sharpnova's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Super Husky:Adventure platform game]

nice framework here. work on those animations (a lot) and some of the hitboxes and damage i took on level 2 made absolutely no sense whatsoever.

also stop forcing us to click start to play. that's hideous.

[Crypt Shyfter: Chapel of Evil]

text only games only had charm when there wasn't enough bandwidth for images. like in the bbs days. now it is just annoying. i don't particularly like writing styles that aren't professional.

[DroworD]

the tutorial is incredibly long and unnecessarily annoying.

HealliesGames responds:

Before was too fast and confusing. I should find a middle ground. <.<

[Little Idle Monsters]

addicting idler to be sure

[A Pirate and his Crates]

great level design. you introduce a new thought each level. very well done.

[ANOVA]

I absolutely hate the UI.

There is no reason to force us to wait for the awkward animations to interact with things.

No reason for us to have two options (look and interact). Literally all point and clicks nowadays just do it with one. And if it's designed well it makes for a very seamless quick interface.

Also having the inventory pull up a whole screen of its own and forcing us to hold down the mouse and drag things off to use them on the environment feels incredibly clunky. Not to mention slow.

And when you do inspect something, having to wait for the animation of the portrait sliding over before the descriptive dialog appearse is clunky and cumbersome and annoying as heck.

The way the cursor doesn't react at ALL to being moved over an interactible region makes this a pixel hunt sort of game. Having to resort to clicking that lightbulb was very very ugly imo.

The art and music and sound effects are fantastic.

I'm at the part where I have a small cork. I powered up the robot and you know what? If it was a straightforward even remotely decent UI I'd keep trying every possible combination of sticking the cork in the teddy bear, the robot, the skull etc. and not be horrifically annoyed at the cumbersome UI. But I just can't.

It needs an absolute overhaul.

I feel awkward giving a game with production values this high such a low score, but it is close to unplayable.

And trust me. Your overall score of only slightly over 3 stars with a production quality this high is because of the UI. I'm sure I'm not the only one blown away by how cumbersome it is. I can't believe you made it this way tbh. I really hope you fix it. Because then this could be a lovely little gem.

edit: just an example: with this stupid small cork which has no logical bearing on anything in the environment i'm forced to open the inventory, click and hold, drag off the inventory, and try to click something else in the environment for EACH AND EVERY thing i experiment with. What on earth were you thinking..??

edit 2: ok so i plugged the hole and took off to the next location. as i said the art and sound are top notch which is why i really wanted to at least continue past that. and i would definitely play further if you overhauled the UI. but further than this i simply cannot. sorry.

MontiGames responds:

Thank you for the very detailed and honest feedback! We want to make the game as accessible as possible, although some of what you suggest would eliminate the way we designed some of the puzzles. Everything was intended to be challenging rather than frustrating, but there may be ways we can accomplish the same thing with a slightly different implementation. We'll definitely look into this further, but thank you again for taking the time to clearly detail your concerns!

[Eluder 1.0 Game]

very very terrible handling.

[Pixel Hop 2]

this needs heavy polishing. do so immediately. the music and art is very nice. the level design is also quite good.

but the mechanics need serious polishing. if they were polished from where they are now (shit-tier) to where they need to be (flawless) then this would be a fantastic 5 star game for me.

[Cyborg Highway WIP]

You earn money. But don't waste your time searching through the game for a way to actually use the money to impact the game in any way. There isn't any. It's just a glorified score system.

And the music is just... pathetically weak. The graphics are annoyingly bad. No variety and the road doesn't contrast sharply enough with the vehicles.

The sound effects are also weak.

This just screams low effort.

Pyrian responds:

Thanks for trying it out and giving feedback. This was a Ludum Dare 44 game jam project and is now a work in progress for a more complete experience. Purchasing upgrades will come. I've added dynamic traffic, plus a melee and a ranged weapon, with lots more in the pipeline!

[Hyper Maze]

it's like bioshock infinite but with the amazingness of half life 2.. combined with portal 2, witcher 3, and uncharted 4.. and red dead redemption 2, with a splash of breath of the wild. a heavy splash.