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Gameplay & Discussion / Re: What's Your Progress?

« on: March 18, 2014, 03:33:40 AM »

I'm stuck on Gravity Man in Kamilia 2. Not because it's hard per se, but because it's the most AIDS thing I've ever tried to do in a fangame and I don't want to actually deal with the fight. So instead I decided I'd play something fun.

Then I opened Needle Satan by mistake and thought "why not?"

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Seems pretty doable so far, though my death count won't be pretty.

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User-Made Creations / Re: I wanna be the Rubik's Cube

« on: March 16, 2014, 07:36:24 PM »

God damn this is hard. Really fun though, and the individual jumps flow very well through the big long paths between some save points.

I just got to this screen, and it made me laugh out loud:

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oh my god I stopped laughing after I died on the final easy jump of this room like eight times but at least I finally beat it after 2000 deaths ugh

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Meet and Greet! / Hey eveyone!

« on: March 16, 2014, 07:28:38 PM »

Hey everyone! I was a top end Touhou player for many years, and a couple of years ago I did an I Wanna Be The Barrage LP. You might even be familiar with me from one of these things!

Anyway, I've always loved difficult platformers and got a kick out of the original IWBTG when it came out way back when. I revisited I Wanna occasionally for big name games like Fangame, Kill the Guy, and Galaxy, but for the most part have been completely ignorant about all the other fangames out there. Barrage attracted my attention due to all my danmaku experience with Touhou, but it would be more than a year after that before I randomly wandered into one of Denferok's streams via SpeedRunsLive and was exposed to Kamilia 2 and all sorts of other quality fangames. I was inspired to start Kamilia 2 myself, and, well...

I got stuck on the PYF screen for months. Holy shit. I thought I was good but I was no where near ready to deal with Kamilia 2.

Then I got better at fangames and got a better keyboard and now I'm trying to muster up the energy to deal with the massively unfun Gravity Man fight. Joy! In the mean time I've been enjoying some increasingly difficult needle games. I'm currently getting a kick out of Sunbla's new game, and I've got a big backlog of other stuff I need to play through that I picked up from various streams.

Good difficult platforming has become increasingly rare these days, but IWBTG fangames seem like they might provide me with an infinite amount of it. There's lots of very good, careful design out there from mad geniuses like Rukito - previously I always assumed that all fangames outside the big names were bad, haha. I'm glad to have finally broke into this stuff for real. I'm hoping to start streaming my gameplay once I get some other things in my life sorted out, but until then I'm having a blast with these games.