Comments on: My Little Pony flash game http://boingboing.net/2011/07/10/my-little-pony-flash.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sun, 19 May 2013 08:40:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Zadaz http://boingboing.net/2011/07/10/my-little-pony-flash.html#comment-1159425 Zadaz Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1159425 I played through the entire game and found it a perfect simulacrum of the similar games of old in that it was clunky and slow to play, took way longer than it should have, and at the end I still didn't really feel like I knew what happened. I rate it a B- if you're fans of these games, D for everyone else. I played through the entire game and found it a perfect simulacrum of the similar games of old in that it was clunky and slow to play, took way longer than it should have, and at the end I still didn’t really feel like I knew what happened.

I rate it a B- if you’re fans of these games, D for everyone else.

]]> By: Senor Schaffer http://boingboing.net/2011/07/10/my-little-pony-flash.html#comment-1159426 Senor Schaffer Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1159426 "Rise from your grave!" “Rise from your grave!”

]]> By: blueelm http://boingboing.net/2011/07/10/my-little-pony-flash.html#comment-1159428 blueelm Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1159428 Oh man, no replay value. It's a one time thing IMO. But cute. Oh man, no replay value. It’s a one time thing IMO.

But cute.

]]> By: Stonewalker http://boingboing.net/2011/07/10/my-little-pony-flash.html#comment-1159945 Stonewalker Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1159945 I'm still trying to figure out how to tell my friends that "I am into the new My Little Pony show". Leading with Lauren Faust helps :) I’m still trying to figure out how to tell my friends that “I am into the new My Little Pony show”. Leading with Lauren Faust helps :)

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/07/10/my-little-pony-flash.html#comment-1160978 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1160978 Scariest survival horror game I've ever played. After repeated panicked cursing, my wife told me that if I didn't calm down I was not allowed to play it. 'Sploit for the first moving creepy: * Skirt him to the left and let him walk up and to the right. He's programmed to head for the rock. * If you wait a bit after his spiel, he'll push the rock down a bit for you. * You can get past him via the left, then the top, pretty easily (you're faster). Since he's moved the rock down for you, you can then start pushing the rock down, and he'll get caught on the wood to your left. It's less dramatic and terrifying, but effective. The fast pony is still a problem, but as others have said, the _moment_ you can get past the rock, head down and far right to the exit. The rest is a snap in comparison. So creepy. Scariest survival horror game I’ve ever played. After repeated panicked cursing, my wife told me that if I didn’t calm down I was not allowed to play it.

‘Sploit for the first moving creepy:
* Skirt him to the left and let him walk up and to the right. He’s programmed to head for the rock.
* If you wait a bit after his spiel, he’ll push the rock down a bit for you.
* You can get past him via the left, then the top, pretty easily (you’re faster). Since he’s moved the rock down for you, you can then start pushing the rock down, and he’ll get caught on the wood to your left. It’s less dramatic and terrifying, but effective.

The fast pony is still a problem, but as others have said, the _moment_ you can get past the rock, head down and far right to the exit. The rest is a snap in comparison.

So creepy.

]]> By: andygates http://boingboing.net/2011/07/10/my-little-pony-flash.html#comment-1159699 andygates Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1159699 Gave me a chill, which is remarkable stuff in my book. RTight up there with the baby-shadows from you-know-what. (Was that long path with a mournful pony at the end a tribute to Keiichirō Toyama?) Gave me a chill, which is remarkable stuff in my book. RTight up there with the baby-shadows from you-know-what. (Was that long path with a mournful pony at the end a tribute to Keiichirō Toyama?)

]]> By: Avram / Moderator http://boingboing.net/2011/07/10/my-little-pony-flash.html#comment-1159716 Avram / Moderator Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1159716 Needs some chiptune Sondheim. Needs some chiptune Sondheim.

]]> By: bersl2 http://boingboing.net/2011/07/10/my-little-pony-flash.html#comment-1159467 bersl2 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1159467 <blockquote>Try as I might, I couldn't get deflowered to save my life. Now I feel cheap, but unsatisfied. What a letdown. I thought this game was about making more little ponies.</blockquote> lol ... Wait, are you joking? (My sarcasm detector is too worn out for today.) I mean, think about it: this is the Internet.

Try as I might, I couldn’t get deflowered to save my life. Now I feel cheap, but unsatisfied. What a letdown. I thought this game was about making more little ponies.

lol

…

Wait, are you joking? (My sarcasm detector is too worn out for today.) I mean, think about it: this is the Internet.

]]> By: bersl2 http://boingboing.net/2011/07/10/my-little-pony-flash.html#comment-1159734 bersl2 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1159734 It has been brought to my attention that the article-oid at the top has some not-quite-correct information. It would be better to refer to the title of this game as "Story of the Blanks". I understand how one might mistake the stylized logo at the title screen for the title, though. It has been brought to my attention that the article-oid at the top has some not-quite-correct information.

It would be better to refer to the title of this game as “Story of the Blanks”. I understand how one might mistake the stylized logo at the title screen for the title, though.

]]> By: EeyoreX http://boingboing.net/2011/07/10/my-little-pony-flash.html#comment-1159746 EeyoreX Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1159746 Well, it's hosted on Newgrounds, so anyone venturing into it <I>without</I> expecting a hidden ironic edge embeded somewhere in the game deserves a spanking. That beeing said: I played right through it, and I still can't say if what I experienced was sincere fan-fiction or an elaborate, trollish joke. I mean that in the best way possible: it works on multiple levels. I think it works because the Nintendo 8-bit and the MLP universe are both comforting constraints, wich we have become conditioned to associate with certain narratives. And that also explains why some peeps here simply don't "get" this game: if you're not familiar with the conventions of the narrative, you don't get a WTF moment when those conventions are suddenly crushed. Well, it’s hosted on Newgrounds, so anyone venturing into it without expecting a hidden ironic edge embeded somewhere in the game deserves a spanking.

That beeing said: I played right through it, and I still can’t say if what I experienced was sincere fan-fiction or an elaborate, trollish joke. I mean that in the best way possible: it works on multiple levels.

I think it works because the Nintendo 8-bit and the MLP universe are both comforting constraints, wich we have become conditioned to associate with certain narratives.
And that also explains why some peeps here simply don’t “get” this game: if you’re not familiar with the conventions of the narrative, you don’t get a WTF moment when those conventions are suddenly crushed.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/07/10/my-little-pony-flash.html#comment-1159762 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1159762 Go back until you see something unusual... Go back until you see something unusual…

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/07/10/my-little-pony-flash.html#comment-1159551 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1159551 Excuse my stupidity, but am I missing something? What actually happens in the house? What causes everything to go...well, creepy. And who was that pony you were following? I can't work out what was going on in this game. I would appreciate it if someone could explain it to this potato of a mind I have :/ Excuse my stupidity, but am I missing something? What actually happens in the house? What causes everything to go…well, creepy. And who was that pony you were following?

I can’t work out what was going on in this game. I would appreciate it if someone could explain it to this potato of a mind I have :/

]]> By: jfrancis http://boingboing.net/2011/07/10/my-little-pony-flash.html#comment-1159296 jfrancis Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1159296 Reminds me of Sarah Silverman Reminds me of Sarah Silverman

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/07/10/my-little-pony-flash.html#comment-1159297 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1159297 Fuck you Flash ! That game is making my laptop's CPU going crazy ! Fuck you Flash ! That game is making my laptop’s CPU going crazy !

]]> By: Gemma http://boingboing.net/2011/07/10/my-little-pony-flash.html#comment-1159306 Gemma Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1159306 TWILIGHT SPARKLE: STAY RIGHT THERE APPLEBLOOM. THIS MAY TAKE A WHILE Then nothing else happens. Hmm. TWILIGHT SPARKLE:
STAY RIGHT THERE
APPLEBLOOM. THIS MAY TAKE
A WHILE

Then nothing else happens. Hmm.

]]> By: Bookburn http://boingboing.net/2011/07/10/my-little-pony-flash.html#comment-1159307 Bookburn Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1159307 That is messed up. I don't like retro games, fanfic, or ponies (real or otherwise) - but this game deserves a play. Even in a very short amount of time, the game sets up a perfect WTF! moment that you'll replay just to see how you were ever suckered into its presumed innocence. That is messed up. I don’t like retro games, fanfic, or ponies (real or otherwise) – but this game deserves a play. Even in a very short amount of time, the game sets up a perfect WTF! moment that you’ll replay just to see how you were ever suckered into its presumed innocence.

]]> By: bersl2 http://boingboing.net/2011/07/10/my-little-pony-flash.html#comment-1159309 bersl2 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1159309 Um, try exploring in the other direction. Um, try exploring in the other direction.

]]> By: nanojath http://boingboing.net/2011/07/10/my-little-pony-flash.html#comment-1159822 nanojath Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1159822 "Excuse my stupidity, but am I missing something? What actually happens in the house?" My take was that you find a pony corpse in the fireplace of that house and it tears the scales from your eyes and you then see that the whole party was just a ghostly glamour cast over a scene of some sort of Jonestown-esque pony massacre, and then you have to escape all of the pony revenants trying to keep you in their horrible twilight afterlife. “Excuse my stupidity, but am I missing something? What actually happens in the house?”

My take was that you find a pony corpse in the fireplace of that house and it tears the scales from your eyes and you then see that the whole party was just a ghostly glamour cast over a scene of some sort of Jonestown-esque pony massacre, and then you have to escape all of the pony revenants trying to keep you in their horrible twilight afterlife.

]]> By: rrh http://boingboing.net/2011/07/10/my-little-pony-flash.html#comment-1159313 rrh Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1159313 Does it depend upon you following story logic instead of real life logic? Like in real life, if someone says, "stay close to me," "don't wander off on your own," and "stay right there," maybe you'll take the advice. But in a story, those are all cues for, "Obviously I should wander off and find out what happens in the woods at night." Does it depend upon you following story logic instead of real life logic?

Like in real life, if someone says, “stay close to me,” “don’t wander off on your own,” and “stay right there,” maybe you’ll take the advice.

But in a story, those are all cues for, “Obviously I should wander off and find out what happens in the woods at night.”

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/07/10/my-little-pony-flash.html#comment-1159314 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1159314 You need to go up, then follow the lovely pony to the party. You need to go up, then follow the lovely pony to the party.

]]> By: Gemma http://boingboing.net/2011/07/10/my-little-pony-flash.html#comment-1159322 Gemma Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1159322 I had already tried to wander off, and tried to talk the to pony that crosses the screen.... but hadn't worked out that I would be able to follow him. Furiously pressing z as he scarpered wasn't getting me anywhere! I did make it to the end of the game. Eventually. /noob. I had already tried to wander off, and tried to talk the to pony that crosses the screen…. but hadn’t worked out that I would be able to follow him. Furiously pressing z as he scarpered wasn’t getting me anywhere! I did make it to the end of the game. Eventually. /noob.

]]> By: RumorsofmyDemise http://boingboing.net/2011/07/10/my-little-pony-flash.html#comment-1159325 RumorsofmyDemise Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1159325 I suck at these things. I got as far as the locked door and creepy well and couldn't get further. I fail at the internet. I suck at these things. I got as far as the locked door and creepy well and couldn’t get further. I fail at the internet.

]]> By: thebelgianpanda http://boingboing.net/2011/07/10/my-little-pony-flash.html#comment-1159327 thebelgianpanda Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1159327 there is a single house you can go into in the village, it may have the tool you seek. there is a single house you can go into in the village, it may have the tool you seek.

]]> By: MashTheStampede http://boingboing.net/2011/07/10/my-little-pony-flash.html#comment-1159328 MashTheStampede Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1159328 Well, that was pleasantly creepy. It reminded me of how when I was a kid, some games were scarier for their 8-bit graphics because they left so much to the imagination. *Shudder* Well, that was pleasantly creepy. It reminded me of how when I was a kid, some games were scarier for their 8-bit graphics because they left so much to the imagination.

*Shudder*

]]> By: johnnyaction http://boingboing.net/2011/07/10/my-little-pony-flash.html#comment-1159329 johnnyaction Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1159329 The "friends" moment reminded me of the skexies in The Dark Crystal. The “friends” moment reminded me of the skexies in The Dark Crystal.

]]> By: dccarles http://boingboing.net/2011/07/10/my-little-pony-flash.html#comment-1159331 dccarles Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1159331 Reached the part where you have to cross the village without being touched by the black ponies. The second one is hard enough but the third homes in perfectly at twice your speed. Might have been an interesting game, but insofar as I can tell, it's impossible to get past that point. Reached the part where you have to cross the village without being touched by the black ponies. The second one is hard enough but the third homes in perfectly at twice your speed. Might have been an interesting game, but insofar as I can tell, it’s impossible to get past that point.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/07/10/my-little-pony-flash.html#comment-1159333 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1159333 that point is certainly passable, I got through the entire game. that point is certainly passable, I got through the entire game.

]]> By: Locien http://boingboing.net/2011/07/10/my-little-pony-flash.html#comment-1159336 Locien Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1159336 The trick is that when you're pushing the box down there's a narrow strip to the right. You don't have to push the box all the way down, but only to the point to where you can go into the narrow strip. Then go into the strip and make a break for the exit. You should be able to get out, and at that point the rest shouldn't be much more trouble, just avoid the rest of the ponies. The trick is that when you’re pushing the box down there’s a narrow strip to the right. You don’t have to push the box all the way down, but only to the point to where you can go into the narrow strip. Then go into the strip and make a break for the exit. You should be able to get out, and at that point the rest shouldn’t be much more trouble, just avoid the rest of the ponies.

]]> By: RumorsofmyDemise http://boingboing.net/2011/07/10/my-little-pony-flash.html#comment-1159340 RumorsofmyDemise Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1159340 Wow. Just...wow. Wow. Just…wow.

]]> By: Church http://boingboing.net/2011/07/10/my-little-pony-flash.html#comment-1159343 Church Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1159343 Pretty much what Locien said. Once you know that the exit is at the lower right, you should be able to outrun him. Pretty much what Locien said. Once you know that the exit is at the lower right, you should be able to outrun him.

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