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PlutoTheThing
For: untitled needle game
For: untitled needle game
Needle, as a genre, is kind of ridiculous, because it encapsulates so many different types of fangames. There's so many styles and sub-genres of needle that hardly play similarly to truly be encapsulated with just one word. At the end of the day, needle games are just platformers, and everyone likes their platformers differently. I think that in a sense, genre labels are almost against what I like about fangames and fan-made works in general, and that is the way they are not bound by rules and restrictions a lot of media made for profit is. Who's to say what a needle game is, or is not, it's all made up anyways. Is this relevant to UNG? Not exactly, but at the bare minimum I think UNG is one of those cases which demonstrates how irrelevant the categorization of everything is, because in a sense it feels isolated from any of this stuff, it's just it's own thing, floating in it's own bubble, and it's an awesome thing.
In spite of what I think is the expected experience, I truly believe this game to be one of the most enjoyable fangames of all time, every stage brings something fresh to the table, mechanics not seen elsewhere, creative jumps, and it's all bundled in some of the most satisfying platforming I've seen in any game. The learning curve of this game is rough, everything wants to kick your ass and you'll often enter a stage and be like "there's no way I'll be able to handle this." However under the rough exterior is a game that in many ways is rather forgiving, nothing in this game is all that precise or intricate save for maybe a handful of exceptions, it's all rather consistent, which means that even though a lot of your deaths are just learning how something works, it's super quick to get back where you died and learn. This gameplay loop is incredibly satisfying to me, and makes for a game that is super fun to play blind. All of this, concluded with a fun boss with similar design principles to the rest of the game. To say the least I walked away from this incredibly impressed, there's a lot I'd have to say if I listed everything I like about this game, I think everyone should at least try it because I truly believe this to be one of the best fangames out there if it ends up being to your taste. Absolutely phenomenal work.
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In spite of what I think is the expected experience, I truly believe this game to be one of the most enjoyable fangames of all time, every stage brings something fresh to the table, mechanics not seen elsewhere, creative jumps, and it's all bundled in some of the most satisfying platforming I've seen in any game. The learning curve of this game is rough, everything wants to kick your ass and you'll often enter a stage and be like "there's no way I'll be able to handle this." However under the rough exterior is a game that in many ways is rather forgiving, nothing in this game is all that precise or intricate save for maybe a handful of exceptions, it's all rather consistent, which means that even though a lot of your deaths are just learning how something works, it's super quick to get back where you died and learn. This gameplay loop is incredibly satisfying to me, and makes for a game that is super fun to play blind. All of this, concluded with a fun boss with similar design principles to the rest of the game. To say the least I walked away from this incredibly impressed, there's a lot I'd have to say if I listed everything I like about this game, I think everyone should at least try it because I truly believe this to be one of the best fangames out there if it ends up being to your taste. Absolutely phenomenal work.
Rating: 10.0 100
Difficulty: 75 75
Oct 29, 2023
PlutoTheThing
For: I wanna be the Name
For: I wanna be the Name
This game is split into quite a few mini-stages, and there's a decent number of unique gimmicks, but the platforming in this game is very bare bones and that will be most of the content you explore. The worst of it is stage 2, where you have to do the 3 mini-stages once normally, then again with no saves. The final stage is probably the highlight of the game platforming wise but still pretty weak I'd say, especially the maze. The bosses are alright, although rather basic. They were a bit more interesting to me and probably the only part I'd say I really had fun with unfortunately. Not a bad game but I struggled to get into it at all.
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Rating: 5.5 55
Difficulty: 53 53
Oct 26, 2023
PlutoTheThing
For: JungleKID
For: JungleKID
This review is based on a 100% clear
JungleKID is a really unique and fun game, it feels a bit closer to just a difficult indie precision platformer than a fangame, but that's not a bad thing. There's tons of charm oozing out this game with the cute art, visuals, animations, and enemies. The game primarily focuses on exploration, as you need to use various abilities to locate secrets. I'm not really one to love secret hunting, but I did enjoy searching the levels a lot, the game makes it not too tedious and it's pretty satisfying to find them all, since they all have good hints. There's so many fun ideas and it basically never gets stale. If you do get everything you can access extra, which ditches the secret hunting and tests your skills and knowledge of the games mechanics. This stage is tough but I thoroughly enjoyed it, one of the highlights of the experience for me. While at times this game can be very mildly annoying if you go for 100%, I think it's worth it for the more complete and fulfilling experience than you could get doing the regular clear. Amazing fangame, at least worth trying at some point in your fangame lifespan.
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JungleKID is a really unique and fun game, it feels a bit closer to just a difficult indie precision platformer than a fangame, but that's not a bad thing. There's tons of charm oozing out this game with the cute art, visuals, animations, and enemies. The game primarily focuses on exploration, as you need to use various abilities to locate secrets. I'm not really one to love secret hunting, but I did enjoy searching the levels a lot, the game makes it not too tedious and it's pretty satisfying to find them all, since they all have good hints. There's so many fun ideas and it basically never gets stale. If you do get everything you can access extra, which ditches the secret hunting and tests your skills and knowledge of the games mechanics. This stage is tough but I thoroughly enjoyed it, one of the highlights of the experience for me. While at times this game can be very mildly annoying if you go for 100%, I think it's worth it for the more complete and fulfilling experience than you could get doing the regular clear. Amazing fangame, at least worth trying at some point in your fangame lifespan.
Rating: 9.5 95
Difficulty: 64 64
Oct 25, 2023
PlutoTheThing
For: Needle
For: Needle
As a preface, while it didn't affect my rating, it's worth noting I was relatively disappointed by this game as I went into it expecting something a lot less conventional than what it is. With the name and the insane makers list, I was quite interested in this game, but in reality it's just a hard needle collab of mostly vanilla needle.
At the end of the day my biggest issue with this game is a lack of identity, the only stages that really feel distinct are the final two and I don't even think they are very good, just different. Lots of kinda annoying jumps scattered about, in some ways it reminds me of CN1 but it's also much more reserved. The game just doesn't really have any personality which is a shame, because there's nice things about this game, it just is far too simplistic and doesn't benefit from that simplicity to be interesting in my opinion. Even removing my expectations and judging it for what it is, I do not recommend this game.
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At the end of the day my biggest issue with this game is a lack of identity, the only stages that really feel distinct are the final two and I don't even think they are very good, just different. Lots of kinda annoying jumps scattered about, in some ways it reminds me of CN1 but it's also much more reserved. The game just doesn't really have any personality which is a shame, because there's nice things about this game, it just is far too simplistic and doesn't benefit from that simplicity to be interesting in my opinion. Even removing my expectations and judging it for what it is, I do not recommend this game.
Rating: 4.3 43
Difficulty: 73 73
Oct 25, 2023
PlutoTheThing
For: I wanna shiver
For: I wanna shiver
Pretty fun game, there's a lot of different styles of needle here and they all have at least some positive qualities. There's lots of variety, and none of the stages feel like they overstay their welcome. The stages that probably stood out the most were Biogom's, Wolfie's, and maybe a few others like Chatran's and Torore's. Plasma's stage is also cool in concept, although I think gameplay wise it might have been the weakest point of the game for me, not bad but it just didn't feel as good to play. That doesn't change the fact this game is really good however, it's definitely worth playing if you enjoy needle games.
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Rating: 8.7 87
Difficulty: 63 63
Oct 23, 2023
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