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[Gainsworthy]

It is here.

Bananas, jazzy midi music, no pants, amazing as usual. You can glide and stab folk and stuff. Thank you Indiegames Twitter for noticing.


OH YEAH: It's called "The Slightest Man 2 - Banana Oh you Yurusumaji" When you run it through the translator.

Personally, I like to think these titles make about as much sense in Japanese as they do in English.

EXTRA EDIT: I AM SO BAD AT THIS GAME OH GOD WHY IKKIKI WHY

I think it's worth quoting Tim's post about the controls and moves, which are all necessary to know:

commands are:

arrow keys - move
down arrow key - open chest, pick up weapon/item
shift - jump
control - shoot, stealth kill
F2 - reset game
J - suicide

dash - quickly tap left or right twice
glide - jump immediately after dashing
skid - press the opposite directional key after dashing
reverse jump - execute skid, then press the jump key quickly
body surf - execute a glide from high ground, then hold the jump button to body surf on any body of water (muddy and clear)

Good point X!

[fraxcell]

I love the translations Chrome gives for those titles.

"The Little Man helmet: By driving the retirement break their neck!"
"Pot book of the Bible: To play the villain in the snuff"

[moi]

context?

[Gainsworthy]

Oh, you know, Teppoman. By Ikiki, guy who made Nikujin, Hakaiman, that game where you cover a house in shit. No one wears any pants and they kill each other. MSPaint graphics, MIDI music tingling in the background, generally platformers, all in Japanese.

He's good. He has a new game. It's also good.

[Melly]

And how the hell do you progress in stage 4?

[Ego_Shiner]

i keep fucking around with all the fun moves and the game kills me for it ;_;

[Syrion]

I think it's worth quoting Tim's post about the controls and moves, which are all necessary to know:

commands are:

arrow keys - move
down arrow key - open chest, pick up weapon/item
shift - jump
control - shoot, stealth kill
F2 - reset game
J - suicide

dash - quickly tap left or right twice
glide - jump immediately after dashing
skid - press the opposite directional key after dashing
reverse jump - execute skid, then press the jump key quickly
body surf - execute a glide from high ground, then hold the jump button to body surf on any body of water (muddy and clear)

[Gainsworthy]

And how the hell do you progress in stage 4?

What's ailing ya? Stage 4 was pretty OK, I thought. Jump a bit, shoot mans, blow a hole through a wall.


Make sure you've got 5 bananas, though. Or the game boots you after the first boss.

[s0]

Loving it! I think this and Tekkyuuman are a huge return to form for Ikiki.

[Syrion]

I got to stage 6 now, and man, the controls are shit But, it's really fun. I think it still doesn't come close to Nikujin and Hakaiman for me, but I'm sure I'll enjoy getting the hang of the controls and playing through it. It also just feels nicely absurd to play a naked man wearing a super hero costume and using it to glide around, killing bad guys, only for the satisfaction of collecting bananas and making monkey sounds.

[Ego_Shiner]

i have to say, as someone who has never played any of ikkiki's games before, this is way better than nikujin. nikujin didn't have near as many fun moves to play around in and the wall jump/climb/shoot off like a fucking rocket thing felt really weird. i mean its still a fun game, but i enjoy this way more.

[Yougiedeggs]

The "demo" came out for this quite a while ago, really excited that ikiki finished this.
That said, level 10 seems impossible

[Syrion]

What about the part in level 9 where you have to get up over a wall full of barbed wire? I understand that you can walljump off the opposite wall, the one under which you're standing, but that still doesn't get me over the wire.

It's still very cool, but i find such parts a bit too annoying. Though, in hindsight, I guess Nikujin is no different. The only difference for me is that I've already played through that so many times that it's easy for me by now. Either way, I doubt I'll want to play Teppoman 2 that much.

[Dustin Smith]

I don't think the controls suck; they're autistic maybe, but once you get them down you can do some pretty wicked shit -- this definitely feels a lot more fluid than Nikujin. I'd recommend to change the abhorred ctrl+shift combo to z&x in the options menu.

This is the first Ikiki title I really connected with, I'm not one to speed-run games but this is just begging to be ripped apart. I get this visceral thrill everytime I glide through the air like the goddamn Batman and cut down some poor shmuck.   

[Blademasterbobo]

I'm like 100% sure he released this one or two years ago, since I remember playing through it one or two years ago. (Getting through most of it on my "first" try pretty much confirms this for me, since there's no way I would've been able to do that otherwise.) 

[s0]

I don't think the controls suck; they're autistic maybe, but once you get them down you can do some pretty wicked shit -- this definitely feels a lot more fluid than Nikujin. I'd recommend to change the abhorred ctrl+shift combo to z&x in the options menu.  

Or better yet, use a gamepad.

Seriously though, I still don't get how people manage to play these hardcore platformers with a keyboard. I can't even get past the first level in Nikujin with the default controls. Maybe it's got something to do with the fact that I never had a computer as a kid? I dunno.

[Tanner]

I'm like 100% sure he released this one or two years ago, since I remember playing through it one or two years ago. (Getting through most of it on my "first" try pretty much confirms this for me, since there's no way I would've been able to do that otherwise.) 

He did. This is an expansion of that original demo.

[Dustin Smith]

I normally play with either an NES or PS1 USB controller, but for some reason I can't do that damn reverse jump with them. I grew up with consoles as well, but through Flash games I've learned to adapt to a keyboard.

Speaking of reverse jumps:

 
               


                     
 

I can't pull these off with any consistency for the life of me. You need to do one on level 9, but I just can't do it. I practiced in level one for about an hour, if I wasn't listening to Caspien I would have given up by now.

I still love this game despite all this.

[Tanner]

gosh dang it why doesn't it have saves!?

[Lord Frunkamunch]

I normally play with either an NES or PS1 USB controller, but for some reason I can't do that damn reverse jump with them. I grew up with consoles as well, but through Flash games I've learned to adapt to a keyboard.

Speaking of reverse jumps:

 
               


                     
 

I can't pull these off with any consistency for the life of me. You need to do one on level 9, but I just can't do it. I practiced in level one for about an hour, if I wasn't listening to Caspien I would have given up by now.

I still love this game despite all this.

I had the same problem for a while. It's because always jumped immediately after the skid, thinking it was a matter of pixel perfect timing. What you have to do is get a decent running start, skid at the edge, and WAIT FOR A HALF SECOND. Once you realize the controls don't have to be split second timed, those jumps become easy.

But now I have a problem of my own. And that problem is: HOW DOES THIS JUMP MAKE ANY SENSE.

Do you just need to use the flying cheat? Is that it? I am confuse.