Labyrinth 2.0 in flash

February 7, 2008 9:23 PM

Labyrinth 2.0 AKA Spin the Blac[sic] Circle flash
posted by BrotherCaine (27 comments total)

I was really really hoping this had something to do with David Bowie in tight pants.
posted by spec80 at 9:36 PM on February 7, 2008

That is hard. The trick is to take your time and only push one button at a time.
posted by jeffamaphone at 9:40 PM on February 7, 2008

Spec80, sorry but not that Labyrinth.
posted by BrotherCaine at 9:46 PM on February 7, 2008

I was totally hoping for some Labyrinth the movie action too. But the game itself was quite fun. Thanks for sharing.
posted by friendlyjuan at 9:47 PM on February 7, 2008

The BRIO labyrinth game is what I was referring to when I said labyrinth 2.0. Apologies, I'd have constructed a better FPP (or not posted at all) if my blood sugar were a little closer to normal.
posted by BrotherCaine at 9:59 PM on February 7, 2008

I liked the game too.

But not as much as I liked the song from Labyrinth at about 3:30 of this link, which I thought was the bestest song when that movie came out. (I think Danny John-Jules, Cat from Red Dwarf, is one of the voices.)

But I digress. I got stuck on the level with the intermittently spinning wheel in the middle--anyone have any tips?
posted by Admiral Haddock at 10:05 PM on February 7, 2008

Related: the gravity Maze game. Yeah, I could have done a FPP, but this one is similar enough.
posted by filmgeek at 10:06 PM on February 7, 2008 [1 favorite]

Adm. Haddock: that one got me for awhile, but I just kept playing with it till I hit the initial velocity right, and then it pretty much just went around smoothly in one go, no back-and-forth.
The level after is annoying because it takes a long time, and the hardest bit is at the very end, so you keep re-doing.
posted by agentofselection at 10:20 PM on February 7, 2008

@agentofselection wait till you get to level 23... the horror!
posted by bpm140 at 10:21 PM on February 7, 2008

And not this spin the black circle, either, I'm afraid.
posted by milnak at 10:28 PM on February 7, 2008

Hmm, where are the level numbers?
posted by agentofselection at 10:32 PM on February 7, 2008

Thank you for not posting to during the day. Now I don't have to decide between working and beating the next level.
posted by recursion at 10:39 PM on February 7, 2008

got stuck on 19 (with the blue, one-way walls and those 5 flamethrowers near the end of the maze). fun stuff.
posted by mrgrimm at 11:01 PM on February 7, 2008

I played this for a while but I thought the difficulty was misjudged. You become too conscious that it is going to take a lot of practice to get through each level, which makes the opportunity cost too high for me, since the gameplay itself is not that rewarding. If the actual experience of playing the game was more fun, you could get away with the difficulty.

I guess what I'm saying is that it probably works for masochists.
posted by unSane at 11:03 PM on February 7, 2008

(the fact that the guy puts a disclaimer at the front about the difficulty is a bit of a give-away... I think it would be better if there were a bunch of easier levels at the front and the difficulty ramped up a bit more slowly).

I also found the intermittent flames frustrating because the latency of the game's physics response means they're extremely hard to time accurately.
posted by unSane at 11:05 PM on February 7, 2008

(but on the other hand, big kudos for making a playable, skilful, game with only a one-dimensional control system -- left arrow or right arrow)
posted by unSane at 11:07 PM on February 7, 2008

Different, but good game also about getting a ball to an exit.
posted by juv3nal at 11:12 PM on February 7, 2008 [2 favorites]

Because there just wasn't enough frustration in my life. Thanks!

(It's actually a pretty fun challenge)
posted by spiderskull at 11:20 PM on February 7, 2008

A rare level-based flash game that is both challenging and playable to the finish. The last level takes a certain finesse, to be sure.
posted by FissionChips at 1:19 AM on February 8, 2008

Naked pics of Jennifer Connelly or it didn't happen.
posted by obiwanwasabi at 2:36 AM on February 8, 2008

i'm up to level 20, you cunt >:|
god dammit how many levels are there!

i like the music though. anyone else notice there's a skeleton inside the ball when you get set on fire? just what exactly is going on here?!
posted by Dillonlikescookies at 4:01 AM on February 8, 2008

The vagina dentata was tough. I got it by letting it drop directly from the very end of that skinny platform at the start, just as it starts to wrap to the other side. The biggest problem is keeping it from dropping too far down. When I put it on the other side of the skinny platform, on the flat part, I couldn't get it to work.

Still, it was a crapshoot at best.
posted by mrgrimm at 8:16 AM on February 8, 2008

I got through the vagina dentata (a sentence I never thought I would say), and beyond, but the huge spiral level is kicking my ass. I can get all the way to the very last tiny tiny square that turns into the portal and then BAM! I hit the teeth.
posted by misha at 10:35 AM on February 8, 2008

Argh, any tips for last flamethrower near one way wall on level 19?
posted by BrotherCaine at 5:19 PM on February 8, 2008

"Sorry, no game found for link: spin-the-blac-circle."

Did they pull the game for some reason? Did it have music in it without the rights?
posted by intermod at 7:33 PM on February 8, 2008

Corrected link -- looks like they fixed the typo in the URL.
posted by Doofus Magoo at 7:47 PM on February 8, 2008 [1 favorite]

Duh. I had that thought, but it didn't reach my fingertips. Hrrmmph.

Flash 9, bah. I choose to get off the upgrade treadmill for six farking months, and suddenly I'm a Luddite. Yay!
posted by intermod at 8:11 PM on February 8, 2008