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Name: Edgar Cochran
Country: Mexico
Currently living in: Mexico City
-God's servant and one of his blessed sons (John 1:12; John 3:16).
-Lover of the entire animal and plant creation.
-Film lover and reviewer for Letterboxd.com (https://letterboxd.com/elcochran90).
-Adjunct professor and personal tutor of Statistical Inference, Business Forecasting, Marketing Research and Portfolio Theory.
Fangaming experience began in August 2018, so only modest achievements here. However, I'll describe some relevant FAQs here made to me during my stay here since 2018:
Q: Are videogames art?
A: Yes
Q: Are fangames videogames?
A: Yes
Q: Why are your reviews long and unconventional?
A: I am a film reviewer; in a way, I sort of unconsciously dragged my style of film reviewing to the world of fangames. I often involve personal experiences in my writing. Expect that structure; I'm not planning to change it.
Q: How are you rating games? Do you compare fangames as normal games that your ratings are lower than all other people ratings or are you just a critical person?
A: My ratings are not lower than people's ratings all of the time regarding fangames, but they are most of the time. However, this is not my intention. I am rating them as normal games, as in, I don't have a different spectrum for rating "normal", "official" games than fangames. They are in the same scale, because they are all videogames. I don't like to think myself as a critical person; ratings are just subjective numbers. However, I have realized that I rate games more harshly than I rate films/short films, which I do more often.
Q: What are your favorite fangames?
A: I have not played enough fangames to make a comprehensive and representative list, but this can be answered by going to my Favorites list. Anything getting 6.7 or higher will be considered immediately as a favorite.
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ElCochran90
For: I Wanna be the Zeus
For: I Wanna be the Zeus
A very short needle game that was released before Hades, featuring a less interesting visual design and very trashy and generic choices. As usual, jump-cancelling will help you a lot throughout the game since there is a point where you will find a one-frame jump that ends into a TAS with the worst align possible actually. Also expect squished diagonals throughout. Overall, I wouldn't recommend this at all unless you're looking forward to knowing dagger's more popular and more challenging needle.
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Rating: 2.9 29
Difficulty: 65 65
Apr 8, 2021
ElCochran90
For: I Wanna Be the Hades
For: I Wanna Be the Hades
I wouldn't go to the extent that Leinaps even though it is indeed a farm game, but the difficulty distribution is decent, even if the first and third saves of the third screen were the hardest (final jump of final screen can be sort-of easily set up with the proper align).
This seems to be a game that baptized a new subgenre like L did: rocky needle with hard-soil-like-looking tiles and a music that doesn't seem to correlate at the beginning, but it then makes the experience somewhat more enjoyable. The farming thing is my biggest issue, but this is a love-hate relationship since most of the buffs come from highly dated needle, but this game made me do three things that I never considered myself capable of doing:
-A double downwards plane
-Squished diagonals, two downwards and one upwards
-Making an upwards plane and a downwards plane in the same jump
-A triple diamond
Edit: Wait, thats four... Anyway...
The first screen should prepare you for the horrors ahead, and my two cents definitely go for the third screen as the hardest, where the difficulty is a mess, and then goes down in the final screen. Experience was short, amusing and makes you face novice fears that sooner or later you will have to do if you keep delving into the fangame world.
Recommended only for veteran players, and consider jump-cancelling as mandatory knowledge for making this less of a screwfest. I grant some jumps being enjoyable and creative, but not the majority. It's more the feeling of accomplishment of pulling common difficult stuff off.
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This seems to be a game that baptized a new subgenre like L did: rocky needle with hard-soil-like-looking tiles and a music that doesn't seem to correlate at the beginning, but it then makes the experience somewhat more enjoyable. The farming thing is my biggest issue, but this is a love-hate relationship since most of the buffs come from highly dated needle, but this game made me do three things that I never considered myself capable of doing:
-A double downwards plane
-Squished diagonals, two downwards and one upwards
-Making an upwards plane and a downwards plane in the same jump
-A triple diamond
Edit: Wait, thats four... Anyway...
The first screen should prepare you for the horrors ahead, and my two cents definitely go for the third screen as the hardest, where the difficulty is a mess, and then goes down in the final screen. Experience was short, amusing and makes you face novice fears that sooner or later you will have to do if you keep delving into the fangame world.
Recommended only for veteran players, and consider jump-cancelling as mandatory knowledge for making this less of a screwfest. I grant some jumps being enjoyable and creative, but not the majority. It's more the feeling of accomplishment of pulling common difficult stuff off.
Rating: 4.0 40
Difficulty: 80 80
Apr 5, 2021
ElCochran90
For: I wanna be the Distrust
For: I wanna be the Distrust
Rating includes extra of extra (true ending; secrets required). Difficulty rating includes main game, although considering extra, or extra of extra wouldn't affect it.
According to some records, this is either the first or the second fangame made by Carnival, but this and Nervous were ready at the same time for public release back in the time. Carnival was in his early 11's when he made this.
He's got a very nice concept of adventure in fangames. You feel it in every stage and also as you progress. LoveTrap was a huge inspiration for him and this is the first time it shows, sometimes too literally. Where gameplay is harmed is by adding traps after lengthy saves right at the end. Fine, we're still in the old-school times of fangames, so you get used to it, keep progressing, and once you finish the "main game" with no secrets, you come to this area which inspired literally hundreds of fangames in the future: now do a boss rush with all previous bosses, but buffed. They are all surprisingly reasonable, but enter the buffed Rin & Len avoidance and you just want to kill yourself. Significantly more luck-dependent than final boss of Nervous, this one is annoying because it applies the godawful gimmick of placing a small (Ruka) sprite following you very slowly the entire avoidance and, at the end, said sprite attacks you. It's Miku 2 of Love Trap basically, with very easy attacks and three attacks in particular that are just cancer. That avoidance alone makes this game deserve a 70 in difficulty rating. Everything was 55 at worst.
As sonicdv specifies, game gets better after you pass this wall-in-your-face avoidance. Secrets are required for extra, and getting them is quite annoying: trigger something in the main map, backtrack a lot (yei), get through the entire secret screen (and die to lots of traps... just why...), grab the secret, backtrack through the secret screen and grab the first save possible.
Just annoying.
That opens the area down below the main screen which you could see the entire time. It's ok. Then a boss.
But wait! There's even MORE extra. Just head to the left of the main screen and access a new area with more fun, and traps. This area is generically-looking but at least it has a couple of interesting screens. Then the TRUE final boss.
I insist, the adventure spirit is there; it's the dynamics that fail for me.
Note: Game took 10 hours, but 6 hours went to beating the buffed avoidance. 4 went for main game, secrets, extra, extra boss, extra of extra and true final boss. That's how atrocious the avoidance is.
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According to some records, this is either the first or the second fangame made by Carnival, but this and Nervous were ready at the same time for public release back in the time. Carnival was in his early 11's when he made this.
He's got a very nice concept of adventure in fangames. You feel it in every stage and also as you progress. LoveTrap was a huge inspiration for him and this is the first time it shows, sometimes too literally. Where gameplay is harmed is by adding traps after lengthy saves right at the end. Fine, we're still in the old-school times of fangames, so you get used to it, keep progressing, and once you finish the "main game" with no secrets, you come to this area which inspired literally hundreds of fangames in the future: now do a boss rush with all previous bosses, but buffed. They are all surprisingly reasonable, but enter the buffed Rin & Len avoidance and you just want to kill yourself. Significantly more luck-dependent than final boss of Nervous, this one is annoying because it applies the godawful gimmick of placing a small (Ruka) sprite following you very slowly the entire avoidance and, at the end, said sprite attacks you. It's Miku 2 of Love Trap basically, with very easy attacks and three attacks in particular that are just cancer. That avoidance alone makes this game deserve a 70 in difficulty rating. Everything was 55 at worst.
As sonicdv specifies, game gets better after you pass this wall-in-your-face avoidance. Secrets are required for extra, and getting them is quite annoying: trigger something in the main map, backtrack a lot (yei), get through the entire secret screen (and die to lots of traps... just why...), grab the secret, backtrack through the secret screen and grab the first save possible.
Just annoying.
That opens the area down below the main screen which you could see the entire time. It's ok. Then a boss.
But wait! There's even MORE extra. Just head to the left of the main screen and access a new area with more fun, and traps. This area is generically-looking but at least it has a couple of interesting screens. Then the TRUE final boss.
I insist, the adventure spirit is there; it's the dynamics that fail for me.
Note: Game took 10 hours, but 6 hours went to beating the buffed avoidance. 4 went for main game, secrets, extra, extra boss, extra of extra and true final boss. That's how atrocious the avoidance is.
Rating: 3.5 35
Difficulty: 70 70
Feb 14, 2021
ElCochran90
For: I wanna be the Nervous
For: I wanna be the Nervous
Rating includes extra. Extra doesn't affect the Difficulty rating.
Here's the deal. Few know (or sometimes forget) that Carnival was 11 when he made this, and months later, he also released Crimson when he was 11 and 12 during Destination. The love for the original Guy was always a constant in his first fangames and it is always a good nod. This goes to the extent of recreating the left path with atrocious ideas and visuals. It's a mess. Maybe complaining about the first (I actually think it is his second) fangame of an early 11-year-old boy is trivial, but I do think we can. The only good thing going on in this game is the sense of adventure. You feel the genre, but you don't enjoy it; however, it is nicely structured until everything is ruined by atrocious avoidances. I really didn't have a good time at all.
However, the soundtrack is great for the platforming parts and the first cherry boss. Interesting choices with better taste than anything by Ed Sheeran.
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Here's the deal. Few know (or sometimes forget) that Carnival was 11 when he made this, and months later, he also released Crimson when he was 11 and 12 during Destination. The love for the original Guy was always a constant in his first fangames and it is always a good nod. This goes to the extent of recreating the left path with atrocious ideas and visuals. It's a mess. Maybe complaining about the first (I actually think it is his second) fangame of an early 11-year-old boy is trivial, but I do think we can. The only good thing going on in this game is the sense of adventure. You feel the genre, but you don't enjoy it; however, it is nicely structured until everything is ruined by atrocious avoidances. I really didn't have a good time at all.
However, the soundtrack is great for the platforming parts and the first cherry boss. Interesting choices with better taste than anything by Ed Sheeran.
Rating: 1.5 15
Difficulty: 65 65
Feb 3, 2021
ElCochran90
For: I wanna be the White & Black
For: I wanna be the White & Black
First time rating a game before clearing it.
Rating considers """extra""" which is actually not an extra, but the actual intended final boss, with no secrets required to access it. Difficulty considers the same parameters.
Considering my progress in this game, and the rhythm I am actually having in said progress, I consider it best to review this fangame now, because I see no near time in which I will fully beat the infamous Crime & Punishment avoidance Miku. I have survived four projectiles, so that is enough for me to know the full game.
Game has two levels. The left portal takes you to inventive designs of black and white needle, and offers you two options in each screen. The difficulty of the easier paths from me is 40. The difficulty for the tougher (and actually more fun) routes from me is a 60. I think this is the best the game has to offer. Vanilla needle, no traps, creative shapes here and there.
The right portal is a godawful boss that is extremely boring to grind, has an extended invincibility time lapse between each hit, and throws trash towards the end. It is really extremely boring.
And for many, supposedly, "that's it" for the game. It isn't.
After clearing these two challenges, the third portal in the middle opens and be ready to face some insanity. The avoidance is a huge mixed bag. In the beginning, you literally don't have to move for very extended periods of time, so it's a waste of time. The opening attacks until the chorus are too easy to be enjoyed and makes it a chore to make it to the difficult parts. When the chorus hits, it becomes interesting and after the background turns from white to black, you begin a tougher portion of the avoidance. The second time the chorus is sung, the avoidance gets really difficult, particularly because of mixing curved RNG with position-based cherry projectiles. It still can be pulled off consistently.
The intermission that follows can be extremely annoying and unfair, and the middle giant cherry spawning smaller ones in circles after every beat IS RNG and does not follow the logic of the same cherry you faced at the beginning, so you can get stupid combinations and roofs/walls that is just preparation for one of the most infamous things ever seen in old-school fangames.
Enter Crime & Punishment, "everyone's favorite choke avoidance", like a review said. There is even a separate "fangame" with this portion only to practice through this trash. It is so infamously stupid that I have even heard that freaking K3 nerfed it heavily. What does that tell you? Fully charged, balls-to-the-wall RNG cascades of curved crap and position-based projectiles at the speed of light that will guarantee your immediate and inevitable demise. I have survived 50% of this avoidance section, and have remained in there for more than one year (I began this before Christmas of 2019, back when Seven Trials and Needle Satan were my biggest accomplishments). I don't see myself beating this anytime soon because it is unfair. That's the word to describe this part. Unfair. And to think that you have to go through boring, don't-move sections all over again makes this a big NO.
Artistically it is a nice experiment, but gameplay-wise it's just a mess.
Avoid(?)
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Rating considers """extra""" which is actually not an extra, but the actual intended final boss, with no secrets required to access it. Difficulty considers the same parameters.
Considering my progress in this game, and the rhythm I am actually having in said progress, I consider it best to review this fangame now, because I see no near time in which I will fully beat the infamous Crime & Punishment avoidance Miku. I have survived four projectiles, so that is enough for me to know the full game.
Game has two levels. The left portal takes you to inventive designs of black and white needle, and offers you two options in each screen. The difficulty of the easier paths from me is 40. The difficulty for the tougher (and actually more fun) routes from me is a 60. I think this is the best the game has to offer. Vanilla needle, no traps, creative shapes here and there.
The right portal is a godawful boss that is extremely boring to grind, has an extended invincibility time lapse between each hit, and throws trash towards the end. It is really extremely boring.
And for many, supposedly, "that's it" for the game. It isn't.
After clearing these two challenges, the third portal in the middle opens and be ready to face some insanity. The avoidance is a huge mixed bag. In the beginning, you literally don't have to move for very extended periods of time, so it's a waste of time. The opening attacks until the chorus are too easy to be enjoyed and makes it a chore to make it to the difficult parts. When the chorus hits, it becomes interesting and after the background turns from white to black, you begin a tougher portion of the avoidance. The second time the chorus is sung, the avoidance gets really difficult, particularly because of mixing curved RNG with position-based cherry projectiles. It still can be pulled off consistently.
The intermission that follows can be extremely annoying and unfair, and the middle giant cherry spawning smaller ones in circles after every beat IS RNG and does not follow the logic of the same cherry you faced at the beginning, so you can get stupid combinations and roofs/walls that is just preparation for one of the most infamous things ever seen in old-school fangames.
Enter Crime & Punishment, "everyone's favorite choke avoidance", like a review said. There is even a separate "fangame" with this portion only to practice through this trash. It is so infamously stupid that I have even heard that freaking K3 nerfed it heavily. What does that tell you? Fully charged, balls-to-the-wall RNG cascades of curved crap and position-based projectiles at the speed of light that will guarantee your immediate and inevitable demise. I have survived 50% of this avoidance section, and have remained in there for more than one year (I began this before Christmas of 2019, back when Seven Trials and Needle Satan were my biggest accomplishments). I don't see myself beating this anytime soon because it is unfair. That's the word to describe this part. Unfair. And to think that you have to go through boring, don't-move sections all over again makes this a big NO.
Artistically it is a nice experiment, but gameplay-wise it's just a mess.
Avoid(?)
Rating: 3.0 30
Difficulty: 90 90
Dec 31, 2020
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