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Mrzwanzig
For: Scribble Notes
For: Scribble Notes
Scribble is a pretty damn long adventure game, and to be honest the length is kind of what killed it for me. The basic gameplay is solid enough: nonlinear exploration of multiple levels that are unlocked as you progress, with puzzle-like rooms based around using various items you find along the way. It's pretty fun, the only consistent annoyance being the garbage traps. Supposedly there's fewer of them in the Scribble Notes version that I played, but if that's the case I shudder to think what the original was like.
After a while though, the rooms start to blend together. The puzzles are clever at first, but they mostly all boil down to the same few concepts with not much changing. Yeah you get new items, but those run out LONG before the game runs out of stages to throw at you. And thus small annoyances like the constant item switching, forced backtracking, more occurances of "Whoops I had to shoot that block at the start of the screen and now I can't do it anymore, guess I'll die" than I care to count, and of course the traps, start to add up.
Let's talk about the bosses real quick: they're pretty good. I may have personally found the ricocheting bullets you're forced to use on most of them annoying, but I can appreciate how it makes the bosses in this game unique.
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After a while though, the rooms start to blend together. The puzzles are clever at first, but they mostly all boil down to the same few concepts with not much changing. Yeah you get new items, but those run out LONG before the game runs out of stages to throw at you. And thus small annoyances like the constant item switching, forced backtracking, more occurances of "Whoops I had to shoot that block at the start of the screen and now I can't do it anymore, guess I'll die" than I care to count, and of course the traps, start to add up.
Let's talk about the bosses real quick: they're pretty good. I may have personally found the ricocheting bullets you're forced to use on most of them annoying, but I can appreciate how it makes the bosses in this game unique.
Rating: 6.5 65
Difficulty: 57 57
Sep 16, 2019
Xplayerlol
For: I wanna be the Jumble2
For: I wanna be the Jumble2
Rating doesn't include extra.
Fun adventure and an improvement over its prequel. Its platforming consists mostly of traps, but it mixes generic and elaborate-ish traps in a way that actually makes them unpredictable and enjoyable to die to. It's not a Metamorphosis-tier trap game, but it's not the flying spike fiesta that the previous Jumble was. In exchange, however, there aren't as many gimmicks, which relays a good portion of the game's variety to its traps (Which isn't good, since even those end up getting a little repetitive after a while). Same as the first Jumble, the bosses are a little simplistic, but enjoyable (Though the avoidance might be a tad too easy, and MissingNo is absolute trash because of how much you might end up waiting until you can attack). Visuals are pretty nice, same goes for the musics, too bad that restarting musics are still a thing even in 2019.
It's an enjoyable retro style fangame, though not much more than that. Would recommend, maybe.
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Fun adventure and an improvement over its prequel. Its platforming consists mostly of traps, but it mixes generic and elaborate-ish traps in a way that actually makes them unpredictable and enjoyable to die to. It's not a Metamorphosis-tier trap game, but it's not the flying spike fiesta that the previous Jumble was. In exchange, however, there aren't as many gimmicks, which relays a good portion of the game's variety to its traps (Which isn't good, since even those end up getting a little repetitive after a while). Same as the first Jumble, the bosses are a little simplistic, but enjoyable (Though the avoidance might be a tad too easy, and MissingNo is absolute trash because of how much you might end up waiting until you can attack). Visuals are pretty nice, same goes for the musics, too bad that restarting musics are still a thing even in 2019.
It's an enjoyable retro style fangame, though not much more than that. Would recommend, maybe.
Rating: 7.0 70
Difficulty: 44 44
Sep 16, 2019
kurath
For: Scribble Notes
For: Scribble Notes
This is a pretty amazing game and I say that as someone who considers most of his other work gruesomely overrated. This is based on the all clear of the Scribble notes version. For reference, this is fundamentally the same game as I Wanna be the Scribble except some moderate changes in a couple realms, primarily non-restarting music and fewer spike traps.
Its an exploration based game with some metroidvania elements in terms of collecting items which allow you access to new sections of levels. Its far from a full metroidvania as there's no real standard combat and a lot of the progress is gated linearly, but thats not a bad thing by any means.
The real highlight of this is the platforming/gimmick interactions. It starts off simple and consistently gets more complex and interesting as new powerups are found and he does a great job of integrating the existing pieces into new platforming. The stages have a great aesthetic and a lot of charm and creative design and it makes each new room a treat. That's the one caveat is that working into the next room is great but you end up having to do almost every room twice because he decides to counterweigh the great gimmick and platforming design with garbage traps. The original version is supposedly far worse and while there weren't THAT many of them in notes, it doesn't change the fact that the quality of the traps is near zero. You'll be nearly done with a save and a flying spike comes at you that is trivial to dodge if you knew it was there and gibs if you don't. For this reason alone I'd recommend the notes version - it tones it down to acceptable levels instead of the game ruining experience of the standard version. Still, the ideas presented are creative and execution is never so challenging that repeating a save is that troublesome.
The bosses aren't stellar but they're still good. And, for me, the more important point is they're interesting. They tend to integrate the gimmicks and tools in different ways and atleast give you something to think about as you go. They likely won't be a hang up for anyone either, as they're pretty fair once you know what you're doing.
All in all its a very memorable experience and probably more so if you actually follow the story (which is all in Japanese), but even without that the platforming is a treat and the bosses are interesting and don't overstay their welcome. Go into it expecting to get dicked a bit by boring traps and you'll still end up pleasant surprised with the game.
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Its an exploration based game with some metroidvania elements in terms of collecting items which allow you access to new sections of levels. Its far from a full metroidvania as there's no real standard combat and a lot of the progress is gated linearly, but thats not a bad thing by any means.
The real highlight of this is the platforming/gimmick interactions. It starts off simple and consistently gets more complex and interesting as new powerups are found and he does a great job of integrating the existing pieces into new platforming. The stages have a great aesthetic and a lot of charm and creative design and it makes each new room a treat. That's the one caveat is that working into the next room is great but you end up having to do almost every room twice because he decides to counterweigh the great gimmick and platforming design with garbage traps. The original version is supposedly far worse and while there weren't THAT many of them in notes, it doesn't change the fact that the quality of the traps is near zero. You'll be nearly done with a save and a flying spike comes at you that is trivial to dodge if you knew it was there and gibs if you don't. For this reason alone I'd recommend the notes version - it tones it down to acceptable levels instead of the game ruining experience of the standard version. Still, the ideas presented are creative and execution is never so challenging that repeating a save is that troublesome.
The bosses aren't stellar but they're still good. And, for me, the more important point is they're interesting. They tend to integrate the gimmicks and tools in different ways and atleast give you something to think about as you go. They likely won't be a hang up for anyone either, as they're pretty fair once you know what you're doing.
All in all its a very memorable experience and probably more so if you actually follow the story (which is all in Japanese), but even without that the platforming is a treat and the bosses are interesting and don't overstay their welcome. Go into it expecting to get dicked a bit by boring traps and you'll still end up pleasant surprised with the game.
Rating: 8.9 89
Difficulty: 60 60
Sep 16, 2019
ninz
For: I wanna Lap Around
For: I wanna Lap Around
it's perfect, would recommend to anyone who's good at fangames
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Rating: 10.0 100
Difficulty: 87 87
Sep 16, 2019
Kcafe
For: I Wanna Be The Ultimate Super Guy
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For: I Wanna Be The Ultimate Super Guy
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Rating: 7.0 70
Difficulty: 65 65
Sep 15, 2019
Ptimou
For: I wanna be the Rondo
For: I wanna be the Rondo
This game is filled with hundreds of unpredictable spike traps, moving blocs and stuff.
Rshift doesn't work in this game even if you try to remap the key, only Lshift will work.
Sometimes when you land and the ground, there's a glitch that randomly happens and makes you levitate and you can't jump anymore. Taking the hard needle parts isn't even worth it in the first room because of the traps that comes next.
Rshift doesn't work in this game even if you try to remap the key, only Lshift will work.
Sometimes when you land and the ground, there's a glitch that randomly happens and makes you levitate and you can't jump anymore. Taking the hard needle parts isn't even worth it in the first room because of the traps that comes next.
Tagged as: Trap
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Rating: 3.0 30
Difficulty: 60 60
Sep 15, 2019
SpikeGMD
For: I wanna be the Online
For: I wanna be the Online
Good game, but disconnects ruins all.
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Rating: 8.0 80
Difficulty: N/A
Sep 15, 2019
Xplayerlol
For: I wanna fortnite
For: I wanna fortnite
Two screens of maze-like platforming with fake blocks, ugly visuals, a weird song and no effort. Wouldn't recommend.
Tagged as: Special
[2] Likes
Rating: 1.0 10
Difficulty: 4 4
Sep 15, 2019
Xplayerlol
For: I wanna be the Jumble
For: I wanna be the Jumble
Rating doesn't include extra.
Decently long adventure fangame. It starts out incredibly generic, filled to the brim with fangames' most substandard traps (Featuring screen transition spikes!), but slowly evolves into something actually decent, toning down the amount of traps and bringing out some nice gimmicks. Last stage, in particular, is actually pretty good, to the point where I wouldn't believe I'm still playing the same game. The bosses are somewhat simplistic, but enjoyable, though I'm not a huge fan of the avoidance (Hardest attacks near the end of the fight, has a wall-inducing attack that is repeated three times). Visuals range between decent and nice, music choices are nice but they restart and the death sound is atrociously loud.
Last stage is probably the only section of the game worth playing, but it's a long journey until you get there and I don't believe it's worth the effort. Wouldn't recommend.
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Decently long adventure fangame. It starts out incredibly generic, filled to the brim with fangames' most substandard traps (Featuring screen transition spikes!), but slowly evolves into something actually decent, toning down the amount of traps and bringing out some nice gimmicks. Last stage, in particular, is actually pretty good, to the point where I wouldn't believe I'm still playing the same game. The bosses are somewhat simplistic, but enjoyable, though I'm not a huge fan of the avoidance (Hardest attacks near the end of the fight, has a wall-inducing attack that is repeated three times). Visuals range between decent and nice, music choices are nice but they restart and the death sound is atrociously loud.
Last stage is probably the only section of the game worth playing, but it's a long journey until you get there and I don't believe it's worth the effort. Wouldn't recommend.
Rating: 5.0 50
Difficulty: 59 59
Sep 15, 2019