sharpnova's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Anita's Camp]

The puzzle for the first box was overly abstruse.

[The Great Biohazard Escape]

similar to scriptwelder's style

[Blue Knight -]

One of the all-time classics.

Atmosphere 10/10

[The Shovel]

The footstep noises were so jarring and annoying.

The animation of the character looked like a flailing tube man.

The art and ambient noise were good.

I didn't get very far because of the first two gripes.

[Dead Detention 2 #6]

0/5 game.

i'm sure it's a nice graphic novel.. but this was submitted as a game.

JackAstral responds:

Mhmmm

[Abyssal Dream]

Yeah I... have no clue how to shape shift and I've tried every key combination.

So this game is really stupid

esayitch responds:

Did you press D to see the combinations?

Did you unlock any shapes? You can't shapeshift if you haven't unlocked any shapes!

[Zenge : Starborn]

Excellent. Just the right difficulty. Looks and sounds great. You have been rewarded with my five, which means more than most. I'm one of the more intelligent people here.

chomi3 responds:

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[Afraid]

The jumpscare is good but delivering it to us by pretending there's some kind of puzzle to solve or way to progress in the first area is cheap.

You can't do anything but look at doors to make them close. Nothing else is interactible.

tirsod2000 responds:

Well I have to say you are right.

Good thing this is the last game of it's type.

[Desperate Defender]

Three upgrades for the pistol:

damage
fire rate

and... bullet??

Why not explain what that means.

[Final Light]

A lot of text to read. I feel that this type of player training is disrespectful to the player.

There is always an organic way to train the player.

Smaller levels with fewer elements at first.

A game like this could easily be taught without a single word. And the player would enjoy it massively more for not having to read so much.

The best and smartest players hate reading the most. Because it doesn't allow them to use their brains and figure things out for themselves. In general, reading allows the brain to shut off, like watching a movie, and not have to think for itself or solve any problems.

Also... oh these good old days when flash authors didn't even allow movement to be WASD