AfroUnderscoreStud's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Shoot 2: CC Mission 1]

Good game, but it needed more to it.

It was a good game and it was kinda fun to play, but it was just too short as it was only one mission, you should have had more than one in it, also the boss was just far too easy you just had to stand there not hiding out of the way of fire and click on him a few times, you should have made him present more of a challenge. There was this annoying part in the game where whenever you went back to the previous screen and then went back to the one you just went back from again, you'd have to kill the enemies you just killed again and it was kinda annoying. It was kind of bad how the main game was much harder than the boss, it should have been the other way round. You made a point about how you could shoot civilians if you wanted to, but there was only one in the game so the point wasn't really worth making unless you were going to have more, you should have been able to shoot Jay and Silent Bob who were in this as well and perhaps being able to shoot some of the things in the background would have been a nice touch. Anyway, well done, good job, keep up the good work.

Peace Out, Afro Stud

3/5

Scunsion responds:

ungho

[Wink: the Game]

Great movie, good game

I loved it, the movie parts of it were great the game was good too. Again just like with the last Wink game, I loved the intro, this time I loved it even more as you came up with an excuse as to why the previous one didn't have an ending.

The main section of the game seemed a little too short, there wasn't much playing and then you were straight onto the boss who in my opinion took too long to beat, had he been harder it would have been an acceptable length, but he was just too easy and it got kind of boring after a while of slowly wearing him down bit by bit until he finally died.

It was nice to see the health bar included in this one as that was missing from the last one and it was much needed.

I loved the end movie to this, it was just really funny and in my opinion was the best part of this submission, I loved how Wink's girlfriend killed the princess in a helicopter out of jealousy and then how the whole thing turned out to be a game that Wink and his girlfriend were playing.

Overall it was great, the movie parts were done to perfection, however the main section of the game needed to be longer and the boss needed to be harder to beat, as he was just far too easy. Anyway, well done, great job, keep up the great work.

Peace Out, Afro Stud

4/5

gel responds:

Glad you liked the game now, after playing the old alpha.

There's more than one way to beat the boss. You don't HAVE to slowly wear him down by shooting him. ;)

The main game is too short? Yikes! I'm not sure how many platforming Flash games you play that last longer, but I thought it was a pretty decent length, especially for a Flash game!

[NSG003:HyperSpottheDiffer]

Completely pointless(sorry)

There didn't seem to be any point to this game and in the end i just gave up as it was too boring, easy and pointless.

It was pointless because it was way too easy to spot the differences all they were were a change on the picture, but it changed before your eyes therefore showing you where it is and it was way too easy, if this were to be a reaction game it was still poor as not only was the difference too obvious but you had too much time to be able to click on it. I didn't like the sound at all, the clapping every time you clicked on the difference was just annoying and you were basically constantly clicking, so the clapping was constant, which made it even more annyoing.

I'm so sorry for the bad review(your still my favourite flash author), I do kinda feel bad for giving you a bad review, but I'm sorry it had to be done for this game.

Stay fizzy.

Bezman responds:

You raised a few points. These are my replies.

- I meant it to be easy to see the differences. More about quick thinking than observational skills.

- The time you get is constantly reduced. So it does work as a reaction game. Since by the time you get to 40 or 50, you only get a tiny amount of time. (Get on the high score table before saying it's too easy, dude...)

- Clapping - yeah, a stupid addition. Folk kept saying my stuff should have sound. That's the only clapping sample I could get. Personally, I'm in favour of aural feedback, but it annoys me too at times.

Thanks for an honest review.

No need to feel bad. I always like feedback, good or bad.

Stay funky,
- Bez

[Spot the Difference]

A great, fun to play game

Well done that was a damn great game, don't know if it was just me or not but I found the first level the hardest (which seemed a bit weird as it was the first one) and was the only one I didn't complete in time, maybe that should have been a bit further in, another thing which was weird was the fact that on the arty level with the face and the eye i found 6 differences, one of them wasn't a registered difference and nothing happened when I clicked on it but the fact is it definitely was still there(ask me about it on MSN before you reply to this review), a nicer idea(like you said in your authors comments(which I read after thinking this)) would have been to ahve had randomized differences, so that if you did make a mistake and had to start again, you didn't already know where they are(don't know if that's actually possible though without the differences being too obvious), also you said you were going to add sound in a future version, if you mean background music it sounds like a good idea and it would be an improvement, but if you mean sound effects for when you spot a difference it seems like a bad idea as it would be irritating.

Sorry for mentioning so much bad stuff, it probably sounded like I didn't like this game(I did I thought it was great and I'll be voting 4), I was merely just pointing out areas in which this could have been improved.

Anyway great job, keep up the good work.

Stay fizzy.

Bezman responds:

Thanks again for another useful review.

Mentioning bad stuff is always helpful. The negative points help me far more in improving.

Difficulty - play-testing a game like this is difficult, seeing as once you know where the differences are, you can't really guage the difficulty again.

6th difference - I call shenanigans. Seriously though, next time, I'll use a mask or something to ensure something like that doesn't slip through again.

Music was just an idea. I'd try stuff and see how it seemed. I like music to respond to the game in some way. Otherwise, you might as well just let folk pick their own tunes.

[NSG002:Spot 5 differences]

Needed more to it

It was fun, but it was only one level, but then this was only submitted as a test and you never expected it to survive. I got 4 and it said I got 5 lol, weird, I tried again and got all 5 though, don't know what the problem was the first time. I'm looking forward to playing the finished version of this.

Bezman responds:

I'll look into that before releasing the next version. Thanks for letting me know.

[Uniwar Level 2]

Not as good as the first, didn't like this at all

Well I'm surprised, i was expecting this to have been an improvement on the first, but in my opinion it was worse, it was probably a better idea than the first, but in my opinion it was lacking a lot and the first was far superior.

[Uniwar Level 1 SE]

Wasn't too bad, had it's problems

Well that wasn't as bad as I was expecting considering how old this is, the only problem with it is that it was too easy up until the boss when the gun suddenly stopped working, I don't know what that was about, there were also times when the guards didn't go down and took a few hits, unless thats supposed to happen, I'm not on about the special characters just the normal ones, most went down on 1 hit but some took between 2-4, anyway for an early game it's good but by today's standards it's poor, not quite worthy of a 2 though, it just needed that bit more.

[NSG001: 4 Bats, 1 Ball]

Man your games normally rock.

I've loved all your games so far apart from 1(as you know) and now this is probably the 2nd worst game you've made. It was alright for about 10 seconds but then just got boring. soz. stay funky.

AcidDimensions responds:

Fair point.

It was meant to be totally different to begin with, but I actually ran into problems. I was never 100% happy with it, but it seemed a shame to let it go unseen.

Besides, I love reviews, as you know. ;)

[galactic stampede]

Seriously. How come this isn't top of the portal?

You are God! you fucking rock man kick ass game played like a fucking classic i have never seen anything this good on Newgrounds i thought it fucking impossible until you proved me wrong with this game. Words cannot describe the brilliance of this game. This should be a perfect 5. Now I'll just impatiently wait for the next one. By the way when you were in that space suit which game did that music come from I could swear i've played it.

moonjob responds:

that music was done on a casio keyboard using preset drum beat and some spacey sounds. Most of the music was done this way except a couple loops are from real bands.

[Dodging Circles]

Feels like playing skears for the first time...

again. This rocks 1221 until about the 960 point its relatively easy from that point on its just dodge grab 1 point etc gets boring but still rocks and gets 10 for style. Its frustrating and great which is rare. Stay Fizzy!

AcidDimensions responds:

Cheers! Even past the 1000 point mark I think you can get around a hundred points in a go if you spot an opening.

Hopefully the high score table will make it last a bit longer, but to be honest, this was never meant to be anything more than a distraction for a few minutes of your life. So I'm glad so many folk seem to have enjoyed it. :D