HerbieG's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Black & White Escape: Office]

Interesting idea! What can I say? Another good game :-) But what is even more interesting: looks like selfdefiant became the citizen of the Mouse City! No more Melting Mindz? I already noticed one difference: less points for medals ;-)

[Silent Synapse]

The game is not insanely hard, it is manageable, I only hate you a bit because of the level in which there is a completely dark corridor and that slowly moving red block, it is constantly ruining my attempts to get the Touhou medal ;-) I also wonder what are some of the secret medals about, like Aint Portal or Wall Simulator. For others - I got some ideas that need checking.
There is also one thing that made me take a whole star from the game: the controls.
I'd like to ask why are you discriminating people that prefer arrow keys for movement? ;-) The same is about your - great ones - Strawberry games (waiting for more of them).
Back to controls issue: with the arrow keys I would probably earned more of the medals already, because my right hand+arrows=power ;-) But my right hand hates wasd and my left hand with that controls is not that good as my right hand with arrows. I also completely don't understand why many developers think that if somebody is a right-hander then should like the wasd more. I personally hate this scheme.
Concluding: make changes so the player could choose which control scheme wants to use :-)

[Meteoroids]

The game is a great-and hard skill-avoid one, but definitely there has to be some mess with the secret medals. I presume they depend on the score, but if so, then everybody with the score higher than @fuckoffasshole's should have obtained the Maximum Speed medal, while @Kabuya and @TheGearBrother did not. Also with his score, @DJDarkDash should have easily had all of the medals. Presuming from the moment it unlocked for me, maybe even @NeonSpider should have also earned the Super Speed medal. That issue has to be fixed.

CoderTomato responds:

The issue has been fixed. Although I have sent you a Private Message explaining the issues in detail.

[Run Pinky Run]

You say that everything depends on me. Well, wrong. You know what is the difference between a well-designed game and a badly designed game? In the first one if you have skills you can beat every single level at the first try. In this one it is impossible. For example: you choose to go the lower route while after a while you discover that there is a bigger gap full of water and you are screwed. Die and replay the level. Another problem is a complete randomness of the pig's skills vs the stage construction reaction. Sometimes you have still enough power to break an obstacle, sometimes the game says: sorry, not this time! And here comes another problem: when you are exiting the - for example - speed mode, for a longer moment you've got completely no control of the pig and it is just enough time to get killed. You can't even use another transformation skill.
All of this leads to a conclusion: this game is not challenging in a good way, it is just irritating, because it is badly done. Generally, lots of your latest games, the ones in which you are a producer are much worse than the ones just sponsored by you. There is also another difference: the games sponsored by you are sometimes being improved by their authors, the games made by you - never. That should change.

[Amazing Escape Ghost Town]

Another nice game with good puzzles :-) The only minus is the fact that the final medal is not working.

selfdefiant responds:

Fixed, thanks!

[Ronnie the Rooster]

2 things:
1. Make a level select. It would make easier to get the 100% medals.
2. Definitely remove those graphic elements from the lower border of the screen! If you want to go that way - and sometimes you have to - these elements are covering the way you are going and you don't know if there is anything in front of you or not.

SMKS responds:

Removed graphic elements as you suggested!

[BulletHell Adventure]

1. Optimize the game. At a certain point with lots of projectiles on the screen the game becomes almost unplayable.
2. One stupid, ridiculous thing: if you upgrade yourself just a little bit too much you are killing the boss too early to get all stars! Now what? Am I supposed to reset all the progress and start from the scratch? There should be at least enough minions to get them. Generally, stars on the boss levels like these is not a good idea. In case described by me: at least add a button for resetting upgrades without resetting the progress of the game. -- star for this issue.
3. It is possible to move to the border of the screen and not be able to move anymore.
4. Another bug: few times the game displayed both the victory and defeat screens.

Frozennnn responds:

Thanks for the feedback i will upload a new version with some modifications soon like, the hard combo x30 some players cant beat and like you say boss its easy after upgrades, i will put the boss life relative to the upgrades and some other problems you say me

Thanks for play the game, and give me a very helpfull review

[Climber Guy]

I must say that after your Atomic and Follow my lead games, which I really enjoyed, because they required thinking, this one is like a step back. I personally never liked those key-mashing games. First levels were easy, but for the latest ones and the time limit... sorry, ain't destroyin' the keyboard of my laptop for this, I respect my computer too much to do it :-)

blit-blat responds:

Haha, yeah you do have to suffer some wear & tear on your keyboard to complete this game! ;) And yeah, while this is different from Atomic and Just Follow My Lead I wouldn't say it's a step back, a step sideways certainly. It's always nice to try new things though! :)

[Graviscape]

Really simple, but the controls are a bit too "heavy", the movement speed is too slow.

[Spelling Book]

I got a proposition for you: work with the players to create the versions of this game in various national languages and then this game will be 100% fair :-) You should also consider that there are some differences between the spelling of words in traditional English and its American version.

shajby responds:

Thanks for your comment :). Well I know that some words are spelled differently in British and American English but I think that I was quite careful to not include such words in this game. But if you find such a word let me know please :)