Help me find a game GRcade

I'm after some help trying to find a game I played a while ago and I can't for the life of me remember the name of it. It was a modern retro kind of game, 2D platformer kind of thing, where you are a little spaceman and I think you are in a spacestation jetting around or something. I remember it was quite hard in an old school way.

I seem to remember it was called something like xxxyyyy or something. But Google doesn't seem to turn up any results. At a guess I'd say it was released around 2010 and I think I played it on DS or 3DS.

Help me GRcade!

PostRe: Help me find a game GRcade by **OrangeRKN** » Mon May 03, 2021 11:16 pm

It's not VVVVVV is it?

You mean VVVVVV?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VVVVVV

PostRe: Help me find a game GRcade by **Jenuall** » Mon May 03, 2021 11:21 pm

Just a hunch but it might be VVVVVV

PostRe: Help me find a game GRcade by **ITSMILNER** » Tue May 04, 2021 6:42 am

Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze now with added Funky Kong?

PostRe: Help me find a game GRcade by **Moggy** » Tue May 04, 2021 7:10 am

Has anybody suggested VVVVVV yet?

PostRe: Help me find a game GRcade by **Pedz** » Tue May 04, 2021 8:12 am

While you are at I check out PPPPPP.

It's the soundtrack to the game you are looking for called VVVVVV

PostRe: Help me find a game GRcade by **Squinty** » Tue May 04, 2021 8:14 am

This game controls like ass.

PostRe: Help me find a game GRcade by **jiggles** » Tue May 04, 2021 8:20 am

https://thelettervsixtim.es/

PostRe: Help me find a game GRcade by **rinks** » Tue May 04, 2021 8:45 am

Hoping so much that he comes back and says no, it’s not that.

PostRe: Help me find a game GRcade by **OrangeRKN** » Tue May 04, 2021 8:50 am

Squinty wrote:This game controls like ass.

Someone couldn't beat veni, vidi, vici

PostRe: Help me find a game GRcade by **Squinty** » Tue May 04, 2021 8:54 am

OrangeRKN wrote:
Squinty wrote:This game controls like ass.

Someone couldn't beat veni, vidi, vici

I beat the game twice. It's really slippery and light. I don't like the feel of it.

PostRe: Help me find a game GRcade by **OrangeRKN** » Tue May 04, 2021 9:04 am

Sort of begs the question why did you beat it twice?

The gravity swapping is instant and the level design is made to well match the air control you have so I think it's fine. It's been forever since I played it so I can't remember how slippy it feels but I iirc it had very little (if any) horizontal momentum as you can constantly switch direction. Not sure about "lightness" given there is no traditional jump but I guess there isn't really much (any?) vertical acceleration, but I think that works well for giving predictable air control.

PostRe: Help me find a game GRcade by **Squinty** » Tue May 04, 2021 10:41 am

OrangeRKN wrote:Sort of begs the question why did you beat it twice?

The gravity swapping is instant and the level design is made to well match the air control you have so I think it's fine. It's been forever since I played it so I can't remember how slippy it feels but I iirc it had very little (if any) horizontal momentum as you can constantly switch direction. Not sure about "lightness" given there is no traditional jump but I guess there isn't really much (any?) vertical acceleration, but I think that works well for giving predictable air control.

I was a bit unsure about it on the first playthrough, I thought it was okay but I wasn't completely bowled over by it. I seen people recently talking about how amazing it was, so I went back to play it to see if I missed something. It's been several years since I played it, it's not that long, so it wasn't a great sink on my time. Second playthrough cemented my thoughts on it.

I guess by light I mean the momentum of the character when moving. You zip along and it feels like there's no weight to the movement.

With slippery, I mean the character coming to a stop when you stop inputs. There's a window where you keep moving. Megaman 1 and 2 have this issue, and I really dislike the physics involved. They sorted it out by 3.

Controls is not the right word for this, so the initial post I made isn't right in that respect.

PostRe: Help me find a game GRcade by **Jenuall** » Tue May 04, 2021 10:47 am

Platform character control is a very subjective thing of course, some people seem to love floaty/slippery controls but for me it's a killer. It's one of the reasons why Ori never quite worked for me but others loved it.

PostRe: Help me find a game GRcade by **OrangeRKN** » Tue May 04, 2021 11:22 am

Slippiness is actually one of the main things I dislike about Mario! He is very momentum based compared to a lot of other platformers.

I'd have to go back to VVVVVV to see what the ground control is like, it's only the air movement I really remember.

PostRe: Help me find a game GRcade by **<]:^D** » Tue May 04, 2021 9:59 pm

crd is it VVVVVV?

YouTube · PostRe: Help me find a game GRcade by **Jezo** » Wed May 05, 2021 10:30 am

captain red dog wrote:a modern retro kind of game, 2D platformer kind of thing where you are a little spaceman

I think you're thinking of the star levels from New Super Mario Bros. on DS

PostRe: Help me find a game GRcade by **Jenuall** » Wed May 05, 2021 10:40 am

Next forum game sorted: Are You A Little Spaceman?

PostRe: Help me find a game GRcade by **OrangeRKN** » Wed May 05, 2021 10:54 am

"Wait we're all spacemen?"

"Always have been"

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