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About time I updated this bio.
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 see the Moon
For: I wanna see the Moon
I could write a book about this fangame, but I'll try to keep it as short as possible.
First, I played the "Normal" mode, which actually would qualify better as "Hard". The experience was extremely tedious. There are just less saves, sometimes with entire screens that do not have a single save spot. The screens are not really challenging per se, but it is heavily trap-based, and so, this consumes a lot of your time being a trial-and-error game. This is not difficulty; it is poor, frustrating design. Kayin understood what a "Hard" mode was supposed to be.
Second, the visual design is absolutely atrocious 80% of the times and shines the rest of the times, especially the "Space", "Black Valley" and "See the Moon" areas. It is extremely generic in its exterior designs, and very monochromatic. Whenever you enter the cherry forest or the blue ice area which names I won't bother to recall (interesting that those are the areas whose names I can't recall) will make your eyeballs explode out of pain: just paint everything green and blue in tones that hurt, use your imagination and voilá! You've got an "ice" or "forest" area. The forest area particularly looks like green baby's poo. But the true eye killer is an advanced area where you shoot anthropomorphic suns (or whatever they are), turning the ENTIRE screen of one strong, eye-piercing color, making the spikes of that color disappear, so goodbye eyes. Do not play this at night!!!
Third. Almost all of the bosses, except for the last one, are cherries (err, Delicious Fruits). Uneventful, unsurprising, and very boring, despite a couple of them using gimmicks that tried to compensate the "fights" you were supposed to believe you were facing.
Fourth, the game is extremely cryptic. Particularly infamous instances for me where figuring out the "Blood" room (which I discovered by pure accident), the hidden area in the Cherry Forest area where you're supposed to walk to the left (I confused that tile with bad design, and well, judging by the looks of the area, I can excuse myself) and getting the "Unown Pokemon" items in a very specific order: otherwise you would have to try again. ABSOLUTELY. FUN...
Fifth, if you don't make the game in a very specific order, it will become a giant maze where you will be going in circles and going through areas again and again just to find that corner or area that you couldn't visit before and you can now, but these new areas are not self explanatory except for the one requiring a key. The hints given with the green and red photographs helped very little (especially because the former is ridiculously hidden). Since I am a man of no guide in fangames, you can imagine myself:
a) Going in circles
b) Repeating tedious platforming areas again and again
c) With few save spots
This amounted for 5.95 hours of gameplay with 1298 deaths. But again, I am not calling this difficult. It was my fault that I chose the incorrect "difficulty" setting, which aggravated my experience, so my difficulty rating is me imagining more save spots where they were convenient, but I cannot change my game rating.
Any saving grace? Yes. The game has variety, I won't deny it, especially the tower segments and the aforementioned areas that showed commitment in the design. Also, the entire horrible experience is compensated by a surprisingly good original final boss that actually feels like a fight with interesting attacks, one which you will identify in the Kamilia sequels. I find myself playing against this booss from time to time because it is worth it, and the game, instead of leaving you in the "clear" screen, leaves you at the last save before the boss, so there's that.
Yeah, it is a classic and an early game (2013 if I'm not mistaken), but this doesn't mean that I am biased against classicsm or that there was an excuse to create awful designs. This reminded me of I Wanna Be The Four Elements and that is NOT a good thing. Look at the wonders Solgryn did back in 2010. There's no excuse. I am no designer, so I have no idea what is more difficult: to make more than 15 different areas where 10 look awful, or making a single area look great, like Thenader2's neon games.
I respect the people cherishing this classic, and I could see (although with difficulty) why this is considered as one. This is, however, not my type of adventure fangame. NOT RECOMMENDED.
P.S. Now I remembered that there was a "Difficult Start" option at the beginning. I don't know what that does and I don't want to know.
[7] Likes
First, I played the "Normal" mode, which actually would qualify better as "Hard". The experience was extremely tedious. There are just less saves, sometimes with entire screens that do not have a single save spot. The screens are not really challenging per se, but it is heavily trap-based, and so, this consumes a lot of your time being a trial-and-error game. This is not difficulty; it is poor, frustrating design. Kayin understood what a "Hard" mode was supposed to be.
Second, the visual design is absolutely atrocious 80% of the times and shines the rest of the times, especially the "Space", "Black Valley" and "See the Moon" areas. It is extremely generic in its exterior designs, and very monochromatic. Whenever you enter the cherry forest or the blue ice area which names I won't bother to recall (interesting that those are the areas whose names I can't recall) will make your eyeballs explode out of pain: just paint everything green and blue in tones that hurt, use your imagination and voilá! You've got an "ice" or "forest" area. The forest area particularly looks like green baby's poo. But the true eye killer is an advanced area where you shoot anthropomorphic suns (or whatever they are), turning the ENTIRE screen of one strong, eye-piercing color, making the spikes of that color disappear, so goodbye eyes. Do not play this at night!!!
Third. Almost all of the bosses, except for the last one, are cherries (err, Delicious Fruits). Uneventful, unsurprising, and very boring, despite a couple of them using gimmicks that tried to compensate the "fights" you were supposed to believe you were facing.
Fourth, the game is extremely cryptic. Particularly infamous instances for me where figuring out the "Blood" room (which I discovered by pure accident), the hidden area in the Cherry Forest area where you're supposed to walk to the left (I confused that tile with bad design, and well, judging by the looks of the area, I can excuse myself) and getting the "Unown Pokemon" items in a very specific order: otherwise you would have to try again. ABSOLUTELY. FUN...
Fifth, if you don't make the game in a very specific order, it will become a giant maze where you will be going in circles and going through areas again and again just to find that corner or area that you couldn't visit before and you can now, but these new areas are not self explanatory except for the one requiring a key. The hints given with the green and red photographs helped very little (especially because the former is ridiculously hidden). Since I am a man of no guide in fangames, you can imagine myself:
a) Going in circles
b) Repeating tedious platforming areas again and again
c) With few save spots
This amounted for 5.95 hours of gameplay with 1298 deaths. But again, I am not calling this difficult. It was my fault that I chose the incorrect "difficulty" setting, which aggravated my experience, so my difficulty rating is me imagining more save spots where they were convenient, but I cannot change my game rating.
Any saving grace? Yes. The game has variety, I won't deny it, especially the tower segments and the aforementioned areas that showed commitment in the design. Also, the entire horrible experience is compensated by a surprisingly good original final boss that actually feels like a fight with interesting attacks, one which you will identify in the Kamilia sequels. I find myself playing against this booss from time to time because it is worth it, and the game, instead of leaving you in the "clear" screen, leaves you at the last save before the boss, so there's that.
Yeah, it is a classic and an early game (2013 if I'm not mistaken), but this doesn't mean that I am biased against classicsm or that there was an excuse to create awful designs. This reminded me of I Wanna Be The Four Elements and that is NOT a good thing. Look at the wonders Solgryn did back in 2010. There's no excuse. I am no designer, so I have no idea what is more difficult: to make more than 15 different areas where 10 look awful, or making a single area look great, like Thenader2's neon games.
I respect the people cherishing this classic, and I could see (although with difficulty) why this is considered as one. This is, however, not my type of adventure fangame. NOT RECOMMENDED.
P.S. Now I remembered that there was a "Difficult Start" option at the beginning. I don't know what that does and I don't want to know.
Rating: 2.8 28
Difficulty: 45 45
Oct 21, 2018
ElCochran90
For: I wanna Bread
For: I wanna Bread
An Asian bread ventures out into finding valuable lessons about himself, facing his own past, fighting evil and embarking on an adventure. To my surprise, this is actually a needle game with very fun jumps and a nice balance between platforming and bosses sections. More than an excuse like in "I Wanna Make a Sandwich", the bread here symbolizes inner struggle and transforms a seemingly ridiculous excuse of a character into something fun to play as! Who would say!
It is very short and should prove as a decent experience for experienced beginners. Do not miss this one out. I often lost track between when it was being serious and when it wasn't, and believe it or not, I am sustracting points because I saw no satisfactory resolution to the main character in the ending (hey, the premise took itself too seriously so I did too), but it is worth the adventure I say. I just felt empty in the ending. But nice visual design and music choices compensate some big flaws.
Recommended.
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It is very short and should prove as a decent experience for experienced beginners. Do not miss this one out. I often lost track between when it was being serious and when it wasn't, and believe it or not, I am sustracting points because I saw no satisfactory resolution to the main character in the ending (hey, the premise took itself too seriously so I did too), but it is worth the adventure I say. I just felt empty in the ending. But nice visual design and music choices compensate some big flaws.
Recommended.
Rating: 4.8 48
Difficulty: 35 35
Oct 16, 2018
ElCochran90
For: I wanna be the Showdown
For: I wanna be the Showdown
Good concept. Not repetitive enough to be boring and has quite fun traps, although it is not the main theme. It is more gimmick than anything. It really feels like playing an average game in a Gameboy. Platforming is ok, bosses are ok, platforming is its strongest part, I have already forgotten about how the soundtrack sounds, it's just the IDEA itself that works the strongest.
I would recommend it, but not for beginners, unless you are looking for a challenge. I found myself doing unnecessary corners often just to get through screens more quickly and Screen 47 (I think it was that one), where you can shoot the dark blue spikes, I passed "legit", it without shooting any of them just to test myself. Fun times again.
Also, a funny thing happened: While I was playing through screens 41 and 42, I remembered the factory section of I Wanna be the Guy with the Megaman-esque lasers before encountering Bowser & Co., and when I stumble upon Screen 43, the lasers appeared! IWBTG certainly drew its influence and only a couple of fangames have surpassed my rating for it. What an influence it drew back in 2008 until today!
Recommended? Ok, yeah...
[0] Likes
I would recommend it, but not for beginners, unless you are looking for a challenge. I found myself doing unnecessary corners often just to get through screens more quickly and Screen 47 (I think it was that one), where you can shoot the dark blue spikes, I passed "legit", it without shooting any of them just to test myself. Fun times again.
Also, a funny thing happened: While I was playing through screens 41 and 42, I remembered the factory section of I Wanna be the Guy with the Megaman-esque lasers before encountering Bowser & Co., and when I stumble upon Screen 43, the lasers appeared! IWBTG certainly drew its influence and only a couple of fangames have surpassed my rating for it. What an influence it drew back in 2008 until today!
Recommended? Ok, yeah...
Rating: 4.6 46
Difficulty: 40 40
Oct 14, 2018
ElCochran90
For: indigo needle
For: indigo needle
Almost a 40 in difficulty (I rate in intervals of 5 points), but difficulty is also psychological, and I have to mimick what many have said, summarized well by Notevenamatuer: it is a beautiful, relaxing game. So, paradoxically, this is not, in my opinion, a beginner-friendly game at all: It requires previous needle experience and is a nice recommendation for players that have gathered previous experience and want to be introduced at the capabilities of the Dotkid physics before venturing into the expert of the subject: Thenader2. But the whole environment, music and visual design make the experience extremely enjoyable, making you think it is easier than your final death count.
I wasn't a fan of the avoidance segments at all (the idea is neat but I found it, quite frankly, very ugly and dissonant), but I find a high replay value in here.
I already have the perfect music choice for my next romantic dinner. So please, God, grant me my significant other!
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I wasn't a fan of the avoidance segments at all (the idea is neat but I found it, quite frankly, very ugly and dissonant), but I find a high replay value in here.
I already have the perfect music choice for my next romantic dinner. So please, God, grant me my significant other!
Rating: 5.2 52
Difficulty: 35 35
Oct 14, 2018
ElCochran90
For: I wanna Struggle Momentarily
For: I wanna Struggle Momentarily
This was submitted two years ago, so my expectations are really high for I Wanna Defy the Director, because this is only a preview and it has great visuals, a great theme, creative patterns and an absorbing atmosphere of death. This seems like either a sci-fi dream or an afterlife experience for The Kid. Who knows?
Kyir, give me a shout whenever you deliver what you promised, because I was left wanting much more!
Kyir, give me a shout whenever you deliver what you promised, because I was left wanting much more!
Tagged as: Avoidance
[0] Likes
Rating: 5.0 50
Difficulty: 35 35
Oct 14, 2018
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