37 Reviews:
GaspacoZanis
Review is based on clear without any secrets and has explanation of quiz stage.
Really well-produced and quite long adventure game made by Dagger!
Game has variety of content and variety of gimmicks. Every of 8 stages feels with its own charm and with its own approach. Water stage allows to feel real adventure soul by solving step-to-step puzzles to progress in this mini-adventure. Lava stage gives unusual gimmick of arcade fruit-kid, which can only jump, however allows to feel unusual arcade style. Desert stage and infinity jump stages creates awesome atmosphere with soundtrack and visuals, which makes gameplay really fun for the player. Gimmicks itself are really creative too, starting from several layer gameplay and ending with fruit which is around kid and which changes its size on kid's left or right movements. Game also has unique white & black reminiscence of other stages final stage, which has pretty fun and quite unsual needle. And at the end of this journey there is very unique Destination-like final boss, which has very inteersting attacks followed by very fitting soundtrack.
What are issues of this game? The biggest issue is restarting music, which restarts on every stage, except the final one, which means that it was made intentionally, which is weird for this creator, since such a weird memes I quite didn't expect from Dagger (or how can you explain restarting music?). From gameplay I have heard that many people used to hate the last desert stage save due to its precise and quite whimsical timing. In my opinion, it isn't as hard as it may look if you try to find rhytm on which to synchronically go forward or trying to find beat of music (which is possible since music restarts). I beat in like 10-15 minutes in-game time and didn't find it as hard as some other people do, however I understand that it may be really hard for some people. I would recommend to not go in panic, but just to thing twice of strategy and trying to be calm as possible. Boss, in my opinion, is really well-made, however it is quite long and blue 2 and final attacks are quite hard and can be easy to choke, which may lead to frustration on the boss if you choke too many times, but I didn't find it as big issue, since boss has very fair RNG. And last issue, in my opinion, is quiz stage, which for most part is totally unobvious for those who doesn't know Japanese, so I will write what the quiz stage is all about, giving my comments and answers (solution to the answer I won't mark as spoilers, only answers, so be careful!)
It consists from 8 questions.
1) You see a room with number 384. Correct answer: 384. Very easy to figure out.
2) You see a room with number 256, but PC is upside-down. Correct answer: 952.Nothing too hard either.
3) You see a room with some Japanese signs. Correct answer: 024. This one is a total joke for those who are not Japanese. You have to write numbers on which you can type these Japanese symbols on Japanese keyboards. Just no comment. What this question has forgotten in this game?
4) You see a room where is one red Japanese sign, which means something like 'death' or 'perished ones'. Correct answer: Number of your current death quantity. Well, this one you can technically guess, however it doesn't help that it is on Japanese.
5) You see a room where is a picture of mouth holding cheese. Correct answer: 493. This one is even more silly than previous ones. You have to right-click on PC to see correct answer... Right-click is very unbvious, in my opinion, and that was thing, which already disliked that was used in I wanna be the Air/. I guess the reason why there is a mouse picture, is because it is a clue to use a computer's mouse, also using right-click of the mouse can be guessed by the fact on which hand mouse is holding cheese (and I thought about that only on 25/12/2019), amazing.
6) You see a room with only save and PC. Correct answer:7962. For the answer you should look on game's window. In my opinion, very clever way to hide answer and I liked it.
7) Same as in question 6. Correct answer: 3478. For the answer you should shoot the save and look on it for the correct answer. Hard to say how hard it is to find out this answer for those who are not very familiar to fangames, but if you know fangames quite well, then most likely this is going to be easy one, and personally, I liked this one.
8) You see a room where has appeared some block and button on its side. Correct answer: 6621. The correct answer will be already written in text box if you don't shoot the button. Clever one and quite eays, I guess.
9) You see screen with some flames and 'Read me' file, where is something written in Japanese. Correct answer: 5619. To find out correct answer you should open new 'ŗead me' file, which will be appeared, in which is written the correct answer. I guess, this is my favorite question, which is possible to guess at least.
10) You see a purple coin, which you need to clear this stage and see portal to exit the room. To get the coin, you have to left-click on the coin. Also, if you scroll-down, then you will find the hidden secret star, on which you have to click on to get it .
Overall about quiz stage: It would be really good if questions 3-5 wouldn't exist. I wouldn't even mind if question 5 would exist, but I don't know why questions 3 and 4 exist if the most of people won't be able to guess them, and even if you guess the 4th question, then fine, but I don't know how many IQ you should have to blindly guess 3rd question, really.
Overall opinion about the game: As I said, the game has its pros and cons, but I am still very glad that I played this game! If you are unsure about desert last save, then I would recommend to play desert stage as last stage (or first stage if you want to play less frustrating stages after that, like I did). Also I would recommend to play game blindly, except for quiz stage, on which I would suggest to look on for correct answers if you are totally clueless of an answer. Definitely would suggest this game for upper-beginner players to play this game and if you aodre this game, then I may suggest to try beating game with secrets, even though I don't know how hard they are, since I played without secrets. Would recommend even if you don't do K3 Storm Peak challenge.
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Really well-produced and quite long adventure game made by Dagger!
Game has variety of content and variety of gimmicks. Every of 8 stages feels with its own charm and with its own approach. Water stage allows to feel real adventure soul by solving step-to-step puzzles to progress in this mini-adventure. Lava stage gives unusual gimmick of arcade fruit-kid, which can only jump, however allows to feel unusual arcade style. Desert stage and infinity jump stages creates awesome atmosphere with soundtrack and visuals, which makes gameplay really fun for the player. Gimmicks itself are really creative too, starting from several layer gameplay and ending with fruit which is around kid and which changes its size on kid's left or right movements. Game also has unique white & black reminiscence of other stages final stage, which has pretty fun and quite unsual needle. And at the end of this journey there is very unique Destination-like final boss, which has very inteersting attacks followed by very fitting soundtrack.
What are issues of this game? The biggest issue is restarting music, which restarts on every stage, except the final one, which means that it was made intentionally, which is weird for this creator, since such a weird memes I quite didn't expect from Dagger (or how can you explain restarting music?). From gameplay I have heard that many people used to hate the last desert stage save due to its precise and quite whimsical timing. In my opinion, it isn't as hard as it may look if you try to find rhytm on which to synchronically go forward or trying to find beat of music (which is possible since music restarts). I beat in like 10-15 minutes in-game time and didn't find it as hard as some other people do, however I understand that it may be really hard for some people. I would recommend to not go in panic, but just to thing twice of strategy and trying to be calm as possible. Boss, in my opinion, is really well-made, however it is quite long and blue 2 and final attacks are quite hard and can be easy to choke, which may lead to frustration on the boss if you choke too many times, but I didn't find it as big issue, since boss has very fair RNG. And last issue, in my opinion, is quiz stage, which for most part is totally unobvious for those who doesn't know Japanese, so I will write what the quiz stage is all about, giving my comments and answers (solution to the answer I won't mark as spoilers, only answers, so be careful!)
It consists from 8 questions.
1) You see a room with number 384. Correct answer: 384. Very easy to figure out.
2) You see a room with number 256, but PC is upside-down. Correct answer: 952.Nothing too hard either.
3) You see a room with some Japanese signs. Correct answer: 024. This one is a total joke for those who are not Japanese. You have to write numbers on which you can type these Japanese symbols on Japanese keyboards. Just no comment. What this question has forgotten in this game?
4) You see a room where is one red Japanese sign, which means something like 'death' or 'perished ones'. Correct answer: Number of your current death quantity. Well, this one you can technically guess, however it doesn't help that it is on Japanese.
5) You see a room where is a picture of mouth holding cheese. Correct answer: 493. This one is even more silly than previous ones. You have to right-click on PC to see correct answer... Right-click is very unbvious, in my opinion, and that was thing, which already disliked that was used in I wanna be the Air/. I guess the reason why there is a mouse picture, is because it is a clue to use a computer's mouse, also using right-click of the mouse can be guessed by the fact on which hand mouse is holding cheese (and I thought about that only on 25/12/2019), amazing.
6) You see a room with only save and PC. Correct answer:7962. For the answer you should look on game's window. In my opinion, very clever way to hide answer and I liked it.
7) Same as in question 6. Correct answer: 3478. For the answer you should shoot the save and look on it for the correct answer. Hard to say how hard it is to find out this answer for those who are not very familiar to fangames, but if you know fangames quite well, then most likely this is going to be easy one, and personally, I liked this one.
8) You see a room where has appeared some block and button on its side. Correct answer: 6621. The correct answer will be already written in text box if you don't shoot the button. Clever one and quite eays, I guess.
9) You see screen with some flames and 'Read me' file, where is something written in Japanese. Correct answer: 5619. To find out correct answer you should open new 'ŗead me' file, which will be appeared, in which is written the correct answer. I guess, this is my favorite question, which is possible to guess at least.
10) You see a purple coin, which you need to clear this stage and see portal to exit the room. To get the coin, you have to left-click on the coin. Also, if you scroll-down, then you will find the hidden secret star, on which you have to click on to get it .
Overall about quiz stage: It would be really good if questions 3-5 wouldn't exist. I wouldn't even mind if question 5 would exist, but I don't know why questions 3 and 4 exist if the most of people won't be able to guess them, and even if you guess the 4th question, then fine, but I don't know how many IQ you should have to blindly guess 3rd question, really.
Overall opinion about the game: As I said, the game has its pros and cons, but I am still very glad that I played this game! If you are unsure about desert last save, then I would recommend to play desert stage as last stage (or first stage if you want to play less frustrating stages after that, like I did). Also I would recommend to play game blindly, except for quiz stage, on which I would suggest to look on for correct answers if you are totally clueless of an answer. Definitely would suggest this game for upper-beginner players to play this game and if you aodre this game, then I may suggest to try beating game with secrets, even though I don't know how hard they are, since I played without secrets. Would recommend even if you don't do K3 Storm Peak challenge.
Rating: 8.0 80
Difficulty: 48 48
Jul 30, 2019
sunbla
i still remember the day this came out and everyone just got surprised again what gimmicks dagger can pull off that haven't been around before. overall the game is not too hard and for some extra challenge the newest version has even some pretty tricky secrets you can go for. final boss is inspired by destination final boss but definitely has a unique feeling to it and is not that hard anyways.
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Rating: 9.0 90
Difficulty: 45 45
Feb 11, 2015
PlutoTheThing
Fun little game, there's a total of 8 stages, none of them are anything too special in my opinion, usually having a gimmick but nothing absolutely mind blowing, the more interesting stages were probably green and red but it's counter-balanced by yellow being really annoying. The final boss was cool, long destination fight which I think is quite fun but I might be biased because I love destination fights. Also patchy is cute~
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Rating: 7.0 70
Difficulty: 54 54
Mar 9, 2023
ElCochran90
Rating includes 100%. Difficulty rating includes no secrets.
dagger once again impresses with the creative capabilities of a somewhat old fangame, exploiting (not to the fullest) very catchy gimmicks and visual effects. The Water Temple stage is smarter in design than it is in creativity, the sand stage is very annoying (for once you'll thank this has restarting music for the final save) and the Kirby stage is pointless. Also, what's the point of having secrets if there is no reward whatsoever (yes, no extra, no more bosses, no nothing); please omit that nod to I Wanna Be The Guy. And getting the red star... Well, no...
However, there are other nice wonders I won't describe so that the experience is as blindfolded as possible. A particular reference to Lovetrap had me in tears, the cherry gimmick is innovative, and the puzzle stage is G-Brain amazing. Too bad it has the language barrier and also a question aimed specifically at those having a Japanese keyboard. In short, this game assumes you are Japanese.
Final boss is the more obvious tribute ever, but it is fun, and a welcome for those having the crazy idea of beating Carnival's ultimate visual-medley experience.
Random thought: I am actually thinking on baptizing that last term and using it here on Del Fruit on very specific games. Can I do that?
Recommended? Sure thing; half of the stages are well done and the final boss is not really grindy.
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dagger once again impresses with the creative capabilities of a somewhat old fangame, exploiting (not to the fullest) very catchy gimmicks and visual effects. The Water Temple stage is smarter in design than it is in creativity, the sand stage is very annoying (for once you'll thank this has restarting music for the final save) and the Kirby stage is pointless. Also, what's the point of having secrets if there is no reward whatsoever (yes, no extra, no more bosses, no nothing); please omit that nod to I Wanna Be The Guy. And getting the red star... Well, no...
However, there are other nice wonders I won't describe so that the experience is as blindfolded as possible. A particular reference to Lovetrap had me in tears, the cherry gimmick is innovative, and the puzzle stage is G-Brain amazing. Too bad it has the language barrier and also a question aimed specifically at those having a Japanese keyboard. In short, this game assumes you are Japanese.
Final boss is the more obvious tribute ever, but it is fun, and a welcome for those having the crazy idea of beating Carnival's ultimate visual-medley experience.
Random thought: I am actually thinking on baptizing that last term and using it here on Del Fruit on very specific games. Can I do that?
Recommended? Sure thing; half of the stages are well done and the final boss is not really grindy.
Rating: 5.5 55
Difficulty: 55 55
May 18, 2021
fubukiofficial
Good adventure game
and yellow stage final save ruined everything.
and yellow stage final save ruined everything.
Tagged as: Adventure
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Rating: 8.0 80
Difficulty: 50 50
Jan 18, 2021