Delicious FruitCrimson Needle 2.5
Creators: Kale, Thenadertwo, Anuj071, kadykunde, egg, Patrickgh3, Thenewgeezer, Zero-G, Gwiz609
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TheJPEGDemon
I'm not very good at writing long reviews so I'll keep this one short.
A monolithic achievement in the history of fangames, in my opinion. There is such a vast display of talent in this game, and it's very clear to me that everyone who worked on this project did great in some way or another. The third section of this game is definitely the best thing I've ever played in pretty much any platformer. The scale and creativity is simply unbelievable.. the visuals and atmosphere, too. Thank you to everyone who helped make this game.
Edit: I have 100% this game (or at least of whats known)! I would not recommend it to anyone but I'm very happy that I did, and I'm proud of myself for the accomplishment. This game has a really different feel to it than the other CN game, I think touhoe's review very accurately puts it into words. Replaying chapter 3 made me remember just how lonely it feels. haha, I started crying while writing this, so I think I'll stop here. Rest well, blue.
A monolithic achievement in the history of fangames, in my opinion. There is such a vast display of talent in this game, and it's very clear to me that everyone who worked on this project did great in some way or another. The third section of this game is definitely the best thing I've ever played in pretty much any platformer. The scale and creativity is simply unbelievable.. the visuals and atmosphere, too. Thank you to everyone who helped make this game.
Edit: I have 100% this game (or at least of whats known)! I would not recommend it to anyone but I'm very happy that I did, and I'm proud of myself for the accomplishment. This game has a really different feel to it than the other CN game, I think touhoe's review very accurately puts it into words. Replaying chapter 3 made me remember just how lonely it feels. haha, I started crying while writing this, so I think I'll stop here. Rest well, blue.
Tagged as: Needle
[9] Likes
Rating: 10.0 100
Difficulty: 90 90
Sep 23, 2024
touhoe
Not only my favorite fangame but also my favorite game of all time. The quality and emotion packed into the visual storytelling and moment-to-moment gameplay across the game is truly unprecedented. It’s a deeply lonely journey that manages to convey a profound, sustained grief for one’s past goals, values, and sense of self. Yet, it is the happiest and most unabashedly bombastic celebration of the art of platforming I’ve ever seen.
I don't really know how to describe this game. It's 1000x more powerful than the sum of its parts but I am unable to fully articulate the emotions behind this statement. I could easily write 5000 words or so, maybe 20k would be tricky, but I still wouldn't be able to come close. This game means a lot to me.
I don't really know how to describe this game. It's 1000x more powerful than the sum of its parts but I am unable to fully articulate the emotions behind this statement. I could easily write 5000 words or so, maybe 20k would be tricky, but I still wouldn't be able to come close. This game means a lot to me.
Tagged as: Needle
Masterpiece
[5] Likes
Rating: 10.0 100
Difficulty: 86 86
Sep 22, 2024
bummerman222
Rating based on true ending
The main bulk of this game consists of a very large amount of content that all tends to vary from each other by large amounts. With mass variation like that, it's not unlikely to have a couple things you don't like. In my case I enjoyed almost all the platforming, but had a pretty bad time with most of the bosses, though there were 2 that I did have fun with, one of them being my favourite piece of content in the game. I'd recommend this game to pretty much anyone, even if you don't want to play the game in it's entirety, you will most likely find something you can enjoy.
[4] Likes
The main bulk of this game consists of a very large amount of content that all tends to vary from each other by large amounts. With mass variation like that, it's not unlikely to have a couple things you don't like. In my case I enjoyed almost all the platforming, but had a pretty bad time with most of the bosses, though there were 2 that I did have fun with, one of them being my favourite piece of content in the game. I'd recommend this game to pretty much anyone, even if you don't want to play the game in it's entirety, you will most likely find something you can enjoy.
Rating: 8.0 80
Difficulty: 85 85
Aug 25, 2024
KingSlendy
Rating based on getting Chapter 3 Ending with all secrets.
I can't give this game a rating lower than 10/10, because it's a masterpiece and an insane showcase of what fangames are capable of being, with an insane amount of content with tons of love and care put into it.
I don't really have much to say in the positives that other people haven't already said.
However, and this is where some people will probably get upset at me, I personally can't love this game as much as everyone else does, if you haven't played this game before, please do, as I will get into spoiler territory.
Chapter 1 is quite honestly the best needle I've ever played, it's exactly the needle I enjoy playing with minor complains, saves flow very nicely, the level design is varied and clever, music is good, visually stunning, fun secrets and floor 100 is my favorite save ever made. Sadly, and it pains me to say this, the game peaked right here for me, I could never quite reach the same amount of enjoyment out of the next parts of the game even if I liked a lot of things about them.
Chapter 2 has you getting back to all the stages to figure out all the secrets and this part is extremely cool, all of them are very cleverly hidden, the best secrets I've seen out of a fangame really, which then reveals the guest stages... and these are very hit or miss, the variety of them makes it unavoidable and there were quite a lot of them that I hated or just didn't enjoy purely due to my tastes, I even had to pause the game for several months because playing these was sometimes unenjoyable.
Shoutouts to a few of the guest stages which I absolutely adored, namely EchoMask (my favorite guest stage by a long shot), Cherry Treehouse (extremely long tho), RandomErik, PlasmaNapkin (even if the stage was very tiring due to the length), Qwylwright, Verve. Just to name a few, I liked other stages but these were the ones I enjoyed the most.
After doing all of the guest stages you get the final boss, which I for the most part didn't enjoy, phase 1 was very annoying to figure out for me and executing the phase when you know what to do wasn't very fun for me either, I just overall found this more annoying than fun. Phase 2 I enjoyed a bit more but there were some stuff that I found frustrating like the barely-visible stars of blue phase, the length of yellow phase and the stupid skull phase, so yeah solid fight but didn't enjoy much, the quality of it was very pretty tho.
Chapter 3... oh boy, I know people will want to murder me, but I didn't enjoy this chapter as much as I thought, the premise and the content is extremely insane and high quality, but as a mostly pure needle enjoyer... yeah I suffered through a lot of gimmicks I didn't like, it was agonizing sometimes, the saves I enjoyed I really loved but the ones I didn't I just straight up hated.
The Metroidvania aspect is something I'm very conflicted with, I love the idea in theory but in execution not so much, huge thanks to Huse for basically backseating the hell out of me with his maps and tips and overall guidance because I would've abandoned the game right here without him. The world is extremely huge, I imagine you can get lost on where to go without a map, and you are mostly just going from short section to short section, but sadly after beating the section there's just no more meaning on going back, it's basically just a very confusing linear section that sometimes makes you repeat stuff for no particular reason. The secrets were very clever but I didn't wanna do them on my own.
I know all of that might sound very negative, and yes it is, it pains me that I didn't just absolutely adored this game like most people, because this game is at its core a masterpiece and a must for all needle enjoyers, particularly gimmick needle enjoyers. As it stands it just goes in a direction that barely misses what I enjoy in fangames. Even then the journey was something special and I liked experiencing this game, everyone should!
Maybe if I complete New Game+ I will update this review, in the meantime, it was an amazing journey.
I can't give this game a rating lower than 10/10, because it's a masterpiece and an insane showcase of what fangames are capable of being, with an insane amount of content with tons of love and care put into it.
I don't really have much to say in the positives that other people haven't already said.
However, and this is where some people will probably get upset at me, I personally can't love this game as much as everyone else does, if you haven't played this game before, please do, as I will get into spoiler territory.
Chapter 1 is quite honestly the best needle I've ever played, it's exactly the needle I enjoy playing with minor complains, saves flow very nicely, the level design is varied and clever, music is good, visually stunning, fun secrets and floor 100 is my favorite save ever made. Sadly, and it pains me to say this, the game peaked right here for me, I could never quite reach the same amount of enjoyment out of the next parts of the game even if I liked a lot of things about them.
Chapter 2 has you getting back to all the stages to figure out all the secrets and this part is extremely cool, all of them are very cleverly hidden, the best secrets I've seen out of a fangame really, which then reveals the guest stages... and these are very hit or miss, the variety of them makes it unavoidable and there were quite a lot of them that I hated or just didn't enjoy purely due to my tastes, I even had to pause the game for several months because playing these was sometimes unenjoyable.
Shoutouts to a few of the guest stages which I absolutely adored, namely EchoMask (my favorite guest stage by a long shot), Cherry Treehouse (extremely long tho), RandomErik, PlasmaNapkin (even if the stage was very tiring due to the length), Qwylwright, Verve. Just to name a few, I liked other stages but these were the ones I enjoyed the most.
After doing all of the guest stages you get the final boss, which I for the most part didn't enjoy, phase 1 was very annoying to figure out for me and executing the phase when you know what to do wasn't very fun for me either, I just overall found this more annoying than fun. Phase 2 I enjoyed a bit more but there were some stuff that I found frustrating like the barely-visible stars of blue phase, the length of yellow phase and the stupid skull phase, so yeah solid fight but didn't enjoy much, the quality of it was very pretty tho.
Chapter 3... oh boy, I know people will want to murder me, but I didn't enjoy this chapter as much as I thought, the premise and the content is extremely insane and high quality, but as a mostly pure needle enjoyer... yeah I suffered through a lot of gimmicks I didn't like, it was agonizing sometimes, the saves I enjoyed I really loved but the ones I didn't I just straight up hated.
The Metroidvania aspect is something I'm very conflicted with, I love the idea in theory but in execution not so much, huge thanks to Huse for basically backseating the hell out of me with his maps and tips and overall guidance because I would've abandoned the game right here without him. The world is extremely huge, I imagine you can get lost on where to go without a map, and you are mostly just going from short section to short section, but sadly after beating the section there's just no more meaning on going back, it's basically just a very confusing linear section that sometimes makes you repeat stuff for no particular reason. The secrets were very clever but I didn't wanna do them on my own.
I know all of that might sound very negative, and yes it is, it pains me that I didn't just absolutely adored this game like most people, because this game is at its core a masterpiece and a must for all needle enjoyers, particularly gimmick needle enjoyers. As it stands it just goes in a direction that barely misses what I enjoy in fangames. Even then the journey was something special and I liked experiencing this game, everyone should!
Maybe if I complete New Game+ I will update this review, in the meantime, it was an amazing journey.
Tagged as: Needle
[3] Likes
Rating: 10.0 100
Difficulty: 85 85
Sep 12, 2026
YTMishanyaPlay
Based on any%
There are almost no complaints about the main game except for 85-87, there are extremely difficult timings at the end, undeservedly, which you cannot know in advance and you will most likely die there. I also want to speak out about the 100th floor, what I don’t like most about this floor is that you don’t see where you are jumping when moving to a new segment, I died a lot because of this. I would like to separately highlight the second half, where all the most difficult things are, a stupid fangamer habit that is present everywhere and spoils everything
There are almost no complaints about the main game except for 85-87, there are extremely difficult timings at the end, undeservedly, which you cannot know in advance and you will most likely die there. I also want to speak out about the 100th floor, what I don’t like most about this floor is that you don’t see where you are jumping when moving to a new segment, I died a lot because of this. I would like to separately highlight the second half, where all the most difficult things are, a stupid fangamer habit that is present everywhere and spoils everything
Tagged as: Kak_vsegda_govno_vkonce
[3] Likes
Rating: 4.0 40
Difficulty: 90 90
Jun 28, 2025