ProfessorFlash's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Meat Boy]

good game

I liked playing this. It gave a good challenge and there was a learning curve. Once I got the hang of the character moving it got a bit easier. Some of the levels were still challenging. I passed all the levels until I got to the "hell" levels. Those are damn hard :). I'll probably try them some time later.

The option that you only need to pass 3 levels out of 5 is a good idea. Helps the noobies a little.

Overall good game, I liked it. Good job lads :).

[Steer Wheels 2]

irritating

I remember playing the original game, that one was "okay". You seem to have managed to make the sequel quite irritating.

I was put off immediately by the menu. Once the "car" (I'm going to call it car from now on :P) drops on the "play" button, you can't start the game. I pressed space and nothing happens. I had to first move the car and then press space for it to work = irritating.
Then the next menu, practice or time trial. First of all, if you need to explain how to use the menu, it fails right away. In your menu you can't click the buttons, it reads there select with arrow keys. I press right and hit space, and I'm back at the starting menu. I go again and I really have to read the instructions to use the menu, that is ridiculous! Why make it so complicated? And by complicated I mean that you can't navigate through the menu without reading THE INSTRUCTIONS. Holding down the arrow key and then pressing space isn't complicated, but the fact that it's not even close to be the obvious choice makes it complicated for first timers, and IRRITATING!

Now that I'm already annoyed by the menu, I get to the game. The first levels are simple "drive at max speed and push the ball". I don't really feel like I did anything, the levels kinda played themselves. But then comes the levels like the "where's the ball". The car has no brakes! It is very very easy to drive of the ledge and have to restart again. And there's too many of the ledges. You didn't make that level hard, you made it extremely irritating. Because if you just drive like an old lady, you get through it easily. But like I said, it's also too long, so it's boring.

And overall it's just too easy to mess up the level. The physics and the car control is irritating. My overall impression of the game: very irritating game :P. But it's an ok game if you don't get as easily annoyed like I do :).

[Sprintster]

love the game

I've played a lot of this game ever since you submitted it. It's a great addictive game with a lot of replay value.

But what's wrong with the highscores? I've been struggling to get a over 200 000 score but just now I got 276441 score and thought I'd take the #1 spot at the highscores but my score is nowhere to be found. It said "highscore received" and there didn't seem to be any problems. But why am I not on the list? This is a serious let down :P.

[Hairball]

its a copy

Yes it is exactly like ball revamped. There isn't much more to say about that :P.

I found the controls to be irritating. First I need to press 'space' to start the level, after I'm dead I need to press 'ctrl', and after winning the level I need to press 'enter'. For crying out loud just pick one :P. Like 'space' to start the level, 'space' to replay and 'space' to go to next level, simple eh?

KyleDaFox responds:

Ball revamped is a good game, and it's not way too original of an idea. Live with it.
The controls have been changed numerous times, making space everything turned out horrible.

[Epic War]

Awesome

Great game! I spend hours playing this. It was really challenging and fun to play.

But if there's something to complain, it's that it gets a bit too easy towards the end. Like the last 5 points are a bit too easy. I think you could have added an extra strong monster for the enemy after the fire-demon. But the final boss is very hard :). I still haven't beat him. He always kills me with about 30 000 hp. I don't know, it seems a bit impossible :P. I got everything maxed and I'm throwing all I got against him but still..

But it's still amazing game. Very good job with it.

[Ancillary]

nothing new

The game is nothing unique to start with. You control a turret and shoot the bad guys who come from the sky. So what special does this remake #984390520 offer? Nothing unfortunately :P.

On top of that, the upgrades are pretty depressive. For example the accuracy, you got like 100-200 credits and it increases your accuracy 1% for 25 credits. Other upgrades were about equally depressive. So I bought increase in damage, I'm not feeling it when shooting the aliens. You know what I mean? So what if the damage is increased a little, if I don't feel it while shooting the enemies, it equals to nothing. It makes a dull game even duller.

In conclusion, this game has not even a drop of originality to it and a gameplay that puts you to sleep. The high score is quite surprising. I was expecting more from the game when I saw the score.

[Blueshift]

could be good, but isnt

The graphics were awesome. The game looked very good.

But you've ruined the game from the start with the poor maneuverability. When there's a lot of bullets flying around you can't have such 'inaccurate' moving. The ship can't move 10 meters up when you want it to move only one. You must realize when there's only the ship sized area where you are safe, and every where else is bullets flying, that kind of maneuverability ruins the game totally. It's not fun nor skill based at all. Some might argue "it takes skill to learn this", for those I say that learning to adjust to a crappy maneuverability is not skill. It equals to learning to drink alcohol. You might get good at it, but all you've done is destroyed a lot of your brain cells.

The enemies, I didn't like that they were constantly spamming their bullets. You couldn't get in front of the enemy to kill it without taking a hit from the bullets. This is probably where you thought we'd use the shield? No, not a good solution. If you've played other shooters you might have picked up that the good ones have their enemies fire occasionally. They fire = you dodge = get back up and kill the enemy = satisfaction = feeling of "I rule at this game" = good game. I know you also had those kind of enemies, but the majority of the beginning of the game there were a lot of those who just flew straight and spammed their bullets. And with the problems I've mentioned in this review, your game just doesn't get the chance to show what cool stuff you could have later on. If the game is bad at the start, people will just close the game.

[Spartaas's Run]

fun

Pretty fun. The humor is bit.... lets just say it fits well here in newgrounds :). The game was pretty fun to play. It was a basic platformer and as I enjoy platformers I enjoyed this one too. The graphics were 'okay'. It was indeed short but definitely took me longer than 2 minutes.

Anyway, good job. Make a sequel :).

[N-orbit]

there something to it...

Like said, it's a simple game. But I somehow found myself playing and playing it. It's pretty fun if you are a competitive person like I am. 'One more' -type of mentality takes you over with this game. Good job with it.

I couldn't get more than 37 112, I'll be back... :)

[Space Cave]

too easy

First of all, always tell players what are the controls. The up arrow key wasn't the first that I tried and I hate to have to guess the controls.

Now the game, well, it was ridiculously easy. There wasn't any different challenges, always just the passage and you had to fly to the end. Make some variety in the levels, other than changing just a little bit how it looks.

And that takes me to the graphics, very poor :P. The graphics did not look good, and clearly not much time was spend to make them.

Good that you learned a lot while making the game, but it has very little value to us. I'm going to have to rate the game as it is, not very good.

sirtom93 responds:

Thanks for review. All comments taken on board.