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[NSG004: Pico Jr. Jr. 0.6]

Nice Game

-Good-
I liked the graphics in this game. I was quite fond of the backgrounds and how they looked like colored pencils. I also liked how they resembled "Pico School". The music was a nice choice. I liked the idea of using human shields. My favorite part had to be the hilarious "Game Over" pics you used when you died. I liked how you had a different pic for each way you could die.

-Bad-
One thing I didn't like was how you could only shoot left and right. It was hard to shoot the bouncing oppnents because you had to keep moving backwards to avoid them from falling on you and you could either walk under those huge machines or into another enemy. I would of liked if it was kinda like "Thing Thing" were you could shoot in many directions.

-Overall-
Great game

~Review Request Club~

Bezman responds:

Thanks a lot!

The music was made by the awesome Jadan Paluck (Zenon) specially for the game.

Glad you liked the art. The new background's even better!

The shooting left/right is part of the game's principle and won't change. I just wanted to make a game with 1-dimensional game mechanics and if it was 2-D and not rhythm-based, then shooting bullets out the air wouldn't be so feasible.

Pretend that in this game, Pico Jr Jr is too weak to raise a gun at an angle.

Sad that I'm not gonna change the one 'bad' thing you mentioned, but hopefully we can change bits and bobs to get you liking it a bit more.

Stay funky!

[WordScrambles-countries.9]

Cool

Score=-48 =)

-Good-
This game was pretty fun. The music was a nice pick and the graphics were good. I also enjoyed the "Need Help" feature, but I used it way to much. The pick of countrys was nice and hard.

-Bad-
Like I said before, the questions on easy were way to hard for me at least.

-Overall-
A nice fun game

~Review Request Club~

LuckyLollipopLad responds:

Just now, the selections are based on the # of characters rather than me actually choosing stuff based on what folk will know. The idea being that with fewer characters, you need to unscramble less.

It seems like a hefty undertaking, but I reckon you just told me the one thing I hadn't really thought of to make this better.

Thanks a lot, dude!

Stay funky!

[Spot the Difference 3]

Decent

-Good-
A simple but fun idea. I kindof liked the intresting layout of this "Spot the difference" type of game. Usually their is one picture insted of lots of difrent pictures. Like Bezman, The circle was cool.

-Bad-
I didn't realy like how the flags were pixleated. I think it gave it a very boring feeling. The other thing would be the lack of sound and backgrounds.

-Overall-
An okay game but needs some sprucing up.

~Review Request Club~

LuckyLollipopLad responds:

You're right. Flags are boring.

But it also has some educational value and also, I wanted to make some use of all the pixelly flags I'd made for the NG calendar.

The next StD game will probably be on the theme of giraffes and elephants. Something fun like that.

Thanks for the review!

Stay funky!

[-=STEALTH=- [X-MAS]]

Good Game

-GOOD-
The graphics in this flash were simple but satisfactory. The music was a good choice for this "Sneaky" kind of game. The style of this game is pretty good. You have to get to the end without your stealth bar going down to much. The controls were simple to use but I would of liked to see some items or mabye some special abilitys.

-BAD-
Well the bad part about this game was the fact that you would walk right past the guard and he will just turn around. I sugest you make the game a little more like "The Classroom" Were there are 3 levels of you being spotted.

-OVERALL-
A good game but gets boring quick.

Axlenz-FlashElite responds:

Okay thanks for the insight

[Blockhead: The Game]

Great Game

-GOOD-
One thing I loved about this game was the fact that you could play and enjoy the game without being particuly familar with the series itself. The graphics in this game were gret. I loved the simple yet good style of all the art. The new way of gameplay was intresting and fun after you start to get used to it. Another thing I loved about this game was the music choices. Every level seemed to match Blockhead's suroundings well. Another thing about this game was that it had a good amount of humor. I also think Its amozing how fast you got this finished considering you recently submitted an additon to the Blockhead series.

-BAD-
Well one thing that bugged me while playing was the small game screen. I think that the border and buttons took up to much of the gamescreen. Another thing that I wasn't to fond of was the scrolling screen buttons. I liked the whole idea of it but I didn't like that I could only go right, up, left or down. I would of loved for there to be diagonal scroll butons so that you could get a good view. The only other thing would be the glitch were the audio stops.

-OVERALL-
An awesome game.

The-Swain responds:

Part of my logic in not adding diagonal scroll buttons is that the corners didn't need it quite as much as the sides did. The player can already see quite far diagonally, because in a square (like the game area), the distance from the center of the square to each side is shorter than the distance from the center to each corner. And while I do admit that being able to look farther would be nice, allowing the player to walk too far (as we discovered in testing) gives Blockhead a much longer opportunity to recover his Attention Span, and higher-end players would never see his AS go lower than 2/3 full. In the end, the goal was to have players feel like getting Blockhead to take even a few little steps was a tremendous accomplishment.

The game is somewhat formulaic after you get used to it, and I have no trouble getting through each level without more than 1/5 Anger damage at most. And I truly wish I could have done more with the game, but at 13.8 MB there is very little more we could have done without sapping the integrity of what we've already got.

Ahh well, maybe I'll go the Tom Fulp route some day and start a console game company :D But I'm glad you had fun with the game either way!

[Leela Soundboard]

One of your best

-GOOD-
You pretty much got most of Leela's funniest lines in their but I think you got some lines that you coulden't realy use in a prank call. The picture of Leela was pretty cool but I think you could of got rid of the ugly "K M" in the background.

-BAD-
The main problem was with the buttons. You wasted all that space with the fancy buttons and then you have to click the text insted of the acuel grey segment. You could of fitted alot more buttons in if you made them smaller.

-OVERALL-
I think this is one of your best SB's yet but it could be fixed up a little.

~Review Request Cub~

Frenzy responds:

Ok, thanks. Good review!

.frenZy.

["Newgrounds Tutorial"]

Not The Best Tutorial.

-GOOD-
You gave decent descriptions for somethings like Exp and Whistle but lacked in other descriptions. The music was good also.

-BAD-
Well Ypu realy need to check over your stuff dude. You put "How to get Experience points" In reviews. You also put StrawberryClock on the NG tank for bating average? You to stick with your subjects. Anotherthing was that for each category you only showed one example insted of all the posible levels. Once again you could of wrote more descripted explanations. And for gods sake drop the luigi thing!

-OVERALL-
You've got the right idea for a tutorial but you need to touch it up.

~Review Request Club~

Frenzy responds:

Okay.

Thanks!

.frenZy.

[Make A Halloween Monster]

an okay game

-GOOD-
the rotate and enlargen tools were pretty helpful, but i wish that you could hold the button down and it would continuesly get bigger or rotate. the background you made was great i liked it. the music was also pretty hallo-weenish

-BAD-
well you'r layers were complitly wrong. first of all every accesorie was under the acual monster.

-OVERALL-
a decen't movie but you need to fix the ayers

~review request club~

Chaos-Insignia responds:

Imacow, thanks for the review. It took me a while to get the enlarge buttons and rotate buttons working. I should fix the layers when I get time.


((( ShortMonkey )))

[Ultimate Newgrounds quiz]

an okay quiz

-GOOD-
there were alot more questions then i thought there would be. the questions seemed easy, you should of gone more in-deph with this and asked about more things like BBS users and legands. the graphics were pretty nice and i noticed you tried to make it blend in with the background but it was slightly off, use #24272b.

-BAD-
i think these questions were a little to easy. I think i got one wrong. also fix up your spelling.

-OVERALL-
a decent quiz but to easy

Makdim-crazy responds:

Thx,but notice this is my 1st quiz,and me 2nd flash overall!

[Halloween Reprisal]

a good game but i didn't like gameplay

-GOOD-
the graphics and animation was great in this flash! i loved the backgrounds. the music was fitting and a good choice for this game. the story was pretty good, walk through town and kill people is pretty good. i also liked the difrent attacks you could use

-BAD-
well was i said i didn't realy like the gameplay. i think the attacks were hard to use you had to be a sertain distance away while walking and it was overall hard, i think a simple "A" punch "S" kick would be fine. i also didn't realy like how you walked backwards insted of turning around, this made it hard to attack someone who you missed. the other thing i noticed was that the kids you were killing coulden't do anything! i think some other monsters would be needed so that it gets less boring.

-OVERALL-
a good game but needs fixing up

Rammer responds:

to the good:
well...thanks :P

to the bad:
because the attacks are based on specific dying animations, you have to be a certain distance away, or else they get out of sync and it looks retarded. that's why i wrote in that tip in my author's comments: hold down the attack key you want to and walk around.
i asked Blaze several times for a turning-around sprite, but he never got around to doing it. just don't let the kids go past you ;)
like i said in my author's comments, the AI for the kids to ask for candy (and thus present conflict in the game) was taken out because it screwed everything up. it was either submit a broken game that has a little challenge, or submit a rather bugless game with no challenge, but still fun.
like i said to Rudy, adding more kid costumes would mean 7 more deaths per kid. we had 3 weeks or so to make this, and i feel we made the best use of that time.

thanks for the critique.