Anybody play any good indie games lately? I tried and went ahead and spent the buck on The Impossible Game. It's rather interesting to see just how difficult you can make a game while technically still be able to beat it.
The premise is simple: you're this fast moving square and you just hit the A button to jump, used to jump over spikes and on top of other squares. If you lose, you get another attempt (unlimited) all the way back at the beginning of the level. It has this "practice mode", which is the only way to actually play the game with any distance. In that mode, you can place flags to start at that location.
Again, this is really the only way you could actually play the game, as the game gets progressively harder and absolutely critical on its jumps really quickly. What's especially time critical is try to jump three spikes, which is literally only a few frames worth of error to jump correctly. Plus you can screw up and put a flag in the wrong place, though fortunately you can go back to other flags.
Factor all of this in with the fact that you still playing the "Practice Mode". Oh, and after about 10-15 minutes of Practice Mode, it kicks you out for being in that mode. Either that, or there is actually a time limit for the whole game. They probably made to so that you only had enough time to go through the entire level/game on one attempt, which would mean that there was 10-15 minutes of actual soul-ripping gameplay. Funny, it actually has a medal you can get if you beat the game, as if you are actually going to beat it.
Bullet hell can't even hold a candle to this game. It's worth buying just for the social experiment it contains: the hardest game in existence without technically being "impossible". If you can beat it, you simply aren't hum...Jesus, what the fuck? He didn't make the game hard enough, I guess. Anyway, try it out.
The premise is simple: you're this fast moving square and you just hit the A button to jump, used to jump over spikes and on top of other squares. If you lose, you get another attempt (unlimited) all the way back at the beginning of the level. It has this "practice mode", which is the only way to actually play the game with any distance. In that mode, you can place flags to start at that location.
Again, this is really the only way you could actually play the game, as the game gets progressively harder and absolutely critical on its jumps really quickly. What's especially time critical is try to jump three spikes, which is literally only a few frames worth of error to jump correctly. Plus you can screw up and put a flag in the wrong place, though fortunately you can go back to other flags.
Factor all of this in with the fact that you still playing the "Practice Mode". Oh, and after about 10-15 minutes of Practice Mode, it kicks you out for being in that mode. Either that, or there is actually a time limit for the whole game. They probably made to so that you only had enough time to go through the entire level/game on one attempt, which would mean that there was 10-15 minutes of actual soul-ripping gameplay. Funny, it actually has a medal you can get if you beat the game, as if you are actually going to beat it.
Bullet hell can't even hold a candle to this game. It's worth buying just for the social experiment it contains: the hardest game in existence without technically being "impossible". If you can beat it, you simply aren't hum...Jesus, what the fuck? He didn't make the game hard enough, I guess. Anyway, try it out.
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Robert: But I DON'T.
Rosalina: You sure that's right?
Robert: I was going to HAVE told you they'd come?
Rosalina: No.
Robert: The subjunctive?
Rosalina: That's not the subjunctive.
Robert: I don't think the syntax has been invented yet.
Rosalina: It would have had to have had been.
Robert: Had to have...had...been? That can't be right.
Robert: But I DON'T.
Rosalina: You sure that's right?
Robert: I was going to HAVE told you they'd come?
Rosalina: No.
Robert: The subjunctive?
Rosalina: That's not the subjunctive.
Robert: I don't think the syntax has been invented yet.
Rosalina: It would have had to have had been.
Robert: Had to have...had...been? That can't be right.
