3p0ch's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Leave the Room]

Would've rated it higher but it was a little too easy.

Seriously though, just wondering if you're actually expecting anyone to legit earn the Lively medal? I remember at least one level where I thought it was necessary to die in a specific way to get through (and I don't want to look at any walkthroughs to find out if there's another way). Anyway it's nice to see a tough game, but my main criticism is that the physics seem off with the guy not sticking landings onto and staying on platforms like I'd expect, and in other ways that are difficult to describe but just seemed not quite right, especially with double jumping. And having the physics really tight is important in a game that demands top notch platforming skillz.

CyanSandwich responds:

Haha thanks. Dying isn't necessary at any point (and I don't think there are any shortcuts through dying), but it is admittedly hard. Feel free to PM me about that.

[E-Elementals]

5/5 and favorited. I admit that initially the movement seemed kind of wonky because of the bot's acceleration and the graphics pretty primitive, but after finishing the game, I've gotta say that this shit needs to get frontpaged and I want to see that battle with 02.

novusGem responds:

I'm glad that you liked it. Thanks for playing!!!

[Gods' Fall - Ascension of High Kings]

Bugs I've found so far:
After going through the introductory tutorial, I tried clicking on things like Troops and got a black screen and had to press F5 to refresh the page.
Arrow keys to scroll the view (either the numpad arrow keys or the keys that can only act as arrow keys on my laptop) won't scroll the view in battle. The only way I can scroll is with the mouse.
Even after the intro, it's still not clear how to make the auto-send troops work.
I don't like to spam the Shift key to fire at enemies.

The other players' comments so far didn't say anything about those, though, so maybe it's because of a problem on my end -- either my browser (Chrome Version 71.0.3578.98) or because I'm an idjit who doesn't know how to play.

GabrielBalas responds:

LOL, i think that the problem about the blank screen isn't a bug of the game, maybe, like you said, it's a problem of your browser, but i'll look after this. And now, about the other bugs you've spotted, i'm really thanks, because i really need these feedbacks to be able to improve the game (once it's not 100% finished). So thank you so much!

[Neon Run!]

This gets tough really fast; I'm doing well if my runs last a minute. It's a good game as it is, but if you'd like to try to put a little more work into it to get a more popular game in the end, I'd recommend letting the runs last longer and having an ultimate goal for the game.

A typical way of doing that would be having the points count as currency that accumulates so the player can spend them to unlock upgrades to make the game easier and make the runs last longer (along the lines of shields or time slowings that are triggerable by a keypress and can be activated N times per run, where N increases the more is spent on it, or smth), with the speed gradually increasing during each run (if it's not doing that already) so it will eventually get tough no matter how many perks are unlocked, and a target distance to reach to finish the game or reach new levels.

There are undoubtedly many other possible approaches to make the runs last longer and generate a sense of progressing.

stuthemoo responds:

Thanks, you make some good suggestions. This was just a small game I did to take a break from a larger project I'm working on. That's why it's pretty simple, I don't feel like I have the motivation to implement things like currency upgrades at this stage :)

[The march of the blobs]

The sometimes weird and outside-the-box thinking without getting ridiculously outside the box was well done in keeping with your earlier submissions. The negative levels and hidden -12th level reminded me of ThePowerOfWhat; is that gonna be your trademark?

joqlepecheur responds:

yup, and I will probably keep experimenting like this ;) thanks for the feedback

[Senya and Oscar: The Fearless Adventure]

It's well made as far as clicker games go, but I absolutely hate clicker and idle games and I don't like that the description pitched it as a strategy/adventure game when it's really just a clicker. Better to pitch it as what it is so people who like clicker games will play it and people like me will play something else.

[Total Party Kill]

5/5, favorited, and following. This is insanely well designed for a Ludum Dare game with the only noticeable flaw being the music apparently having multiple spawnings that overlap each other, but the concept and implementation of the puzzle design and graphics are top notch.

[Interstate Drifter 1998]

I agree with coltizart: it looks like a great and deep game, but at times I was wondering what the hell was going on. Partly when I got to a stage with a bunch of snow and reached what seemed like the end of the stage, but it was just a bridge to a dead end with an invincibility powerup that doesn't keep you from dying if you drive off the dead end. Also when I somehow got on a freeway and seemed to be able to just ride forever without having to worry about running out of energy and apparently able to just collect a few coins on each freeway stage indefinitely to run the score up.

For much of that, it's probably just a matter of me needing to play more to figure out what's going on, but if you really can stay on the highway pretty much indefinitely picking up coins then I'd recommend changing that somehow before putting up a leaderboard.

UltimoGames responds:

thanks for the review 3p0ch! Really interesting to read how people receive and experience this game.

[The Gods Are Angry]

Not bad, but the whole time I was distracted thinking "is this guy wearing a shirt and pants and still living in an era where they're tossing people into a volcano to appease the gods?"

F1Krazy responds:

People wore shirts and pants back in the toss-people-into-volcano days. I didn't know what other outfit to give him :P