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shign
For: I wanna come up with a name
For: I wanna come up with a name
Rating don't include extra.
A good needle overall.
Stage 1 is a simple and easy introduction, stage 2 and 3 have some interesting gimmicks, and stage 4 and 5 are harder pure needle.
The game has also secrets which are good (except the 4th) and if you collect them all (except the 4th) you can access to extra. I didn't do it because I didn't liked the first screen but it seems to be harder needle.
There is also a good boss at the end of stage 5. Simplistic visuals and nice and fair attacks, I only complain that the second phase would probably have been better if you don't get pushed to the left.
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A good needle overall.
Stage 1 is a simple and easy introduction, stage 2 and 3 have some interesting gimmicks, and stage 4 and 5 are harder pure needle.
The game has also secrets which are good (except the 4th) and if you collect them all (except the 4th) you can access to extra. I didn't do it because I didn't liked the first screen but it seems to be harder needle.
There is also a good boss at the end of stage 5. Simplistic visuals and nice and fair attacks, I only complain that the second phase would probably have been better if you don't get pushed to the left.
Rating: 7.3 73
Difficulty: 60 60
Sep 6, 2019
DerpyHoovesIWBTG
For: I wanna Elixir
For: I wanna Elixir
Overall not too bad of a Hades game with a lot of clever jumps spread across the game. There were 2 jumps in the first screen that are way harder than everything else in the game, and theres a really weird transition from screen 3 to 4 where there's a big hole in the floor so you would expect to go that way but the real way is to the left which isn't really indicated anywhere.
Would recommend.
Would recommend.
Tagged as: Needle
Hades-like
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Rating: 6.3 63
Difficulty: 52 52
Sep 6, 2019
moogy
For: I wanna Elixir
For: I wanna Elixir
Surprisingly fun Hades-type. It's on the easy side, but has more screens than you usually get with this sort of game.
I just wish it weren't on Yuutu. The input lag, laggy respawns, and save displacement inherent to that engine really don't make for fun times when paired with this sort of design.
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I just wish it weren't on Yuutu. The input lag, laggy respawns, and save displacement inherent to that engine really don't make for fun times when paired with this sort of design.
Rating: 6.5 65
Difficulty: 55 55
Sep 6, 2019
pyun
For: I wanna break the Series Z 2 Remake
For: I wanna break the Series Z 2 Remake
^^
[31] Likes
Rating: 7.0 70
Difficulty: 80 80
Sep 6, 2019
Tyste
For: I wanna kill the Guy
For: I wanna kill the Guy
Iconic fangame with great puzzle gimmicks that rarely disappoints.
The bosses, albeit a bit unpolished, are well made and fun - especially Geezer which I’d rank highly even among modern bosses.
In short - a must-play for any aspiring fangamer
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The bosses, albeit a bit unpolished, are well made and fun - especially Geezer which I’d rank highly even among modern bosses.
In short - a must-play for any aspiring fangamer
Rating: 8.9 89
Difficulty: 44 44
Sep 6, 2019
jonttu951
For: I wanna be the Hermes
For: I wanna be the Hermes
Tagged as: Needle
[0] Likes
Rating: 8.0 80
Difficulty: 80 80
Sep 6, 2019
kurath
For: I wanna come to the conclusion
For: I wanna come to the conclusion
A very good easier adventure game with a lot of variety and minor progression elements. I'd say it peaks around the middle (factoring in true end, which is a major part of the content of the game and is probably what you should consider playing through if you decide to play the game).
Overall its great and definitely worth the play if you're looking for an adventure game to play. Production quality is very high throughout (even overdone in some places, though never problematically so) and the visuals and music fit the environments/events well. The story is a little campy, which is about what you'd expect out of a fangame and suits it well.
As for the gameplay, every stage has a distinct identity which is great, and there's a pretty wide variety of styles and ideas throughout. Likewise with the bosses, none of them feel all too similar to one another and are complex and challenging enough to be interesting to more experienced players while the abundant checkpoints and acquirable strategies keep it accessible to anyone. This is a bit where it falters a bit too though - the gameplay feels like it has an identity crisis sometimes - like he wanted to just fit in a bit of everything somewhere. This makes the later game feel a bit disjointed because its hard to determine what you're supposed to be doing, and occasionally you'll run into segments that feel wildly out of place and throw a wild changeup in the pace of the game. While the quality of the game remains very high throughout, it does feel like it never quite peaks due to the sudden shifts.
Either way, these are minor concerns at most, and I'd still absolutely recommend the game, especially to newer players as it shouldn't have any walls for the newer players and the game plays better at a more relaxed pace anyway.
Overall its great and definitely worth the play if you're looking for an adventure game to play. Production quality is very high throughout (even overdone in some places, though never problematically so) and the visuals and music fit the environments/events well. The story is a little campy, which is about what you'd expect out of a fangame and suits it well.
As for the gameplay, every stage has a distinct identity which is great, and there's a pretty wide variety of styles and ideas throughout. Likewise with the bosses, none of them feel all too similar to one another and are complex and challenging enough to be interesting to more experienced players while the abundant checkpoints and acquirable strategies keep it accessible to anyone. This is a bit where it falters a bit too though - the gameplay feels like it has an identity crisis sometimes - like he wanted to just fit in a bit of everything somewhere. This makes the later game feel a bit disjointed because its hard to determine what you're supposed to be doing, and occasionally you'll run into segments that feel wildly out of place and throw a wild changeup in the pace of the game. While the quality of the game remains very high throughout, it does feel like it never quite peaks due to the sudden shifts.
Either way, these are minor concerns at most, and I'd still absolutely recommend the game, especially to newer players as it shouldn't have any walls for the newer players and the game plays better at a more relaxed pace anyway.
Tagged as: Adventure
[0] Likes
Rating: 9.2 92
Difficulty: 45 45
Sep 6, 2019
Nick24
For: I wanna break the Series Z 2 Remake
For: I wanna break the Series Z 2 Remake
An actual masterpiece, which unfortunately received universal hate due to "lol, you are remaking a trash game without permission" and "does it matter? remake? original? they are the same thing, they are both trash!"
First things first, I wish people could actually try playing games before reviewing or even talking about them, and maybe experienced all kinds of games before too. It's the basics of opinion forming: you beat the game - you have opinion "X" on it, you beat another one - you compare it to your previous whether it was better or worse, and so on, eventually forming a rating system. It matters for this one especially, so I will be doing a lot of comparisons during this review.
Secondly, and this is where an actual review starts: let's begin by trying to compare remake with the... original...
So, if you haven't seen my review for original I'll have to do tl;dr: that was the absolute bottom of what you could do for a medley game. Please remember, that we are not talking about happil clones. Yes, that game tries to be a serious medley, but ultimately fails due to all sort of things: bs rng, literally praying, untested bugs like skipping areas, attacks so unfair you would rather play avoidance hall of fame, with the punchline of them being on the middle or in the end of a boss. The needle also didn't exist in that game, with a wonderful example of stage 4: floor ceiling double inverts, dick spikes, hourglass jumps, inverts, double diamonds - you just wrote the entirety of z2 needle. So yeah, if you beat the original and hated it, I think your opinion is one of the strongest in the community - once you experience the deepest layer of hell, nothing can get worse and you will be able to see good moments in anything. Except z2 original.
And now remember, THIS, this - is not that game.
Welcome to paragraph 3 - restoring hope in humanity.
Now that we named all the bad things, let's try finding them here, shall we?
So, let's find an unbalanced avoidance! Hmm... I... don't see it??? Huh??? They even made the bs curving attack work at the same speed which basically kills it, omg. But wait maybe if I die on a guest stage and do nothing for 3 minutes I'll perhaps skip it? Umm... It's been like 5, and I'm still on game over screen... Looks like you are forced to actually beat the content the game offers! Wow!
Alright, now let's see how they changed needle. Oh, I heard that maxim was responsible for the needle in this game, interesting, but did he actually change anything. Ok, I'm looking at stage needle and... it's... it's... real needle, it actually playes like a needle and not like a one jump save, wtf???
Yeah, ok, I guess this remake is, ACTUALLY a good remake, and was made to be a good game. And no my fellow z2 hater, good remake doesn't mean it's better by a tiny bit which ultimately makes it "still bad". In the case of this game, remake means erasing absolutely everything and rebuilding it from scratch to be good, which in the end makes an actual good game by global rating definition. I am not joking when I say that z2r is up there with such legendary medley games as cultured 2 or kamilia 2, and that it is an actual important step of any fangame player, with the difficulty being between kamilia 2 and kamilia 3.
Ok guess it's time to log in into delfruit and write a review, but let's look at the reviews, maybe I'll find something more to talk about.
Welcome to paragraph 4 - replying to reviews.
""Our goal with this game was to make I wanna Break The Series Z 2 more enjoyable, fun and accessible to everyone"
no."
Alright buddy, go play the game, surely you can beat it. You beat K3, so this will be a walk in the park. Well, the only real point is maybe that not literally every being on earth will be able to get through this game. I think the entry level required for this game is something like beating kamilia 2.
"The barrage is worse. Some meaningless bosses were added and dull attacks were all over the places,the original Z2 has a better flow of attack.
I prefer original Z2"
Bruh, alright I see you are one of those that prefer to have stuff on the trashy hard side then. I can't believe my eyes when I see someone calling the stand in the corner and pray 2 minutes in attacks as a better flow. Oh the people on the internet. This review sounds like an actual hot take of a way too good player being disappointed in the game being more accessible to other players. I also disagree with "meaningless bosses", because the first one is a compilation of z1 bosses and the second is the rework of final boss, which was literally the biggest disappointment in the original. If anything, new additions made the game feel like it has a deeper lore, with the final boss being one of the best bosses ever made.
and... I don't see any other bad reviews here, woohoo. I'm glad. To be fair upon release the hate wave was especially strong, but people kept telling what was wrong with the game, the developers kept fixing those mistakes, the game was becoming better, the reviews in conclusion, became mostly positive. The world was saved. But in deep dark corners of the universe, you can still see people trash talking this game, and that is by far the biggest hurdle we have to deal with. Hopefully, one day, we can come to global understanding of each other's interests, and not come up with a bad hot take for dumb reasons like the "clout" or "cancel culture". These games are literally free to begin with, why are you complaining without an actual reason to do so?
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First things first, I wish people could actually try playing games before reviewing or even talking about them, and maybe experienced all kinds of games before too. It's the basics of opinion forming: you beat the game - you have opinion "X" on it, you beat another one - you compare it to your previous whether it was better or worse, and so on, eventually forming a rating system. It matters for this one especially, so I will be doing a lot of comparisons during this review.
Secondly, and this is where an actual review starts: let's begin by trying to compare remake with the... original...
So, if you haven't seen my review for original I'll have to do tl;dr: that was the absolute bottom of what you could do for a medley game. Please remember, that we are not talking about happil clones. Yes, that game tries to be a serious medley, but ultimately fails due to all sort of things: bs rng, literally praying, untested bugs like skipping areas, attacks so unfair you would rather play avoidance hall of fame, with the punchline of them being on the middle or in the end of a boss. The needle also didn't exist in that game, with a wonderful example of stage 4: floor ceiling double inverts, dick spikes, hourglass jumps, inverts, double diamonds - you just wrote the entirety of z2 needle. So yeah, if you beat the original and hated it, I think your opinion is one of the strongest in the community - once you experience the deepest layer of hell, nothing can get worse and you will be able to see good moments in anything. Except z2 original.
And now remember, THIS, this - is not that game.
Welcome to paragraph 3 - restoring hope in humanity.
Now that we named all the bad things, let's try finding them here, shall we?
So, let's find an unbalanced avoidance! Hmm... I... don't see it??? Huh??? They even made the bs curving attack work at the same speed which basically kills it, omg. But wait maybe if I die on a guest stage and do nothing for 3 minutes I'll perhaps skip it? Umm... It's been like 5, and I'm still on game over screen... Looks like you are forced to actually beat the content the game offers! Wow!
Alright, now let's see how they changed needle. Oh, I heard that maxim was responsible for the needle in this game, interesting, but did he actually change anything. Ok, I'm looking at stage needle and... it's... it's... real needle, it actually playes like a needle and not like a one jump save, wtf???
Yeah, ok, I guess this remake is, ACTUALLY a good remake, and was made to be a good game. And no my fellow z2 hater, good remake doesn't mean it's better by a tiny bit which ultimately makes it "still bad". In the case of this game, remake means erasing absolutely everything and rebuilding it from scratch to be good, which in the end makes an actual good game by global rating definition. I am not joking when I say that z2r is up there with such legendary medley games as cultured 2 or kamilia 2, and that it is an actual important step of any fangame player, with the difficulty being between kamilia 2 and kamilia 3.
Ok guess it's time to log in into delfruit and write a review, but let's look at the reviews, maybe I'll find something more to talk about.
Welcome to paragraph 4 - replying to reviews.
""Our goal with this game was to make I wanna Break The Series Z 2 more enjoyable, fun and accessible to everyone"
no."
Alright buddy, go play the game, surely you can beat it. You beat K3, so this will be a walk in the park. Well, the only real point is maybe that not literally every being on earth will be able to get through this game. I think the entry level required for this game is something like beating kamilia 2.
"The barrage is worse. Some meaningless bosses were added and dull attacks were all over the places,the original Z2 has a better flow of attack.
I prefer original Z2"
Bruh, alright I see you are one of those that prefer to have stuff on the trashy hard side then. I can't believe my eyes when I see someone calling the stand in the corner and pray 2 minutes in attacks as a better flow. Oh the people on the internet. This review sounds like an actual hot take of a way too good player being disappointed in the game being more accessible to other players. I also disagree with "meaningless bosses", because the first one is a compilation of z1 bosses and the second is the rework of final boss, which was literally the biggest disappointment in the original. If anything, new additions made the game feel like it has a deeper lore, with the final boss being one of the best bosses ever made.
and... I don't see any other bad reviews here, woohoo. I'm glad. To be fair upon release the hate wave was especially strong, but people kept telling what was wrong with the game, the developers kept fixing those mistakes, the game was becoming better, the reviews in conclusion, became mostly positive. The world was saved. But in deep dark corners of the universe, you can still see people trash talking this game, and that is by far the biggest hurdle we have to deal with. Hopefully, one day, we can come to global understanding of each other's interests, and not come up with a bad hot take for dumb reasons like the "clout" or "cancel culture". These games are literally free to begin with, why are you complaining without an actual reason to do so?
Rating: 9.7 97
Difficulty: 85 85
Sep 6, 2019