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by DerpyHoovesIWBTG
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85 Reviews:
genoxxx
I was surprised by this game. I am pretty sure that with better graphics, it could be a wonderful game. I can understand that people dont like it (there is A LOT pixel perfect/frame perfect jump for each saves), but i liked it. Would recommend to grind !
Tagged as: Needle
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Rating: 10.0 100
Difficulty: 93 93
May 24, 2016
29th_letter
Kinda banger. Really cool 32px needle. Fun to grind. Don't shy away from using practice
Oh yeah, no bhops are required, but are likely helpful
Also note that screen 3 has a 1f or 2f near the end of a save, though that shouldn't be too surprising
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Oh yeah, no bhops are required, but are likely helpful
Also note that screen 3 has a 1f or 2f near the end of a save, though that shouldn't be too surprising
Rating: 8.5 85
Difficulty: N/A
Jan 22, 2025
xva
FTFA is a game commonly awarded with the title of "true classic". it's a pioneer of multiple genres, and for good reason. it's an otherwise unsuspecting game that was revolutionary at release, spawning a very large amount of new and unique games vaguely following in its footsteps. this game is very versatile, a whole ton can be done with it, and so a whole ton has been done over the years. everyone's seen FTFA-likes, FTFA remakes, remixed and remade FTFA screens in various games - but few decide to actually play the original. I understand why, it's not exactly a very friendly game. it wastes no time making it clear that this game doesn't fuck around in the slightest. no music, no unique sprites, no unique death animation, just raw needle and nothing but the sound of your own jumps and deaths to accompany you. the game is painfully, deafeningly quiet. it feels like there's something slightly poetic in that. however, on a more serious note, the game is insanely overrated and is nowhere near the current delfruit difficulty estimate (85.5/100). maybe it's since a lot of the jumps are very commonly known and the setups aren't entirely foreign to me (and everyone else for that matter), but I just didn't find this game anywhere near 85+
in short: the actual needle is very good with one exception, that being screen 4
in long: FTFA-like games never really interested me, I saw them as carbon copies of one another. at the time of writing this review, I had only beaten one FTFA-like. it lands somewhere in the ballpark of 60 - 65 difficulty - directly being one of the easiest games in the entire FTFA-like genre. something that is often brought up is the balancing: every screen/save is defined by a few 'hard jumps' as they're called. every screen has a few unique ones, with screen 4 having the most, and is by community-wide consensus considered the hardest screen in the game. every screen up to screen 4 is fair and fun, while screen 4 is unfair and unfun. I had a nightmarishly bad experience with screen 4. it took 42 minutes to reach screen 4, and after 10 deaths to the final jump, my final playtime was just over 3 hours. I had next to no fun playing screen 4, as I just didn't end up finding it fun. it's just bad water jumps galore, along with one notably strange but oddly consistent valign setup. screens 1-3 didn't have a large amount of chokes, in fact I only died to the last jump of screen 3 three times. I feel it's important to mention that I didn't practice much of the game in jtool, I only looked up setups and jtooled two jumps - one in screen two, and one in screen three. of course, screen 4 was jtooled, but that didn't feel like it did much anyway. screen 4 is also the reason the game is in the 80-84 range and not 75-79
in short: the actual needle is very good with one exception, that being screen 4
in long: FTFA-like games never really interested me, I saw them as carbon copies of one another. at the time of writing this review, I had only beaten one FTFA-like. it lands somewhere in the ballpark of 60 - 65 difficulty - directly being one of the easiest games in the entire FTFA-like genre. something that is often brought up is the balancing: every screen/save is defined by a few 'hard jumps' as they're called. every screen has a few unique ones, with screen 4 having the most, and is by community-wide consensus considered the hardest screen in the game. every screen up to screen 4 is fair and fun, while screen 4 is unfair and unfun. I had a nightmarishly bad experience with screen 4. it took 42 minutes to reach screen 4, and after 10 deaths to the final jump, my final playtime was just over 3 hours. I had next to no fun playing screen 4, as I just didn't end up finding it fun. it's just bad water jumps galore, along with one notably strange but oddly consistent valign setup. screens 1-3 didn't have a large amount of chokes, in fact I only died to the last jump of screen 3 three times. I feel it's important to mention that I didn't practice much of the game in jtool, I only looked up setups and jtooled two jumps - one in screen two, and one in screen three. of course, screen 4 was jtooled, but that didn't feel like it did much anyway. screen 4 is also the reason the game is in the 80-84 range and not 75-79
Tagged as: Needle
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Rating: 7.8 78
Difficulty: 82 82
Jan 7, 2025
Sethdash
Well, it's the classic needle game. Surprisingly had a very enjoyable time with this and the needle design flows quite nicely. I will say the difficulty of what people rate this is a tad overrated. This is definitely not an easy game; however, it's short (which does play into difficulty for me) and I have found things in other games that are rated lower in difficulty that were similar in toughness to me. Overall, I would recommend this game to those who have the skill to clear it.
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Rating: 9.0 90
Difficulty: 81 81
Apr 26, 2024