sharpnova's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[400 Years]

awesome. genius idea. beautifully done.

[Bodiless]

this is frustrating in a not-fun-at-all way.

[Myosotis Chapter 3]

this felt more like an interlude between the previous and next game than an actual sequel. you should have called it myosotis 2*10^0 + 5*10^(-1)

[Orborun]

pretty much great across the board.

i subtracted a star because your advertisement to "support" you or w/e kept popping up and i'd have to move my hand from the keyboard to the mouse to close it. (i tried hitting 'r' to reload the level but it would just keep reloading that ad)

this killed immersion and made death a nuisance.

Invenis responds:

ESC works well to close the popup ;)

[Retro Pixel Racers]

oh.. my.. god..

the stupid physics when you hit a wall or a car.

oh.. my.. god..

blam.. this.. TRASH.

[Vortex Point]

remember when ichigo went full hollow form against ulquiorra and like swung his sword and it destroyed the landscape behind him.

this game was so boring i yawned and the yawn had that same destructive force and destroyed my whole apartment.

[Anodyne Demo]

i usually do running reviews where i list all the issues in a game one by one and then the author has a (usually complete) list of all the problems/issues/design flaws. then when the author takes my advice verbatim, their game becomes immensely successful.

but it seems like you did nearly everything right here. just one minor hiccup i noticed so far.

when you step on a checkpoint and hit 'c' it says "saving..." but never gives any feedback to let you know that your progress is saved. this is somewhat awkward and clunky. one is left to assume. but some might assume that it doesn't say "saved" because it didn't properly save due to some browser/flash setting.

Seagaia responds:

have you made a game before?

[Adam]

This concept is ripped from a science fiction short story. I'd have to dig through some of my anthologies to find out the name. But it was definitely ripped off from that story.

In that story someone bounces forward and backward in time building up temporal energy from temporal friction. At the end he finds himself at the beginning of everything and realizes that the ridiculous amounts of energy he'd built up would cause him to explode and actually "be" the origin of the universe.

I enjoyed this game, though it was very short. I won't count off stars for blatantly ripping the idea from a story and not giving credit because the game itself was still solid.

MaTX responds:

I have actually never heard about that story! I would love to read it if it's possible, because it shares incredible similarities with our idea. Any chance you could send me a private message with the title?
Thanks!

[Psychic Arrow]

i can't figure out why this is rated 4 stars. this is terrible. the graphics are unpleasant.. the upgrades monotonous. the gameplay pretty nonexistant.

i kept looking for some reason to give it a good rating and in the end had wasted a bunch of bored time guiding an arrow to hit everything on the screen.

UknownXL responds:

I kept waiting for an immature post and I just found it. Luckily it seems that most of Newgrounds have evolved and know what a fun game is unlike yourself. I am glad to see that every post (with the exception of this gibberish) has been overwhelmingly positive and everyone enjoys the game.