[PC] VVVVVV for Vendetta

VVVVVV, the latest game by Terry Cavanagh (Don't Look Back, Judith, Pathways) was released yesterday. Check this shit out, yo.

YouTube Video

It's an open world platformer: explore a dimension, find your crewmates, and don't run into the spikes that some fucker left lying around everywhere for no reason. The core mechanic is that you can't jump, but instead you can flip gravity back and forth so you start falling in the other direction. Not an original idea by a longshot, but it explores the heck out of it with a bunch of interesting and challenging room designs.

http://thelettervsixtim.es/

The website has a demo available online (Flash) and for download for Mac/Windows (Flash packaged as an executable). The demo contains two of the game's eight areas, but it doesn't have the overworld. In the full version, you can play the areas in basically whatever order you want; there aren't any gates like ammo doors blocking portions of the map, but there are a few sequenced areas you don't have any control over.

The full version is $15 (USD). If you're a filthy clockwatcher, I finished the main game to full completion in a shade under two hours, with about 550 deaths or so. There are a few bonus features, like time trials, but nothing really major. It was a pretty damn enjoyable two hours, though, with a lot of difficult challenges that never really get unfair (save for a few rooms, you'll know them when you see them). Just give the demo a shot, it won't take too much of your time. Here's what chat said about the demo last night:

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02:25 <+Garr> This VVVVVV game is pretty rad.

02:26 <+Term> That VVVVVV is very entertaining

02:38 <+Mo0> Holy fucking shit
02:38 <+Mo0> This vvvvvv game is I Want To Be The Metal Storm
02:38 <+Mo0> FUCK YES
02:42 <+Mo0> Oh my god, and this other level everything is just outlines
02:42 <+Mo0> Fuck yeah this game is great

The soundtrack is by Magnus "SoulEye" Pålsson. When you enjoy it (not "if," because you will enjoy it on account of it being rad as fuck), you can purchase it digitally from his website, Souleye Digital Music, for $4. There's 34 minutes of music total.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Cadillacs

Real men buy it for the ONE LIFE MODE

This probably doesn't really need to be spoilered but just in case.:

No one will ever get this. Ever.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Here are some of the Little Things in the game that brought a to my face:

• In the intermission stages, Spoiler: the dialogue changes based on what character is with you (the stages automatically occur after you rescue the third and fourth crewmates, if I remember correctly).
• In the first intermission stage, Spoiler: if you die, your partner gets a sad face, and vice versa.
• After you rescue a crewmate, Spoiler: if you talk to everyone you've already rescued, they'll all have a new, unique piece of dialogue saying how glad they are that the person is back.
• In The Final Level, Spoiler: after you activate the terminal, you pass through a corrupted amalgamation of new rooms and rooms from previous levels. Some of those rooms are from The Warp Zone and The Final Level, where the rooms loop back onto themselves. However, because you've deactivated the dimensional anomaly, none of them loop any more. There's one previously looping room that you enter and leave three different times.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Ah! Amiga

Has everyone done Doing Things The Hard Way ? That took me about 300 deaths.

AAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

22:00 <@CHz> Oh SHIT
22:00 <@CHz> Just S ranked The Final Level.
22:00 <+Garr> Nice.







I'M IN, LET'S DO THIS


Fuck checkpoints, this is how real men do it.


OH WHAT THE CR–




I was speaking idiomatically.

A bunch of you already know this, but for those who don't: Terry released version 2.0 of VVVVVV with The Humble Indie Bundle #3 last week. It's a full rewrite of the game that now includes a level editor! The editor is kind of glitchy (I've had lines of scripts and warp tokens mysteriously eaten), and scripting and other functionality is a bit limited at the moment, but you can still do quite a bit with it. I've spent pretty much all my free time lately messing with it.

NO I'M NOT MAKING A LEVEL FULL OF DEATH TRAPS

WHY DOES EVERYONE KEEP SAYING THAT

IT'S LIKE I HAVE A REPUTATION FOR BEING A DICK

So anyway, since it's going to take me like three months to finish this thing at the rate I'm going, by which time fifteen thousand people will have independently used all my level ideas, I'll have plenty of time to crank the two new music tracks SoulEye wrote.

Oh yeah! That's right, I forgot to mention that in the opening paragraph! The game has two new themes that you can use in custom levels!

Here are some quicko extractions I made with some random code I found on the internet. I didn't loop them because that would've taken a whole five seconds and do I look like I have that sort of time, I'm busy placing spikes here. Hopefully SoulEye will provide the extra tracks in GLORIOUS FLAC at some point in the future.

Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Paced Energy
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Piercing the Sky

How ya doing, buddy?

WHAT'S MY NAME, BITCHES

Anyway I am here today to speak to you about SoulEye's new album, Adventure: http://www.souleye.se/adventure. It has some original pieces, a bunch of VVVVVV arrangements and other stuff he wrote for the rhythm game Pulsen, and some arrangements he provided for other folks's albums.

Why am I bringing it up in this thread? Because it also has the VVVVVV 2.0 tracks, Pacing Energy and Piercing the Sky! ATTENTION COLONEL T. SKILLS MCINTERNET: TIME TO GET YOUR FLAC ON

Here is the incredibly silly trailer

FELIPE NO