SteamTusk's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Meeblings]

Excellent, BUT...

It's a charming game with lots of great things going for it with the sole flaw of level 19 being waaay off the difficulty curve. By 'waaay off', I actually mean COMPLETELY UNSOLVABLE. The fans are too strong and the pull of the heerlings is too weak. Unless there's something blatenly obvious that I'm missing, it's impossible.

Please tell me I'm missing something blatenly obvious because I REALLY like this game and all it's personality. (You couldn't have chosen better music. Who and what is it, anyway?)

[The Last Stand 2]

Over-hyped

I don't get why this and the last one got such good reviews? The hit detection is horrendous. You'd think headshots would take them down easier, but such is not the case. The chainsaw fails to register sometimes and it's cheese having your one survivor's head smashed and having to go back to square one.

If the zombies didn't take an entire clip to take down, or if headshots actually counted for something this would be fully playable. As it stands, it's far too difficult and tempermental, it's less of a learning curve and more of a learning cliff. If there were some predictability as to where your bullets went and how much damage they did, I'd gladly give this all my tens.

Don't get me wrong, it's stylish and I can see where fun might be had, I just can't actually find it myself. Seven points for presentation; zero for the gameplay.

[3dDavidFace]

!!!

I got to tell you; that leans just on the other side of 'creepy.'

Good programming, but I don't want to imagine that as a boss in a game. I'd be all, "What the fuck, Clart! We just crash-landed in Acid Town."

[Hot Air Bloon]

Finally!

There need to be more monkey/zeppelin related games. This fills a niche that has been tragically unexplored. I mean, monkeys AND zeppelins?!

Good control, but there are some chokepoints that simply cannot be passed; the terrain is randomly generated, I'm guessing.

A fine game, but needs more variety. It's a wee bit claustrophobic, maybe some open air elements with airborne obstacles?

[Boot Stick Shark]

Twisted.

Definitely unique and befitting for Newgrounds. The difficulty could use some tweeking, but aside from that, damn fine game. Boot Stick Shark is a pimp and needs more exposure. He's a character that'd be on Aqua Teen Hunger Force in an instant.

Applauds.

Teeter-Bird responds:

I'm glad you liked it. I altered the game a little bit and it does seem to be easier now.

[Trixie platform game!]

Gyah! (throws keyboard against wall)

Maybe it's just me but the controls seem really, really unresponsive. I can't for the life of me make it past the first jump. Hold on, let me try this again. I'm going to close my browser and reopen it. Just a sec.

Yup. Very poor controls. I'd be cheesed off if I got this as a birthday gift. Check your code, confer with the Flash forum in the BBS and fix this. The fundamentals are presents, it's a matter of refinement. I'd really like to give this a good score but in this case, a three is generous. Keep plugging away though.

[Fly or Die]

Ouch.

You have some serious problems here. First of all, the controls are unresponsive, hitting space only occassionally deploys your parachute, this I think is a result of some faulty code. I say this because your game crashed my browser. I'm running Flash 9 with Opera on a very stable rig so I don't think it's any deficiency on my part. Check your code, you might have some memory leaks or endless loops. Look to see if you're creating variables you don't need to because for such a simple game, this is a serious memory hog.

I'll give you credit simply for the effort it takes to make a game of any sort.

Test MOAR.

[Feed the Eater]

Interesting to say the least.

It has elements of Snake and Pacman which are always greatly appreciated and with some refinement, this can become an excellent game. First off I'll say that it is certainly not worthy of the sub 2.0 score it has been handed for while it's at this point unpolished, it has great potential.

First of all, you have food spawning in strange places that sometimes results in lives being unnecessarily lost. While playing I found myself to be losing lives for no reason as a result of food spawning IN the playing field as opposed to outside the boundries.

Secondly, there should be some way of controlling what colour your 'pacman' is. I don't know if you've ever played 'Angry Faic' but it relies on the same colour coordnation mechanic but it assigns different colours to the ASDF row on the keyboard so you can always be in a position to score. The random element while providing a degree of unpredictability does result in 'gotcha's' when your colour cycles at an inopportune time.

Thirdly, please change that music. While keeping below 1MB is admirable for us low-bandwidth users, you can certainly afford to make this a bigger file with a better loop. Elaborate breakbeats or some heavy metal would serve this game nicely.

And lastly, the cycling gradient background is disorienting, especially when trying to coordnate your colours and your food.

If this were to be resubmitted as a 1.5 with this in mind, it would definely be warranting an exemplary score.

[capt. obvious mcs]

Shite.

This is not a game. A game usually entails some sort of objective and consequenses for not reaching said objective. Obstacles of some kind. This, you see, is a Flash animation that you didn't bother to finish so you put the components of it into something that would be better described as a preloader.

And that music! Sweet lord Jebus, is that 'Songs to wear pants to'? Is that what everybody's hyping up? That's fucking awful!

Next time you make a Flash, finish it. This was unacceptable.

flash-moron responds:

you have no life

[Chimney Diver]

w00t! XD

Absolutely superb. Best Christmas game this year, by far! Stylish and funkadelic! Infact, I would go so far as to say this should be incorporated into the mythos of Christmas. As opposed to parking and ponderously squeezing down the chimneys, he should be portrayed as flying through the air performing l33t moves to the dulect tones of a sick bass licks. Now that's a Santa I can root for! Thank you for not setting this to Christmas music, it makes me want to kill, but this game hits all the right notes. Totally addicting.

5/5
10/10
RECOMMENDED FOR CHRISTMAS '07 COLLECTION