Jhomas's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Deep Down]

Really enjoyed the game. The difficulty curve was spot on in my opinion. I think the game could have gone on longer (and continued to be more difficult) but you have to stop somewhere!

Thanks for the game!

nyunesu responds:

i've really enjoyed your comment, thank YOU for your kind words. (:

[Lowrez Defense]

Okay so I have now beaten the game twice out of 4 tries.

First two tries I didn't have really any idea what I was doing and gave up after I felt like there was no way I was going to come back.

Win 1) I won without using any upgrades, I didn't notice that their were upgrades on the last page of the up/down menu system. Because of this it took a long time and was verryyy difficult.

Win 2) I spent some time poking through the menus and finally noticed that can upgrade your income/stockpile size etc. This win was very easy as I had tonnes of cash and good units.

I really enjoyed this game as you can likely guess by the number of times I have played it!

My main suggestions:
a) Improve the UI in the game to make it easier to see what each unit type does/how much HP etc. Also somehow tell the player that upgrading thier income is very important.

b) Just put all this info in the description. You already have a 'Tutorial' section, just go into more detail. I looked at this when I was initially stuck and I think if it had just said "Castle Upgrades are on the final page of the menu, these are very important!" I would have had a lot easier of a time.

Anyways, I had a lot of fun, just took a bit of effort, thanks for the game!

Wombart responds:

Thanks for taking your time to make the review !
I will definitely add info about upgrade in the description.
Happy you enjoyed the game.

[Forest Floor]

This game is surprisingly fun! Such a simple little concept, but the time limit can make things much more tense than you would think. The art is quite rough in some places, but overall does the job.

Great work!

[Persist]

Interesting game! I almost stopped playing because it seemed just like a general platformer with not real unique features until I lost my legs. I enjoyed the "de-evolution" idea that seemed to be at play here, but I wish you had done a bit more with it tbh (a few more stages of devolution or have something more impactful happen when you lose your arms etc etc.)

Notes:
- No resume game system, not a big deal but :(
- Graphics are quite nice
- Controls feel a bit "sticky" on occasion oddly (during stopping and starting)

Reviewed with Chrome on Windows

AdventureIslands responds:

More lost limbs would have definitely had more impact, but it was already tough enough to get the game done with the 48 hour time limit.

Originally the character was supposed to be able to shoot beams and he would lose that ability first, but I had to cut that out.

[SkullFace]

Wow, this game is very well implemented!

Platforming and everything feels great, TONS of different ideas all implemented quite well. You definitely hit that "flow" that meat boy gets (this is a huge compliment by the way).

A few minor gripes, really just annoyances:
1. The game cursor never hides itself, you have to manually move it to the corner, change this
2. You don't "release" from walls fast enough after you stop pressing in their direction, this leads
to frustration occasionally.

Overall loved it, an achievement among flash platformers to say the least (I'd love it a bit more if you fixed those issues :).

[April & Booster]

Sweet

I initially played this game a bunch on FGL, liked it a lot then, been waiting for it to show up here. I really like the whole concept of firing your enemies back at them, but the best part of the game was the atmosphere I think, especially the final level.

I read a couple other reviews saying that the last boss was to hard :S, not true I actually found him quite easy tbh. Either way, had a great time with this game (9 cuz I wish it was longer lol).

ps: the purple explosions that happen when you kill the final boss are epic

I-smel responds:

I think people are sayin it's hard cos they're having glitches all over the place.

[Splash Painter 2.00]

Interesting

The brus is kinda crazy and btw is the starting language supposed to be french? I played it and the whole thing was in french luckely I can speak semi fluent french so it wasnt TOO bad but the whole time i was thikning "this is an english website why would they make it in french" but then I noticed the english change button :D
But besides that I thought it was pretty good.

SubmitFlash responds:

Thanks! Im glad you feel that way about it [ :

[Transmigration]

Nice animation

Although like many have said this "game" is much more like an interactive movie. That being said it is for sure the one of the best interactive movies out there. All the anitmations were amazing and your selection of music was great ( I love that song). Although this is not really a game I still enjoyed it much more than some other game submissions whish is why i gave it

[FPA: World 2 demo]

And I thought it was dead

Personally i had givin up on ever seeing another fancy pants adventure but i guess i was wrong :)

The game looks like its coming along great and i really like the sliding feature although it seems to have renderd rolling useless.
The controls were great and the gameplay was fun but its obviouse that this is a demo becuse of the obvoiuse unfinished arework (all the upside down traingles :S ) but it is very good for a demo and hope to see this game comin out soon

[Toast: Game]

Improvment needed

Ok so i think the overall idea of this game was funny and original but unfortunatly the gameplay was not up to spec. The graphics were kind of funny but there were very few animations fr the taost guy and the little toasters seemed way out of porportion. The sound, well the music anoyed me....alot BUT the sound when you hit the bottom of the blocks was excelent and most of the sound affects were fairly good. The gameplay.....well unfortunatly when you jump you go up/down waaay to fast and the controls just feel jerky.
Overall i think this couldv been somthing fun but unfortuantly the gameplay was what really killed it for me (i.e. the jumping)

-ps why is it that when you fall of a cliff you turn into burnt toast ? :P lol

Hacker12 responds:

Lol its a fire pi lol. But yeah thanks for the input ^^. But come on cut me some slack its my first attempt at a platformer.