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Nick24
For: I wanna Melanzana
For: I wanna Melanzana
For a long time I didn't realize how bad this is...
Tagged as: L_Avoidance
Humanly_Possible
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Rating: 5.0 50
Difficulty: 95 95
Dec 5, 2018
Kilgour22
For: I wanna be the Math Major 2
For: I wanna be the Math Major 2
I Wanna be the Math Major 2 is a great showcase of basic applied math at a high school level. I would have liked to see the inclusion of non-polynomial functions and geometry to help round out the applications.
The format of the required answers was often quite intuitive, which was a relief. However, with five questions to complete each save, it was sometimes a slog to have to wait for the "correct" to pop up as many as four times to attempt the next question. I would have appreciated a save every screen, even though this would make some problems susceptible to "trial and error" solutions.
It also would have been nice to not have to use an additional hint to view the same hint for a question a second time. I get that I could have screenshotted the hint, but I shouldn't have to do that to return to the hint which I've already invested in.
With the release of version 1.01, the only question I wasn't a fan of was question 50, because of its reliance on question 45, which was only available on the previous save. The other questions were great, as was their applications to the fangame context. I especially liked questions 43 and 47.
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The format of the required answers was often quite intuitive, which was a relief. However, with five questions to complete each save, it was sometimes a slog to have to wait for the "correct" to pop up as many as four times to attempt the next question. I would have appreciated a save every screen, even though this would make some problems susceptible to "trial and error" solutions.
It also would have been nice to not have to use an additional hint to view the same hint for a question a second time. I get that I could have screenshotted the hint, but I shouldn't have to do that to return to the hint which I've already invested in.
With the release of version 1.01, the only question I wasn't a fan of was question 50, because of its reliance on question 45, which was only available on the previous save. The other questions were great, as was their applications to the fangame context. I especially liked questions 43 and 47.
Rating: 8.0 80
Difficulty: 30 30
Dec 5, 2018
luk
For: I wanna Jump
For: I wanna Jump
horribleeeeeeeee
Tagged as: horrible
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Rating: 0.0 0
Difficulty: 0 0
Dec 5, 2018
moogy
For: Irkara Needle
For: Irkara Needle
Rating includes all platforming in the main game (including all stages of the needle rush), as well as the final boss.
Supremely difficult needle game, suitable only for highly experienced players who are prepared for a grind. Not even a needle god is coming out of this game with less than a five digit death count.
Irkara begins innocuously enough; the production values are nice and it eases you into the game with some more basic screens, as X floor games are wont to do. I feel like there's a nice, steady upward progression of difficulty through floor 49, and indeed that floors 1-49 by themselves would be a satisfying challenge for a less experienced player looking to break into harder needle, as they never exceed the 70-75 range of difficulty.
Unfortunately, I'm not going to be talking about the reasonable part of the game.
At floor 50, Irkara Needle abruptly undergoes an absolutely *staggering* spike in difficulty, with the majority of saves demanding sustained precision on the frame level and essentially mandating that the player be capable of sussing out setups to make jumps even possible, let alone reasonable. While there's certainly some creative design on display throughout, I have to say that honestly a great many of the saves in the latter half of the game are simply not fun to play at all due to the amount of truly frame-perfect jumps Irkara has peppered throughout the entirety of the latter half with reckless abandon. The game would still be very difficult even if the majority of these jumps were nerfed, and as-is, it's simply a grind fest. Like, yes, designing jumps this way certainly makes the game *harder*, but it doesn't make it any more *fun*.
That's not to say I absolutely hated everything, though. Floors 59-61 are incredibly creative and an absolute blast to play - I'd say they're quite possibly the best needle I've played, period. The floors designed around longer saves, such as 68 and 76, also tend to be much more reasonable than much of the rest of the game, simply due to lacking any jumps that require ridiculous nonsense like, say, doing a 4f + left simultaneous input and then rejumping on a specific frame... which is something actually required to get past one of the jumps in the needle rush (said jump was buffed to its current state in 1.0x).
The needle rush itself is generally fun, given that it's a medley sort of thing with screens taken from other games... Some of the buffs are just plain stupid, though. Unless you want the achievement for clearing every needle rush screen, I would really suggest skipping the Arcfox screen, because the buffs to it in 1.0x make it absolutely ridiculous, and IMO the hardest save in the main game.
I also really enjoyed the final Guy Tower climb; there's some very fun usage of jump refreshers and triple jump here. I'd love to see Irkara explore this sort of design further, especially because it doesn't assail the player with frame-precise jumps.
And surprisingly, I actually had a good deal of fun with the final boss, a Crimson variant, as well. I'm not really a fan of how the green deva's passive effect is healing the rest of the devas, as it really just limits your options by making you want to take its health down first no matter what, but the rest of the fight encourages strategizing and allows for a lot of room for SICK dodges by granting the player triple jump. Good fight, and not terribly difficult, either - it only took me around 4 hours, and I absolutely suck at bosses/avoidances.
In summation, I'd say that Irkara is a game that I respect more than I enjoy. It's certainly the most difficult and comprehensive X floor game, with production values to match, but much of the design seems to have been tweaked to simply be as hard as possible with no regard for how this impacted the flow of individual saves or the game's overall difficulty curve. It felt hugely satisfying to finally beat the game after ~40000 deaths and ~57 hours of playtime, but I really don't see myself going back to it any time soon. I would recommend it to people who want to experience truly *extreme* needle design without diving off the deep end completely, but anyone who isn't prepared to grind individual saves for significant periods of time and devise new setups left and right should stay far, far away.
I'll probably do the extra stage at some point, will update this review if/when that happens.
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Supremely difficult needle game, suitable only for highly experienced players who are prepared for a grind. Not even a needle god is coming out of this game with less than a five digit death count.
Irkara begins innocuously enough; the production values are nice and it eases you into the game with some more basic screens, as X floor games are wont to do. I feel like there's a nice, steady upward progression of difficulty through floor 49, and indeed that floors 1-49 by themselves would be a satisfying challenge for a less experienced player looking to break into harder needle, as they never exceed the 70-75 range of difficulty.
Unfortunately, I'm not going to be talking about the reasonable part of the game.
At floor 50, Irkara Needle abruptly undergoes an absolutely *staggering* spike in difficulty, with the majority of saves demanding sustained precision on the frame level and essentially mandating that the player be capable of sussing out setups to make jumps even possible, let alone reasonable. While there's certainly some creative design on display throughout, I have to say that honestly a great many of the saves in the latter half of the game are simply not fun to play at all due to the amount of truly frame-perfect jumps Irkara has peppered throughout the entirety of the latter half with reckless abandon. The game would still be very difficult even if the majority of these jumps were nerfed, and as-is, it's simply a grind fest. Like, yes, designing jumps this way certainly makes the game *harder*, but it doesn't make it any more *fun*.
That's not to say I absolutely hated everything, though. Floors 59-61 are incredibly creative and an absolute blast to play - I'd say they're quite possibly the best needle I've played, period. The floors designed around longer saves, such as 68 and 76, also tend to be much more reasonable than much of the rest of the game, simply due to lacking any jumps that require ridiculous nonsense like, say, doing a 4f + left simultaneous input and then rejumping on a specific frame... which is something actually required to get past one of the jumps in the needle rush (said jump was buffed to its current state in 1.0x).
The needle rush itself is generally fun, given that it's a medley sort of thing with screens taken from other games... Some of the buffs are just plain stupid, though. Unless you want the achievement for clearing every needle rush screen, I would really suggest skipping the Arcfox screen, because the buffs to it in 1.0x make it absolutely ridiculous, and IMO the hardest save in the main game.
I also really enjoyed the final Guy Tower climb; there's some very fun usage of jump refreshers and triple jump here. I'd love to see Irkara explore this sort of design further, especially because it doesn't assail the player with frame-precise jumps.
And surprisingly, I actually had a good deal of fun with the final boss, a Crimson variant, as well. I'm not really a fan of how the green deva's passive effect is healing the rest of the devas, as it really just limits your options by making you want to take its health down first no matter what, but the rest of the fight encourages strategizing and allows for a lot of room for SICK dodges by granting the player triple jump. Good fight, and not terribly difficult, either - it only took me around 4 hours, and I absolutely suck at bosses/avoidances.
In summation, I'd say that Irkara is a game that I respect more than I enjoy. It's certainly the most difficult and comprehensive X floor game, with production values to match, but much of the design seems to have been tweaked to simply be as hard as possible with no regard for how this impacted the flow of individual saves or the game's overall difficulty curve. It felt hugely satisfying to finally beat the game after ~40000 deaths and ~57 hours of playtime, but I really don't see myself going back to it any time soon. I would recommend it to people who want to experience truly *extreme* needle design without diving off the deep end completely, but anyone who isn't prepared to grind individual saves for significant periods of time and devise new setups left and right should stay far, far away.
I'll probably do the extra stage at some point, will update this review if/when that happens.
Rating: 7.5 75
Difficulty: 85 85
Dec 5, 2018
joseph567
For: I wanna be the Math Major 2
For: I wanna be the Math Major 2
Easier than Math Major 1. I hated Question 50 because I had to watch a speedrun of I wanna KTG to figure out the answer.
Tagged as: Math
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Rating: N/A
Difficulty: 5 5
Dec 5, 2018
sonicdv
For: I Wanna Be the Unknown
For: I Wanna Be the Unknown
Potentially good game ruined by its shitty bosses. The platforming actually tends to be really good, using gimmicks in really fun ways. But every single boss in the game is a fucking disaster. They are all boring, grindy, luck based affairs. Would not recommend.
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Rating: 4.0 40
Difficulty: 80 80
Dec 5, 2018
AndresSgarrido
For: I wanna attack the Slash Club
For: I wanna attack the Slash Club
My best try was 73, oh boy I regret it.
Tagged as: Visual_Challenge
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Rating: 0.4 4
Difficulty: N/A
Dec 5, 2018