Yuletide Derange

Creator: Chatran

Average Rating
8.1 / 10
Average Difficulty
61.1 / 100
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Adventure (1) Needle (5) Gimmick (5) Story (1) SourPls (1) Secret_Santa (2) Secret_Santa_2022 (3)

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  • by Chatran

Creator's Comments:

Chatran [Creator]
Made this for v. Also serves as a sampler for what is to come from my future output.

Game may have weird quirks in certain circumstances; the code is awful so I probably won't fix it unless it's an outright crash or other really bad issue, but do report all the same as it will help me buffer out the kinks for future games.

Hope you enjoy!

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Tagged as: Secret_Santa_2022
[1] Like
Rating: N/A       Difficulty: 62 62
Jan 2, 2023

11 Reviews:

egg
Thank you

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Rating: 9.5 95       Difficulty: 65 65
Jan 2, 2023
Lucien
YAAAS

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Tagged as: Needle Gimmick
[2] Likes
Rating: 7.8 78       Difficulty: 60 60
Jan 2, 2023
CanusAntonius
What a truly beautiful Christmas present to give to someone, both the aesthetics and the gameplay is incredibly unique and made for an enjoyable time, and I bet the recipient quite loved it. The game has neat gimmick needle in which you get candy canes that cause spikes to gain different effects, such as shooting a hot spike will allow you to stand on it temporarily or shooting a blue spike turns it into water. There are 3 floors to the building, and the first 2 really act as preparation for the top one which is a lot harder than the others. There's also presumably a bonus if you complete the game with a lot of extra candy canes, I'm not sure for certain how many you need left but it's more than one!

Would definitely recommend playing this, also the music system in this is absolutely genius and what we need more of.

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Tagged as: Needle Gimmick Secret_Santa
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Rating: 9.0 90       Difficulty: 62 62
Jan 2, 2023
Nearigami
A top tier atmosphere. I loved how much went into the presentation of this. There's a lot to enjoy here and I completely understand the high ratings.

For me though, I just wasn't having that much fun. I've never been the hugest fan of shooting spikes and the additional stipulation of trying to find ways to avoid shooting made a lot of segments just less enjoyable overall. I felt like I was deliberately picking the less fun path in order to reach an ending I had no clue I would hit. (I did not and it soured my experience further)

The 3rd screen in particular has some saves which just feel far more precise than they probably should have been.

I do want to clarify with my rating that this platforming *does* have a lot to love about it, but most saves felt like it had one jump that made my experience awkward and harder than probably intended, and looking at Chatran's other released output around this time and afterwards, I feel like I wouldn't have this problem with his other games. As it stands, this is a game that I desperately wanted to enjoy more than I did, but could not bring myself to do.

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Rating: 5.5 55       Difficulty: 65 65
Jan 5, 2024
Jopagu
The strong point of this game is definitely the visuals and the fun little cutscenes. The platforming is pretty fun, with a resource based shoot spike gimmick. The game unfortunately gets a lot less enjoyable on the third floor, as there is a major difficulty spike and the accompanying platforming is kinda awkward and precise. The water spikes in particular I don't think are used very well, they just lead to some annoying timing sections.

Ultimately, this is a tentative recommendation because it is very cool, however be warned that it ets a bit awkward.

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Tagged as: Needle Gimmick Story Secret_Santa_2022
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Rating: 7.6 76       Difficulty: 61 61
Jan 3, 2024