I like Fancy Pants Adventure World 1 Remix

After I graduated from high school (I'm not feeling the nostalgia at all), I have a lot more free time now.  However I don't plan to waste it all on the Internet... I've been planning to really make more online content this summer (whatever that means) than just looking at other's work.

I've really enjoyed the Fancy Pants Adventures flash games.  I've played Worlds 1-3.  Yep, I've been one of those players from the beginning.

Not too long ago, when I logged onto BourneGames.com, I noticed that FPA: World 1 Remix was up.  I decided to play it, since I was wondering if World 1 Remix was going to be a World 3 stylized version of the original World 1.

To my surprise, World 1 Remix was more like a rethinking of World 1 rather than a refurbishing of the original.  I finished the game in about less than 1 hour.  (Hopefully) I did find almost all the extras (pants colors, patterns, and hats) except for the aviator goggles and hat.  I did get those after a second play-through to make sure I didn't miss anything.

The only things that disappointed me were that you couldn't do wall runs, Fancy Pants Man could only do forward slashes and couldn't kill enemies, and the Angry Penguin didn't make a return.  After thinking for a bit, these choices made sense because wall running was only introduced into World 3.  The pencil sword was kind of a surprise bonus and wouldn't be required in World 1, so the limited ability it has actually makes sense.  Finally the Angry Penguin would have been way too easy to beat if the World 1 Remix stayed true to the original.  The Pencil Boss was really challenging at first.  This was mostly because in World 3 the pencil was required to beat the boss, Captain Rainbow Beard.  The Remix boss was more like a challenging Rabbit boss of World 2... which is kind of a throwback to the original FPA games before World 3.

I also realized that cliff hanging wasn't available... this caused me to fall off into bottomless pits many times (and unnecessarily) lose bits of health.  It wouldn't be so bad if the power slide (which was another bonus goodie) wasn't brought into World 1 Remix in places where you could fall off easily.  (You know the areas I'm talking about if you've played the Remix.)  In World 2, I could slide away on any flat surface and not worry about falling off any cliffs because of the cliff hangs... then again the cliff hang wasn't in the original World 1, either.

Anyways, those things were actually super minor and I could care less because it seems like the game mechanics of every iteration of FPA is slightly different ant unique (kind of like snowflakes).

So in the end I'm glad I played World 1 Remix.  I didn't miss out on any new story but I've got an idea of how World 4 could be like, since the animations of Fancy Pants Man were so detailed and so much better than in World 3.  By the way, I would love to do some videos or screencasts of FPA but I just don't know how I would sync the audio with it.  I'm excited for World 4... although that might take a while.

And, oh, some screenshots of the World 1 Remix after I beat it.  Fancy Pants Man briefly holds the pencil sword in the World 1 Remix menu.

And this is the glorious moment Fancy Pants Man obtains the pencil sword after beating the Pencil Boss.  (I think this was the fifth or sixth time I beat the boss.)  I thought it was funny how the Pencil Boss and the pencil were just photos instead of drawn out ones like in World 3.  I guess it makes World 1 Remix unique.