matt-likes-swords's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[SHMUP]

Nice graphics and music, annoying gameplay

The difficulty is really cheap...

Your hit box is waaay too big.
The bullets are so small you can barely see them sometimes, and later on they move so fast you can't dodge them, unless you're not in their way to begin with.
Enemies pop out from the bottom of the screen without warning, and sometimes at lightning speeds.
Often my ship simply isn't fast enough to dodge some wide attacks.
After getting hit, your invulnerability should last longer. Foes shouldn't be able to hit combos on you.
The upgrade system was pretty cool, but maybe you should have left speed out of it.

I know you probably expect players to memorize the levels in order to dodge stuff, but flash gamers aren't serious enough for that.

More people would enjoy a game that looks harder than it is (tiny hit box, tons of bullets), than a game that's harder than it looks (this).

Anyway, good job on the graphics again, especially liked the backgrounds.

Afro-Ninja responds:

I'll definitely agree that I leaned toward pattern memorization, but it's hard for me to judge their difficulty since I designed them, and I didn't really have complaints in that department from early testers. Aside from the later levels, but I figured that was to be expected.

thanks for the feedback

[Nyan Cat: Lost in Space]

nyan/10

I don't see Nyancat getting old any time soon, and welcome all these games.

Found the powerups fun to use, liked the remix'd music, and liked nyancat's little speech bubbles and new animations.

[Nyan Cat FLY!]

nyans

It'd by nice if you could move in 2 dimensions, and not just one.
Also, when stuff speed up, it's pretty hard to see the difference between veggies and sweets.

Anyway, I can forgive that since this isn't meant to be a serious game, and was still pretty fun.

The secrets were pretty neat too.

[Bearboy and the Cursor]

bees

Pretty fun game, though the mouse mechanic did get annoying at times, along with the cheap difficulty in some levels.

Final battle was a bit boring, but at least it wasn't too hard.

HeadFizz responds:

I'll trying making more exciting battles in the next game. I'll try and involve the mouse more.

[Stork Shot]

amazing

I've always wanted to shoot babies and whales.

Could do with a bit less ads though...

[Reimagine :The Game:]

Oily Birds

Really liked the BP and YouTube levels.
The medals were of reasonable difficulty too, so that was cool.

There was quite a lot of bugs though, the most common one being that I would often fall through walls. But at least that helped me beat some of the levels.
The gravity physics got pretty annoying at times too.

Anyway, it was a fun game but I think you should probably stick to humour and stop trying to develop the platforming aspect of the game, unless you're going to do that really well.

[Alphaland]

Surprisingly interesting game

Despite having no graphics and very simple gameplay, it was very enjoyable and I wish it were a bit longer.

[bloXplatter]

fun but has a few problems...

Do I really have to start from the beginning when I lose?
Kinda stressful for people without much free time.

Is there no way to change the quality settings?
I'd rather not play in low quality...

And plz don't make medals for beating the game perfectly.
You're better off making the medals too easy than too hard.

Otherwise fun game, and has some interesting stuff going on with the blocks.

ThinXIII responds:

Wow thanks matt! :D

I'll be sure to improve and fix the things I've done wrong or not too well. Really helpful.

A review from you really made my day! Thanks again.

[DN8]

fun

Pretty good, but there's room for improvement.

I had major issues with visibility, partly due to the moving backgrounds, but mainly due to the amount of bullets your ship shoots, it was hard to see what was in front of you. So make your bullets transparent plz, or at least give as some graphics options (sorry if I missed any).

It also seems your hitbox is a lot bigger when bumping into foes. Bug? Either way it's annoying at times.

The game gets a bit too generous with extra live later on.

The enemy bullet patterns could do with being more interesting, but I guess that aint a huge issue.

Otherwise the game had decent graphics, nice sounds (liked the Ikaruga style voice), and was fun. Gratz.

[Mechanical Ice Apocalypse]

moar plz

If this were made into a proper game with several stages and other stuff, it'd be pretty amazing.

The graphics, music, and boss design are already amazing, and if you made this in only 3 days, I'd like to see what you'd come up with if you spent a whole month or more on it. :P