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This is a pretty good game, I like that someone else is making a more traditional Contra style action platformer rather than going with the new mouse to aim fad, which I hate.
However there were a lot of flaws in presentation that I think dragged this down a lot. The first being the tutorial, that seemed far too long for such a simple game. It needed to be a lot more concise, arrows to move, A and S to shoot, ctrl to duck. If there is more than that I missed it because I got bored with how long it was taking to actually get to the game.
The stages themselves are good, but there wasn't a whole lot of variety between them (I got through most of the jungle area) Same basic enemies with maybe a few upgrades, the music was also nearly the same in all areas, and to be honest I didn't like the music at all, and it really didn't seem to match the game at all.
I liked that there were multiple paths to take in a lot of places, but in the end the game felt a bit lifeless, a combination of the static and generic backgrounds, bad music, and repeating enemies. The core gameplay is good though, but couldn't hold my interest through the entire game.
Author's Response:
Thanks so much for all your advices. Yeah, I tried to go the Contra style, it's good you liked it. And thanks for pointing out those weak points, I noticed some of them, and it's good to hear of the other ones I didn't notice. Yeah, the tutorial is too long, but I wanted to cover all the stuff the game involves there, that's why I created the quick help window when you press '9' if you didn't want to go all the tut long.
With the music I wanted to add some metal to the game as I like the way it sounds in some games, and I like rock :P but I know the quality isn't too good.
I'll take your advice in mind and again, thanks so much for the review :)
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Proof that 400+ Ng reviewers CAN be wrong
I hope for the sake of the community and this website that you will continue to put effort into your games, but when crap like this gets frontpage and tons of praise, I can see why it would be tempting to just give up and pander to the lowest common denominator
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Fun for about 10 seconds... and then you've seen the whole game. An infinite loop of the same 3 enemy types over. Good for the easily amused I guess. Artwork was nice at least
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Good job!
Author's Response:
gee thanks, i know, right?
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Good job!
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Finally, something good in the top 50!
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This felt like a movie made by someone who had no idea what the clock crew is, but felt the need to make a movie about them anyways as a way to get easy exposure. At its core the movie is two stolen characters, and a nerd stereotype. At least there were some pac man related jokes, but the presence of strawberry clock was completely irelevant to the plot, and he could've been replaced by any human character. No clock related jokes whatsoever, but you did manage to get a lot of things wrong, like kiling strawberry clock
Graphics were technically excellent, but the whole ren and stimpy style is just so overdone and I never felt that great to begin with. Quick, do another close up of a finger that lasts 10 seconds one more time
Sound was awful and cracky in many places. A lot of the dialogue was also impossible to hear. Strawberry clock also had the wrong voice. It's almost like you didnt even watch your own movie to make sure the sound levels were correct
Overall, a pretty disapointing movie. Congrats on being great at the only two aspects of a movie newgrounds looks at though, graphics and stolen characters
Author's Response:
1) Not stolen, since I actually name its creators, thus ppl know that Adam is the creator of sbc, not keicho.
2) Yeah, I am not a clock freak neither I have THAT CLOCK KNOWLEDGE OMG(like who cares what spekonia voice should I put in sbc, as long as it is sbc). I had fun making this movie, and giving it my favorite cartoonized style. I dont care about internet attention, I just care about showing ppl what I enjoy to do.
3) Thanks for complimenting the graphics and the constructive criticism on the sound(I am still in the process of learning perfect sound editing), but I want you to name at least more than 10 movies at NG that have a ren and stimpish style. (Shame you dont like it, since is one of the best cartoon styles ive ever seen)
4) Geez man, change that avatar in your profile, seriously. No offence but THAT is what I call overused style.
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Why are you bleeping the swears? That sound is annoying as hell. Graphics were decent but barely animated, sound was annoying, humor was not there. The comentary was an interesting touch, but listening to you drone on about being up since 6am got old extremly fast
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I finally beat all 10, total time was 1:23. Awesome puzzler, I enjoyed it a lot
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Great movie, could've used more desu~ though
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