HerbieG's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Super Batter Up! Challenge]

At first I hoped that it would actually be a good sports game or something like this, well... I was disappointed. And I was even more when I started to play the game. It is rather not about the skills, it's about luck. And many times the game generates a situation in which it is not possible to hit 2 subsequent balls or hit the ball while avoiding a bomb that is coming just after it. The game is also faulty and has some irritating bugs and glitches. Few issues:
1. The game is not saving progress, so you have to do all bombs, cages or walls challenges in one sitting;
2. In some challenges, especially in Keep it up, although you have passed a wave successfully without any strikes the game fails to send you the next wave of balls and all you can do is to quit.
3. The Keep it up challenge has its own unique bug: very often the player to the right fails to show up for the match, so you cannot play.
4. It can also happen that although you finish the challenge the game won't tell you that you won or won't redirect you back to the challenges select screen, pressing the "back" button is not helping at all, it is not working, so all you can do is to reload the game and if you remember point 1 above - if you for example passed 3 walls challenges you have to do it all over again - extremely irritating.
5. I don't know what's wrong with this challenge, but I had to beat the Alien challenge 3 times before finally the game decided that I actually deserve the medal.
So definitely there are some fields in which this game can - and should - be improved.

CidadeAP responds:

Hi HerbieG thanks for your comments and play time.
As far as the game being about luck I have to disagree, I can beat all the challenges on Gold on my first try, the timings are tough on some challenges but luck is not needed to beat them.

1) Im not sure why its not saving your progress, just checked and it was working but after a while it reset back losing the save progress, I can see why that sucks. Will see what I can do to fix this.

2) In Keep it Up! 2 I have found the same bug and I'll try to fix it in an update.

3) Darn, thats a bug I havent seen yet, do you remember what player you played with or any other details when this happened. Maybe I can find the bug easier with a bit more info.

4) Do you remember what challenge that happened on? Until I fix it you can press Escape to go back.

5) The Alien challenge medal when I tested came up after I refreshed a couple times, not sure why this is happening.

Sorry for any frustration these issues caused for you, it will take a bit of time to figure these out but I will try to as soon as I can. Thanks for playing our game, hope you had some fun with it.

Cheers

[Ultra Trivia - SNK]

Another nice trivia about another big Japanese games company. Some of the answers weren't even easy to find on the Internet ;-) I have to complain about 2 things though - SPOILER WARNING:
1. Question 13: it is a common mistake that people are making by referring to the series of those games, it's proper name is Samurai Shodown, not Showdown, without "w" in it.
2. Question 19: it is a legal issue; if you ask this question in the current way the answer is "currently never". Why? Because at the end of previous year, 2016, SNK Playmore officially and legally dropped the "Playmore" part from its name and its current name is again the SNK Corporation. So you should rather change this question to "When did the original SNK Corporation close?".

FIL1994 responds:

Thanks for the review. I'll have to fix those. I believe their name is just SNK now, but it was a misleading question. EDIT: Your right. It is SNK Corporation.

[Ultra Trivia - Nintendo]

The quiz is ok, but there are too many questions related solely to the release date. Also the game is too much US-centered, there are only few questions about Japan. Why there are completely no questions about the European market?
Also according to Wikipedia - not sure if it is reliable - all 4 games mentioned in the last question were released on Wii U.
By the way, you got a typo in the last question: bors.

FIL1994 responds:

Thanks for the feedback. Europe and US release dates were very similar for the games and systems in this quiz. The last question is which game was not a launch title for Wii U. Thanks for pointing out the spelling mistake. I'll fix that asap.

[Cat Clicker (Fix)]

I promised myself that I will write a guide here about dealing with the problems that the players can meet while playing this game. Well... it will be almost complete. A bit of a shame for the author that did not bother to upload a "less glitchy" version also on Newgrounds ;-)
So... the guide:
1. Better not to play this on Firefox. Not sure why, but when I tried to play this game on Firefox it was failing to save. I was clicking on "save", the game log was saying "game saved", but when I was returning to the game and wanted to load the browser was telling me that "cookies not found". Oh yeah, I ate them, I forgot ;-)
2. Also the medals seem to be not working on Firefox.
3. If you click very fast manually like I was doing the game can start to freeze a bit. Once it even caused my computer to crash and forced a reboot.
4. Loading problems on Chrome: sometimes when you return to the game and want to load a game nothing will happen - don't panic! Reload the game again and try to load now, if still nothing happens - now it is time to panic ;-)
5. Glitching: be prepared for situations in which the game will just freeze. Well, not completely. You will be still able to click the cat and see the falling cats in the background, but that's all. No gains, no buying upgrades and no saving or loading, so... better save frequently.
6. Probably the most important: the medals. Most of the medals ARE NOT UNLOCKING in the moment you meet their requirements. In most cases you will have to save the game, reload the page and then they should unlock. Sometimes you may have to repeat that to make them work. Man, that' irritating...
7. More glitches: if you click on a medal at the very beginning - everything will be working in a normal way, but if you try it at the later stage, I mean after playing for a while the medal menu will not open or you won't be able to close it by clicking on "back". What's more: at this state it is likely that while reloading the page the game will cause the browser to freeze for a longer moment and it can even stop responding. Eventually it should get back to normal after few seconds.
8. Most irritating for me and the reason why this guide is incomplete: the Winner medal. Despite reaching 100 000 many times, clicking Win lots of times, reloading the game many times the game is unwilling to give me the final medal...
So... there are lots of fields on which the game should be improved and I am hereby encouraging the author to do it :-)

SlimeEnergy responds:

Fixed (Removed Glitchy NG Api)

[KeyCountDown]

Simple but awesome game! Very entertaining and addicting as well. Tons of reflexes required ;-) I only found the medals pop-up a bit disturbing during the gameplay. I would also wish that I could redefine the keys and use more comfortable keys for my right hand, for example it would be good if the game would allow the 1, 2, 3 keys from the num-pad.

tirsod2000 responds:

Thanks a lot! I will see what I can do :)

[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

[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!

[Mandallapse]

Nice and even partially innovative puzzle game :-) I only don't understand why my score is not on the board? Obviously yound also passed 10 000 points, but his score is only 7000.

TrickDexter responds:

Yes, it is a bug in some way. Score is entering the board when game over. (fixed)
Thank you for your review.

[Jump Quest]

I must say that the game is surprisingly addictive :-)
Requires 100% concentration all the time :-)
But for 5 stars it is not enough.
There are some irritating things in it:
1. The guy you are controlling is following the mouse movement with a slight delay;
2. Sometimes the game is creating subsequent platforms in a way in which you are unable to reach the second one from the first one:
a) first case is when you are on a platform on the very left on the screen and the next one is located to the very right or vice versa; when you add that delay I mentioned earlier - there is no way you can reach it;
b) second case: not so rarely you are not able to reach another platform even if it is just above you because of the distance between them or because the game is not considering hitting of the next platform even if you definitely touch it enough to get a bounce;
3. The double points bonuses in the current state are useless, because if you decide to pick one of them - you will likely fall. To make them useful you should add at least a one-time double height jump bonus when touching them - or an ability to click one time to reach the next platform.
If you would improve the game - I would add more stars :-) First - very good game, then - 5 stars, that is the proper sequence :-)

orion1220 responds:

i Will hopfully make This polished up the menu thing Just really got at me and i uploaded