sharpnova's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Shadow Brawlers PROTOTYPE]

terrible terrible controls

the shift color mechanic is absolutely pointless and serves only as a nuisance.

the jump/swing/block handling feels very good. the art is ok. monochromatic is not good in this case.

[Shark Blaster (Gille's View)]

Main menu: I used arrow keys to navigate between play and credits, but space, enter, and x did nothing to select the option. I don't know how to select it. I tried with the mouse etc.

Note that I do not read Author comments to learn how to play a game. If the game doesn't organically make it apparent, then it was designed poorly. I read author comments later if I decide I really like a game.

gillenew responds:

sorry about that =P

[Tiny Golden Temple]

Ewwwwwww at the low gravity. It feels so horrible.

xhunterko responds:

I am pretty sure that is lag. Thank you for playing though! ^^

[Awesome Jump]

When you're in the air, your horizontal acceleration is high and deceleration is super low. You have some bug in your kinematics calculations.

[Hare]

I died and had to sit through intro and even select adventure mode again.

The handling feels bad. No matter what as you coast down after dashing or w/e, you will never land on a platform.

The difficulty isn't balanced well.

Also, in game there is a lot of non-english stuff at the start when teaching you controls which... well now that I think of it, I was rating this 2.5, but I'm lowering it to 1.5 for that.

Zelun responds:

No prob! Thanks for the input. Gonna check those things about the localization files! Sorry :D

[GRAND ADVENTURE! (STORY COMPLETE)]

I'd like to point something out. On your first release of this you mentioned "It is unfinished. It's like 95% done but the last little bits never quite came together. Programmer after programmer dropped out before it could all be quite placed how I wanted."

I think it's unkind that you did not give credit to the other programmers who worked on this. That is very unprofessional.

Emptygoddess responds:

They were unprofessional for bailing!

That said... most of them i don't have contact info for. And none of them respond to me when I try, like honestly.

[Pitching]

I have to say it's a good concept and mostly executed well. But the spots you designed to be annoying were a little too annoying.

[Greenie]

The slow movement is very annoying.

[Overgrowth]

No.

You do NOT have the movement keys also be the aiming keys. Absolutely not.

You also do not do one shot permadeath. You do NOT do that.