I Wanna Develop An Appreciation For Music

Creator: Racic

Average Rating
7.5 / 10
Average Difficulty
38.6 / 100
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Adventure (4) Trap (14) Funny (4) Story (3) Meme (5) Music (1) poop (1) catJAM (2) DMCA (2) hub (1) Miku? (1) turnip (1) Appreciation_Universe (1)

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Creator's Comments:

Racic [Creator]
Latest Version: https://www.mediafire.com/file/xujbtdledbu94x7/I_Wanna_Develop_An_Appreciation_For_Music_v1.6.zip/file

Hey. I'm Racic. I made this game.

This game is a complete off the wall trap game. It's made as an ode to the genre of fangames that I love the most, so there's a lot of inspiration grabbed from a number of different trapgames, and trapgame makers, all redone with a "Racic twist."

The entire IDEA (not plot, you gotta play the game for that ;) ) behind the game is simple. As an older, and far far less skilled player of fangames, I had noticed that newer games kept coming out with more complicated gimmicks, and the skill level kept getting higher and higher. One of my goals was to take fangames back to that old-school silly trap, dated references, fun. Is this game going to change your life? No. Will you think about this game 20 minutes after you play it? Probably not. As long as you have some fun while you're playing, that's all I want. :) It's not SUPER difficult, it's not going to change your outlook on life, it won't be in any speedruns or anything. You'll play it, you'll (hopefully) laugh a bit, and that'll be that. <3

v1.6 - February 2, 2024
* Fixed a bug where, uh, you couldn't actually enter the Eurodance boss stage without the game crashing. Oops.

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Tagged as: Adventure Trap Funny turnip
[11] Likes
Rating: N/A       Difficulty: N/A
Apr 19, 2022

37 Reviews:

voraciousreader
Hey Racic, Mario Maker called. They want their Kaizo blocks and antisoftlocks back.

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Tagged as: Trap Funny catJAM DMCA
[3] Likes
Rating: 8.2 82       Difficulty: 43 43
Sep 19, 2022
fangameXPmaster
There were a few monotonous traps, but overall it was fun

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Tagged as: Trap Meme
[3] Likes
Rating: 7.0 70       Difficulty: 35 35
Apr 20, 2022
ElCochran90
*Cleared on 02/02/2023*

I owed my fellow Racic a live playthrough since ages, and by the time February came, I never released a review.

Truth to be told, fangame reviews were passed to a lower priority given many changes and events concerning my family’s health, my work, new ways of working at my job with a hybrid Home-Office / In-Presence model, and a recent engagement! My oh my, there will be another wedding in the IWC.

However, I personally established an obligation to review every single fangame I ever play because it’s a personal moral standard: there is a reason for my numbers, my appreciation matters, I share my worldviews with this unique community that still employs memes and humorous language I will never understand for the life of me, and, most importantly, all artists deserve feedback about their work and a review is the least they deserve.

Since day zero, I have always hated trap games. Also, as the community becomes desensitized with a brutally increasing trend of absurdly difficult games that will get today a difficulty rating of 71 even if in the old days they would be floating around a rating of 82, finding fun games of any genre becomes a challenge more today. That is why we, the less skilled ones, are each time more grateful for events like IWT (and there will still be outliers, like Know My Retribution or luck-based Crispy Fries).

This is where Racic and I share a tangency point in our vision:

“As an older, and far far less skilled player of fangames, I had noticed that newer games kept coming out with more complicated gimmicks, and the skill level kept getting higher and higher. One of my goals was to take fangames back to that old-school silly trap, dated references, fun.”

Why has this become rarer today? As a far far less skilled player of fangames myself as well, Racic wore the brave pants of creating a fangame, something I have no idea how to do (let alone having free time today to learn how to), and delivered this charm.

Prepare yourself for a surreal adventure trap game that will culture you with the basics of old-school hip hop, 90s Eurodance, vocaloids and country music (thanks a ton for the latter since it has been unjustly maligned and trashed).

The level of self-awareness is massive, and I think that’s the point of it all. “It is not a game that will change our lives”, but it’s just out there as a homage to the old days of not-frustrating fun. It’s a trap game, but the traps really don’t repeat themselves as much as old-school atrocities inspired by the legendary downloaders of Record My Jumps. The Sudoku-ish aspect of it makes it what it is: low production value goes along with the humor of the game.

I am not the meme-humor type, which pretty much excludes me from 95% of the Gen-Zers and 85% of the millennials (me being one), so the humor is lost on me. Many screens are frustratingly looking, and the traps do fall into generic territory most of the time. There is a punishment room, and it gets too cruel with the number of times intended for you to fall into it. It stops being funny and makes you begin to pray you don’t go there for the 17th time, especially if you have a terrible memory for traps (me).

The spikes sprites are a meme by this point, but why must all of them be poop? It’s kindergarten humor and you’ll have to endure it to the end. Still, what I love about Racic is that the upcoming sequel has “poop spikes addressed”, raising a middle finger to all. What can we do? Legend.

It’s a game that you can flush down the toilet, but it manages to do exactly what it aims to do: culture a little, restore the old Kayin days (who unironically gets trashed today) and makes you laugh. I laugh a couple of times, to which Racic said: “I don’t mind about your final Cochran rating: you’re having a good time and that’s enough for me”.

You have my respect, good sir.

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Tagged as: Adventure Trap Meme
[2] Likes
Rating: 4.4 44       Difficulty: 45 45
Oct 17, 2023
SirStockbox
Absolutely hilarious

Lambret twist

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[2] Likes
Rating: 9.0 90       Difficulty: 38 38
Jul 26, 2023
PlutoTheThing
While sometimes the gameplay is questionable in it's content, Appreciation for Music manages to get by on it's great vibe, at some points it certainly is a bit too dense with traps, or sometimes feels a bit generic in the types of traps, but there's a good amount of distinct ones, that make the experience memorable and worth playing. I don't think it's the most substantial trap game ever, but it's far from the worst, and very far from the most annoying.

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[2] Likes
Rating: 7.5 75       Difficulty: 32 32
Jul 2, 2023