HerbieG's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Stairway to Heaven Highway to Hell]

I played most of your games and I must say like somebody already wrote that it isn't the best of You. I managed to get all the medals, all of them worked for me without any problems (about the one after getting to hell to the ones that did not get it: maybe you rage-quit after seeing the highway being fried and no medal popping up, you've got to click on continue button), but I got some remarks about the gameplay:
1. On the heaven part the movement is maybe even too fast while on the hell part it is a bit too slow (highway has the gravity on it's side after all ;-) );
2. I especially didn't like the heaven part, it looks a bit like a vertical Flappy Bird;
3. Why is it harder to get to hell than to heaven? With all these sins, crimes committed and so guilty conscience they should welcome you with open arms! ;-)

[Sneaky Scuba Escape]

Ok, the game is great as always, the graphics are awesome (I wonder where is this place located? Could you give any info? :-) ). The puzzles when you find their logic and/or find a clue don't seem so difficult anymore. Finding coins is another nice "side-task". Only one thing can be a bit deceiving: I thought that I was supposed to get the scuba medal just after picking it up, while you get it after entering the water. I thouught that something went wrong with the game and reloaded it and I still don't know why when I clicked on "play", not "new" it just kicked me to its very beginning.

selfdefiant responds:

Thanks! The game might seem easy if you have played my other games. You get better and smarter!

[Urban Rally]

At first I thought I will like this game, but after playing it a while I have to put some criticism about it:
1. The levels aren't loading smoothly. Especially when I have to replay the level I have to wait for a while for the level to reload. This also inflicts the loading of medals after completing a level.
2. Not so rarely this reloading causes some game error and after it occures I only see flickering buttons and a yellow screen (new version of BSOD ;-) ).
3. The music - initially good, after a while gets somewhat boring or at least repetetive, the loop is too short.
But probably the worst part is mechanics. Three things:
1. The location of checkpoints: sometimes they are placed in a way in which you don't have enough room to speed up enough to jump over further obstacles/pits.
2. The car behaves rather like a rock bouncer than a monster truck, it is veeery bouncy. C'mon! These vehicles are really heavy!
3. The physics: in many situations after I reached a certain speed I was also able to climb the hill, but in the same situation, I think the same speed I was just ramming into this hill like there was an invisible obstacle causing the car to stop/fall forward to its back. The movement of the truck is sometimes really a surprise. Also the acceleration is sometimes weird.
Not to be just critical: what I really like about this game is the graphics :-)

[The Clock & The Chaos]

The game is very good but I got one suggestion: make it less CPU-intense, maybe add a quality change button, because now it simply eats my CPU alive and sometimes lags like hell.

morazor responds:

What browser/OS are you using? So I can test it out properly, HTML5 games are very browser dependent

[Error Zone]

I thought that I was going to give this game a highest note since it is really hard & challenging. It really makes your brain work hard, I would say - to the limits. It's good, really good. But again there is a medal issue. I just got the 20th star and got no medal. It is bad that recently so many of Gamezhero games have some issues with broken medals. It didn't happen before.
I will return to the game when the issue will be fixed, since the game doesn't have anything like reload medals/resend achievements button.

[Crazy Alien Snake]

Hey, this is fun! And using arrows makes it even more challenging :-) The power-ups are good, but as I can see they are being spawned randomly and sometimes I get green barell after green barell and just keeping saying "Gimmie some bombs finally!". I assume that the achievements are not cummulative and you have to earn them in one playthrough? Oh, about the achievements: the first green barell medal and the first tank medal didn't unlock form me.

bioludus responds:

Huge thanks for your feedback, and sorry for the medals bug, now it is fixed!

[Awesome Seaquest]

The game is awesome, nothing less. I played one of your previous games and this one is even better. The only reason why I am not giving 5 stars is some kind of a problem with medals loading. I earned the Hat-Trick achievement and did not get the medal at the first time. I had to reload the game and then it loaded. Now I earned the Shocker achievement and the medal also did not load. I even tried to reload the page, re-enter the game and still nothing, so something is wrong here.

[Expand It: Travel]

Could you possibly tell me how is it possible that I got the "Stargazer" medal after passing level 2? What kind of a bug do you have with this game? I will remove it anyway since I don't like earning medals for nothing. Oh, one thing, based on my recent PMs and reviews to your games: pay some attention to gamers' reviews and spend some time answering them. It doesn't hurt and leaves a good feeling that somebody's opinion was taken into account.
The game itself is ok, good graphics as always, background music too, about the challenge level... your recent games seem to be less difficult in comparison to the ones you submitted earlier.

[Arizona Joe]

I decided to leave it as a review, I already finished two worlds, had over 150 coins three times and still got no medals. Using Firefox, with Ad Block off.

baneguin responds:

That's strange. Are you accessing it through new grounds? Previously it was only from a new grounds url would achievements work. But with the new build, it should work.

[Slender 2D]

The game is good and really has an atmosphere but I gave it -0,5 star and here is why: I think it is sometimes unfair, because sometimes Slender hides behind the front trees and there in no way to spot him, also many times when changing levels I stepped directly into him.