

ÂNow you listen here, you should be thankful youâre as good as you are. The nurse anticipated Thoad, thinking that he would protest and say otherwise, being stubborn as he usually is.

He sighed an appreciatively started to say that the nurse had helped him, but was quickly cut off. Thoad looked downward, trying to take it all in. Most people were eliminated in the very first round.â She started strong, but after she said âfreakingâ she became a little bit more quiet. Youâre inexperienced and fairly scrawny, yet with wit and with enthusiasm, you got to the semi-freaking-finals. That was my only-" he was cut off by the lady. Then Thoadâs sense of ârealityâ came back to him. To be complimented from such a beauty was an honor to Thoad. Her eyes were a warm hazel and her voice swam through the air in a graceful and beautiful fashion. Her hair was of a dark brown, slightly more brown than Thoadâs. Her face was cute, it had dimples and was fairly pale in the face. A girl on the internet? On Armorgames of all places? Absurd. âI know that Iâm just a faceless user to you,â She looked up and smiled at Thoad. ÂYou know, you actually did good out there,â said a nurse who came to check on Thoadâs IV. Thoad felt his sorrow once more and put his hand on his forehead. The light from his broom closet porthole came into the world again. False memories of armorgames users laughing at him as he lay unconscious on the floor haunted his dreams.

Whenever he tried to sleep he was constantly reminded on how he had lost. There’s even a devilish bit toward the end of the game with a kinda-sorta fakeout after you finally wiggle up to the top of the trickiest area yet.Thoad awoke from yet another nightmare. Your sword is never ideal - it’s always too short or too long - and it’s a fun, if at times slightly maddening, dynamic. The creators at Cosmic Adventure Squad did a good job of extending the level outward during each phase while keeping things interesting as you go back through the earlier sections again with a longer weapon. (If you do, there are convenient checkpoints - just tap the R key.) Instead, you’ve got to walk around (using your keyboard) and carefully position the unwieldy sword (using your mouse) in such a way that you can slip through tunnels and vault over ledges while ultimately trying not to get physically stuck once the sword becomes too long. Your hero can’t effortlessly leap from platform to platform.

The challenge of Deepest Sword is deceptive in a funky physics sort of way. I almost tapped out during the final push. There are five cycles to squeeze through to reach the climax and see your completion time for a while there, I wasn’t sure I’d make it. You’ll start back at the beginning with a longer sword, and the level grows in scope, too.
#Deepest sword newgrounds free#
It’s a free indie game (playable on Steam, Itch.io, and Newgrounds) where you’re a little adventurer with an even littler sword who needs to stab a dragon’s heart.Īll you have to do is stroll over to the dragon and plunge it in… but it’s too short to reach! Every time you fail to pierce the beast’s heart, you’ll get another crack at it. When I use the term “time-waster,” I do so affectionately - Deepest Sword is exactly what it needs to be. It’s a cute time-waster and it’s totally free
