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haxcharsol wrote:

Super Mario 64

Again, you can only vote once

I'm really surprised that no one has mentioned Earthbound yet, I recall there was one person who really liked it. I can't vote for it though, because I've never played it.

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HotCocoa28 wrote:

scratchisthebest wrote:

Super.
Hexagon.

You sir are amazing. How far have you gotten? I've clear Hexagon, Hexagoner, Hexagonest, and Hyper Hexagon.

cleared all six levels
screenshot or it didn't happen

Also the ending made me cry
I'm not even kidding

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While I'm at it, I guess I'll write a little more about this game.

Super Hexagon is super simple: you move and you don't touch the walls. Seems like every other action game ever made. Think about it: FPSs are about moving and not getting hit by flying dangerous things. VVVVVV is a game about moving and not touching spikes. The Super Mario [noun] [number] series is about not touching enemies. So what makes Super Hexagon so different?

Well, in those other games, there's a story. VVVVVV has some story to it (at least the demo makes it look like that), Super Mario is about saving the princess, FPSs are about saving your country/race/whatever. And this story kind of distracts from the main goal of not touching stuff. But with Super Hexagon it's different. It's just you and the walls.

On to the actual game.

Super Hexagon is really, really hard. Even the level of the easiest stage reflects this: the levels go "Hard", "Harder", and "Hardest". And the goal is to last 60 seconds on each stage. Seems easy. It's not. Somehow.

And the best part is, your brain rewires every time you play. You get just a little bit better at it each time. But you never see this. If you play for long enough that your unblinking eyes get itchy, then that's when the real performance boost comes. You get more points by actually trying. A much-needed relief from the rest of today's games: basically click and pay your way up the leaderboards.

But Super Hexagon is a journey, where you feel yourself falling in to the patterns, memorizing them, defeating them. Then you hit 60 seconds.

"Excellent."

That's why Super Hexagon is the best game ever.

Last edited by scratchisthebest (2013-05-04 01:43:23)