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[Down the Well]

pretty good

Good until I dropped from a high place and got stuck inside the ground :P.

[Bahrain Racer v1.2]

make version 1.3

After one corner the skidding sound looped forever. Horrible and loud sound looping nonstop = game over.

If you want to beta test your game with newgrounders, then make a topic in the flash forums. One for effort.

[Bulwark 53]

some bad bugs

I liked the atmosphere, and the graphics were okay.

My only beef is the easiness and bugs. First weapon I find is the minigun, it has unlimited ammo and never needs to reload. Why would I ever look at other weapon? It owned everything in sight in less than 0.1 sec. This made the game really easy. But I somehow think you didn't mean it to be like that, so this is probably a bug.

Other serious bug was when I come out of the green HQ (south HQ?), I lost movement control of my character. I could still shoot, but I couldn't move. And this isn't one of those things where the flash just loses focus, something in your game is bugged. This was game over which is a shame as I wanted to finish the game.

Overall this game has potential, but this version is ruined by bugs. I hope you fixed them soon and I'll give this another try.

[SkillBall]

not good

This game takes the main annoyance of the games genre and makes it its main feature. What am I talking about? Strong bricks. Every brick in this game is a strong brick, that means I need to hit it from 3-8 times depending on what kind it is. That's fine in the beginning, but when there are only few bricks left, and you need some luck to hit them, it's not fun when you finally hit the lonely brick, your ball bounces off and you know you need to hit it 3 more times.

These kind of games are all about smashing bricks, but this game for some reason prolongs that and leaves the player a very unsatisfying feeling. I want to smash them god damn it, not watch my ball bounce around!

Overall a bad copy. The creator has not understood the essence of this type of game (smashing bricks).

[Xtreme Motor]

not bad in its genre

The controls were good, which is very important for a game like this. The graphics were decent.

What the game is missing is tricks. I could do like five flips in the air and make a controlled landing but why would I bother when the game doesn't reward me for it? It's pretty small stuff, but things like that add greatly to the gameplay.

On top of my previous suggestion, you could also incorporate the trick scoring in to your pictures. Like if I'm upside down in the picture, I get a bonus score or something. If I'm nosediving in the picture I get another score etc. etc. I hope you get the picture (no pun indented :)). Like this the whole picture taking thing would serve a purpose. Else you could just replace them with a star you need to collect since without anything added to it it's the same.

And I got a bug report as well, on "the strangler", the bitch didn't let me pass the level. I had all pictures collected and I was humping her leg and moving and stopping near her trying to find the right spot but she never let me pass the level. I tried it several times again until I just had to accept that it's bugged and quit. You might want to look into that.

Overall this is a good game in it's genre. It's not original, but still fun to play.

[Flash Mario]

not good

This was like Mario on speed (the drug). He moved very fast and must have weigh tons because the gravity pulled him down like he was a 20 ton truck.

The camera follow was bad. I don't see enough what is ahead of me because the camera starts to follow when I'm near the edge. I die all the time because Mario moves so fast and I can't see enough what's coming so I hit the enemies and die.

The graphics were nothing good. I expected them to be sprites, but you seem to have drawn them yourself and they just don't look good.

On top of all this, the flash is 9.4mb, I don't really know why. Sorry but even for a Mario clone this is really bad one.

Twitch2641 responds:

Thats why I posted it online, so I can get feedback on how to improve it. I will re-submit it once I fix all the bugs you have stated. And btw, the music is what is taking up all the space. I will try to compress it a little.

[Sin Mark]

diablo fan here

I think you captured the visual style and feel of diablo very nicely. The game looked great.

Unfortunately I didn't like the gameplay. The following is a true story :). When I played this at first I thought this was one of those defense games, like Epic War. So there I was shooting the goblins with my bow for like 5 minutes and thinking to myself "god, how long is the first level, is there no end?!". I was ready to quit the game but then for some reason I just tried the wasd keys, and what do you know, the guy started moving! Lol I felt a bit stupid at that point :D.

I'm surprised to see many reviews that say this game was hard. I think it was ridiculously easy. Maybe those people are trying to flex the bow every time they shoot? The trick is to use the bow like a sword or something. Let the enemies come close to you, and just start hitting the left mouse button. The arrows fall right in front of you and you can spam that and kill all the enemies and portals really fast. Only flex your bow to get some ranged unit once in a while.

I think majority of the spells were pretty useless. I think only one spell was good considering manacost/effectiveness, and that was the Lightning storm. The game was easy as it is, but when I got that I could own the big guys very easily too at the later levels.

The final boss was incredibly annoying. Well not the boss itself, but what you had to do to kill it was incredibly annoying. It was very easy and all you had to do was flex your bow for like a second and shoot and keep moving backwards so the boss doesn't hit you. The boss had quite a lot of hp, so I found that very repetitive and boring. I wanted to quit the game so many times there but the feeling of finishing the game overcame.

Overall the game was repetitive and easy, but it looked great.

[Monkey Wizard]

too easy

Not a bad game but it's way too easy. The "puzzles" feel more like a chore. They are no brainers just use X to push Y and there's always only one option what to do and that's the right one.

I didn't like how the camera was a bit too close. I felt all the time that I couldn't see enough with the monkey. Good thing is that there isn't any dangers so bumping in the walls all the time is not bad, but little irritating. When flying with the poop I felt that I had enough vision. How about you increase the zoom with the monkey to same as with the poop?

Found a big bug. At level 13 when I have pushed all the buttons and are going to the bananas, I get teleported outside of the level (to the left) and then drop infinitely. Too bad there is no restart button.

Overall not a bad game, but I think it's made for kids aged 11 or younger. It's way too simple and easy.

mofongo9 responds:

Yeah I worried about that--I tried to make it more sandbox style, but apparently did not do so well. Good feedback I really appreciate it.

[PingBall]

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There's some many levels that piss me off, but I liked the game anyway :). Good job.

[Prox]

argh

That was murder for my eyes! My precious eyes!

TDxiii responds:

You can turn the background off ingame, bottom left.