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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 Adapt
For: I wanna be the Adapt
Not a total waste. At least you'll dislike one of the three short stages, but that means you'll enjoy at least one, and I did enjoy the forgettable needle section because the only thing I remember was it being brief and having nice shades of blue. Puzzle section was fun and creative, but too short to handle. My problem is the length, as it could be expanded into a much more interesting, prolonged adventure. I don't even remember the third stage and I played this a week ago! It's that bad.
It finishes way too soon and the final boss is more fun as a visual idea than gameplay-wise, but give it a try anyways. The majority was of my disliking, but after being The Bowl, being The Adapt was a nicer experience immediately after.
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It finishes way too soon and the final boss is more fun as a visual idea than gameplay-wise, but give it a try anyways. The majority was of my disliking, but after being The Bowl, being The Adapt was a nicer experience immediately after.
Rating: 3.5 35
Difficulty: 40 40
Jul 25, 2020
ElCochran90
For: I wanna be the Bowl
For: I wanna be the Bowl
Recommended by my buddy NightShark115, who found the game interesting. It was a social experiment recommendation inspired by Gaspaco's recommendation of CaballerosVI, and I'm still open for that.
67% Kirby-inspired boring stages, and the rest consists of bad gimmicks except for the red/blue spikes one. Awful bosses, generic songs, the most uneventful traps imaginable, and the most anticlimactic final boss ever conceived in fangaming history as you think it's just the middle boss of the stage until you realize it's the boss before the ending of the game! I couldn't help laughing hard at the clear screen because I couldn't believe it was over. Platforming sucks too and there is a screen-wrapping that is just godawful to figure out. Didn't take too much time for me, but still. It's way too short for an adventure game and has close to zero variety. A waste of time.
Unless, of course, you stream it live with an audience as valuable as the one I had that Sunday morning.
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67% Kirby-inspired boring stages, and the rest consists of bad gimmicks except for the red/blue spikes one. Awful bosses, generic songs, the most uneventful traps imaginable, and the most anticlimactic final boss ever conceived in fangaming history as you think it's just the middle boss of the stage until you realize it's the boss before the ending of the game! I couldn't help laughing hard at the clear screen because I couldn't believe it was over. Platforming sucks too and there is a screen-wrapping that is just godawful to figure out. Didn't take too much time for me, but still. It's way too short for an adventure game and has close to zero variety. A waste of time.
Unless, of course, you stream it live with an audience as valuable as the one I had that Sunday morning.
Rating: 1.5 15
Difficulty: 45 45
Jul 25, 2020
ElCochran90
For: I Wanna Be the Picture
For: I Wanna Be the Picture
I'll be honest about everything.
There seems to be something special between old Carnival fangames and myself. It's the perfect mixture between mythology, and the three founding fathers of fangaming in different aspects: I Wanna Be the Guy (the original that started it all), I Wanna Be the Fangame! (the classic of classics that retained the spirit of the original and exploited even more possibilites) and I Wanna Be the LoveTrap (close to stopping being a Humanly Impossible game for the true final boss, the Japanese adventure-trap answer to the previous two, the theoretical father of Miku avoidances and its blocks layout: 5 at the left, four at the center, sprite on the right). I think they are the old-school of the good kind. Heaventrap 1 is actually good, and the sequel is not bad at all (favored by many, but I prefer the first adventure).
This one starts in that splendid fashion: you jump into a book, graphics change to something more cartoonish (which is a good thing since it gives you the feeling of being in a child's tale world), you must explore four different worlds to acquire items that actually become useful for other worlds to progress (boring backtrack warning, although it is mostly "healthy"), and gimmicks to explore. It's a fun concept, it's a fun idea, everything seems to be nicey. You can almost forgive (well, not really) the awful traps and the overtly simplistic bosses (Kracko in particular is so lazily made). There's this funny and annoying dark blue section where you have red lasers/lines(?) going left and right which you have to time correctly to get across by jumping into the square of space that keeps oscilating.
Everything is 50 of difficulty tops, until you stumple upon the first avoidance. Well, ok, grindy stuff with unfair RNG at times, but it is a nice final challenge.
Then, beyond your imagination, this game becomes the "no wait, there's more!" nightmare.
LENGTH SPOILERS FROM HERE ON, IF YOU DON'T MIND. I WON'T TAG THEM. NO BOSSES/PLOT SPOILERS.
This is not the final challenge, and I would have been very fine with this being the ending. No. You have to backtrack through the final area and the red laser/line/thingies, and now you have to go through buffed versions of the original worlds! Here, things get annoying, but difficulty wise, expect no more than 60 in difficulty, that is, if you decide to do the buffed avoidance with its eye-piercing yellow tones (image available above) for last. That avoidance is sickeningly difficult and will take you more than half of your playthrough time because of trash walls and roofs that instagib your butt. Final attack in particular is an RNG party so be prepared!
75 in difficulty thanks to this challenge alone. Sorry.
And so, the game comes to an e.... no wait there's more!
Now explore four other repetitive worlds with absolutely nothing special compared to the original ones. Well, nothing except it has underwater diagonals, half diamonds and downward planes... and secrets! This one now has secrets (and this is going to be the source of my BIGGEST complaint, yes, even bigger than the avoidance). The secrets ARE SUPPOSED TO unlock a secret boss after you beat the final boss.
Anyway, before clearing the 4th extra world and doing an unnecessary corner jump I wanted to do anyways, I suddenly realize I can actually go through the wall! Oh, it's a secret! I collect it, clear the 4th extra world and see a pencil icon above the teleporter indicating that I obtained it. Hence, I begin my quest to look for the other items. I find them (one was very tricky to figure out, but finding them is quite obvious). We're done. Let's go with the final(?) boss and clear the extra boss afterwards.
Final boss: it is much, much fairer than the avoidance because it is position based, and once you learn that the first attack (which is repeated twice, sigh) has that logic, you won't have much problem clearing the boss even if, as expected from Heaventrap 1 and 2, has an EX phase, which is actually easier than the first one lol. Cool song, generic fight but kinda epic, so it's a plus sign for the rating.
CREDITS!!!
OMG we have already finished the game.
Press F2.
Select your save.
Go to the spike that has disappeared with the secret items to go to the extra bo.... Why is the spike there???
Why is the freaking spike still there??
-I went through your BS avoidance
-I collected all secret items
-I beat the final boss
What the hell? Was I supposed to play in Hard Mode? (A theory of mine because all videos on YT I desperately sought are played in Hard Mode by Japanese folks). Was I supposed to collect the secret items after the final boss? Or was I supposed to go to the secret area immediately after the secret items because going to the final boss triggers the spike back again?
Anyways, if any of the previous answers apply, then screw this game to hell because I deserve my final extra boss which I have, by now, seen a playthrough in YT with envy without experiencing it with my eyes for the first time to have a notion of what I lost. It looks lovely. I wanna play that And I can't access it. And I did everything.
SCREW YOU, GAME!! I WANNA BE THE PICTURE!
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There seems to be something special between old Carnival fangames and myself. It's the perfect mixture between mythology, and the three founding fathers of fangaming in different aspects: I Wanna Be the Guy (the original that started it all), I Wanna Be the Fangame! (the classic of classics that retained the spirit of the original and exploited even more possibilites) and I Wanna Be the LoveTrap (close to stopping being a Humanly Impossible game for the true final boss, the Japanese adventure-trap answer to the previous two, the theoretical father of Miku avoidances and its blocks layout: 5 at the left, four at the center, sprite on the right). I think they are the old-school of the good kind. Heaventrap 1 is actually good, and the sequel is not bad at all (favored by many, but I prefer the first adventure).
This one starts in that splendid fashion: you jump into a book, graphics change to something more cartoonish (which is a good thing since it gives you the feeling of being in a child's tale world), you must explore four different worlds to acquire items that actually become useful for other worlds to progress (boring backtrack warning, although it is mostly "healthy"), and gimmicks to explore. It's a fun concept, it's a fun idea, everything seems to be nicey. You can almost forgive (well, not really) the awful traps and the overtly simplistic bosses (Kracko in particular is so lazily made). There's this funny and annoying dark blue section where you have red lasers/lines(?) going left and right which you have to time correctly to get across by jumping into the square of space that keeps oscilating.
Everything is 50 of difficulty tops, until you stumple upon the first avoidance. Well, ok, grindy stuff with unfair RNG at times, but it is a nice final challenge.
Then, beyond your imagination, this game becomes the "no wait, there's more!" nightmare.
LENGTH SPOILERS FROM HERE ON, IF YOU DON'T MIND. I WON'T TAG THEM. NO BOSSES/PLOT SPOILERS.
This is not the final challenge, and I would have been very fine with this being the ending. No. You have to backtrack through the final area and the red laser/line/thingies, and now you have to go through buffed versions of the original worlds! Here, things get annoying, but difficulty wise, expect no more than 60 in difficulty, that is, if you decide to do the buffed avoidance with its eye-piercing yellow tones (image available above) for last. That avoidance is sickeningly difficult and will take you more than half of your playthrough time because of trash walls and roofs that instagib your butt. Final attack in particular is an RNG party so be prepared!
75 in difficulty thanks to this challenge alone. Sorry.
And so, the game comes to an e.... no wait there's more!
Now explore four other repetitive worlds with absolutely nothing special compared to the original ones. Well, nothing except it has underwater diagonals, half diamonds and downward planes... and secrets! This one now has secrets (and this is going to be the source of my BIGGEST complaint, yes, even bigger than the avoidance). The secrets ARE SUPPOSED TO unlock a secret boss after you beat the final boss.
Anyway, before clearing the 4th extra world and doing an unnecessary corner jump I wanted to do anyways, I suddenly realize I can actually go through the wall! Oh, it's a secret! I collect it, clear the 4th extra world and see a pencil icon above the teleporter indicating that I obtained it. Hence, I begin my quest to look for the other items. I find them (one was very tricky to figure out, but finding them is quite obvious). We're done. Let's go with the final(?) boss and clear the extra boss afterwards.
Final boss: it is much, much fairer than the avoidance because it is position based, and once you learn that the first attack (which is repeated twice, sigh) has that logic, you won't have much problem clearing the boss even if, as expected from Heaventrap 1 and 2, has an EX phase, which is actually easier than the first one lol. Cool song, generic fight but kinda epic, so it's a plus sign for the rating.
CREDITS!!!
OMG we have already finished the game.
Press F2.
Select your save.
Go to the spike that has disappeared with the secret items to go to the extra bo.... Why is the spike there???
Why is the freaking spike still there??
-I went through your BS avoidance
-I collected all secret items
-I beat the final boss
What the hell? Was I supposed to play in Hard Mode? (A theory of mine because all videos on YT I desperately sought are played in Hard Mode by Japanese folks). Was I supposed to collect the secret items after the final boss? Or was I supposed to go to the secret area immediately after the secret items because going to the final boss triggers the spike back again?
Anyways, if any of the previous answers apply, then screw this game to hell because I deserve my final extra boss which I have, by now, seen a playthrough in YT with envy without experiencing it with my eyes for the first time to have a notion of what I lost. It looks lovely. I wanna play that And I can't access it. And I did everything.
SCREW YOU, GAME!! I WANNA BE THE PICTURE!
Rating: 2.4 24
Difficulty: 75 75
Jul 25, 2020
ElCochran90
For: I wanna be the Math Major
For: I wanna be the Math Major
Sorry, I am totally biased, so don't take this review seriously at all: this was literally a walk through the park for me. As an Inferential Statistics and Portfolio Theory professor at my University, my deaths were literally due to instructions unclear that I had to try some questions again many times.
I'll spare you those deaths without giving the exam away. Missing instructions are:
-Use the least amount of parentheses as possible, following the operational order
-Use four decimals to round your probabities. Round properly. If the fourth decimal is a 0, use THREE decimals.
-If the result is an exact fraction, use the fraction instead (but sometimes; this is uneven, so you'll have to try both anyways at some questions).
-For integrals, use a CAPITAL C for the constant term (this was cheap)
-This might be common sense when using a PC, but this time DO NOT use the * sign for multiplication. Express everything as you would in a normal exam.
I'm proud to be a huge nerd.
P.S. When I arrived at question 26 and the game began to have impressive production value, I just lol'd.
I'll spare you those deaths without giving the exam away. Missing instructions are:
-Use the least amount of parentheses as possible, following the operational order
-Use four decimals to round your probabities. Round properly. If the fourth decimal is a 0, use THREE decimals.
-If the result is an exact fraction, use the fraction instead (but sometimes; this is uneven, so you'll have to try both anyways at some questions).
-For integrals, use a CAPITAL C for the constant term (this was cheap)
-This might be common sense when using a PC, but this time DO NOT use the * sign for multiplication. Express everything as you would in a normal exam.
I'm proud to be a huge nerd.
P.S. When I arrived at question 26 and the game began to have impressive production value, I just lol'd.
Tagged as: Math
[2] Likes
Rating: 1.3 13
Difficulty: 15 15
Jul 25, 2020
ElCochran90
For: I wanna make a Sandwich
For: I wanna make a Sandwich
Piece's completed IWKTG. No review or rating previously published simply because I was waiting for this game to be finished, just like IWKTG.
Ok, I have to interrupt this review with something: You can create a final boss for a bud's unfinished fangame but cannot add a second boss to your own unfinished fangame? WHY! The irony and paradox breaks my head and heart.
Anyway, the plot is totally 2015's Piece, but the development is certainly so 2019. Platforming, production value and variety is quite good at many parts. You can tell what is new and what isn't, like two people of differing level-creation skills and different visual styles. Compare the opening world with the golden castle, or the section turning from B&W to Purple & White with the Super Metroid stage. The list goes on. Although this came as uneven for me, I won't deny that it added to the element of surprise regarding "what the hell does the next world will look like?". That's the fun part of it: the uncertaintiy, more than the final outcome.
After Sephalos, Piece ranks #2 in my list of fangame makers that can recreate classic original videogame universes and adapting them to the standard engine so that The Kid becomes a part of said world, incorporating traps, needle, gimmicks, jokes, memes and/or bosses. The FGM blind games, all 4 of them, are collabs to me, but you can sort of see a director behind, the mastermind behind the project. This work proves that. The adventure spirit is exactly the same, the variety is right there in your face to surprise you, and song choices are always the best.
Sorry to be the party pooper, but this is also a trap game. Some are creative and are worth witnessing what happens; many of them are trash, and when placed at the end of a save, it just kills my mood. I appreciate the humor behind every Game Over text, like Geezer did with his original UNFINISHED game; I also appreciate every trap being different for a wonderful comedic showcase (I Wanna Bigger P****); I don't appreciate my effort being thrown to the trash with a flying spike or with a Thwomp making a "UGH!" sound because that got old a long time ago.
Anyway, there is a surreal segment at the middle of the game which experiments with audio and visuals, and it was a nice moment of experimentation. I will always be cherishing those moments. Also, the fact that the game becomes informative about sandwich ingredients is pure gold; sometimes the smallest ideas do the greatest things. There were two instances where I laughed out loud and that's a good thing, because I am a sad (not literally) and boring (maybe true) guy finding difficulty in laughing. A particular 60-second avoidance segment features a meme song which kept me smiling like an idiot for a full minute. Since it was a first-try, I died intentionally to rock back and forth my head while the song was playing and avoiding again. The song is available, as always, in the Music folder. (Note: I just decided to go there and listen to said song, peanutbonus, while I finish my review). Piece is a meme-maker; you can't stop that.
A fun adventure and varied fangame with traps that amuse you, others that frustrate you and bore you, many styles that are uneven and, finally, a final boss that aims at reaching MattinJ's proportions (nice one there Geezer, truly), this comes with my humble personal recommendation. It's the game we expected and kind of deserved after so many years.
P.S. I ate a sandwich during the final boss. Nice night.
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Ok, I have to interrupt this review with something: You can create a final boss for a bud's unfinished fangame but cannot add a second boss to your own unfinished fangame? WHY! The irony and paradox breaks my head and heart.
Anyway, the plot is totally 2015's Piece, but the development is certainly so 2019. Platforming, production value and variety is quite good at many parts. You can tell what is new and what isn't, like two people of differing level-creation skills and different visual styles. Compare the opening world with the golden castle, or the section turning from B&W to Purple & White with the Super Metroid stage. The list goes on. Although this came as uneven for me, I won't deny that it added to the element of surprise regarding "what the hell does the next world will look like?". That's the fun part of it: the uncertaintiy, more than the final outcome.
After Sephalos, Piece ranks #2 in my list of fangame makers that can recreate classic original videogame universes and adapting them to the standard engine so that The Kid becomes a part of said world, incorporating traps, needle, gimmicks, jokes, memes and/or bosses. The FGM blind games, all 4 of them, are collabs to me, but you can sort of see a director behind, the mastermind behind the project. This work proves that. The adventure spirit is exactly the same, the variety is right there in your face to surprise you, and song choices are always the best.
Sorry to be the party pooper, but this is also a trap game. Some are creative and are worth witnessing what happens; many of them are trash, and when placed at the end of a save, it just kills my mood. I appreciate the humor behind every Game Over text, like Geezer did with his original UNFINISHED game; I also appreciate every trap being different for a wonderful comedic showcase (I Wanna Bigger P****); I don't appreciate my effort being thrown to the trash with a flying spike or with a Thwomp making a "UGH!" sound because that got old a long time ago.
Anyway, there is a surreal segment at the middle of the game which experiments with audio and visuals, and it was a nice moment of experimentation. I will always be cherishing those moments. Also, the fact that the game becomes informative about sandwich ingredients is pure gold; sometimes the smallest ideas do the greatest things. There were two instances where I laughed out loud and that's a good thing, because I am a sad (not literally) and boring (maybe true) guy finding difficulty in laughing. A particular 60-second avoidance segment features a meme song which kept me smiling like an idiot for a full minute. Since it was a first-try, I died intentionally to rock back and forth my head while the song was playing and avoiding again. The song is available, as always, in the Music folder. (Note: I just decided to go there and listen to said song, peanutbonus, while I finish my review). Piece is a meme-maker; you can't stop that.
A fun adventure and varied fangame with traps that amuse you, others that frustrate you and bore you, many styles that are uneven and, finally, a final boss that aims at reaching MattinJ's proportions (nice one there Geezer, truly), this comes with my humble personal recommendation. It's the game we expected and kind of deserved after so many years.
P.S. I ate a sandwich during the final boss. Nice night.
Rating: 6.1 61
Difficulty: 50 50
Jun 11, 2020
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