HerbieG's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Cat Advemture]

The worst thing about this game is the fact that you actually have to GUESS what is on the next stage. Hit detection is only a bit better than in the Flames. You probably meant to create something challenging but instead you made a frustrating game, which the players will likely rage-quit...

[Top Naut 2]

I definitely like the idea! Adding the gravity control is a good thing, enables the player to invite some strategies. Few things though:
1. The game is already hard on later stages, why not reducing the slippery of the lower border?
2. Change the place where the medals are appearing, I just lost because the medal covered the place where I was just trying to avoid some rockets.
3. What do I need to get the invincibility power up? Is this the rocket I am flying?
4. Are the medals cumulative or possible to collect in one playthrough only?

Flatthead responds:

Thank you for the suggestions! Minus the slippery border everything was updated. We are still looking into that issue.

[Crystals]

@fuckoffasshole is 100% right, it is impossible to clear some levels in the time you set! Besides, in the hard mode it is extremely easy to get stucked with totally no moves as you cannot move the crystals upwards, below the purple obstacles. These levels are almost completely luck-based, not skill-based.

turtlesf responds:

In hard mode, making powerups is important. No more moves shuffle takes gravity into account. Hard mode is pretty brutal. Easy and medium allow more time.

In response to the PM, sorry for the confusion! The diagonal powerup is made by matching 5 of the same in a T or ∟ shape, not diagonally. The powerup itself clears crystals diagonally. I had explained that poorly, so I updated the description. I'm responding here instead of PM in case anyone else has the same problem.

[Insert Coin]

A good challenge, original idea! But I think you should prevent the game from making one thing: if the spike emerges too close to the left border, it can be impossible to drop the coin down.

[Death Lab]

A great, challenging - but not too much - puzzle game. One weird thing though: to get medals I had to constantly reload the site, because they were not loading in the real time.

[Bee-Spree]

Please enable the player to choose between WASD and arrows, I personally hate wasd scheme...

[Sneaky Mission Denver]

Another nice game with great photos, wonder where were they taken? Maybe you will reveal some of those secrets one day? :-) Only two things: the "SPOILER" billard balls clue is a bit deceiving and the map is a bit messed up, for example from the room with skis and golden chest you can go down to the place, where you met Jo-Jo and from the room opened by green key you are going down to the pool table room.

[Dobuki's Epic Journey]

This RPG fully deserves to be called epic! The subsequent problems to solve was sometimes extremely hard to guess, you always had to think "out of the box", because you never knew where the solution might be. I would risk a statement that it is the best (or one of the best) RPGs here on Newgrounds, it hooked me so much that I played it for last two days. And I am damn proud to be the first one to finish this! What's more? Great music, I always liked electro and dance tunes. Summarizing: my new favourite! All 5 stars from me, even with the problems with Firefox mentioned in the review before. If you will be making anything like this in the future - just let me know :-)

jacklehamster responds:

Wow, I'm so glad you liked it!