Score: 5

"Well your half there"

submission: Link's Prize

date: April 28, 2008

PRO:

-Beautiful animations
-Adequate sound

CON:

-No story
-No reasoning
-No joke

Score: 7

"Good Game"

submission: Best Friends Forever

date: April 16, 2008

Taking a break from level 18 to review, get a fresh approach at it. The game is in many way similar to "Lost Vikings", "Humans", "Lemmings", etc. Its a great genre and I think this game is a credit to it. I wouldn't worry to much about reviewers calling it a rip-off of anything. Making a game doesn't mean inventing a new genre, just making an enjoyable way to interact and spend a few minutes of your day and I think this game does that very well.

My only question though is with the control scheme. Left walks left, Right walks right, Down crouches, why wouldn't Up jump? It still functions wonderfully and stays consistent, just an odd choice.

Pros:

-Difficult puzzles, makes the player think
-Functional graphics
-Tried and true interface

Cons:

-A bit on the slow side

4/5

Score: 6

"Not bad, could use a bit of depth."

submission: Mouse Under Siege

date: April 16, 2008

Not a bad waste of 2 minutes. It could use a bit more depth (ie sticks hurting eachother). I liked the ability to destroy the paratroopers en route to the ground. Not especially hard, though I think most of the players will be suiciding to see what happens and experiment more often than not.

Pros:

-Simple, easy to learn
-Functioning graphics and sounds

Cons:

-Lack of options
-Loses novelty quickly

3/5

Score: 3

"It's just not really "Lost""

submission: The Atlas Station

date: April 16, 2008

I understand where your getting the theories from, but attributing this to Lost is a little far fetched. Outside of "108", the Dharma symbol and technically having pictures that could be on an island are really the extent of the connection. Still, that alone does not have much bearing on the actual gaming which should be the focus of these reviews.

Pros:

-Interesting story
-Good use of suspense

Cons:

-No real animation
-No immersion
-No interaction or choices (whether or not I go left or right is irrelevant if there is no information to base the choice on or consequence)
-No clear objective (an objective of "escape" isn't really an objective if there is no immediacy or purpose)

Good luck on the class project, I'm not real sure what the criterion is for it so not entirely sure how this will stack up. Keep trying though, its a great start.

2/5

Score: 2

"Bad"

submission: NiN10Doh!

date: April 16, 2008

Pros:

-Time & Effort

Cons:

-Animation
-Sound Quality
-Jokes (I think I found one somewhere)

1/5 for the effort it took so many people, but it really showed that this was a backburner project for alot of the contributors.

Score: 4

"Granted there aren't tons of reviews yet..."

submission: The Smoking Kills Collab

date: January 30, 2008

Anybody actually watch the flash or just feel like debating whether its a fascist state of non-smokers vs. ignorant smokers who rub it in the animators' face?

The animations were mostly sub-par, no real funny jokes. Smoking kills, haha its ironic because smoking kills slowly and these flashes show it killing quickly or by other means than cancer...yup thats hilarious. Old hack jokes and weak animations gets low from me. Great message (as an ex-smoker as of 3 weeks ago), but not efficent at all. The only people likely to take anything away from this are non-smokers and they'll just get a cheap chuckle at slapstick that is mostly off-topic.
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2/5

Score: 10

"McNeely needs to learn inflection"

submission: Jack French #3

date: October 16, 2007

Obviously the Casino Manager was the guy from the Trapped series...very nice, almost an unintentional Easter egg ;)

I found this game to be much easier than the previous two Jack French games, but I think I may have gotten lucky to stumble upon what I did. While it mostly fit into the series nicely, it seemed the logic and step-by-step progression was removed a bit. Perhaps toned down for some of us slower learners?

A good game, excellent story and a fitting end to what has become a part of Newgrounds history. Congratulations Johnny B!

5/5

Score: 4

"Good idea, bad application"

submission: Backyard Buzzing

date: October 9, 2007

Glitches:

-Turrets won't fire at basements "teleported" in front of them until a unit is spawned.
-When trying to build a turret if the location is blocked suddenly it will deselect the basement (hence the cancel build button and all viable locations to build the turret) and keep the build turret icon, thereby preventing any player controls.
-Unit AI will actively block other AI and will deter all other attackers.
-Screen movement can move unit's shots (i.e. holding W will make a unit fire North of its intended target). Forcing the player to hold the screen throughout a battle.
-Enemy units can trap themselves inside of basements while firing out, forcing the player to destroy the basement before the unit.

Things to consider:
-Offering an 80% sell back rate even on damaged units unbalances the game in favor of the player.
-Simply by building numerous bases and turrets the game becomes far too easy.

There are more glitches that I cannot remember at the moment, but I'm sure someone will document them. A good idea, and a noble endeavor. RTSs are very hard to accomplish with flash, don't get discouraged and I'd love to see future submissions.

Score: 10

"Very nice"

submission: B Cause of U (in Halo 2)

date: September 26, 2007

Very nice parody. Its rare I give a 10 star but this really deserves it.

Any chance that beautiful MP3 is available anywhere? :)

Score: 6

"And then I thought..."

submission: Mindchamber </3

date: August 30, 2007

At first I was going to give it a 2 for passing animation and a decent storyline. Then I remembered it was by Chase so it got +2 up to 4. Then I thought of Sarah Silverman and thought to myself, "Well thank god I didn't have to watch that pile of shit of a show." So +1 to a 5.

Really missing a Dick's beer reference. :D Good job, can't wait to see more.

Yes I'm a fanboi...oh well, deal with it.