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| I Wanna Be The Guy: The Movie: The Game | |
|---|---|
Title screen of I Wanna Be the Guy, influenced by the title screen of Mega Man 2 | |
| Designer(s) | Michael 'Kayin' O'Reilly |
| Programmer(s) | Michael 'Kayin' O'Reilly |
| Engine | Multimedia Fusion 2 |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows |
| Release | October 5, 2007 |
| Genre(s) | Action-adventure, Platform |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
I Wanna Be the Guy (IWBTG) is a 2Dplatformindiefreewarevideo game, created by Michael 'Kayin' O'Reilly for Microsoft Windows using Multimedia Fusion 2.[1][2] First released on October 5, 2007, the game is no longer in active development, though the game's source code was released by Kayin in 2011.[3]IWBTG is mostly known for its unusually difficult platforming elements, unorthodox level design, and its utilization of sound effects, characters and music from many other games.[4]
Gameplay[edit]
The player controls 'The Kid'. The controls are limited to left/right movement, jumping, double-jumping and shooting. IWBTG is made up of several stages split into many screens, which are mostly pastiches of Nintendo Entertainment System games, such as Tetris, Ghosts 'n Goblins, The Legend of Zelda, Castlevania, Kirby, Mega Man, and Metroid. At the end of each stage, a boss must be defeated to progress. The first seven bosses (Mike Tyson; Mecha Birdo; Dracula; Kraidgief, a parody of palette-hacked character glitches; Mother Brain; Bowser, Wart, and Dr. Wily in the Koopa Klown Kar; and a mix between the Mecha Dragon from Mega Man 2 and the Yellow Devil from Mega Man and Mega Man 3) are adapted from classic games, mostly platformers, but their behavior and appearance have been modified and enhanced for IWBTG. The final boss, The Kid's father, is unique to IWBTG. The game parodies many 8-bit and 16-bit era video games, such as the frequent use of references and sound effects from the Nintendo game Mario Paint.
IWBTG is most famous for its difficulty.[5][6] Most of the landscape is engineered specifically to kill the player character. Alongside a traditional range of recognizable dangers, such as spikes and pits, there are many less obvious threats as well, most of which are all but impossible to avoid without either previous knowledge or trial and error (such as Tetris pieces and 'Delicious Fruit', which can fall downwards, upwards, or sideways).[1] The Kid always dies with a single hit, at which point he explodes into a mass of blood. Although each death results in a 'Game Over', the player is allowed an infinite number of attempts.[7] From the starting screen, there are three different ways to progress; all of them ultimately lead to the same warp screen which returns to the first screen. Thus, to complete the game, the first six bosses along each path must be defeated before the warp screen will allow the player to access the final area.
The game has four difficulty settings: 'Medium', 'Hard', 'Very Hard', and 'Impossible', with 'Hard' considered to be the 'normal difficulty'. The only difference between the difficulty settings is the number of save points available throughout the game, from 62, 41, 22 to none at all. Also, while playing on Medium mode, The Kid's hair has a pink bow in it, and any save points exclusive to Medium difficulty are labeled 'WUSS' instead of 'SAVE'.
Plot[edit]
Like many games that I Wanna Be the Guy parodies, the game's plot is straightforward and does not heavily impact gameplay. The player controls 'The Kid', who is on a mission to become 'The Guy'. The entirety of the plot is given in a message during the opening credits, a parody of bad Japanese translations and broken English in early Nintendo Entertainment System games.
At the end, The Kid reaches The Guy, who reveals that he not only killed 'Former Grandfather The Guy', but that he is also 'The Father' to The Kid. A battle between the two takes place ending with The Kid becoming 'The New Guy'.
Development[edit]
The game is an adventure platform game and designed in the style of 8-bit video games. Kayin describes the game as 'a sardonic loveletter to the halcyon days of early American video gaming, packaged as a nail-rippingly difficult platform adventure'.[2] The inspiration came from a challenging Japanese Flash game on 2channel called The Big Adventure of Owata's Life (人生ｵﾜﾀ＼(^o^)／の大冒険, Jinsei Owata no Daibōken), which Kayin played and thought he could outdo due to it being incomplete at the time.[1][8]
On November 9, 2011, Kayin released the source code of the game under his own software license (forbidding new content), so that the game's community would be able to create fixes and patches.[3][9][10]
Spin-offs[edit]
Two months after the release of IWBTG, Kayin announced a prequel titled I Wanna Save the Kids.[11]IWSTK features 'The Kid' escorting children back to their home. On the way, The Kid has to save these kids and himself from various dangers, as well as bringing them to the next level. The game closely parallels the classic computer game Lemmings, while still maintaining the notorious difficulty of IWBTG. The game is no longer in development, although a demo is available.[10]
After the success of fighting game competitor Ari 'Floe' Weintraub streaming his playthroughs of IWBTG and multiple fan spin-offs, Kayin announced another spin-off to IWBTG on June 26, 2012 titled I Wanna Be the Guy: Gaiden. Planned as an episodic series, IWBTG:G has 'The Lad' trying to find 'The Kid' after his ascent to Guy-dom. The first act was first featured in the 2012 iteration of the Evolution Fighting Game Tournament with Floe playing.[12]
See also[edit]
- Battle Kid: Fortress of Peril – an NES homebrew title, heavily influenced by IWBTG and approved by Kayin.
- I Wanna Be the Boshy – a fangame heavily inspired by IWBTG.
- Super Meat Boy – 'The Kid' is an unlockable secret character.
- Syobon Action – similar inspiration.
- Fraymakers - 'The Kid' appears as an assist character.
References[edit]
- ^ abc'Iwbtg! - Faq'. Kayin.pyoko.org. Retrieved 2015-03-26.
- ^ ab'IWBTG! A Very Hard Game About a Boy and 8-bit Masochism!'. Kayin.pyoko.org. Retrieved 2015-03-26.
- ^ ab'Fix My Game: IWBTG Source Code Release'. Kayin.pyoko.org. Retrieved 2015-03-26.
- ^Doctorow, Cory (2008-02-20). 'I Wanna Be the Guy - platformer game is a stew of 8-bit classics'. Boingboing.net. Retrieved 2015-03-26.
- ^'Review: I Wanna Be the Guy'. Web.archive.org. 2008-01-07. Archived from the original on February 3, 2008. Retrieved 2015-03-26.
- ^'TIGArchive » I Wanna Be the Guy!'. TIGSource.com. 2008-01-13. Retrieved 2015-03-26.
- ^'IWBTG! - Manual!'. Kayin.pyoko.org. Retrieved 2015-03-26.
- ^'『人生ｵﾜﾀ＼(^o^)／の大冒険』作者に『IWBTG』作者から感謝のメール「あなたのゲームにインスパイアされた」 ｜ ガジェット通信'. Getnews.jp. 2010-05-13. Retrieved 2015-03-26.
- ^DIYGamer: Recursive Romhackery – I Wanna Be The Guy Source Code Released (2011)
- ^ ab'IWBTG! - Downloads!'. Kayin.pyoko.org. Retrieved 2015-03-26.
- ^'New Project Previews!'. Kayin.pyoko.org. Retrieved 2015-03-26.
- ^'Start Getting Wet, Boys: Gaiden Is Coming'. Kayin.pyoko.org. Retrieved 2015-03-26.
External links[edit]
A downloadable game for Windows
I Wanna Be The Guy: The Movie: The Game is a sardonic loveletter to the halcyon days of early American videogaming, packaged as a nail-rippingly difficult platform adventure. Players fill the role of The Kid, a youthful, vaguely Megaman-esque protagonist on a quest to become The Guy. This inscrutable plot, however, is just a vehicle for a wide variety of inventive, well-designed and frustrating jump-and-shoot challenges that pay homage to many of the games you loved as a child. The ever-fragile Kid explodes in a shower of red pixels at the slightest brush from the game's many obstacles, from traditional spikes and bottomless pits to more unconventional killers, such as plantlife and puzzle pieces.
Using a multiroute layout not unlike a Metroidvania, the game grants a degree of deadly exploration, without thoseextraneous upgades meant to make life easier. The game provides players with a choice in terms of their deathrate, thanks to a variable difficulty setting that changes the number of save points from frequent to nonexistent. IWBTG is open to all players; knowledge of videogaming history is optional, and may not help against the frequently ironic and always sadistic deathtraps located herein. And so, the question is left up to you...
Do YOU have what it takes to be The Guy?
I Wanna be the Fix
A program for recovering from bad saves that case inescapable deaths. https://iwbtg.kayin.moe/Drrnloads/iwbtf.jar
Avoiding Crashes
While IWBTG is a buggy game, over the years the community has figured out how to better cope with it's various problems. This information is copied from the IWBTG RTA speedrunning wikia ( http://iwbtgrta.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page )To deal with random crashes...
Right-click IWBTG -> Properties -> Compatibility Tab -> Run in Windows 98 Mode -> Run as Administrator
This is generally takes care of most crashes but there are still a number of predictable ones.
There are 4 spots in the game where it is guaranteed to crash upon hitting 'R' (reset) even with the above fix. Fortunately there is a workaround thanks to Fate (formerly known as Kiyomi_) on Twitch! Hit F2 for New Game and reload your save file to avoid them.Save -> F2 -> Reload Save FileDo this on the Save Points following:
- The Mecha Birdo fight
- Dr. Wily, 2 screens over, where the drones shoot at you
- Mother Brain's red orb (same screen as above)
- The first save on the cart ride to The Guy's Fortress
Optimally, you should just hit F2 instead of 'R' upon death following these screens.
Fortunately you will not lose progress on these crashes. so even if you forget to avoid them you will be okay, outside of a minor inconvenience.
| Status | Released |
| Platforms | Windows |
| Rating | |
| Author | Kayin |
| Genre | Platformer |
| Tags | iwbtg, masocore, needle-game |
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Fantastic classic. The controls are perfect, easy and simple to move and make precise jumps. Press right, go to the right, press left, go to the left. No speedups or unneeded sporks like in most platformers. To that, a small and a pleasant to play with hitbox.The spikes and cherries play a giant part in this game. Best part is the ending when you meet the final boss The Guy, i beat him and i am The Guy now!
In humor, this game still holds up to me. So far i beat this on hard, boshy on hardon, and am playing kamilia 2. This gave birth to a whole new genre of games! These games are mostly trial and error. Ultimate skill test.
Oh my god the guy from spy kids!?
Just kidding. . .But is it?
Why is my game broken? No sounds or music plays, wait, the game is an 2007, it should have BEEN fixed! Maybe an 2019 edition?
The game is and will for the forseeable future remain unupdated Unfortunately the game does not function correctly in modern versions of MMF2 so even minor updates would require a huge overhaul. This might happen one day, but no time soon.
That said, this is an old problem that some people have experienced. You can try checking this thread. http://kayin.moe/iwbtg/forums/index.php?topic=366.0 also making sure you try setting things like windows compatibility mode or whatever.
If you donated to download the game and none of this works, please don't hesistate to ask itch for a refund as I can't promise any future support for the game. That said I hope it works and I hope you have fun with it! I'm sorry I can't behelpful.
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IT'S THE GREATEST AND MOST BEST GAME EVER MADE. UNFORTUNATELY IT ALSO TOTALLY SUCKS.
☆☆☆★★
(THAT'S THREE STARS OUT OF FIVE. I THINK. IDFK. FUCK YOU)
I Wanna Be The Guy
Well uh... This is the game that has the massive fangaming community behind it's back. This isn't that great of a game, but it's fantastic for it's time. This is also the game that made me start my carrier as a game developer. 6/10
I Wanna Be The Darejar
And it's easy to put stuff on itch and it's not on peoples radars as much. Steam is asking for trouble, while with itch, if they decide to take it down it's not that big of a deal. SO YEAH NO STEAM PEOPLE