HerbieG's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[David and Keithan -The Haunted Lighthouse]

According to this point & click game the point & click games mess with your head, so don't play this point & click game! :-D :-D :-D
Sertiously, great game, as always! :-)

[Desktop Racing 2]

Ok, I am not going to give a cheerful review for this...
1. I hate games with bad physics and this game hasn't seen any physics at all. For example: according to what physics law when a car is 4 wheels on the ground with engine turned on to move forward it is moving backwards???
2. That bouncing is just ridiculous, on everything...
3. Even the jump is just a simple bounce not helping sometimes in any way.
4. On the higher levels: are the opponents invulnerable to all obstacles?
5. The place on the grid should depend on the total amount of stars earned between 3 last levels, not be just 0-1: up one place or not;
6. More about the opponents: it seems that the jump/boost limits do not apply to them since they can just fly almost all the time - I like challenging games, but the ones that are fair to the player.

[Gods Of Arena]

Awesome game as always, but I must have taken one full star away from the score. Why? One thing irritated me: trophies are only available for the online saved slots. We are on Newgrounds, right? NG also has an ability to implement a saving system, based on NG account. The game should not force the player to create an external account just to get more in-game bonuses. One more thing, are these trophies in fact the quests needed to obtain the last medal? If so, it is unacceptable and maybe it would even be the case for the medal Moderators. If you submit a game on Newgrounds - make everything available for its users.

IriySoft responds:

Locking trophies for the offline slots was the sponsor's requirement, can''t do much here, sorry :( All the NG medals should work in offline slots though.

[Spectre's House]

The game has a potential, but need looots of work. Here is why:
1. Many times I got a feeling that the ghost is not listening to my controls, it is moving when I am not pressing anything or quite the opposite: not responding to my keys;
2. Also the space is not always working like it should and its working time is too short;
3. Also may times I was definitely touching the orb, but the ghost was not picking it;
4. I finished over 5 levels and got no medal for it;
5. No pause button.

[Flapping Crush: Halloween Bird]

Yeah! Kill all flappies! Finally somebody invented a game like this! ;-)
Only few complains:
1. I assume that it is made mostly for mobile devices, but if yiu release a flash version playable on PCs it would be good to consider hotkeys for using bonuses, like 1, 2, 3 buttons for example, because sometimes you really don't have time to click on a power-up to activate it. Or maybe even make an option enabling them to be used automatically after obtaining?
2. Sometimes for a longer moment after the cooldown even if I click the machine is not moving, seems a bit stucked;
3. Once I encountered something weird: one of the birds after bouncing from the wall just stayed in the air, not moving in any direction;
4. The upgrades aren't much of a help since they are placed in only one spot on the stage, not applying to the whole wall.

[Da Best Gaem]

1. I'm not sure if you shouldn't change the title of the game because of Da Best Gaem by @deathink
2. The scoreboard is not working
3. Change these colours, they really cause a serious pain to the eyes...

9X74 responds:

1. How?
2. Fixed
3. Nah

[Pumpkinhead Jump]

Seriously? This is not good. Especially physics. It looks like a fast-developed game, because there should be something submitted to Halloween, I have a feeling the game has been poorly tested before release. The double jump sometimes doesn't work, sometimes the second jump only causes a minimal bounce in the air and not pushing the pumpkin forward. Also being caught by the faces' "gravity" is not necessarily good, many times I was just passing almost through some of them, but I wasn't sticking to them. A summary: many things need to be improved.

[Halloween Town Survival]

Nice thing, as always :-) Why I took some stars from you? I must say that in some parts you are indeed getting a bit lazy in making these games ;-) For example when I clicked on a skeleton, the message said "Find something to defeat the slime", come on, using codes from so long time ago? Also when I left the area and went for a walk around, the combat music was still playing (in fact, I personally like it). Oh, and the Hole digging medal is not working.

selfdefiant responds:

Thanks! I missed the slime! I got it all fixed though. :)

[Enter the Dungeon, Grab the Treasure and Beware the Dangers]

No, no and just one more time no. The only + of the game is the graphics, but the gameplay...
I could compare it to the already legendary IWBTG series:
1. It is also hard as hell but
2. It is playable, because it has patterns, which you can train and finally pass the game. In this one the bats are ruining everything, which leads to 3:
3. You can as well already remove the last medal, because in my opinion it is unobtainable.
4. IWBTG also at least has a double jump, maybe implement one to make this game possible?
5. Or implement something like a part of "leave ma a clone" or something, You could for example stand safely on your last dead body.
Few more thoughts:
1. Sometimes I can stand on the edge of the spikes, sometimes not, if it is s bug-should be fixed, if not-it should be a rule, that a very small part of spikes is safe. Sometimes I even could land safely on the snakes (snakes?);
2. Does the map, which we are seeing on the very beginning matters? If yes, then how can we enter any map during the game?
With this base, you could make a quite good adventure game (maybe with a weapon or something), but the current one needs changes to make it even playable-and passable.
Oh, surprisingly for me I did not experience any lag in this game, that's good.

[Samurai Hash vs Vampires]

I like the graphics style, it reminds me Johnny Rocketfingers a bit. The only problem is that the knife doesn't seem to do any damage. I could just stand before an enemy hitting him constantly, causing him no harm and just waiting for him to kill me. Also for a ninja the character moves very slowly.