Terminally Incoherent

Here is a fun way to start the year: incredible amount of pain and frustration. If you ever wanted to play the most annoying, maddening, anger inducing game with heinous, sadistic and downright evil level design and physics try I Want to Be The Guy: The Movie: The Game. I lack words to describe the horror this game can unleash on the minds on unsuspecting gamers. It was basically designed by taking all the frustratingly difficult bits of old NES age games, and ramping them up to the point where they can make the most mellow person to scream in rage after about 2 minutes. But I guess this experience cannot be described - you have to see it to believe it:

Please note that JMan who made this video, is actually doing really good here. I dare you to download it and try to get as far as he got in this video in one sitting. Hell, I couldn’t get past the first screen before I got pissed off and turned it off. If you get farther than that, you are better than me at this. Which is really not a great accomplishment - I have zero eye/hand coordination to begin with.

And if you haven’t guessed it yet, yes this game is intentionally made this hard. It’s sort of a joke - a parody of the ridiculously difficult Nintendo games of old. This experience kinda reminds me of the time me and my brother were trying to beat Mega Man on NES. Every once in a while one of us would relinquish the controller and then go to the other room to punch the furniture and scream out of hopeless rage. Only “I Want To Be The Guy” is like 100 times worse.

JMan actually did a series of these videos and I watched like 15 of them in a row mostly because I have no patience to work my way past the first screen. The game is actually pretty funny if you consider the many innovative and surprising ways it kills you in each level. My favorite ways so far were: being crushed by the falling moon, being stabbed by giant Link, and being Hurricane Kicked by Ryu from Street Fighter.

Do you have what it takes to be The Guy? Play it and let me know what you think.

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