Nimian Hunter

August 14, 2006 9:58 PM

Nimian Hunter ~ Ride your horse, lasso the creatures, and feed your demon. (note: flash)
posted by crunchland (17 comments total)

That was sort of fun, I guess.

I'm too lazy to play through again. What happens if you don't feed the flying bug to the angry red blur?
posted by Drunken_munky at 10:27 PM on August 14, 2006 [1 favorite]

You fight the angry red blur and then get turned to stone. Whoopee. Kind of atmospheric, though. This was somebody's game design school project, maybe?
posted by gurple at 10:31 PM on August 14, 2006

SPOILER!!




Then you have to fight the angry red blur while riding the flying bug, last-boss style. Eventually, if you beat down the red guy, then you have to make "a final sacrifice" and you ride up, lasso a floaty icon head, and boof are turned into a statue.

I don't want to play it through again either. What happens if you DO feed the crystal flier to the demon?
posted by Rubber Soul at 10:32 PM on August 14, 2006

You get sent to the past, like he promised - only WiTH A TWIST! You arrive seconds before the world's destruction, and you have to fight the demon, only all the people who would normally help you are those moths, which you already killed/fed to the demon. So, you're screwed, and the game suddenly ends.
posted by jonson at 10:35 PM on August 14, 2006

It's all very disappointing, really.
posted by Drunken_munky at 10:39 PM on August 14, 2006

(but very pretty)
posted by Drunken_munky at 10:40 PM on August 14, 2006

Oh god that horseback riding felt interminable. I gues its a nice use of flash, but for Pete's sake make it shorter.

This couldn't wait until Friday?
posted by oddman at 10:42 PM on August 14, 2006

Very impressive, but yeah, those are some long horsey rides. Music is actually quite good.

Hint: with your quarry lassoed, avoid smashing it into a tree. If you do, click the lasso again quickly.
posted by zardoz at 10:49 PM on August 14, 2006

Another hint; smacking trees with your empty lasso will knock them over, and maybe it'll thin them out so it's easier to drag prey back without hitting trees.

Unless the trees are randomly generated as you go, which they might be.
posted by Rubber Soul at 11:07 PM on August 14, 2006

Wow. I just found that on Milk and Cookies and played the levels. Nice, nice, modest game -especially considering the design.

And I love the moral.

EX-cellent post!
posted by squidfartz at 11:07 PM on August 14, 2006

I started riding in a random direction until I realized that all the little bug things I needed to get were behind me. At that point, though, I found out that I'm very good at riding through trees and splitting them in half.
posted by Stauf at 12:34 AM on August 15, 2006

I'm enjoying it, then my cursor strays and I end up clicking a link on the surrounding page. I start over. The same thing happens at the same place. Damn it! It's impressive work, though.
posted by brundlefly at 12:51 AM on August 15, 2006

Nobody's feeling the Shadow of the Colossus vibe yet?
posted by Fejery at 4:32 AM on August 15, 2006

Okay, I played this for 15 minutes and was truly baffled. Then I read the Jayisgames and realised I wasn't supposed to be lassoing the flying pterodactyl-like things...
posted by afx237vi at 7:54 AM on August 15, 2006

Having now worked out how to play and collected the first two beasties: good game, but got really bored on that slowass horse.
posted by afx237vi at 8:06 AM on August 15, 2006

It made me sad. I don't want to feed the happy green dragonflies to the mean red demon. What did they ever do to me?
posted by tentacle at 12:20 PM on August 15, 2006

I'm still too busy playing drifts.
posted by madamjujujive at 12:30 PM on August 15, 2006