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DerpyHoovesIWBTG
For: I Wanna Pamper that Amber Glamour
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For: I Wanna Pamper that Amber Glamour
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Rating: 6.5 65
Difficulty: 42 42
Dec 5, 2023
TheNewGuy
For: I Wanna Graduate From Beginners
For: I Wanna Graduate From Beginners
Pretty decent beginner fangame
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Rating: 7.7 77
Difficulty: 37 37
Dec 5, 2023
XCVBFWDSC
For: I Wanna Pamper that Amber Glamour
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Rating: 7.2 72
Difficulty: 50 50
Dec 5, 2023
cLOUDDEAD
For: I Wanna Pamper that Amber Glamour
For: I Wanna Pamper that Amber Glamour
While Fine-House felt like a shining example of how to make incredible, interesting needle at a beginner's difficulty level, this game feels like it's lacking a lot of the core components of what made Fine-House so wonderful. All of the gimmicks are gone- there's a handful of moving objects and the last stage has some triggers but its all stock engine stuff. Which is fine, the needle design here is generally pretty good (there are a handful of jumps I think are way too awkward for a game of this difficulty caliber, but otherwise nothing to complain about), but the needle is definitely lacking in identity. Obviously the game is a tribute to Wolfie's style (and Vandal especially), but I think what made Fine-House so great were the use of set-pieces and memorable gameplay ideas, rather than just a straight shot of over-smoothed needle jumps; it's the vodka of needle games.
My favorite save by no coincidence is the one with a big wheel of cherries inside of cube of water that you have to navigate around, and I wished there were more saves like that one. There's 4 stages in the game, but really only one of them makes use of it's theme. The first stage is vanilla needle, so sure, we'll give that one a pass. The second stage seems to be themed around water, although as I write this I struggle to remember any water jumps, just a couple places that had water for pathing. The third stage was themed around... cluttered spike formations? Most of this stage plays the same as stage 1 but with outline spikes forming fancy shapes and some circle killers to make the layouts of the screens look very hectic, but there's no real gameplay theme here. Funnily enough, this is the stage that actually has the water/wheel save mentioned earlier. The final stage is a trigger needle, and is probably the best overall stage. The boss at the end is fun, not really much to say about it.
I know it probably sounds like I'm complaining a lot in this review, but its a short <10 minute game without a ton to talk about, and I'm just going off the things that stuck out to me; it's still a very good game and one of the elusive few truly good beginner needle games.
TL;DR the game is great, but doesn't live up to the expectations set by Fine-House and Heavenly Host
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My favorite save by no coincidence is the one with a big wheel of cherries inside of cube of water that you have to navigate around, and I wished there were more saves like that one. There's 4 stages in the game, but really only one of them makes use of it's theme. The first stage is vanilla needle, so sure, we'll give that one a pass. The second stage seems to be themed around water, although as I write this I struggle to remember any water jumps, just a couple places that had water for pathing. The third stage was themed around... cluttered spike formations? Most of this stage plays the same as stage 1 but with outline spikes forming fancy shapes and some circle killers to make the layouts of the screens look very hectic, but there's no real gameplay theme here. Funnily enough, this is the stage that actually has the water/wheel save mentioned earlier. The final stage is a trigger needle, and is probably the best overall stage. The boss at the end is fun, not really much to say about it.
I know it probably sounds like I'm complaining a lot in this review, but its a short <10 minute game without a ton to talk about, and I'm just going off the things that stuck out to me; it's still a very good game and one of the elusive few truly good beginner needle games.
TL;DR the game is great, but doesn't live up to the expectations set by Fine-House and Heavenly Host
Rating: 8.0 80
Difficulty: 40 40
Dec 5, 2023
Renko97
For: i wanna touch the SBL
For: i wanna touch the SBL
Feliz Navidad
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Rating: 7.6 76
Difficulty: 60 60
Dec 5, 2023
PlutoTheThing
For: I wanna Lap Backwards
For: I wanna Lap Backwards
While the original Lap Around is definitely far more deliberate and balanced than this game, I still think Lap Backwards holds it's own as a quality needle experience. There's definitely issues, some saves throw absolutely asinine jumps around like loose change and there's far more annoying bits, but I did enjoy my time with this game. The more spontaneous and "unhinged" style is interesting to me and the general concept behind the game does make it exciting to see how certain sections were interpreted and handled. As a sort of addendum, I find it funny this game and the original even are called FTFA-likes when they play almost nothing like that game, it's pretty silly.
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Rating: 8.3 83
Difficulty: 87 87
Dec 5, 2023