HerbieG's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[The Evening of the Son]

The game is well-designed, the idea is also interesting, it reminds the old RPG-type card games, but for me two things definitely need to be fixed:
1. The miles counter is not showing the progress of travelling, it is stucked on 140 and
2. You should definitely add more water finding probability to the game, because I already have tons of food and no water and I cannot rest without losing health. Besides, why do resting needs water and food? Travelling would be an entirely differrent story.
Almost 4 stars, because for me the game is unique.

[Pixel Pete]

I decided to give this game two stars and give it a chance to be further developed, what I hope will happen. The cutscene at the beginning is quite well done in the matter of story-telling. But I also have my remarks about the things that need to be improved:
1. This grabbing... is it really necessary? I tried multiple times and I couldn't reach the platform, although I was definitely reaching it with Pete, but nothing happened, why not a good old double-jump or something like that?
2. After too much deaths: why do I have to refresh the site to try to play again? Does it happen also on the further stages of the game?
3. Maybe a mute button would be useful or better music?
4. If there are certainly 30 levels and You plan to add medals, then maybe add some for some parts of the game completed?
When upgraded - let me know, will be back :-)

Doooomguy responds:

Well this game was made for a short development project at school, and they have the .FLA so I won't be able to update it - but don't worry, I'll be adding all your suggestions to Pixel Pete Junior! Thanks for leaving a review.

P.S - Ledge-grabbing becomes pretty easy once you get the hang of it!

[Artillerize]

This game has an awesome potential, also for development, but I found some things that could be improved:
1. At the beginning in the tutorial there is no information on how to kill aliens that landed on the ground from the destroyed spaceships, I tried to run on them (but I have no pistol), to hit them with a cannon and accidentally I found out that you simply need to jump on them;
2. Something that needs fixing: with the mouse aiming on, every time when I am using a cannon and I try to click on menu or the next wave button I am also shooting, losing ammo;
3. For these levels end modes, maybe more medals? Like halfway there in one mode or for the number of enemies shot down?
4. For me, the man could move a bit faster and maybe some improvement of the jumping, now it looks like we are on the moon with low gravity, or we are using a jetpack ;-)
5. Maybe some upgrades during the game for the cannon or for the turrets?
But nevertheless it is already a piece of a great job!

colburt187 responds:

Thanks herbie, yes you make some good points here. it was a bit lazy for me not to fix the tutorial but the green slime guy was actually added in once the game was released on Armor, I saw him on Folmer Kellys game Stack Bunnies http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/636561 and he was nice enough to let me use him.

The mouse to shoot issue is a good point, ill see if i can fix it. I may add More medals in, i think i still have to points to use up.

I spent a long time messing around with the jumping, I think this is good as i can get it, its not on the moon but it is on some distant planet, maybe they have weird gravity there.

Thanks for playing!

[Awesome Mushroom Hunter]

Now this is trully awesome! A fantastic platform/shooter with a "climate", the player is constantly curious what will be next and this is just powered up by the communicates from the "computer being" that seems to control all that "structure" and its robots. Challenging and relaxing at once. Obviously great graphics, fully professional, and as I found out, submitted by the Author of another game I like very much - The Birdinator. The only minus is that some levels are loading for a bit too long. Oh, and You should definitely add medals to this game, it deserves them! Once again: great job!

[StarBright]

A good game, nice graphics, searching for the stars and runes sometimes well hidden is interesting as well as the mini quests for citizens, but some things could be fixed/improved:
1. On the stages with grass/rocks on the ground and near the ropes going down below you can sometimes get stucked like there was an invisible obstackle in front of you, while it is nothing there; it causes a problem when for example you need to run for a longer distance at the moment;
2. The game definitely needs one or two checkpoints on some stages, it is really making a player frustrated when almost gets a star and then for example gets killed on the very last razor just before getting it;
3. Maybe for some players it would be a good thing to allow the "up" button to be assigned to "jump" as well as "z", I personally prefer this type of steering scheme.
Withe these improvements I would definitely give this game the fully deserved 5 stars, keep it up, it can be a really perfect thing :-)

SirNightOwl responds:

All good points, it was my first game and feedback like this is great for when I do another, definitely learnt a lot! :D

[Aliens Hurry's Home]

A nice platform game with a good combination of intellectual and manual challenge. All the stars are possible to collect, althouth some levels were a bit frustrating for me, but it's not because of any bad programming, design or anything like that, they are just much harder than others ;-) I mean the ones with both razors and moving lasers on a same stage especially :-)
Also all medals are unlockable, but in my case it was somewhat weird:
1. The medals were appearing on my account but
2. They were not showing being unlocked below the game screen and
3. There was no Newgrounds notification that the medals were unlocked, but what is good that the game has its own notifications about the achievements.
Final outcome: almost 5 stars!

[Droids Steal For Me]

Great game for me!
1. Interesting idea;
2. A very good combination of both intellectual and manual challenge, in relation to the first one sometimes you need to think a bit harder to find a sollution;
3. Nice graphics;
4. All stars possible to obtain as well as all the medals, in these matters everything is working perfectly.
I only found one... bug? error? On the level with big safe I accidentally jumped down while standing inside the blue droid and I didn't drop to the ground but even below it, outside the stage. I could even walk below the floor, but I couldn't get back up, so i had to restart the level.
Nevertheless 5 stars for me!