I Wanna Be The Guy

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?

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  igisu said 1 month ago

  it is nice game

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  Nights of Light said 1 month ago

  Absolutely adored it - cannot lie however, I did find myself searching for the meaning of life halfway through it (and towards the end). But, regardless of my hair loss, broken knuckles, unstable mental health - I will always love this game, it brings out the best in gamers!

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  InterrobangPie said 2 months ago

  What can I say - it's IWBTG. I think I'll need an easier difficulty level though :S

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  anna said 4 months ago

  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?
  
  

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  hiyouletsgo said 4 months ago

  How do you change the difficulty?

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  s2r2 said 5 months ago

  Best game that has throw away lives. I don't recall paying a game that had me dying every minute that was fun before this.

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  Bugaham Games said 5 months ago

  Now I really realize what this game is about.. Excellent and funny. Just a few minor glitches like the one mentioned previously.. Great game! (I changed my rating from a 4 to a 5.)

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  Bugaham Games said 6 months ago

  I changed my rating.. I made it to the mike tyson level, but the save system is really messed up, along with another annoying glitch that randomly closes the game (happened once when I beat mike.)
  
  After I beat mike, the game closed, and once I beat him again, I saved. Then I died again, but instead of taking me back to my save it took me back to mike tyson again. And the game is very difficult, so after spending an hour on a single screen that can be REALLY annoying.
  
  Otherwise, nice game with a great retro feel.

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  blobman72 said 7 months ago

  Yes! i love this game, so hard...

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