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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  Bugaham Games said 1 week 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 2 weeks 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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  5

  blobman72 said 1 month ago

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

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  5

  notsarahnz said 3 months ago

  This game - so frustrating, but so addicting. Once you're in, you're hooked forever..

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  5

  alexthekit said 4 months ago

  I played this game about a year ago. Since then, I've loved this game. This will always remain one of the most memorable freeware games ever. Mostly because of all the stress. It was fun stress ;)

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  TheAfterlifeGames said 4 months ago

  so hard yet so fun! There's seriously too many easy games out there

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  ellipsis said 5 months ago

  This is a great game.

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  5

  Saturnine Studios™ said 5 months ago

  I made it to the 6th room....that was it! lol

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  5

  newbaggett said 5 months ago

  LOL! "YOU JUMP INTO A SWORD! YOU RETARD!"

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  5

  Nomad4lyfe said 5 months ago

  So sweet... There needs to be more games that are super hard yet fun... I mean, just about every room has a unique twist to it that the others don't. Lots of creativity. Also it's awesome. :)

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