You Have to Burn the Rope

By: Derek Yu

On: April 5th, 2008

Burn the Rope

With so much uncertainty in the world today… sometimes a nice, straightforward video game is exactly what the doctor ordered.

(Source: dessgeega, via The Gamer’s Quarter forums)

  • Nikica

    Great game !!!

  • BigBossSNK

    Too bad it lasts less than the decay period of a subatomic particle in a particle accelerator.

  • MercuryBlind

    I wanted more… but that would defeat the point wouldn’t it…

  • http://www.sophiehoulden.com GirlFlash

    I dont get it, I managed to get through the tunnel, but I cant beat the boss, I found the fire and the rope thing thats holding the big thing over the boss… but I dont know what to do. the tiniest hint would help.

    damn it I’m going back to playing myst, this is too hard (>.<)

  • FishyBoy

    That was cute. It would be nice to see more.

  • Anonymous

    Loved the ending song.

  • Carlz0r

    Make sure you have the latest flash player. Otherwise it won’t work right, and it’ll just start playing the ending music as soon as you click start, and you won’t be able to move correctly.

  • MisterX

    Am I right in guessing that the whole point of the game is to have a “Still Alive”-ish ending song for a video game? :D
    Anyway, quite nice none the less. Even though there were only about 60 seconds of gameplay it shows that an ending summing up what you’ve done throughout the game and the outcome of it works nicely. Although I guess it’s quite obvious that this is better than some kind of “You made it! Congratulations! Now have fun with the main menu again!”.
    Neat song :)

  • BreadCultist

    I cried.

    Would like an mp3 of the song!

  • Chris

    I had my wife try this. Unfortunately, she found the platforming very difficult so it pretty much neutralized the humor. She’s really good at 2D console platformers like Super Mario World, and passable at Super Mario Galaxy, so I was really surprised.

    I think it’s kind of interesting how a small change in the input method ruined the game for her. It almost justifies the rampant cloning in the casual games industry–they don’t want to alienate their (paying) audience.

  • raelz

    I guess this is the only game with walktrough longer than the actual game.

    Good point MisterX, but although this looks kinda like portal rip-off, we all know the truth..

    Cavestory ripoff!!

  • BreadCultist
  • Stwelin

    Tried to beat it without burning the rope. what a fool i was.

  • Nillo

    Haha, if this qualifies as an “art game”, it’s definitely the best one I’ve ever played. Great stuff :)

  • Zeno

    Death animation on the boss is Cave Story ripoff.

  • Pi

    Death animation on the boss is The Underside ripoff.

  • Gr.Viper

    Death is a ripoff. :)

  • robolee

    AWESOME game… truly amazing credit song… just something so catch about it I played it about 6 times.

  • robolee

    Also if anyone is serious about the whole not being able to kill the boss then there is something seriously wrong with you… the whole “burn the rope, weapons don’t hurt the boss”

    but it seems that they are all joking…

  • Gauss

    The rope is a lie!

  • whocare

    last boss is tough

  • Ciardhubh

    There are walkthroughs for those with difficutlies defeating the end boss :D

  • wormguy

    This is definitely competing with Portal for Best Ending Song Ever.

  • josh g.

    Frickin’ hilarious!

  • Mr average

    8-bit gun tales rip off

  • gulo gulo

    so i get that you’re supposed to cut the rope with your ax but it’s not doing anything help

  • machrider

    I beat the game. Life is meaningless now!

  • Stij

    hay guise

    what do you have to do in this game

  • Mike K

    I’m a freaking hero people!

  • krizzl0r

    guess they composed the song first and then thought – hey lets do a game around it ;D

  • Monkey

    Challenge laser sauce hero front-butt launch paunch zero!

  • Nillo

    Now how am I gonna spend the rest of this day? I guess I’ll playlist the song and listen to it over and over.

  • Mazapán

    You’re all heroes! :)

  • Edward

    I need a hero
    I’m holding out for at hero ’till the end of the night
    He’s gotta be strong
    And he’s gotta be fast
    And he’s gotta be fresh from the fight

    I need a hero!

  • Reachground

    I’m so annoyed right now. Mr Kian AKA Mazapan let’s me create the music right? Well that might be so but I still don’t understand how to beat the game. And don’t point me to some tutorial-walkthrough-crap. I did them. Still no clue ):

  • http://www.reachground.se Reachground

    Ahhh…I get it…you just…

    …no! Still nothing.

  • Genisi

    Man, that game was hard. I’ve managed to beat games like Cave Story and Super Mario World with ease, but this is impossible. How the hell do you kill that last boss?!

  • Yugge

    WE DONT NEED ANOTHER HERO….ah pooch.

    But really, that game made my day.

  • mio

    In soviet Russia, the rope burns you!

  • fish

    you have to use the portal gun to destroy the different cores.

  • Pip

    I hereby challenge the TIGS community to a speedrun contest.

  • Dominic White

    I don’t know about ‘games as art’, but I’m certainly behind the concept of ‘games as joke’.

  • BOb

    I’m detecting hints of shadow of the colossus as well as portal.

  • seth

    this is the best game i have ever played

  • http://www.planetfreeplay.com Mosh

    That song was better then the body of Mike Patton’s work combined.

    Game should’ve been 30x length.

  • smirnoff

    “Soviet Russia” jokes stopped being funny approximately 2 hours before they were created.

  • Radnom

    but wow… those 2 hours were a blast!

  • Dusty Spur

    The tragedies that happen every day, right under our noses… that rope’s never gonna get another chance at life. That rope’s never gonna get another chance at holding up that ominous chandelier. That rope’s never gonna get his life back. And it’s all our fault.

  • whocare

    *sob* what’s about chandelier? it victim too

  • Melly

    Well damn, I had so much fun throwing those axes. The physics and collision on them were so advanced! Too bad they’re useless.

    Afterall, there is nothing in life that can’t be solved by burning it with fire.