Score: 6

"I gave up"

submission: Raider: Episode 2

date: September 3, 2009

I wanted to see this through to the end like I did episode 1, but 33 minutes in I was forced to quit, after seeing 9 or so vines in a row, with spikes between them, above a pit of lava. I shouldn't have to deal with 1 hit kill crap like that on beginner, and it was a bit disappointing to see a brick wall like that after getting through so much.

One big problem I noticed was that even though it's only the second level, you seem to have already run out of ideas. This level didn't really introduce anything new, and just focused on dodging spikes the entire time. The enemies felt like more of a formality than anything else, they were just standing in your way to give you an excuse to press the S or D key a few times before going back to dodging spikes. Even the tutorial had better use of enemies with the sole laser turret. The only enemies in the stage itself of any note were the ghost things, which also happen to be immune to attacks, so they may as well be floating spike blocks.

I would like to see a better balance between platforming and combat, though that may be hard since the combat controls are pretty stiff. Why can't you move on the ground when attacking? It's pretty strange given that you can still jump and move in the air while attacking, so you can just bounce around everywhere while firing the laser anyways. I don't expect you to change the engine in the middle of a series like this, but maybe our hero could receive a combat upgrade power-up or something...

The reason I mention combat so much is because there are only so many ways you can make the player dodge spikes before it gets old, and this level definitely pushed that boundary as far as I think it will go. After constantly jumping between ladders, abusing gravity by jumping into a ceiling, or falling down pits onto spikes, it gets a bit repetitive, and I'm wondering if you plan on making the remaining levels like this as well. I'm still looking forward to the next one, I just hope you focus more on combat and timing obstacles, and less on pixel perfect jumps determined by how long you press the A key.

Score: 10

"Fantastic"

submission: "We're Starfox!"

date: June 16, 2009

Having been a huge fan of Starfox back in the day, I couldn't help but smile throughout this entire movie. Great job managing to string together all those quotes into an actual plot.

Score: 0

"Pathetic"

submission: The Hentai Gallery '08

date: August 11, 2008

Blatantly against Newgrounds rules (porn slideshow) and somehow gets a 3.5 score... this should've been whistled

Score: 8

"Good game, poor execution"

submission: Dual

date: July 23, 2008

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.

Score: 10

"400k get"

submission: Fur Hundr3d Th0us4nd

date: September 13, 2007

Good job!

Score: 3

"Boring"

submission: SBC plays pacman

date: August 16, 2006

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

Score: 0

"Worst one yet"

submission: Obsticle Course

date: December 15, 2005

Your mazes keep getting worse, and you refuse to take any constructive critism from reviews. 4 megs is simply TOO MUCH for one short maze. The song itself is longer than the computer takes to even finish the maze, which is flat out lazy. Trim the song down, or better yet, make a short loop. The song itself didnt even fit the maze

As for the maze itself, again, worst one yet, as it wasnt even a maze to begin with, it was just a single path. There was only one part where you could go the wrong direction, and since the enemy ball comes from that way, you'd know not to. Challenge = None. The entire game consists of following a preset path

Please, PLEASE stop crapping these out every day. Spend some time on the next one, use better maze designs, fix your horrible audio problems, and try using more than one maze per game

Score: 9

"Yay random!"

submission: Gone With the Wind 1979

date: December 3, 2005

One of the better animutations seen in a long time. Heck, the only one I've seen in a long time. Breaking it up into different paced sections kept it from getting repetitive, and the clicky heads were a nice touch.

Score: 10

"OMG"

submission: Numa Numa Hentai

date: September 7, 2005

That was the funniest thing I've seen in ages. Words cannot express how simply wrong this was, but it was so damn funny!

Score: 4

"Mind numbing"

submission: Underfoot

date: August 6, 2005

You seem to be more concerned with creating flashy intros than a substantial game. The intros are admittedly well done, but theres no option to skip them, which is very frustrating if you just want to play the game.

As for the game itself, not much there. Nothing that would requre any more than utmost basic of actionscripting. Dress em ups (in reverse) and click on a red dot (or its shadow which works too) By the third level you're already repeating the same ideas, heck the 2nd red dot level seemed to use the exact same movement patern as well.

Then theres the overhead levels, which are better, except for the poor design of allowing you to lose all your lives on them. Especially on the first one, its much safer to walk through the first wall on the right than bother going all the way to the top of the area on the elevators. The 2nd one was better, but also consisted of about 90% of the games entire difficulty

But my biggest gripe with this was the terrible animation that played between stages. The ones in wario ware are about 2 seconds long. These drag on for about 15 seconds each, constantly reminding the viewer that this is hosted by the characters from the jerry john show. Well. WHERE ARE THEY? There isnt a single cinema of any kind with them actually hosting the show! Add in some terribly annoying music and you've got the worst cinemas I've ever seen.

A few other notes, nice game over animation. Oh wait, there isnt one, it just drops back to the preloader. And why is bonus listed on the title screen, when its impossible to ever access it? The bonus' automatically lock after you beat the game, making that a pointless option