Let's Play! Seven Minutes.

Masocore Extravaganza

You sought knowledge where there was none and now God will destroy the universe. What will you do with your final seven minutes?

Jill wants to please the Queen but Jill always fails. Jill has to punish herself to reach the top of the dungeon and to reach the Queen.

An illogical dream filled with sadness and charm.

I Wanna be the guy is an Indie game with extremely hard platforming challenges and many references to popular games, such as Metroid, Mega Man and Castlevania. It is a notable example of the Masocore indie game genre.

yay, giant bomb lets play games are always rad. I hope this is as good as or better than jetpack cat

Just downloaded, I'm going to check it out now.

I completed it the traditional way first, and then just now i've got the 'true' ending, which was kinda wierd and pointless.

Interesting enough game though. I like the atmosphere it creates.

Multiple endings?

I've just finished it, and didn't find it as taxing as I thought it would be after reading the wiki page. I gathered it was going to be short (the title is Seven Minutes, after all), but there honestly couldn't have been more than fifteen-twenty screens in the game, none of which were that difficult to suss.

I agree with Steve_C on the game's atmosphere, and there's obviously quite a lot going on in terms of messages the developer is trying to convey. The futility of humanity is the most prominent one for me. In the game, you're representing a human, you travel across those screens, presumably with the ultimate goal of stopping the end of the world (although it's never actually explicitly stated). Yet, when you finally reach the "end", you still fail. I think that's what the developer is getting at: even though we humans are the most intelligent species on this planet and are constantly pushing to further ourselves, our time spent on this planet as a species will probably be much shorter than, say, the dinosaurs.

Ah, Masocore.

I shall try this when i arrive home.

"I completed it the traditional way first, and then just now i've got the 'true' ending, which was kinda wierd and pointless.

Interesting enough game though. I like the atmosphere it creates."

Ok, I just got the "other" ending and can't get my head round it at all.

Perhaps the overall message is to accept your fate rather than trying to run from it. I hate reading into things too much (says the English student) but Seven Minutes really promotes that kind of thinking.

Rowr said:

"Might have to throw in a bonus this week."

"Ok, I just got the "other" ending and can't get my head round it at all.

Perhaps the overall message is to accept your fate rather than trying to run from it. I hate reading into things too much (says the English student) but Seven Minutes really promotes that kind of thinking.

Rowr said:

"Might have to throw in a bonus this week."

Sounds like a great idea. Like I said earlier, it was disappointingly short."

Sounds like it's only 7 minutes long. :P

yeh.

who knew.

seriously though i expected it to get harder after the quick playtest i gave it.

If you want to spice it up, go download Hypercam and Youtube a speedrun video.

I was orignally thinking the game's message would be about trying hard and not giving up, so far as to avoid fate. I imagined that you'd get right to the end just under 7 minutes, only if you had done a perfect run.

After completing it the conventional way though, it was like the 'you can't avoid death!'. The 'true' ending i found confusing; maybe the whole thing's just about accepting responsibility for your actions, and the consequences that come along with it.

As for other games, we could stick to this 'masocore' theme. Maybe Psychosomnium or Mighty Jiff Off, or even both. They sound quite interesting.

"I was orignally thinking the game's message would be about trying hard and not giving up, so far as to avoid fate. I imagined that you'd get right to the end just under 7 minutes, only if you had done a perfect run."

Rowr said:

"Might have to throw in a bonus this week."

Sounds like a great idea. Like I said earlier, it was disappointingly short."

"As for other games, we could stick to this 'masocore' theme. Maybe Psychosomnium or Mighty Jiff Off, or even both. They sound quite interesting."

"Sounds like it's only 7 minutes long. :P"

Oh shit, OP now blows my mind.  I'm all over this shit.

Hehe, this should be fun.

Everyone record your IWBTG playthroughs! :D

I finished both endings of 7 minutes. The "real" ending was kinda pointless though.

I've just played Mighty Jill Off and absolutely loved the jump/float mechanics. I have a real appreciation for games like this, that seem to be so simple and offer more depth than you perceive them to have.

If anybody's interested, my first playthrough I clocked up 18mins 26secs. I'll probably play through it again before the week's out, to see if I can improve on it (which I probably can, considering I had a lot of other stuff going on at the same time).

I haven't had the chance to play any of them yet, but i've just got back on the PC and i'm downloading mighty jill off. Looking at the readme, the controls sound interesting for the jumping stuff.

ill try them out in a minute
i hate you for providing a link to the "i want to be the guy game".... i know it will hurt but its calling for me....

Just played Jill Off, and I didn't rate it. It was more annoying than fun.

I just played Seven Minutes, and didn't finish it. I like the idea of the game, and the Masocore aspect actually adds a lot to it, which I was surprised at. However, the visuals bug the hell out of me. I get that they're intentional, necessary, and the game wouldn't be the same without it, but I just plain don't like them. They're off putting, and it's probably not very good for the eyes either. =P

Having said that though, decent. And, for the sake of own ego, I might have to go back at some point and finish it...I hear it's only 7 minutes long?

Just finished Mighty Jill Off. My first attempt came in at 13 mins 44 seconds, i pressed print screen but it didn't work for some reason.

I found the controls to be quite good. My only real problem was that it felt unresponsive at times, especially when you have to jump from the very edge of a platform, i ended just running straight off and having to waste time.

I might try the others tomorrow.

Just finished Psychosomnium. It was very enjoyable while it lasted, but like 7 minutes it was very short.

Dude, I Wanna Be the Guy nearly killed me a while ago. I don't know if I have the willpower to try this again...

"Dude, I Wanna Be the Guy nearly killed me a while ago. I don't know if I have the willpower to try this again..."

Psychosomnium is a strange one. It's probably the shortest, I would think, and you switch characters quite a few times, which throws up a couple of new ways to play. At the end though, I felt as if it wasn't enough. It ended suddenly, really suddenly. I think if it had gone on a little longer, and maybe delivered a little more on the illogical puzzles aspect, it could have been my favourite.

"ill try them out in a minute
i hate you for providing a link to the "i want to be the guy game".... i know it will hurt but its calling for me...."

I got stuck in seven minutes. :/
I beat Mighty Jill Off, had lots of fun with that. Great platformer. :)
Going to try Psycho-whatever a little bit later.
I refuse to play The Last Guy ever again.

I'm surprised I enjoyed Mighty Jill Off, I usually hate plat formers (Fucking Mario brothers).

where did you get stuck in seven minutes?

I'm curious, Rowr, has the addition of the Community Thread resulted in more activity in the Let's Play thread? As this is the first Let's Play I've gotten involved in, I've got nothing to compare it against, and it'd be cool to know if the new thread's making a difference.

Wow, Nice selection

"where did you get stuck in seven minutes?
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I've beaten that one Street Fighter boss in I Wanna Be the Guy and I'm on the next screen after that.

This game is harder than I thought it would be :|

Just finished Seven Minutes and will probably never play it ever agin. It creates an interesting atmosphere, very creepy i think. 

I just had a massive session of I Wanna Be The Guy.  I made it all the way up to the Ghosts & Goblins massive spiked corridor thing when the game crashed on me. :(

"Psychosomnium is a strange one. It's probably the shortest, I would think, and you switch characters quite a few times, which throws up a couple of new ways to play. At the end though, I felt as if it wasn't enough. It ended suddenly, really suddenly. I think if it had gone on a little longer, and maybe delivered a little more on the illogical puzzles aspect, it could have been my favourite."

"Ok, I just got the "other" ending and can't get my head round it at all.

Perhaps the overall message is to accept your fate rather than trying to run from it. I hate reading into things too much (says the English student) but Seven Minutes really promotes that kind of thinking."

I think for an amateur game Seven Minutes has done a great job at creating atmosphere. Something about it is weird. Like your brain is thinking "its weird ass shit" but somewhere else you feel it makes sense? Im confused nevermind.

It's got this retro familiarity to it.  The soundtrack & graphics feel right at home for those of us who played 8 bit games when we were younger, but then it creates the atmosphere within those boundaries.  Basically, if the game came out 20 years ago, it would be extremely creepy & weird.

For me it was the clever monologue and the way it was presented, that created the bulk of the atmosphere.

Vaxadrin said:

"It's got this retro familiarity to it.  The soundtrack & graphics feel right at home for those of us who played 8 bit games when we were younger, but then it creates the atmosphere within those boundaries.  Basically, if the game came out 20 years ago, it would be extremely creepy & weird."

"For me it was the clever monologue and the way it was presented, that created the bulk of the atmosphere.

Vaxadrin said:

"It's got this retro familiarity to it.  The soundtrack & graphics feel right at home for those of us who played 8 bit games when we were younger, but then it creates the atmosphere within those boundaries.  Basically, if the game came out 20 years ago, it would be extremely creepy & weird."

I wonder how this would of been received 20 years ago? When the graphics would have made the game cutting edge.

I found an interesting glitch, I thought it could be a secret, but i couldnt get anything interesting happen with it. Maybe my timing sux.

Move up against this block as you jump, for big airtime.

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I was hoping to pwn the boss with it.

I completed it the traditional way first, and then just now i've got the 'true' ending, which was kinda wierd and pointless.

The true ending isn't pointless from an artistic standpoint but it is from a gameplay one.

DId anybody play I wanna be the guy?

I would be curious to know what you guys thought of it.

I quit the game after the second screen when i identified it as a torture simulator.

I want to be the guy=greatest game ever