Nyu Media has published a number of small “doujinsoft” Japanese indie titles in translation over the past decade but it’s best known for publishing the visual novel creation software TyranoBuilder. Had I Wanna Be The Guy been released ten years later I don't doubt it would have been a memetic sensation, and the schadenfreude of watching livestreamers scream into their microphones loudly enough to generate feedback after each cheap death would have made the Five Nights at Freddy’s craze look like a damp firework in comparison!Įryi’s Action is a 2012 game developed by the Japanese studio Xtal Sword and brought over in English by Nyu Media. Git gud, scrub.Īs notorious as I Wanna Be The Guy was back then, and as many other games it inspired ( Super Meat Boy is a direct descendant for instance, and “The Kid” from I Wanna Be The Guy even features in it as a secret character) it really came out before its time. Does it make you angry? That’s the point – you’re just being filtered. Grotesquely unfair, completely unbalanced, sadistically difficult and deliberately designed to actively force you to fail as much as possible, and so to win despite the programmer actively conspiring to make you lose would be proof of a gamer’s true grit. I Wanna Be The Guy was a joke – a sick practical joke. I Wanna Be The Guy was a flower grown from the seed of Flash games on Newgrounds such as N, and it was an unusual sort of game, emblematic of the genre that came to be known as the “trapformer”.
It’s a game often cited alongside Cave Story as one of the earliest examples of the new wave of broadband-enabled indie titles that revolutionised the mid-2000s, reviving the Eighties “bedroom coder” phenomenon in the days before Steam was the ubiquitous arbiter of all PC gaming distribution (hard to believe but there was once a time, long lost to the misty aeons of myth, when you actually bought PC games in boxes from shops). This may be before the time of some of our younger readers among the iGen but decrepit old millennials like me may feel a flicker of recognition by mentioning I Wanna Be The Guy.
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