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MikuStar263
For: I wanna Collaboration the RETSU＆Nekogami
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For: I wanna Collaboration the RETSU＆Nekogami
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Rating: 6.2 62
Difficulty: 58 58
Jul 31, 2019
ElCochran90
For: I Wanna End My Growth
For: I Wanna End My Growth
This is happily received by the community as Erik's best game, and the reasons are very easy to understand: light humor, hand-drawn aesthetics, a funny "story", hidden easter eggs towards other users, great music, good graphics and creative bosses. Making a marathon these days through Erik's games, I must favor the intense experience that Blocktroid 2 was for me, so that one stands as my favorite, but this comes as a second choice.
The gimmick is inventive. It is not as exploited as it should be, and this is a con. You will find yourself playing mostly as regular Kid most of the time because, well, we're used to the little guy. The mechanics for the other two transformations are very well thought out; the problem is that not many situations require it. Bosses are creative bliss, but not as well done as those in Blocktroid 2, and to be honest, the final boss is very disappointing and flawed: Boss 2 poses a bigger challenge and is a longer fight than the final one. Also, as it is Erik's habit, the final boss has the ability to summon past bosses; here, that depends on RNG, so my second attempt at the boss had him summoning bosses over and over again with little time to hit the final boss, and at a time called the first boss three times in a row without him making any attack! This is very tedious. Sure, it is unlikely to happen again, but that doesn't make it impossible. Also, it doesn't have a second phase, which would have made him much more interesting.
Still, for a short-not-so-short adventure, it has its charms and the Cuphead inspiration is even more palpable than ever. Give it a shot: we need inspired artists like Erik and not so many users that copy-paste formats and generic-jumps trash.
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The gimmick is inventive. It is not as exploited as it should be, and this is a con. You will find yourself playing mostly as regular Kid most of the time because, well, we're used to the little guy. The mechanics for the other two transformations are very well thought out; the problem is that not many situations require it. Bosses are creative bliss, but not as well done as those in Blocktroid 2, and to be honest, the final boss is very disappointing and flawed: Boss 2 poses a bigger challenge and is a longer fight than the final one. Also, as it is Erik's habit, the final boss has the ability to summon past bosses; here, that depends on RNG, so my second attempt at the boss had him summoning bosses over and over again with little time to hit the final boss, and at a time called the first boss three times in a row without him making any attack! This is very tedious. Sure, it is unlikely to happen again, but that doesn't make it impossible. Also, it doesn't have a second phase, which would have made him much more interesting.
Still, for a short-not-so-short adventure, it has its charms and the Cuphead inspiration is even more palpable than ever. Give it a shot: we need inspired artists like Erik and not so many users that copy-paste formats and generic-jumps trash.
Rating: 5.8 58
Difficulty: 35 35
Jul 31, 2019
MikuStar263
For: I wanna JJ
For: I wanna JJ
Stage two, the short save area, was my favourite.
Last Jump took me a while..
Last Jump took me a while..
Tagged as: Needle
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Rating: 6.4 64
Difficulty: 61 61
Jul 31, 2019
tuhkakuppi
For: Hendeca Corner
For: Hendeca Corner
Rewarding experience. Would recommend as a challenge.
The difficulty's gonna depend very highly on how used to quick pausing between direction inputs you are.
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The difficulty's gonna depend very highly on how used to quick pausing between direction inputs you are.
Rating: 7.0 70
Difficulty: 85 85
Jul 31, 2019
ElCochran90
For: I wanna be Sure of You
For: I wanna be Sure of You
Warning: This is one of the most generic fangames you will ever play through.
What's worse? A double diamond, or an invert?
If you're not sure yet, this game will make sure you are sure.
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What's worse? A double diamond, or an invert?
If you're not sure yet, this game will make sure you are sure.
Rating: 0.8 8
Difficulty: 40 40
Jul 31, 2019
MikuStar263
For: I wanna Enjoy the BreakTime
For: I wanna Enjoy the BreakTime
Tagged as: Needle
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Rating: 6.2 62
Difficulty: 46 46
Jul 31, 2019
Countershooter
For: I wanna thank to Iginlaj
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For: I wanna thank to Iginlaj
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Rating: 6.0 60
Difficulty: 55 55
Jul 31, 2019
kurath
For: I wanna be the Kantoku Needle
For: I wanna be the Kantoku Needle
A fairly unique 100F game in the general crimson needle format (as stated by the creator himself), though outside of tileset/music changes every 3 floors I wouldn't say there's that much in common.
This game is almost like a 100F game of Greek Mythology style (or whatever anyone calls those) except easier and a lot cleaner visuals. It averages probably 15 saves per screen, with saves rarely possessing more than a single jump. It mixes in a ton of platform and water stuff, though it stays away from other gimmicks.
If you enjoy short precise saves without it being obtuse how to perform jumps, this is a really fun needle game. Nigh impossible to get stuck on due to the incredibly short segments and with a wide variety of both generic arrangements with a lot of creative precise moves, you end up seeing a lot of things in a pretty quick timeframe. There's a few segments and a few uses of things that got somewhat annoying (the infinite jump segment was pretty bad, for instance, but it was not hard and at only 3 screens, went by pretty fast).
Difficulty wise, its tough to judge - there are a lot of hard jumps in this game for sure, but given how short the segments are there's not really any grinds to encounter as you're just solving the jump, doing it once and moving on. It marks aligns most of the time, though there's definitely instances where you can run into trouble if you don't know them atleast a little bit yourself, though there's certainly nothing too complicated.
Overall, its a different style of 100F game that I can't remember an equivalent instance of, and if you like short saves and precise jumps, you'll like this. It's certainly a specialized offering but it does what it set out to do quite well.
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This game is almost like a 100F game of Greek Mythology style (or whatever anyone calls those) except easier and a lot cleaner visuals. It averages probably 15 saves per screen, with saves rarely possessing more than a single jump. It mixes in a ton of platform and water stuff, though it stays away from other gimmicks.
If you enjoy short precise saves without it being obtuse how to perform jumps, this is a really fun needle game. Nigh impossible to get stuck on due to the incredibly short segments and with a wide variety of both generic arrangements with a lot of creative precise moves, you end up seeing a lot of things in a pretty quick timeframe. There's a few segments and a few uses of things that got somewhat annoying (the infinite jump segment was pretty bad, for instance, but it was not hard and at only 3 screens, went by pretty fast).
Difficulty wise, its tough to judge - there are a lot of hard jumps in this game for sure, but given how short the segments are there's not really any grinds to encounter as you're just solving the jump, doing it once and moving on. It marks aligns most of the time, though there's definitely instances where you can run into trouble if you don't know them atleast a little bit yourself, though there's certainly nothing too complicated.
Overall, its a different style of 100F game that I can't remember an equivalent instance of, and if you like short saves and precise jumps, you'll like this. It's certainly a specialized offering but it does what it set out to do quite well.
Rating: 7.0 70
Difficulty: 70 70
Jul 31, 2019