This is a thread about the wonderful game called VVVVVVV.
VVVVVV is an incredibly simple platforming game that pits you as an awesome 8-bit gentleman who searches to reassemble and find his crew after crash-landing into some strange dimension thing that happened while they were on board their ship.
Ignoring the story, the game is very clean and simple. It takes three main keys for control: left, right, and gravity. Hitting the gravity key, which is up, space, or K, iirc, will reverse gravity and make you um.... fall up. This allows for some very inventive rooms that are really a lot of fun to play. There are also some that are disgustingly hard.
Awesome 8-bit sprites like these will kill you.
The cool thing about this game is that it doesn't give you loading screens or punish you for dying. It just restores you back to your last [near] checkpoint and lets you try again. You can repeatedly die in a room, and it will feel awesome.
There are a few unlockable modes and mini-games as well, such as "NO DEATH MODE" which assumes it is even possible to finish this game without dying once. The creators of the game were even so kind enough as to supply us with a demo version of VVVVVV, which can be found on kongregate:
http://www.kongregate.com/games/TerryCavanagh/vvvvvv-demo
Here's a gameplay video of one of the series of rooms you will see in VVVVVV:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CtiY5D6HCs&feature=related
Seriously, let me know if you can do that in under 400 deaths. I've been really fascinated with this game, because you can tell the creators put a lot of thought into it. The full version is really a lot of fun, and I think totally worth the 5 bucks it costs [if you pay it]. The main site is here:
http://thelettervsixtim.es/
What are your thoughts? Has anyone tried this cutesy *** game?
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VVVVVV is an incredibly simple platforming game that pits you as an awesome 8-bit gentleman who searches to reassemble and find his crew after crash-landing into some strange dimension thing that happened while they were on board their ship.
Ignoring the story, the game is very clean and simple. It takes three main keys for control: left, right, and gravity. Hitting the gravity key, which is up, space, or K, iirc, will reverse gravity and make you um.... fall up. This allows for some very inventive rooms that are really a lot of fun to play. There are also some that are disgustingly hard.
Awesome 8-bit sprites like these will kill you.
The cool thing about this game is that it doesn't give you loading screens or punish you for dying. It just restores you back to your last [near] checkpoint and lets you try again. You can repeatedly die in a room, and it will feel awesome.
There are a few unlockable modes and mini-games as well, such as "NO DEATH MODE" which assumes it is even possible to finish this game without dying once. The creators of the game were even so kind enough as to supply us with a demo version of VVVVVV, which can be found on kongregate:
http://www.kongregate.com/games/TerryCavanagh/vvvvvv-demo
Here's a gameplay video of one of the series of rooms you will see in VVVVVV:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CtiY5D6HCs&feature=related
Seriously, let me know if you can do that in under 400 deaths. I've been really fascinated with this game, because you can tell the creators put a lot of thought into it. The full version is really a lot of fun, and I think totally worth the 5 bucks it costs [if you pay it]. The main site is here:
http://thelettervsixtim.es/
What are your thoughts? Has anyone tried this cutesy *** game?
