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voraciousreader
For: I Wanna Go Camping
For: I Wanna Go Camping
Mainly an old-school trap game, with a couple bosses and an avoidance. The Ryu boss was fun and I liked the cloudy area a lot, but I wasn't a big fan of the surprise flower avoidance, which has a rather slow beginning. The inferno area had a couple too tight spike cycle saves back to back capped off with a slow and boring block ride. Finally, the last boss, while it has decent and simple attacks, is brought down by trying to reference the SMW Bowser fight, including its main problem - 10 seconds of unskippable waiting for each phase of the boss to begin attacking, which gets stale really fast.
Overall a short fun trap game, not without its flaws, but still enjoyable.
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Overall a short fun trap game, not without its flaws, but still enjoyable.
Rating: 7.5 75
Difficulty: 48 48
Oct 22, 2023
voraciousreader
For: I wanna travel the Mario World
For: I wanna travel the Mario World
Sometimes I get more frustrated at good games with missed potential than bad games, and this is one of those cases. Travel the Mario World is still a decent game, with great production value and lots of good ideas - but it's brought down by a number of small irritating details, such as the jankiest shell bouncing ever, cycles and P switch races that are a little too tight, the classic last trap / kaizo block at the end of a long section, and the final boss having a pretty unfair parting shot go quickly to the right once you kill Mario!
Still a solid adventure, although not for beginners and impatient needleheads.
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Still a solid adventure, although not for beginners and impatient needleheads.
Rating: 7.6 76
Difficulty: 52 52
Oct 22, 2023
voraciousreader
For: I Wanna Bonfire
For: I Wanna Bonfire
Rating basing on normal clear.
Very fun, banger song, thanks for the practice mode
The only attack that felt a bit questionable was the high-speed rain with a big red star obscuring the middle of the screen
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Very fun, banger song, thanks for the practice mode
The only attack that felt a bit questionable was the high-speed rain with a big red star obscuring the middle of the screen
Rating: 8.5 85
Difficulty: 45 45
Oct 18, 2023
voraciousreader
For: I Wanna Save My Boy
For: I Wanna Save My Boy
Don't be intimidated by the almost 70 difficulty average - if you've beaten other arzztt games like VoVoVo, Chill Needle 2, Not Another VVVVVV game, you can already beat 90% of Save My Boy. And if you're not at that level yet, then I'll tell you the rating average is well-earned: All the time I've spent playing and making gimmick fangames, the effort and practice that took me to a point where I could clear this without getting stuck on a save for more than 20ish minutes, was worth it just to clear Save My Boy.
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Rating: 9.6 96
Difficulty: 70 70
Oct 14, 2023
voraciousreader
For: I wanna go the Jumple Refrenture
For: I wanna go the Jumple Refrenture
A gimmick game based around a wide variety of gimmicky jump refreshers that are slowly added across each stage, topped with a final stage with single screens centered around a single gimmick jump refresher.
I like the visuals and tilesets, especially the final stage visuals.
The screen design is on average very good; there's several gimmicks like high gravity and slowdown, that could have been abused to force very precise jumps, but they're used judiciously for a great experience. The game also avoids the common pitfall of jump refresher chains with overly precise jump timings to keep height/momentum. There's a couple screen transition ambushes on stage 2, and a few saves with an unnecessarily hard needle jump right at the end or beginning of the save, which takes away from the gimmick gameplay (most notably last save of stage 2 and final stage purple screen first save).
Overall I enjoyed it a lot, it struck the right balance of gimmick, needle and grindiness. It's not my favorite of the pieceofcheese gimmick trilogy (Jungle Adventure is), but it's up there with them, albeit definitely the hardest of the three. Solid recommend for any experienced gimmick enjoyers!
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I like the visuals and tilesets, especially the final stage visuals.
The screen design is on average very good; there's several gimmicks like high gravity and slowdown, that could have been abused to force very precise jumps, but they're used judiciously for a great experience. The game also avoids the common pitfall of jump refresher chains with overly precise jump timings to keep height/momentum. There's a couple screen transition ambushes on stage 2, and a few saves with an unnecessarily hard needle jump right at the end or beginning of the save, which takes away from the gimmick gameplay (most notably last save of stage 2 and final stage purple screen first save).
Overall I enjoyed it a lot, it struck the right balance of gimmick, needle and grindiness. It's not my favorite of the pieceofcheese gimmick trilogy (Jungle Adventure is), but it's up there with them, albeit definitely the hardest of the three. Solid recommend for any experienced gimmick enjoyers!
Rating: 9.2 92
Difficulty: 68 68
Oct 3, 2023
6 Games
Game | Difficulty | Average Rating | # of Ratings |
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Eppur Si Muove | 62.4 | 7.3 | 6 |
Retrospective | 60.5 | 7.3 | 4 |
I Wanna Rewrite the Past | 55.2 | 7.6 | 17 |
Seventh V | 67.5 | 7.2 | 5 |
I Wanna Step Outside the Needle | 58.2 | 8.1 | 17 |
I Wanna Triplethink | 59.5 | 7.9 | 8 |
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