HerbieG's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Stack 'Em!]

Cool game! There only should be an option to manually zoom in - zoom out the view, because on some occasions you are just making "blind drops".

larrynachos responds:

Camera 2 should take you down to the bottom platform, but yeah I'll add a manual zoom. Thanks for the review!

[Tankman vs Bats]

Not bad, there is a potential in it. Although it gets rough quite fast. I would change one thing though: the button for jumping should be "w", not "space". Besides inconvenience of using the space bar: if you play the game without full screen turned on pressing space moves the screen down.

PS

The upgrades should drop to the ground, because if you kill a bat too high there is no way to pick the upgrade. Oh, maybe you could add something like a prestige system? With permanent bonuses?

Kornao responds:

Jump button issue resolved.
I was thinking about prestige system. Perhaps in the future I will implement it. I have many plans.

[A Change of Heart: A Magical Girl Adventure]

Interesting game, but with no ability to target anywhere else than up/left/right using mouse for attacking is pointless. The game should be 100% keyboard-controlled.

ShibeyFaceGames responds:

Thanks so much for playing! The are a several control options once you are past the menu/intro, including a full keyboard layout.

I appreciate the feedback. When I have some time, I'll see about updating the main menu to make it keyboard/game-pad controllable too.

[Afraid of the Dark]

It's good, but:
1. It lags terribly, making it difficult to control the character;
2. Those 0-deaths medals are rather for cheaters only;
3. Especially for the boss rush, because you can respawn right where the boss is located.
4. No options to turn off particle effects or to change keyboard controls.

nulledwine responds:

Sorry about the lag, it doesn't lag on my machine and friends never mentioned it but if it really becomes a problem I provided a Windows download in the description
I spent a couple days before publishing to see if the medals were possible and the 0 deaths are, just need a lot of patience lol
You get a small period of invincibility when respawning so you can run out of the area, but that's probably poor design from me, sorry
As for particle effects and keyboard controls, my bad. I'll try working to add this

[YRKKEY'S PARADISE]

Awesome thing to experiment with, but the game should be really saving progress, locally. So far when I close the game and return to it every time I have to start from scratch.

Droqen responds:

It's trying! Thanks for the private message, hope I can get this figured out.

[Jump Forge]

Those uploaded levels should be at least checked and tested, because lots of them are simply impossible. For example today's featured level: how can it be even possible to get out of the start position?

PS

So how can it be possible to jump anywhere at the beginning of that featured level if even at the start you are placed on the spikes and there are only spikes ahead?

Prox276 responds:

You need to abuse your invincibility frames in those levels. :)

[Daxolissian System: Espionage]

Ok, the game is not hard, but the controls are to the furthest extent annoying. The effect of e and d should be reversed, because it is counter intuitive. And the efficiency of rotating with left/right arrows is way too low, you barely turn by pressing these keys. No space armada would want to have ships with such terrible handling.
A note: not sure if you can remember it, but back in 1990s there was an awesome space flight game called Tie Fighter with massive keyboard controls, but the spaceship's movement was controlled almost completely with the mouse. Awesome playability, intelligent AIs, lots of challenging tasks. Check this out and get inspired.

3p0ch responds:

Pulling back to climb and pushing forward to dive is pretty standard. Yaw was intentionally made weak because IRL pilots don't use it to turn. Use roll and pitch to turn quickly, yaw is just for minor adjustments like lining up shots. My inspiration for this game was realistic flight mechanics and the link in the author comments goes into a lot of detail about it, but for future games sure I'd be up for anything that looks fun.

[Gatlin']

After I started the game I got stuck on the corpses, not being able to get out. Jumping does not help. One important thing: cut that out with these flashing backgrounds, will ya? I checked the credits and my eyes did hurt, not to mention people with seizures problems. It is really unnecessary.

dotcopycat responds:

Hi, I'm sorry to hear that. The last thing I want is for this to be seizure-inducing. The backgrounds shouldn't be flashing, it may be a shader error. Would you be willing to send me a gif/video of it?

[Ostrich Run]

It desperately needs an ability to rotate the camera view.
Also it could be a bit easier to handle for not-so-young computers.
And maybe a general command to stop moving for all the ostriches would be useful, since sometimes they just run around like crazy.
But it is still an awesome game!

MonoFlauta responds:

The problem with rotating the camera was the hand placed walls, but yes, it would had been nice as you say :P

About the not-so-young computers, this game was made in less than a week for a game jam. Of course it would had been nice and sorry we couldn't make it :(

For last, you can use the space bar to hide, that will stop all of them while they hide. Other than that, our goal was to have that chaotic horde feeling.

Glad you liked it and thank you for playing!

[Jaded Slasher]

Interesting and with a bit potential for improvement and expanding! I only noticed 3 issues:
1. Leveling up can decrease your health: every time I level up my health is being reduced to base 10 hp;
2. Quests should be "appropriate" to the area you are in, for example I've been in the cave and I was still getting quests of hunting 3 blue butterflies, which at this point makes no sense;
3. Some option of "fast travel" would be nice, something like teleports or waypoints, such as the ones between cities and main areas in Diablo.

applessmillion responds:

Hey HerbieG!
1. Bug on my part. I've just released a patch that fixes this.
2. Quests are mostly appropriate. I've noticed that blue butterfly one likes to pop up in every area once in awhile. If you cancel out of it and click the questmaster again you'll be offered a better one.
3. One-way fast travel is a thing once you unlock it, but I'll see about adding it a bit better.
Thanks for the review!
EDIT: Added teleporters to campsites! Check out the note here: https://applessmillion.newgrounds.com/news/post/1146212