![]() What an Idiot!: When a chandelier starts falling above you, DO NOT deliberately maneuver under it.The Untwist: From the very moment you start playing.Surprise Difficulty: Inverted in that players not knowing anything about You Have to Burn The Rope would most likely assume that it's a platformer of standard difficulty.And every level is unbelievably over the top. Running Gag: pretending that you are stuck on another level aside from the first.Nightmare Fuel: YMMV, but the boss is dang creepy.Even if only for the Crowning Music of Awesome. ![]() Once you figure out all of the tricks, it's a little on the short side even for a Flash game, but that hasn't stopped many people from playing it multiple times, sometimes in a row. Designated Villain: The colossus seems like a pretty friendly, happy guy, if only you weren't trying to drop a chandelier on his head.You'll be humming it all day long afterward. Crowning Music of Awesome: The well-deserved credits music.Alternate Character Interpretation: Is the main character a hero, who defeats the monster, or is he pure evil, who goes into the home of a perfectly harmless nonhuman who can't even escape his own home, and slaughters it without remorse?.If you run through all these and find yourself stymied in your quest for browser-based victory - or even just a smidgen of measurable progress - you can instead try You Have to Burn the Rope, a game that will make you feel bad about yourself in an entirely different way. I don't want to give anything away, but suffice to say that in spite of starting this meticulously documented game several times, I was never able to make my way to the end. This game, like life, is a series of poor decisions ending in fatal laceration. (OK, they aren't that different.) The point of Which Way Game is that there is no point. Which Way Gameĭo you enjoy Choose Your Own Adventure games? Point-and-click adventures? Manticores? You won't enjoy any of them after you stumble your way through this aimless - but admittedly very funny - game that can send you anywhere from a post-apocalyptic landscape to Utah. I personally have only managed to progress to the point where I'm kicked to death by a font-art Guile, but I'm just going to call that a partial victory and move on. This game isn't in English, but that's OK: A head repeatedly pounding against a rough cement wall sounds the same in any language. It should be lives, plural, because man does Owata go through them like a 14-year-old Halo player goes through racial slurs. It's possible to clear a line or two, which just makes your steadily mounting failure all the more intolerable. The game is programmed to give you the statistically worst piece for any given situation. Feed the fire to Burn the Rope and progress through different levels in this perplexing Puzzle game Plan ahead and plot your moves carefully to proceed. I haven't been able to look at a game of Tetris without getting nauseated since I overdosed on it circa 1990, but Hatetris managed to replace my cautious revulsion with white-hot loathing. If you do manage to make some creeping, twitching progress, you'll eventually run into figurative hurdles in the form of literal hurdles. It is, however, far more likely that you will flop on your back and kick your legs pathetically like a gut-shot Rockette. In this game (pictured above), you play the part of an international athlete's lower body, manipulating his calves and thighs in an attempt to sprint your way to Olympic gold. GOMG: Burn the Rope - Rotate your phone to keep the flame alive JGamer 54.5K subscribers Subscribe 126 Share 8. There's difficult, and then there's difficult, soul-crushing and sad. Spend some time with these sadistic distractions and you'll feel so frustrated and angry with yourself for wasting an afternoon that you could keep an entire San Francisco data center lubricated with your shame.
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