You Have to Burn the Rope

Starting screen of You Have to Burn the Rope.

You Have to Burn the Rope is a very short platformer video game developed and published by Kian Bashiri as a browser game on 2008-02-05. It was programmed in Flash.

As the title suggests, the game requires the player to burn a rope. The game can purposely designed to be especially short and parody the hand-holding which had become popular in game design of the time. It still meets all the qualifications of a game despite the fact that it is typically beaten in under a minute.

Personal

Not too long after this game was released, a co-worker told me about it, so I played it and beat it.

The game is free.

Review

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Best Version: Flash

— This section contains spoilers! —

Good

• The graphics are cute and the concept is charming.
• The ending song by Henrik Nåmark is enjoyable.

Bad

• Nothing.

Ugly

• It's hard to really even call this a "game" since it can be beat in a matter of seconds. It's really more of a joke game. The credits are even longer than the game!

Media

Screenshots

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  Starting screen.

Music

• "Now You're a Hero" by Henrik Nåmark.

Videos

Walkthrough.

Longplay.

Representation

Strong female character?	Fail	There are no women.
Bechdel test?	Fail	There are no women.
Strong person of color character?	Fail	There are no clearly human characters.
Queer character?	Fail	There are no queer characters.

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