficulty: 71 71
Sep 5, 2023
PlutoTheThing
For: I wanna Thank You Thenewgeezer
For: I wanna Thank You Thenewgeezer
While I did do the "extra", it was not factored into this review as it's just an excerpt from Haystack 2.
Cool gimmick game, has some fun little ideas that feel really nice to play, the only screen that's a bit shaky is the second to last one because it's hard to learn and a bit obtuse, but it's a neat idea. There's not much to say beyond that, it's just a cool game!
ad of sticking to needle with just water and vines as "gimmicks" has it's own set of unique concepts and ideas, such as shooting walls to get a double jump or blocks that bounce you up very high, these are combined with so many great and creative jumps. I mean it honestly when I say I thi
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Cool gimmick game, has some fun little ideas that feel really nice to play, the only screen that's a bit shaky is the second to last one because it's hard to learn and a bit obtuse, but it's a neat idea. There's not much to say beyond that, it's just a cool game!
ad of sticking to needle with just water and vines as "gimmicks" has it's own set of unique concepts and ideas, such as shooting walls to get a double jump or blocks that bounce you up very high, these are combined with so many great and creative jumps. I mean it honestly when I say I thi
Rating: 8.3 83
Difficulty: 51 51
Sep 5, 2023
Kilp41
For: I wanna be the bad apple feat.syoken
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For: I wanna be the bad apple feat.syoken
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Rating: 4.8 48
Difficulty: 55 55
Sep 5, 2023