sharpnova's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Blocky's Escape]

fun and polished.

very easy but I wasn't in the mood for super hard anyway so it hit the spot

imperiousinteractive responds:

Thank you!

[Alone in the Madness (pt.01)]

Terrible. You really think frantically clicking blue regions on the screen... in the hopes that you're not a nanosecond late is fun?

Honestly I would give it a decent score if the art wasn't just..

the

same

old

madness crap.

I never found the art, theme, gameplay, anything of madness stuff remotely appealing.

It's just a NG circle jerk thing.

Djjaner responds:

Thanks for review.

[Contradiction]

Could you please put up a blog post describing the technical details you used to get the CRT effect?

Or if possible the project files for the raw CRT aspect.

I want to use this effect for a game really badly

Pipeweed responds:

I use Construct 2 to produce games and there are html5 effects that i can apply to the whole scene, i use bulge and scan lines to produce this simple CRT mode :)

[Naked Man]

game design philosophy. a treatise on the obvious by sharpnova.

chapter 1: player training

above all, penalize the player just starting out in your game for experimenting by killing them and sending them all the way back to the beginning.

[Death Arena Reality Show]

Game is fun and well designed.

The voice acting sounds incredibly Jewish. Nothing against Jews but I don't like that type of voice at all. Its grating.

It's a lot of stars to take off for just one thing but it was pervasive.

[The Last Samurai]

Really has potential but why the terrible controls? Why couldn't you just let us use Z,X + arrows?

Space + X is idiotic.

[Donald Trump Pinball]

Ball moves too quickly and there is too much of a delay on hits from the paddles.

Also... there just isn't much going on in the machine.

You should look at some of the better pinball games.

If you just wanted to make a Donald Trump soundboard.. why make a bad game that is too noisy to even hear him talk while you're playing?

Ball moves far too fast. Not fun.

[Dandy Cave Adventures]

No. Absolutely not.

I like a challenge as much as any hardcore platformer.

But the player moves around too quickly for this to be fun. I got pretty far and could definitely have beat it, but not fun at all.

1/1 star art
.5/1 star music
.5/1 star sound fx
1 star handling
.5/.5 star no bugs

[Trinitas]

grows boring very quickly. polished but lacking something to make me keep wanting to play through the 2nd campaign

[They Live: The Game]

judging from the other reviews, I must be doing something wrong.

I'm completely unable to survive the first wave.

They kill me in two hits... and I only rarely hit them. Occasionally it's a headshot, usually it's a complete miss despite always lining the gun up with the enemy or lining my feet up with their feet. Never can tell with brawler geometry. (i hate brawlers)