Making the first thread for the Flash subforum with one of the 2000s frustration platformer games along with its (somewhat as of this post) recent sequel. The links to the dev's page don't have any 3rd party Flash player so you can't play them in browser, sadly.
人生オワタの大冒険 / The Big Adventure of Owata
Link to the game on the dev's website.
One of those old flash games that was the genesis of the masocore genre of platformers, Owata was the game that inspired a lot of the design of I Wanna Be the Guy. IWBTG in turn inspired the original dev, King Soukutu, to finish the original Owata. I sadly have never seen any videos of all routes and bosses out there, but I do know taking the bottom route and beating the boss does earn a Rush Jet-like item. It'd be interesting to see this get fully routed out and TASed, especially if the secret super hard difficulty that removes all checkpoints is selected.
人生オワタの大冒険2 / The Big Adventure of Owata 2
Link to the game on the dev's website.
This one was made before the end of Adobe's support of Flash as a whole and is about that very topic. This one much shorter and mostly easier. Part of that is because of the expectation the player is already in on the joke of designed rudeness for comedy. This one does have recorded speed runs out there for folks to see how the game is played and done. There's also a helpful in-game timer that can be enabled in the options.
SRC board for Owata 2.
