Delicious Fruit
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by MikuStar263
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by MikuStar263
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by wonderful
17 Reviews:
Kilgour22
The game has 8 stages and a final boss. I'm currently on stage 6 after 3 hours of playing, but will progress no further because of a particular trigger segment that is so confusing that I have no idea where to go, what with multiple paths existing, a random gravity flipper that traps you and a disappearing block that serves seemingly no purpose, and considering it takes a full minute of hard platforming just to reach the trigger area, I will never grind it again.
Most segments are well-done. Save placement is kind of poor throughout, causing you to have to run upwards of a full second between each attempt. There are platforms that are not synced properly, resulting in downtime between jumps where there shouldn't be. It's fairly difficult needle, but not as hard as a Rukito game.
Play this if you can stomach some poor segments in order to play the good ones. Play this if you don't mind an annoying-to-reach start portal. Play this if you don't mind the creator trying to emulate Rukito.
I will update if I somehow get the desire to play the remainder of the game.
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Most segments are well-done. Save placement is kind of poor throughout, causing you to have to run upwards of a full second between each attempt. There are platforms that are not synced properly, resulting in downtime between jumps where there shouldn't be. It's fairly difficult needle, but not as hard as a Rukito game.
Play this if you can stomach some poor segments in order to play the good ones. Play this if you don't mind an annoying-to-reach start portal. Play this if you don't mind the creator trying to emulate Rukito.
I will update if I somehow get the desire to play the remainder of the game.
Rating: 4.5 45
Difficulty: 70 70
Mar 4, 2016
ElCochran90
*Cleared on 01/06/2023*
“Guess which random space to go to by dying many times: the game.”
128-Up applies his username to a fangame, the dream of all auteur(?). This is the first real attempt to create a Rukito-like game. Despite the variety and playtime this game aims at giving, I dislike this one very much.
The core problem is that it never decides between being a trigger game or a trap game (I don’t know why the trap tag hasn’t been applied as it is quite shameful in this department unlike the sequels: fake blocks, alternate paths, etc.). Traps can be memorized and that’s fine-ish, but the triggers are horrendous. The most intuitive way to handle a trigger game, which must not necessarily be a trap game, is to open a new path or activate a mechanism that transforms the screen at least marginally, or in the best of cases, reshapes it to a way that is not even considered as backtracking anymore. The game fails miserably at this.
It starts looking really bad from the first stage (perhaps it’s forced tradition, like all forced Stan Lee cameos in every Marvel film, may he rest in peace), and this is where the trigger problem begins, but I’ll get back to it later. The second stage looks really cool and this is where you realize the emulation of Rukito is real, but with a distinguishable stamp. Then the third stage, which is vine-heavy, comes back to an annoying Microsoft Pain green with a dark blue background. Visual style is not consistent and that original in its attempts to create soothing brand new appealing stages.
You can get over this: fangames that are deficient visually can more than compensate this with the platforming, and this was something very real in the early 2010s. However, the trigger implementation is, to put it mildly, stupid. As mentioned, triggers should be intuitive, but the problem begins even in Stage 1 where several spots could be tried after a long save to see if anything freaking moves. Take the second save of the first screen (no lie) as the first example. The first jump is quite tight. You might be trying to activate something in the ground, but nope, you have to go to the middle block. Fine, you see something moves. It worked: it required a very weird jump in the very first screen (no difficulty curve in this game; even Rukito had them). Now let’s go to beneath the two spikes with their tips colliding; there’s a small space beneath. Go. Yes, it works. A spike moved. Let’s go there. Cool, worked also; something opened on the right. The following moment is dumb: a spike opens to take you to a place that leads nowhere. It’s a 16px gap with nothing above. Should I try left? Should I try right? I did try right since there was no roof. Nope. It was left, but I died. It’s not obvious; sometimes it’s a guessing game.
There are two main ways to solve this:
-Close all alternate possibilities and have a single clear one
-Indicate with a marker what wall you should randomly touch or what 32X32 space you should go to
This bad trigger problem is ALL OVER the game, creating unnecessary difficulty. However, I’ll mention the three most infamous examples that scarred me:
-Screen 3 of Stage 5 (yellow pyramid-like stage): it’s an underwater race against the clock (which you of course activate by “almost doing” a random gate that exists because it exists. The road is obviously closed by spikes, so good luck finding the triggers, to keep opening the road. Some of them are even 16px wide. It’s nonsensical.
-Save 2 of Stage 6 (red stage): this is the worst example of them all. I had no idea what to do. There’s a vine on the left wall; I kept exploring everything in that area because it was the obvious thing to do, at least for me. What you must do is stupid: jump over the completely useless and random spike on the far right wall (you must go through a 16 px space of course) and hug said wall double jumping as high as possible. And I mean, very high. This will intuitively deactivate the minispike on the previous left wall you were trying and will obviously remove the upper road once you run away from the floor trap. What in the world?!! Shamefully, this was the moment I had to use an online guide and this moment is beyond me.
-Save 2 of Stage 7 (gray castle-like stage): after doing the double diagonal in the middle of the screen, a spike opens, but the jump is impossible. Naturally, one must activate a new trigger that is... where? It’s a leap of faith. Well, let’s fall down. No? Ok, maybe try going through the diagonal and over the three spikes: perhaps one will move. No? Well, it’s the block beneath me even if I’d immediately die. Completely obvious!
Honorable mention goes to the water section of Stage 7 also.
Final boss Mushroom Mecha is fun, but the background choice can make you confused with what hurts you and what doesn’t. It has many phases, so be prepared for an endurance test. I am not a fan of the huge light made in the fifth phase to blind your view completely, making it a luck game pretty much more than a reading one.
If you finished this game, play the sequels; they do up the standards progressively.
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“Guess which random space to go to by dying many times: the game.”
128-Up applies his username to a fangame, the dream of all auteur(?). This is the first real attempt to create a Rukito-like game. Despite the variety and playtime this game aims at giving, I dislike this one very much.
The core problem is that it never decides between being a trigger game or a trap game (I don’t know why the trap tag hasn’t been applied as it is quite shameful in this department unlike the sequels: fake blocks, alternate paths, etc.). Traps can be memorized and that’s fine-ish, but the triggers are horrendous. The most intuitive way to handle a trigger game, which must not necessarily be a trap game, is to open a new path or activate a mechanism that transforms the screen at least marginally, or in the best of cases, reshapes it to a way that is not even considered as backtracking anymore. The game fails miserably at this.
It starts looking really bad from the first stage (perhaps it’s forced tradition, like all forced Stan Lee cameos in every Marvel film, may he rest in peace), and this is where the trigger problem begins, but I’ll get back to it later. The second stage looks really cool and this is where you realize the emulation of Rukito is real, but with a distinguishable stamp. Then the third stage, which is vine-heavy, comes back to an annoying Microsoft Pain green with a dark blue background. Visual style is not consistent and that original in its attempts to create soothing brand new appealing stages.
You can get over this: fangames that are deficient visually can more than compensate this with the platforming, and this was something very real in the early 2010s. However, the trigger implementation is, to put it mildly, stupid. As mentioned, triggers should be intuitive, but the problem begins even in Stage 1 where several spots could be tried after a long save to see if anything freaking moves. Take the second save of the first screen (no lie) as the first example. The first jump is quite tight. You might be trying to activate something in the ground, but nope, you have to go to the middle block. Fine, you see something moves. It worked: it required a very weird jump in the very first screen (no difficulty curve in this game; even Rukito had them). Now let’s go to beneath the two spikes with their tips colliding; there’s a small space beneath. Go. Yes, it works. A spike moved. Let’s go there. Cool, worked also; something opened on the right. The following moment is dumb: a spike opens to take you to a place that leads nowhere. It’s a 16px gap with nothing above. Should I try left? Should I try right? I did try right since there was no roof. Nope. It was left, but I died. It’s not obvious; sometimes it’s a guessing game.
There are two main ways to solve this:
-Close all alternate possibilities and have a single clear one
-Indicate with a marker what wall you should randomly touch or what 32X32 space you should go to
This bad trigger problem is ALL OVER the game, creating unnecessary difficulty. However, I’ll mention the three most infamous examples that scarred me:
-Screen 3 of Stage 5 (yellow pyramid-like stage): it’s an underwater race against the clock (which you of course activate by “almost doing” a random gate that exists because it exists. The road is obviously closed by spikes, so good luck finding the triggers, to keep opening the road. Some of them are even 16px wide. It’s nonsensical.
-Save 2 of Stage 6 (red stage): this is the worst example of them all. I had no idea what to do. There’s a vine on the left wall; I kept exploring everything in that area because it was the obvious thing to do, at least for me. What you must do is stupid: jump over the completely useless and random spike on the far right wall (you must go through a 16 px space of course) and hug said wall double jumping as high as possible. And I mean, very high. This will intuitively deactivate the minispike on the previous left wall you were trying and will obviously remove the upper road once you run away from the floor trap. What in the world?!! Shamefully, this was the moment I had to use an online guide and this moment is beyond me.
-Save 2 of Stage 7 (gray castle-like stage): after doing the double diagonal in the middle of the screen, a spike opens, but the jump is impossible. Naturally, one must activate a new trigger that is... where? It’s a leap of faith. Well, let’s fall down. No? Ok, maybe try going through the diagonal and over the three spikes: perhaps one will move. No? Well, it’s the block beneath me even if I’d immediately die. Completely obvious!
Honorable mention goes to the water section of Stage 7 also.
Final boss Mushroom Mecha is fun, but the background choice can make you confused with what hurts you and what doesn’t. It has many phases, so be prepared for an endurance test. I am not a fan of the huge light made in the fifth phase to blind your view completely, making it a luck game pretty much more than a reading one.
If you finished this game, play the sequels; they do up the standards progressively.
Rating: 3.3 33
Difficulty: 80 80
Nov 6, 2023
joseph567
Platforming:8
Boss:0
This was the most eye-blinded boss I 've ever played
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Boss:0
This was the most eye-blinded boss I 've ever played
Rating: N/A
Difficulty: 65 65
May 13, 2017