S-K's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Katawa Shoujo Lite]

God damn you blindsided me big time with this one, I did exspect a parody but NOTHING like this! Now that I've seen this, I want someone with this level of talent to put castlevania harmony of despair to shame. Yes I'm aware of the legal risks but frankly harmony of despair was done so half assed I still want to see it happen anyway.

ShadowWhoWalks responds:

harmony of despair was a product of 5 summer interns raping a box of used castlevania games, please do not bring back the memories in consideration of these rape victims.

[Waterlollies: The Game]

lol rule 34

You're asking for positive reviews when there's very little to comment on. When you strip away what's basically some guy recycling the old "let's make them have sex! Hilarious! YEAH I'M A Genius!!" bit.

This is just another badly drawn flamebait for the hell of it and no point behind it flash movie by someone trying to be a rebel, who should be growing out of this stuff by now unless you lied about your age.

Hey whatever floats your boat I guess, you arn't the first and I'm sure you won't be the last.

Sidorio responds:

I'm actually nine. Don't tell anybody though.

[Invader Zim: Rescue Gir!]

WAH! *crashing noises* FOOLS!

Something about the programming on this game just made me think this was your first game or something, with an invaider zim wrapper to try and hide it. Nothing wrong with it being your first game, but god damn... only the biggest invaider zim fans will want to hear the doom song and being called a fool again...

and again...

and again...

and again...

AND AGAIN!

MarkerProductions responds:

ahah "first game, with an invaider zim wrapper," I tottally agree. XD I did try to hide the actionscript behind the pictures and such. XD

But if you read the story line, Gir is trapped in the swer so he needs to sing for Zim to know where he is! (my excuse to have the doom song play..) ;D

[The Rise of a Knight]

bonkers collision detection and attack glitch?

Something about the guard's design just didn't fit in with th rest of the game although I can't put my finger on what exactly. The most serious flaw of the game however is the nuts collision detection of attacks, it treats weapons as part of your body meaning something like a spike touching your sword with hurt you, which is especially annoying when you have a spike wall behind you and an enemy in front of you and you have that sword swinging around trying to defend yourself.

Further into this point I found in most situations it's actually better to attack backwards! (face away from the enemy and attack) because you can do damage to enemies on every frame of an attack animation, this not only means you can usually attack faster but in some situations can do 3 HITS with one hard attack (try it on the first boss and see for yourself) If the backwards attacks thing was intended consider this a 7/10, but either way the combat needs some more fine tweaking.

SeethingSwarm responds:

The backwards attack was intended. Think about it. In real life, if a guy would swing a very sharp object form behind him to his front, if you would stand behind him and the sharp object would scrape over your face, you would not be left without any scars :)

Then there is the hit detection with the traps. Yeah, I know, its flawed, and I have learned form making this game how to prevent it in future game projects. Thanks a lot for the review and the constructive feedback :)

[MARKSMEN]

meh...

MARKSMEN is definatly the word here since you can take out everything except maybe the bosses with the sniper rifle. It's clear you were aiming for fps style which would require some god like programming in order to work in flash but because no such coding exists yet it meant your game was a kind of on rails shooting gallery.

THE GOOD

sniper rifle is your friend and is probably the most impressive thing in the game

able to move far right or far left for cover fps style

THE BAD

the only real strategy to this game I've already listed

the night and day thing is annoying and too fast x.x

zombies with guns? cliche much?

why is there 2 health bars when you only ever use 1 character? Is he like your second life or something?

I'm sure I can list more thing but am too lazy right now XP

Godlimations responds:

Great comment! The 2 health bars mean that there are 2 characters, hence the name "MarksMEN". So yeah, you got 2 lives...

cheers

[Flash Programing Tutorial]

Epic indeed... but too much like a book perhaps

You can't possibly question the quality of the information here, the only thing you could knock here is you not making more use of interactivity flash can offer. You strike me more as a theory/coding based flash user which is why there isn't more visual explaination beyond some screenshots. The information is good without question it's just your method of presenting it might need revising. I'm favoriting this for obvious reasons, but if you were to team up with someone like the people behind "The Big Fat Tutorial" you'd have the best tutorial flash movie on the whole website!

Al6200 responds:

I considered screencasting during the development, but I opted against it because I don't really think that's what I'm best at. I think I'm more of a verbal person.

One idea I've had that seems interesting would be to allow users to type in code, and then have a system that analyzes it. For example, if the user typed in "function r(password:String) {
if(password == ;
}
it would tell the user that there's a security threat because the user could enter in the text: "1 OR true" and have the if finish as password == 1 OR true, which will always be true, meaning the user need not enter the right password.

Also, I could have a system which analyzes the code and tells the user if there are any pitfalls, and allows them to test specific functions and debug them. Maybe...

But that's all very complicated, and I'd probably make a whole new project for that, since it'd be quite an undertaking.

[The Expert's Guide to NG]

hmm...

Some interesting insight here, shows me the kind of information some of the members use to abuse the system. Although I don't completly aggree with your reviewing guidelines there's definatly some useful info here, my only seggestion for this is to add a section about ways of getting movies more public exposure if they failed to reach frontpage like submitting it to collections for example.

highwatermark responds:

Actually, I'm not experienced in that area. All my non-award winning flashes are now "dead" :(

[Red Baron]

sweet...

You'd have to be mad to not see the quality of this game here's a run down:

THE GOOD

Awesome artwork

decent bosses (personal fave was the syth guy he's fun when he gets pissed and he was probably the main part in the whole game I actually HAD to block XD)

cool set of weapons

THE BAD

No throw moves or flying kicks! EVERY good sidescrolling fighter needs at least throws to aid you in not getting surrounded, without those inorder to win you end up herding enemies until they're in a group to pull off the big combos.

sword upgrades... besides most of them looking more like joke
do they actually even improve damage? come to think of it do the weapons do different damage for that matter?

the 'combo system' is pretty much just bashing A and on top of that why does he switch between weapons if your combo is long enough? @_@

lastly I died on the last level but when i continued there was no sound at all until I finished the game, might wanna fix that... a fine addition to newgrounds no doubt of that... just might be worth baring the above in mind...

MindChamber responds:

thanks for the review!
yes each weapon has different strengths,
and the trick is to fine the right one for the right boss, and stop yourself from comboing out of that weapon..
and thanks for the bugs we'll look into it!

[Amoeba Amoeba]

nice to be confused not disturbed for once...

This left me lost for words to be honest... kinda gives me the impression you abadoned the idea for a fighting game after the basis was laid down and went for the now pretty overused "look at me! I'm weird possibly from drug abuse or maybe beer! beer's always good! XD" angle.

The commentaitors were worth a couple of laughs but most of the rest of this needs a wtf rating for which i give a 8/10 because I really don't think the other categorys cover this game very well... @_@

gavD responds:

I'm not into drugs, and neither is Jon. This is just raw what's in Jon's brain.

[Salad Fingers; Bloodworm]

o.o no way... sneaky son of a...

I saw another snake game that got blammed that looked quite a lot like this oddly enough, although you can't exactly do a lot with the game snake... except give it a theme which... wait... is exactly what you did >.> wow people are stupid... props to you tricking every salad finger fanboy when this is nothing more then a snake game I suppose... >.>

WARTORIOUS responds:

People are never stupid, if they think they are it’s because they have been made to feel that way that just shows an open mind and a willingness to learn. I’m not tricking anybody into anything. This is to snake as Tennis is to Pong. Where’s the love man? Why the anger?

Honestly, play this for a while with song two and you will love it.