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CanusAntonius
For: I wanna be Minimal
For: I wanna be Minimal
A pretty enjoyable game that mixes in some needle, a short avoidance, and a final boss with all three elements. I like the visual aesthetic, it hones in the title but still has more appeal than most games do. The bosses are also pretty fun, I like how the avoidance makes you move block to block, and I enjoy the final boss having multiple segments (with checkpoints!).
I do think though it suffers from the same thing that Meltdown does when it comes to the needle, it looks interesting, but it's really just diagonals and gates and half diamonds all over the place.
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I do think though it suffers from the same thing that Meltdown does when it comes to the needle, it looks interesting, but it's really just diagonals and gates and half diamonds all over the place.
Rating: 7.8 78
Difficulty: 49 49
Jan 31, 2022
Nearigami
For: I Wanna Be The Needlecaster
For: I Wanna Be The Needlecaster
Needlecaster is a gimmick needle game made by Verve in about 24 hours for the first I Wanna Game Jam. It features a gimmick where pressing the shoot button will prompt you to cast a spell. Inputting 3 directions will cause the player to cast spells that help them get through the game. The further you go, the more spells you unlock,
At the start this gimmick is very fun, but it quickly becomes a sort of situation where there are too many spells to keep track of. There are multiple solutions to solving some screens, but some of those solutions are much harder to execute than others. While each screen did something unique, by the end it became too much for me to handle and I unfortunately got upset at something I otherwise would recommend wholeheartedly. Too many cooks in the kitchen with this gimmick.
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At the start this gimmick is very fun, but it quickly becomes a sort of situation where there are too many spells to keep track of. There are multiple solutions to solving some screens, but some of those solutions are much harder to execute than others. While each screen did something unique, by the end it became too much for me to handle and I unfortunately got upset at something I otherwise would recommend wholeheartedly. Too many cooks in the kitchen with this gimmick.
Rating: 8.0 80
Difficulty: 50 50
Jan 31, 2022
CanusAntonius
For: I Wanna Go To The Otherside
For: I Wanna Go To The Otherside
It's a decent game that I think shows how far Randy has come in his game making career since then. For the most part, it's pretty enjoyable and has a good needle feel to it, but I found a lot of it to be either tedious, repetitive, or downright obnoxious. The platforming itself is fine usually, but the whole aspect of it being a trigger game really just comes down to "go there now go back" on almost every single save, sometimes doing it more than once. Even when the third and final stage bring a new twist on the screens, they sadly still reuse the same method of triggers; none of which add anything interesting at all to what's going on.
Bosses in comparison are a downright miss for me, especially the second and third one. Randy has opted for I-Frames that reset if you shoot them, thus requiring you to make sure you don't hit it except at the right time, which in my opinion just delays the fight with an unnecessary waiting game. Now, these also have a "bug" with them (I assume Randy wouldn't have done this on purpose at least), and it's that if you make the I-Frames refresh when they are swapping attacks, they will do that attack multiple times at once, and it will absolutely wall you with zero chance of survival. Here's an example of that for Boss Two (Zanto added for meme value.) https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/233673956098441229/937600549061283920/zanto.png . Also, for the most part they just do RNG-based attacks the entire time and that's it, so expect some bruh moments in general. Finally, some of them require you to do a tiny bit of needle before or after each time, the second boss especially suffers from this design decision.
Overall, I liked it enough to want to finish it, and did, but fuck the second boss and third boss, and just going back and forth in some saves. If you want something like this that's a lot more polished, try Randy's Humble Abode, it's sort of like this but a lot better.
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Bosses in comparison are a downright miss for me, especially the second and third one. Randy has opted for I-Frames that reset if you shoot them, thus requiring you to make sure you don't hit it except at the right time, which in my opinion just delays the fight with an unnecessary waiting game. Now, these also have a "bug" with them (I assume Randy wouldn't have done this on purpose at least), and it's that if you make the I-Frames refresh when they are swapping attacks, they will do that attack multiple times at once, and it will absolutely wall you with zero chance of survival. Here's an example of that for Boss Two (Zanto added for meme value.) https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/233673956098441229/937600549061283920/zanto.png . Also, for the most part they just do RNG-based attacks the entire time and that's it, so expect some bruh moments in general. Finally, some of them require you to do a tiny bit of needle before or after each time, the second boss especially suffers from this design decision.
Overall, I liked it enough to want to finish it, and did, but fuck the second boss and third boss, and just going back and forth in some saves. If you want something like this that's a lot more polished, try Randy's Humble Abode, it's sort of like this but a lot better.
Rating: 6.8 68
Difficulty: 63 63
Jan 31, 2022
NightShark115
For: I wanna be the Bloodymare
For: I wanna be the Bloodymare
Tagged as: Bloodymare-like
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Rating: N/A
Difficulty: N/A
Jan 31, 2022
NightShark115
For: I wanna be the Cascades
For: I wanna be the Cascades
Tagged as: Needle
Bloodymare-like
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Rating: N/A
Difficulty: N/A
Jan 31, 2022
spawneable
For: I wanna be the Kantoku Needle
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For: I wanna be the Kantoku Needle
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Rating: 8.0 80
Difficulty: 70 70
Jan 31, 2022
Skulldude
For: I Wanna Catch the Clown
For: I Wanna Catch the Clown
It's very interesting to see this kind of fangame nowadays with how heavily established each genre's standards have been, seeing this is a real breath of fresh air, and feels like it was made by someone who has a lot more experience than most makers as well as someone who has much more to offer than he leads on.
Renex never ceases to surprise me with his technical skills and general domination over anything related to GameMaker itself, I don't know anyone who has gone to the same extent that he has on studying through it and putting what he learned to work for his benefit and making fangames, out of everything else he could be doing, in the most efficient way he can. And it certainly shows in the style this game goes for, shooting for a certain nostalgic aesthetic as a sort of homage to older PC games from the early 2000's or 90's, and still keeping it chock full with stunning production and pure eye-candy all throughout.
I can't wait to see more out of this maker, who came into the community out of nowhere dropping fantastic games one after the other, with entirely different concepts and themes than what the community aims for. The variety in his portfolio is something I respect a lot, helping to build a lot of his own character in an incredibly short amount of time.
Highly recommend this game along with everything else made by Renex, specially if you're looking for a good and chill time with a game that tries something completely different in each screen. Definitely one of the makers I look up to the most in the community.
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Renex never ceases to surprise me with his technical skills and general domination over anything related to GameMaker itself, I don't know anyone who has gone to the same extent that he has on studying through it and putting what he learned to work for his benefit and making fangames, out of everything else he could be doing, in the most efficient way he can. And it certainly shows in the style this game goes for, shooting for a certain nostalgic aesthetic as a sort of homage to older PC games from the early 2000's or 90's, and still keeping it chock full with stunning production and pure eye-candy all throughout.
I can't wait to see more out of this maker, who came into the community out of nowhere dropping fantastic games one after the other, with entirely different concepts and themes than what the community aims for. The variety in his portfolio is something I respect a lot, helping to build a lot of his own character in an incredibly short amount of time.
Highly recommend this game along with everything else made by Renex, specially if you're looking for a good and chill time with a game that tries something completely different in each screen. Definitely one of the makers I look up to the most in the community.
Rating: 9.5 95
Difficulty: 55 55
Jan 31, 2022
Renko
For: I Wanna Catch the Clown
For: I Wanna Catch the Clown
Love to see games that do something different and try new things. The car segment is definitely a highlight. Also enjoyed the frog puzzles. The production value is insane, and the game just oozes charm.
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Rating: 9.5 95
Difficulty: 55 55
Jan 31, 2022
Not2Dey
For: I wanna build a House (Jam Version)
For: I wanna build a House (Jam Version)
mind craft house
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Rating: 8.0 80
Difficulty: 55 55
Jan 31, 2022