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MrSnailz
For: I wanna IDFK 2
For: I wanna IDFK 2
Tagged as: Needle
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Rating: 6.0 60
Difficulty: 65 65
Jun 2, 2020
MrSnailz
For: I wanna be the Tori Another
For: I wanna be the Tori Another
Tagged as: Needle
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Rating: 6.5 65
Difficulty: 55 55
Jun 2, 2020
shign
For: I wanna be the Crimson
For: I wanna be the Crimson
Long and kinda legendary game. It's one of the oldest by Carnival and it's easy to see how much he improved (particulary visually since most visuals of this game are included in the engine) when you look at his more recent games. That said, Crimson is still a solid needleventure game, with plenty of stages and a few bosses (actually 2 bosses).
You start the game in a linear stage then a hub shows up with 8 stages, each one having a secret (the entrance also have a secret). Platforming is mostly vanilla needle with a lot of traps, and a few gimmicks in some stages. They are mostly enjoyable and even if most traps are just flying spikes here to kill you, I didn't found them that annoying. It reminds me of og guy, with a certain charm you will either hate or love and this is also the case of some other Carnival games. If you can overlook the traps, the needle is honestly well-done in most cases with only a few bruh saves.
As I said, each stage has a secret (which are dragon picture for some reasons) and they are actually mandatory because finishing all the stages unlock the first boss, and this dude only gives you another dragon picture. You will be able to progess only when you have gathered all the dragon picture. Secrets are harder then main stages and are more a mixed-bag, some are great but some have questionnable level design like the water secret. Some have also some cool ideas but the execution is done in a way not everyone will enjoy them, I'm especially thinking about the secret where you need to do 5 screens then backtrack them without savepoints. Also, they are all hidden in very dumb places so just go look at a video or you will suffer.
After gathering all the secrets, the platforming becomes harder (around the secrets difficulty). You have 3 more stages with no secret this time, and excepting the second (which has some unenjoyable saves) it was good. At the end there is the final boss.
Now about the bosses, they are both very memorable but not for the same reasons. The first one (the bat boss) is very RNG-dependent, because hitting him depends honestly of your luck (you can kinda do something to have more chances but it's still very RNG). It's making him a frustrating experience, kinda fun but I woudn't beat him again. The final boss is the legendary crimson devils. Everybody knows him, he inspired many more bosses in that vein and mostly better ones since the og is far from being the best. I personally love that kind of boss so I guess I'm thankful that Carnival made it. What make it worse than some other is the water, because the fight becomes much harder when you enter in water phase so you try to do it as late as possible, making every lose even more frustrating. I also seriously underestimated how hard he is, because it took me 6h30 to beat him (with one choke with only the green at 1 hp).
To conclude, Carnival is a brilliant maker and sometimes a monster of creativity. Just look at the final boss and dare tell me that it's not very original (I know it's inspired by a final fantasy boss but the idea to adapt it to fangames and how it was done is still very creative). It just happens that the execution is not always that good and can lead to frustrating moment, but at the end I mostly remember the good moment.
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You start the game in a linear stage then a hub shows up with 8 stages, each one having a secret (the entrance also have a secret). Platforming is mostly vanilla needle with a lot of traps, and a few gimmicks in some stages. They are mostly enjoyable and even if most traps are just flying spikes here to kill you, I didn't found them that annoying. It reminds me of og guy, with a certain charm you will either hate or love and this is also the case of some other Carnival games. If you can overlook the traps, the needle is honestly well-done in most cases with only a few bruh saves.
As I said, each stage has a secret (which are dragon picture for some reasons) and they are actually mandatory because finishing all the stages unlock the first boss, and this dude only gives you another dragon picture. You will be able to progess only when you have gathered all the dragon picture. Secrets are harder then main stages and are more a mixed-bag, some are great but some have questionnable level design like the water secret. Some have also some cool ideas but the execution is done in a way not everyone will enjoy them, I'm especially thinking about the secret where you need to do 5 screens then backtrack them without savepoints. Also, they are all hidden in very dumb places so just go look at a video or you will suffer.
After gathering all the secrets, the platforming becomes harder (around the secrets difficulty). You have 3 more stages with no secret this time, and excepting the second (which has some unenjoyable saves) it was good. At the end there is the final boss.
Now about the bosses, they are both very memorable but not for the same reasons. The first one (the bat boss) is very RNG-dependent, because hitting him depends honestly of your luck (you can kinda do something to have more chances but it's still very RNG). It's making him a frustrating experience, kinda fun but I woudn't beat him again. The final boss is the legendary crimson devils. Everybody knows him, he inspired many more bosses in that vein and mostly better ones since the og is far from being the best. I personally love that kind of boss so I guess I'm thankful that Carnival made it. What make it worse than some other is the water, because the fight becomes much harder when you enter in water phase so you try to do it as late as possible, making every lose even more frustrating. I also seriously underestimated how hard he is, because it took me 6h30 to beat him (with one choke with only the green at 1 hp).
To conclude, Carnival is a brilliant maker and sometimes a monster of creativity. Just look at the final boss and dare tell me that it's not very original (I know it's inspired by a final fantasy boss but the idea to adapt it to fangames and how it was done is still very creative). It just happens that the execution is not always that good and can lead to frustrating moment, but at the end I mostly remember the good moment.
Rating: 8.3 83
Difficulty: 75 75
Jun 2, 2020
shign
For: I wanna SMAAAAAAAAAASH!!!
For: I wanna SMAAAAAAAAAASH!!!
Decent minigame where you have to shot apples coming from the sides to survive as long as possible. Each color of apple have its own way of working and it's kinda fun the first time.
However, as someone already said I wouldn't give it another try because each try is very long, and it's very repetitive. It would probably be better in a game with more content, like more minigames or being a break between 2 stages.
Still worth giving it a shot, don't really know what to give about the difficulty since I suppose the game has no end, but it's not very hard.
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However, as someone already said I wouldn't give it another try because each try is very long, and it's very repetitive. It would probably be better in a game with more content, like more minigames or being a break between 2 stages.
Still worth giving it a shot, don't really know what to give about the difficulty since I suppose the game has no end, but it's not very hard.
Rating: 6.0 60
Difficulty: 30 30
Jun 2, 2020
XCVBFWDSC
For: I wanna SMAAAAAAAAAASH!!!
For: I wanna SMAAAAAAAAAASH!!!
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kinda fun, but I wouldn't give another try
:)
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kinda fun, but I wouldn't give another try
:)
Rating: N/A
Difficulty: N/A
Jun 2, 2020
GDLMan
For: I wanna SMAAAAAAAAAASH!!!
For: I wanna SMAAAAAAAAAASH!!!
Perfect! My first score 503.
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Rating: 9.9 99
Difficulty: N/A
Jun 2, 2020
theTics
For: I wanna SMAAAAAAAAAASH!!!
For: I wanna SMAAAAAAAAAASH!!!
Defense game where you wipe out cherry enemies coming towards you. It's really fun.
Tagged as: Special
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Rating: 7.7 77
Difficulty: N/A
Jun 2, 2020