Arzztt Challenge Reviews

Stage 1:

IWBTOctophobia 7/10:  Fun and easy

IWPWDangerous Toys 6.67/10:  Neat short game with some cool gimmicks

IWFollow it 6/10: Needle that I actually enjoyed with amazing visuals, too bad the
avoidance is garbage, even though it has a lot of production value put into it

IWBTNeon 6.3/10: More needle that I didn't hate, pretty solid all throughout

That Cat Game 2.11/10: Fucking hell this game is weird, but not in a way that is that enjoyable.
A decent amount of the platforming screens are enjoyable, but the bosses are some of the worst
things I've ever played in a fangame.

IWSpread My Wings 7/10: Short and fun game with some neat gimmicks

IWannyaaaa 8/10: This game is a ride, but a very fun one.  Most all of the traps are done
in a way that is just annoying enough to get on your nerves, but not overkill to the point
where it's no longer fun.  Each of the bosses is weird in it's own way, and the final boss
is one of the few avoidances I will find myself enjoying.

IWSTMoon 6.72/10: This game is good, but honestly I was expecting a little more since this
is regarded as one of the classics.  However it's still pretty fun with a good amount of gimmicks.

Stage 2:

IWBGenki With You 9/10: Wow, I loved this game.  All of the enemies are so weird, but in the
best way possible.  With how different all the enemies are, it leads to a lot of interesting
puzzles and the maker makes a lot of skips in screens that if you want to go for you can, which
can lead to some funny occurances.  This game's presentation is so different to anything
else that I've played and it makes the experience so much better. If you haven't already,
play this.  also NICE GENKI!!!!

IWWalkTheCeiling2 7.2/10: Solid, fun puzzles with a few bosses that I don't quite care for but overall pretty
great.  also WolfiePuzzles

IWTTMarioWorld 8.5/10: Really fun adventure/trap game, some enjoyable bosses, and a lot of gimmicks that are
buggy at times.  If the gimmicks were fixed this would be one of the best fangames to exist imo

IWConnectTheHearts 7.1/10: It's a cave story inspired trap/adventure game which is super fun and has a lot
of pretty hilarious traps in it.  The final boss is not that great though which keeps this from being amazing.

IWBTNew 4.1/10: A trap game that is about 70/30 on a ratio of bad traps to good traps.  A lot of the traps
are just bland and bad, especially with how often one is put right at the end of a save which triggers me.
But it does have one of the best traps in a fangame to date, too bad I already knew about it.

UhuhuSpike2 5.994/10: A pretty decent needle game with a lot of unique jumps which I can appreciate highly.
However a lot of the jumps are still very tight and at times very unenjoyable, but I'm biased against needle
so don't listen to me TohruSmug.

Permanence Zero 5.4/10: DJ SourPls.  Short needly/trappy boy with an easy avoidance at the end.

IWGTParallel World 5.999/10: Eeeeeeehhhhhh, neat at parts, unplayable at others, but still decently fun.

Stage 3:

Serial Experiments Kid 8.73/10: This game's story is really interesting, and the way you progress through
the game is pretty fricking cool.  The gimmicks aren't all that interesting, but the creator uses
them very well to make things very creative.  Also that ending BibleThump

IWRoll Around 9.1/10: Man this game was fun.  The gimmick of rolling around to progress through screens is
used extremely well, and the gimmick itself is so freaking cool and I love it.  Most of the platforming
being done with rolly kid is so fun, but unfortunately some of the bosses aren't the best, but none of them
are that bad.

IWLive 5.475/10: The game is filled with a lot of traps, some creative, but a lot of them are just spikes
flying or moving around.  Also the last 20 mins or so aren't the best imo.

IWKTKamilia 6.3/10: Ok lemme say right now, this game fucking sucks so much, however it's so bad that it
becomes a very enjoyable experience except for a few screens.  better than k3 Kappa

IWBTCrimsonKid 7.2/10: Really creative and fun puzzle game that uses a bunch of different kids to solve
various puzzles.  The save sound effect is god awful and made me want to mute the in-game music and
I got soft locked at one point cuz I broke a puzzle, but besides that pretty fun would recommend.

Hearty Jewel 6.5/10: This game exists.  The worlds are generally cool and the bosses for the most part
are fun enough, but I felt like a lot of opportunity was lost by wanting to make it a pretty heavy trap game.

IWBTTimeCharacters 5.7/10: The last 20 mins is just stupid as hell, but the rest of the game is pretty fun.
A lot of the secrets are hiden in ways that's very fair, but easy to miss on a first playthrough of an area.
However, there are also a ton of secrets that are too cryptic to be fair and enjoyable in my eyes.

MichealWTBTG 4/10: The best thing about this game is the title screen, which is freaking great.
The bosses are heavily inspired by boshy meaning tons of instagibs and little iframes which is baka.
Most of the platforming is very learny and the maker doesn't know how to make good traps, and on top of that
most of the level design ranges from fine to god awful.  Also the death sounds are the worst thing in the game.
This is one of the classics that got lost with time and honestly I hope it stays lost.

Stage 4

Christmas Deliveries 7.8/10:  Christmas NANG PogChamp.  But in all honesty this game is really awesome.
Amazing visuals, sick gimmicks, fun bosses, and most important of all, good level design.  Stages 1-9 are
freaking great, but stage 10 really isn't the best imo.

IWBTInteraction 2/10: oh boy I get to type about this.  Let's start with the positives, it has production
value, and it, uhhh, wait is that all that's good?  The bosses all suck in their own separate ways, whether
it's by having way too long of iframes, unreasonable rng dependent attacks, horribly telegraphed attacks,
or having attacks that make it impossible to hit the boss, failjguy makes sure to make you have the least possible fun that you can while fighting these bosses. The platforming is, besides the 2 needle areas, mainly just "long" saves filled with
unfunny traps that almost always make you have to do a jump that is harder than you would without said traps.
And when the game tries something new with having to do puzzles,
they are made in the worst way possible that it can barely be considered a puzzle.  The 2 avoidances
are probably the best part of the game, but even then those suck as well, especially the miku one.
I really tried to enjoy this game, but it is just awful, do yourself a favor and never play it.

IWRTRedacted 8.2/10: Really solid all throughout.  Cool stages with neat gimmicks mainly revolving around
jump refreshers.  The overall hub and story of the game is also fantastic and probably the best part of the
game.  I Was only able to get endings 1 and 2 so idk if my opinions of this game would be different if I got
the other endings.  Good!

IWBTJustice 8.1/10: Finally a game that knows how to use very simple traps in amazing ways.  All of the
stages are pretty fun especially with the addition of actually good and funny traps.  The bosses range from
pretty freaking good to awful, however I have fought the 2 worst bosses in the game many times so I didn't
have any problems with the bosses.  I wasn't sure how I was gonna feel about this game, but I'm so glad
that I played it now.

IWKTBlueMage2 8.38/10:  This game is super cool with a lot of fun platforming, and it includes probably my
favorite gimmick in any fangame ever which is the sword.  The sword makes the game 5x better and the game
is already really good without it.  Most of the bosses are fun as heck with the exception of one, and
the platforming is overall really good, but it has some save balance problems, which will happen with a
needle game this big, but still it irked me sometimes.

IWRHeaven 4.8/10: I'm gonna be honest, idk why I didn't like this.  Sad part is the game is actually pretty
good, I just personally didn't enjoy it that much.

IWTTDaburyu 6.4/10: A medley that takes a lot of interesting screens from a lot of games you wouldn't expect
and makes them enjoyable or at the very least doable.  Last boss is gay and I would want to off myself if I
didn't watch a clear vid, and boss 1 and 2 are learny, but it doesn't make them awful, just not great.

IWBTMetamorphosis 7/10: Absolutely brilliant trap game for 3 of the stages, 1 is meh, and 2 are just bad.
Bosses range from interesting and actually a decent challenge to bad, learny, and instagibby.  I definitely
think that the good outways the bad in a lot of aspects, but it could have done some things much better. I
should say more nice things about this but I won't cuz lazy arzzttStare

Stage 5

IWBTContinuity 6/10: Wolfiepuzzles just about sums up my experience with this.  Nah but in all seriousness I
really like this game's concept of taking gimmicks from other games and combining them into one big game.
NANG stage was easily my favorite out of the 4 stages, but here's where the game kinda falls off.  White dot
stage I think is extremely cool and co-op stage was neat to say the least, but Walk the Ceiling 2 lost a lot
of the fun it originally had by making the puzzles much harder and including more gimmicks to deal with.
Also I spend almost half of the time playing this game in the WtC2 stage so yeah that kind of blew.  Besides
that one I don't think any of the stages are bad, but there are at least a couple screens in each stage that
I dislike.  Overall neat concept that was used in a flawed way, I would like to see more things like this in
the future though.

IWBTCrimson 2.07/10: 6 hours of pain and torture.  Words cannot express how much I hate this game.
Final boss keeps it from a 1/10

IWBTOceanPrincess 7.5/10: This is the longest fangame I've ever beaten due to it's massive amount of content,
and it rarely dissapoints even when it's so long.  Each world introduces a new gimmick/gimmicks that the
entire world is built around and they're mostly used extremely well in order to make platforming that you
have to think about, but not exactly puzzle platforming.  The only times that the game let down on the
platforming is when it focused on making a save harder by making it purely needle, because it takes away
from the fun gimmicks that each world is made around.  None of the bosses really made me mad which was a
definite plus, and they had few instagibs if any which is beautiful. And there are a bunch of stars that
you can collect, and most of them are a fun challenge.  Also you can play as Miku, Gumi, Luka, and Rin, so that's sick.

Xift 7.22/10: A E S T H E T I C needle that looks really cool with a lot of interesting killer sprites
and a slightly different engine which makes it fun to play.  Last stage I wasn't the biggest fan of but the
rest is really great.  Not many gimmicks but fun none the less.

IWBTCaptivate the Medley 6.5/10: Neat is the best word I can come up with to explain this one.  10 Min
avoidance with a lot of neat attacks and a SourPls banger.  Some of the attacks I couldn't understand and
if I would have to beat this on any other difficulty I'd probably hate it, but I don't have to so I like it.

IWBTPermanence 2 6.4/10: Ok so I figured I was going to hate this, glad to say I'm pleasently surprised!
The worlds are all inspired by other games and it's fun to see the amounts of variety gameplay wise.
Most of the game is filled with a ton of traps which at times can be hilarious, but most of the time they
aren't and it often takes away from a save's enjoyability.  The bosses all suck, like actually almost all of
them.  Like one or two of the bosses were alright, but for the most part they are just bad.  Despite these
things however, I found myself enjoying P2 for a large amount of the ride, it just has a large amount of flaws.

IDunWannaBeAnything 2 7.4/10: I have a ton of problems with this game.  The bosses are pretty much all pretty
learny and unfair at times, the lack of direction can leave you not knowing where to go even if you have a
map, and the difficulty can be really unbalanced.  Despite all my gripes with this game, I still enjoyed the
hell out of it and I respect this game greatly.  The world in this game is huge and a ton of fun to explore,
even when you don't know where to go.  The saves are made difficult mainly via making them longer which most
of the time is fun to learn how to do each save.  The best part of this game is easily Guts, a god sent.
Everytime you are supposed to die, you have a chance of living and when you do it's so fun trying to react.
My butt got saved so many times due to Guts and it was just a blast to have.

I Wanna Classic 7/10: The game starts in a really bad first stage with tons of ledges and other shit name
jumps, after a while you get frustrated and hit escape and say "I'll do this later," when you do that the
game flashes some japanese text on screen and closes itself, and then the real game begins.  The game is
super long and has a ton of stages with a large amount of fun and variety, no stage feels the same really.
The hub of the world really isn't the best and is a pain to find where to go and just to do the platforming.
The game has no sense of difficulty balance at all, which I personally find irritating but it could be worse.
Despite all these things, the stages are a blast to play, most of the traps are funny as heck, and the bosses
for the most part are fun, aside from boss rush.  I Would highly recommend people play this, however this
game doesn't only have 1 real ending, it has 2, and o boy is it horrible.

I Wanna Classic True Ending 1/10: there is no point in doing this, the avoidance is shit, the secrets are
shit, the final stage is shit, it's just all a big fucking waste of time and really hurts the game overall.
Some of the secrets are so much harder than any of the platforming in the stages, "The Save" is such a fucking
stupid thing that should not exist, the boss becomes fucking awful after playing for about 10 minutes, and
the final stage has such horrible needle that it looks like the beginning of the game that was a joke, but
you actually have to do it.  To anyone who is considering doing true end I'll say from first hand experience,
DON'T YOU FUCKING DARE EVER THINK ABOUT IT AGAIN.