Delicious Fruit
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by Destrat
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by Destrat
13 Reviews:
gafro
Literal masterpeice especially considering how hard it is, it's actually insane.
Tagged as: Needle
[5] Likes
Rating: 10.0 100
Difficulty: 97 97
Apr 16, 2024
notmaxwell
unbelievable,
incredible game, it stands out as one of (but likely) the best needle game of such insane difficulty, it's incredibly well put together in its gameplay, almost every single jump is difficult yet rewarding, and many are unique and interesting, alongside good screen structuring work ontop. I don't really know where to begin on something like this, I obviously have intense admiration for this game, and have so for years, but ignoring all that, it really is damn good and influential. obviously ascend is an ftfa-like, but it does it in a unique way, not visually persay (though the washed out tileset is a good idea, but nothing groundbreaking itself) but more in its gameplay structure and density, instead of trying to fit in a full screens-worth of jumps, ascend decides to place jumps sparingly, usually resulting in less than 5 notable ones per screen. This is a very good idea, ignoring just that it's a unique style that has unironically enough spawned it's own set of games and needle saves inspired by it, in general this idea allows it to refine these jumps to a higher quality standard and create a longer, more intense playing experience. I believe this is the main reason as to ascend's gameplay works so well, it's restrictive in the sense of 32px setup needle but less restrictive in the terms of it's own structuring, jumps are on floating blocks unconnected to anything, spikes too, which is usually considered lazy or poorly-designed but it's redone here to be turned back around into very good design. I don't know if ascend is the first to properly do this idea with an ftfa-like, but I'm extremely confident it's the first to pull it off on this level with such a good job. It's really good, and it's honestly the best type of ftfa-like i've ever played, it allows for the highlights of setup needle to be emphasized even moreso. Screen balancing is also well done here, screens get easier deeper into the save (for the most part, s4 & 5 could be argued as quite similar, but it's certainly not a drastic jump in difficulty), and it's done cleverly in the way that screens get less dense of jumps, and said jumps get more basic, instead of being more lenient on the frame windows (usually). I prefer this a lot over the counterpart of keeping the same amount of density but reducing the difficulty of jumps in later screens, these few jumps have personality and build a lot of suspense. Onto the actual jumps, insane, this game has some of my favourite setup needle jumps outright, and a lot of them, it's incredible, screens 4 to the end are near flawless, and i can't really point out any complaints, genuinely amazing gameplay that's intensely fun to just play over and over again, for this level of difficult making such a feat is extremely impressive. Screen 3 is also great, the 13f (\12f) is good, but I'm not a huge fan of the fist and last jumps, especially the last jump's initial 2f just felt off sometimes, truthfully this is nitpicking though and it's still a great screen. Screen 2 & 1 are sadly the reason I don't want to give this game a perfect rating, I just have small complaints on some jumps here that do genuinely start to become annoyances over time, namely with screen 1's third jump, it's poorly telegraphed and just a pretty awkward jump, it's not too precise or demanding of the player but at the sme time it's not really a setup needle jump, it stands out from it's peers and not in a good way, i found it to be mostly 'feeling-based' which resulted in some times where i'd suck at it since i overthought such feel for it, truthfully not much of a fan, and somewhat similar complaints could be said about screen 2's second jump, mainly in that the corner turnaround does feel pretty nasty at times with that start, but i'd say this jump is more akin to the rest of the game's catalogue. Also had some complaints with scrn1's final jump, mainly the 3f timing, but maybe that's just me. These jumps did detract from the experience a bit, just because the save is balanced in a way where screen 1 & 2 are quite difficult, so alas a lot of time is spent at these jumps that do get bothersome after a while. It's not that bad though, and it's not too detracting but i thought i might aswell mention it as it's the sole reason i'm not giving this game a 10\10 rating.
Overall, plays downright incredibly good for how difficult this game is, as stated before, it's the best option out there right now, and it's incredibly fun which is unbelievable. Some cool QOL aswell, "learning" difficulty has godmode, inf jump & the ability to save anywhere, the latter 2 being quite useful.
It's good, it's well made and has great gameplay to the point where it's influential itself while being an ftfa-like. Not much else to say, if you believe you have the ability to clear this then absolutely play it. I'd honestly even recommend playing through this game on learning and just messing around, it's genuinely fun.
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[1] Like
incredible game, it stands out as one of (but likely) the best needle game of such insane difficulty, it's incredibly well put together in its gameplay, almost every single jump is difficult yet rewarding, and many are unique and interesting, alongside good screen structuring work ontop. I don't really know where to begin on something like this, I obviously have intense admiration for this game, and have so for years, but ignoring all that, it really is damn good and influential. obviously ascend is an ftfa-like, but it does it in a unique way, not visually persay (though the washed out tileset is a good idea, but nothing groundbreaking itself) but more in its gameplay structure and density, instead of trying to fit in a full screens-worth of jumps, ascend decides to place jumps sparingly, usually resulting in less than 5 notable ones per screen. This is a very good idea, ignoring just that it's a unique style that has unironically enough spawned it's own set of games and needle saves inspired by it, in general this idea allows it to refine these jumps to a higher quality standard and create a longer, more intense playing experience. I believe this is the main reason as to ascend's gameplay works so well, it's restrictive in the sense of 32px setup needle but less restrictive in the terms of it's own structuring, jumps are on floating blocks unconnected to anything, spikes too, which is usually considered lazy or poorly-designed but it's redone here to be turned back around into very good design. I don't know if ascend is the first to properly do this idea with an ftfa-like, but I'm extremely confident it's the first to pull it off on this level with such a good job. It's really good, and it's honestly the best type of ftfa-like i've ever played, it allows for the highlights of setup needle to be emphasized even moreso. Screen balancing is also well done here, screens get easier deeper into the save (for the most part, s4 & 5 could be argued as quite similar, but it's certainly not a drastic jump in difficulty), and it's done cleverly in the way that screens get less dense of jumps, and said jumps get more basic, instead of being more lenient on the frame windows (usually). I prefer this a lot over the counterpart of keeping the same amount of density but reducing the difficulty of jumps in later screens, these few jumps have personality and build a lot of suspense. Onto the actual jumps, insane, this game has some of my favourite setup needle jumps outright, and a lot of them, it's incredible, screens 4 to the end are near flawless, and i can't really point out any complaints, genuinely amazing gameplay that's intensely fun to just play over and over again, for this level of difficult making such a feat is extremely impressive. Screen 3 is also great, the 13f (\12f) is good, but I'm not a huge fan of the fist and last jumps, especially the last jump's initial 2f just felt off sometimes, truthfully this is nitpicking though and it's still a great screen. Screen 2 & 1 are sadly the reason I don't want to give this game a perfect rating, I just have small complaints on some jumps here that do genuinely start to become annoyances over time, namely with screen 1's third jump, it's poorly telegraphed and just a pretty awkward jump, it's not too precise or demanding of the player but at the sme time it's not really a setup needle jump, it stands out from it's peers and not in a good way, i found it to be mostly 'feeling-based' which resulted in some times where i'd suck at it since i overthought such feel for it, truthfully not much of a fan, and somewhat similar complaints could be said about screen 2's second jump, mainly in that the corner turnaround does feel pretty nasty at times with that start, but i'd say this jump is more akin to the rest of the game's catalogue. Also had some complaints with scrn1's final jump, mainly the 3f timing, but maybe that's just me. These jumps did detract from the experience a bit, just because the save is balanced in a way where screen 1 & 2 are quite difficult, so alas a lot of time is spent at these jumps that do get bothersome after a while. It's not that bad though, and it's not too detracting but i thought i might aswell mention it as it's the sole reason i'm not giving this game a 10\10 rating.
Overall, plays downright incredibly good for how difficult this game is, as stated before, it's the best option out there right now, and it's incredibly fun which is unbelievable. Some cool QOL aswell, "learning" difficulty has godmode, inf jump & the ability to save anywhere, the latter 2 being quite useful.
It's good, it's well made and has great gameplay to the point where it's influential itself while being an ftfa-like. Not much else to say, if you believe you have the ability to clear this then absolutely play it. I'd honestly even recommend playing through this game on learning and just messing around, it's genuinely fun.
GG
Rating: 9.8 98
Difficulty: 97 97
Apr 24, 2026