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phgQED
For: Discord
For: Discord
Banger of a short monochrome needle game that has maybe just slightly too many levels to the song choice? Starts easy but ramps up a little bit towards the end, involving some fun drops. The low energy remix of the song fits well to the energy of the levels, though they feel a little prickly around the edges, maybe just due to sheer spike quantity? Recommended for needle coffee breaks everywhere. Also has a lot of skips baked in. Almost all of them are downwards planes, which account for about 50% of my death count (and no, I did not make it through, even once).
Time: ~24min
Deaths: 354
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Time: ~24min
Deaths: 354
Rating: 6.7 67
Difficulty: 34 34
Dec 20, 2021
phgQED
For: I wanna Jiongyohai
For: I wanna Jiongyohai
Really fun intermediate needle with a super-polished aesthetic and challenging extra stage. Would highly recommend as 'coffee break needle' or just for anyone in the beginner to intermediate skill range.
Time: ~26min
Deaths: 330
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Time: ~26min
Deaths: 330
Rating: 9.5 95
Difficulty: 31 31
Dec 20, 2021
phgQED
For: I wanna be the Onelife
For: I wanna be the Onelife
Apparently there's an extra for beating on very hard? I'm not patient enough to go through the game again at 1 save/25 levels (and no checkpoints before the bosses either), but surely someone braver has managed to do it before. Please let me know if it's worth it.
This game is a real flash into the past—100 floors of increasing difficulty, starting with no spikes and ramping up. The first genuinely challenging save for me was I think 93? Or somewhere around there. The bosses were mostly just really long, but still wonderfully designed. In particular I liked the pseudo-rhythm game and the paper airplane. This game puts a lot of attention into the detail of transitions and level presentation, and arguably about 15% of my playtime was taken up by 'interactive cutscenes', usually just walking through some harmless geometry for a few screens while the level-feeling changed.
There are a lot of 'fake trolls' in this game, which I appreciate more than actual trolls. One in particular made me laugh out loud for a while. And there is an ending cutscene for when you beat the game, which I thought was very nice. Overall, you can tell a lot of care was put into this game, and it shows, even if the platforming itself is a bit dated.
Also, this was my 50th clear. uwu
Time: ~1hr21min
Deaths: 442
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This game is a real flash into the past—100 floors of increasing difficulty, starting with no spikes and ramping up. The first genuinely challenging save for me was I think 93? Or somewhere around there. The bosses were mostly just really long, but still wonderfully designed. In particular I liked the pseudo-rhythm game and the paper airplane. This game puts a lot of attention into the detail of transitions and level presentation, and arguably about 15% of my playtime was taken up by 'interactive cutscenes', usually just walking through some harmless geometry for a few screens while the level-feeling changed.
There are a lot of 'fake trolls' in this game, which I appreciate more than actual trolls. One in particular made me laugh out loud for a while. And there is an ending cutscene for when you beat the game, which I thought was very nice. Overall, you can tell a lot of care was put into this game, and it shows, even if the platforming itself is a bit dated.
Also, this was my 50th clear. uwu
Time: ~1hr21min
Deaths: 442
Rating: 9.0 90
Difficulty: 22 22
Dec 20, 2021
phgQED
For: I wanna be the Art
For: I wanna be the Art
I feel like I sort of get it, but I also don't? Like, I think the needle you're playing is supposed to be a Picross-esque art piece of some kind... The song is nice enough but holy cow, starting the player falling into a diagonal meat-grinder (it's not a hard jump, you just die if you don't do anything) and having multiple off-screen kills with no saves... yeesh. This needs a lot of work if it was going to be playable IMO.
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Rating: 1.0 10
Difficulty: N/A
Dec 20, 2021
phgQED
For: I wanna be the Ender
For: I wanna be the Ender
Played on hard mode. A very short needle game that also has some difficult but rewarding jumps. An avoidance boss at the end that is fairly easy but can be a little sweat-inducing. Also you have to do them in the right order. Fun overall.
Time: ~10min
Deaths: 246
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Time: ~10min
Deaths: 246
Rating: 6.8 68
Difficulty: 25 25
Dec 20, 2021
phgQED
For: I wanna be the うまい人
For: I wanna be the うまい人
Mostly forgettable stage-based gimmick needle (in that I literally pretty much completely forgot them) until the extra stage, where this game turns into precision needle horrorscape. I think for some more advanced players some of the stuff in the post-game screens would not be too bad, but for someone just working their way up the needle tower, there are multiple jumps that feel egregiously demanding, including a super f jump that is now burned into my brain.
The experience of slogging through these precision saves was definitely rewarding, but I almost feel like the extra stage should be a different game, considering how hard it is and how precise some of the jumps are. It took me a few weeks of putting this game down and going to practice with other, less punishing needle, to finally come back with enough skill to finish it. There's a jump on the last screen that can heavily benefit from A/D usage, if you're into that.
Time: 1hr41min
Deaths: 3904
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The experience of slogging through these precision saves was definitely rewarding, but I almost feel like the extra stage should be a different game, considering how hard it is and how precise some of the jumps are. It took me a few weeks of putting this game down and going to practice with other, less punishing needle, to finally come back with enough skill to finish it. There's a jump on the last screen that can heavily benefit from A/D usage, if you're into that.
Time: 1hr41min
Deaths: 3904
Rating: 7.0 70
Difficulty: 50 50
Dec 20, 2021