HerbieG's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[The Black Knight Rises]

Terrible controls, ridiculous wall-jumps. The direction of the jump is too much up and not enough to the left/right. And no, it is not a lag problem, it's the controls that are bad. The movement is also way too slow. I am disappointed that you did not fix those issues despite many people pointed them out.

[Traffic Collision 2]

I'll have to put some criticism to this project, the graphics is awesome, but the gameplay is not. I hope you will respond to this.
1. Why the game is not saving my progress with the cookie file or any other way?
2. Turn off that irritating screen shaking that goes on all the time.
3. Turn off that screen flashing every time the nitro is being used.
4. The controls aren't very good, one time they are overresponsive, the other-barely enough to make a turn and when I finally make it - the car starts to bounce from one side to another.
5. Riveet099 is 100% right that the game would be much better with the first person view or maybe at least with the top-down view.
6. There are situations in which I get 3 cars in front of me, from the right to the left, so this is an impossible pattern, impossible to avoid.

[Blind Typer]

An interesting game. I only noticed few things:
1. For me the sound of b and d is not distinctive enough, they sound almost the same;
2. If you press the wrong letter the game is not accepting the correct input of 1 or even 2 next letters;
3. Are the Simple 2 and Blind typer medals awarded by just passing them? There is no other description and I passed both 1st and 7th level and did not earn them.

[Crashzilla]

I have to write this: for a long time gamezhero wasn't uploading new medal games and when finally did - uploaded a ridiculous creation. And here is why:
1. The dumbest idea I have ever seen: having to wait for 10 minutes to gain another chance to play the game! Just tell me: what crazy logic lies behind it?
2. Apparently you made the game for mobile devices, but!
This is the worst thing to do: make a game for mobile devices and then upload it as a flash game for computers while it completely doesn't fit playing it by the mouse, I mean especially those ridiculous requirements for houses medals. Playing it with a mouse - it is just impossible and I am writing it using the biggest letters possible. Besides, for people that have smaller laptops the game screen can be simply too high to fit in the laptop screen.
3. Next thing: to continue the game you need those crystals and this leads to that wheel of fortune, one spin costs 100 crystals while there is only one chance to win more crystals than you have invested. Again: where is the logic?
4. In comparison to all mentioned above this is really a minor issue, but still important: when you will stop adding achievements buttons that lead the player only to your website and add in-game achievements board on which - for example in this case - the player could check how many houses, tanks, boats etc. he had already smashed?
Summarizing: there are a lot of issues that made me remove so many stars from the available max base. I hope you will respond to this - and improve the game.

gamezhero responds:

"1. The dumbest idea I have ever seen: having to wait for 10 minutes..."
Yes, on fault. I reupload game with 9 lifes and recovery reduced on half
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"2. Apparently you made the game for mobile devices, but!"
I know many players who plays on touchtable screen.
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"3. Next thing: to continue the game you need those crystals and this leads to that.."
Did you play in casino? You lost 100 crystals but can win 250 or get 0 crystals.
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"4. In comparison to all mentioned above this is really a minor issue, but still important: when you will..."
This game for mobile. In iOs vertsion you can see progress at GameCenter
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Good Luck!

[10 Seconds]

That was good! Another good game this week :-) Simple, challenging enough to be fun, but not frustrating, various types of obstacles, just as it all should be. The only minor bug: if on one level there are those cannons shooting fireballs, their projectiles can stay on the screen during the next level.
Keep up the good work! :-)

MrNannings responds:

Thanks! Yes, i make a lot of games:P

[BB10's Friendship Adventure]

Yup! I can confirm that after getting one ending after you try to proceed you get all the medals without any further effort. You need to fix this. Also that text forwarding would be a good idea.
But I hope you will make more of these :-)

[Notes]

Ok, I managed to get all the medals, but the game is not necessarily fair. And here is why:
1. As it was already stated the hitboxes are a bit weird;
2. The notes indeed are not responding sometimes;
3. Not so rarely a note is being kicked from the speaker directly outside the screen, so you have no chance to click them;
4. Also when multiple notes appear at the same time they are disappearing too fast to click them;
5. It also happens sometimes that the notes are still on the screen, while the game already decides to end the level, so again - no chance to click these notes.
Without these weaknesses the game would be really good.

[Makros Superpos]

Ok, I finished a game... no, I finished not a game... maybe again no? But one thing is for sure: a lot of trial and error and I still don't get this "game" ;-) I couldn't find any rule in what should I do to make the cats run, jump, run and jump at the same time, I only recognized that on some levels fast "reality changes" are essential.
And! One complain ;-)
According to the Schrödinger's Paradox all found cats should count as alive, because they are dead & alive at the same time :-)
And this is also how this game is a game and is not a game at the same time :-)

whileworking responds:

Thanks! But no, that's not right. Once you open the box, You are the observer, this is where the quantum superposition ends!

[Rainbow Cube]

Ok, reached the highest medal, in fact even above 400 points, time to write a review.
In fact I must say that reaching those 300 points has definitely nothing to do with any skills, at that speed it is just dumb luck, hit & hope etc. Even with max upgrade for initial speed reduction and 1/2 speed power up most of the time after you pass approximately 100-150 points there is simply no time for reaction not mentioning recognizing what is being written on the power up circles. So as I said before: hit & hope. Try rotating and hope you will pick a good power up :-)
To reach the 300 points medal you need some special circumstances: max upgrades for 1/2 speed power up duration, max upgrade for multi color cubes - they are extremely important, max upgrade for initial speed reduction (yes, those upgrades aren't endless) and... here is where ends what depends on you. Now you need tons of luck to pick enough multi color cubes before the game becomes impossible to control - the about 100 points borderline. I spent few hours waiting for this kind of a situation, but when it happened - at some point I had about 110-120 cubes.
About other things: I agree that the writings on the blue circles are very hard to read, they should either have a bigger/thinner font or they should be written using white letters maybe?
The 1/2 speed power up is useless at the beginning, because after you pick it it expires before another cube is being collected. of course later it becomes crucial. To make some improvements and not to make the game too easy: the upgrade effect could be reduced, but on the other hand the effect could be changed this way: instead of being cumulative in the matter of power (1 power up - 1/2 speed, 2 power ups picked - 1/4 speed) it could be cumulative in the matter of time: another picked power up would add the time of being active to the previously picked.
Nonetheless - it is a good game :-)

[Oscar´s Tale]

I fully support the message. I hope that most of the people won't just click forward, forward, forward as fast as they can just to get the medal and they will stop for a moment to read it and take into their minds - and hearts. It is inhuman how people are treating animals, no matter wild animals or pets. For example the Dogs. Parents are buying a dog for the kid because he/she wants to play with and when gest bored... Animals also have feelings, they are NOT ITEMS. I always say that the way in which you treat an animal tells a lot about yourself - and what kind of a human being you are.