sharpnova's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Cargo Truck Racer]

you can barely move around or accelerate without the boxes flying out.

the point of the game is to not have the boxes fly out.

the core mechanic is moving around and accelerating.

see the problem here?

[Shadow Gauntlet]

what is a "shadow" from what i could tell it was some of the letters in the text in the first level...

and you randomly grapple while moving around, killing your flow.

the controls are terrible as is the screen view. it needs to zoom out more or pan up or something.

all around terrible.

VicBiss responds:

Shadows are all of the game objects that aren't you or the portal. Controls are definitely tough to get used to. Mainly you just want to click and hold if you are wanting to shoot, and then just change direction instead of tapping for precise movement. As for screen size, I considered zooming out more, but when you need to click on the pieces to grapple them, it makes it more difficult to do so. It's all a tough balancing act! Thanks for playing

[Maerl Bay]

doesn't make sense. i just go around randomly taking pictures of.. nothing. and then.. go up and bump into a picture near the boat and my % goes up.

cool

Kallen responds:

Thanks for playing anyway! There's a little tutorial on the main menu that explains what to do and why you're doing it, hope this helps!

[Tidying Up + Secrets of the Sewers]

why do i have to lift my hand off my keyboard and move it over to my mouse every single level?

this is one of the cardinal sins of web games.

edit: bumped my rating up to 3.5, since the authors didn't react defensively like most do here on NG when facing criticism.

Bleak-Creep responds:

We could probably add a key in for reading the dialogue tbf

[EnigmAttic]

why do i have to click back in the text field after each submission, my god.

[The Whicher]

i've been planning on replaying witcher 3 ever since the big graphical update but now i feel like i don't need to.

thanks for condensing absolutely every aspect and nuance of the original game into this 10/10 IGN GOTY Goated AAAA-quality masterpiece.

[CypherGrid]

don't call your game a picross game if it's going to be something with different, pretty random and annoying rules.

Yes.

You did.

picross is shown as a tag for this game. Authors set the tags.

Veinom responds:

I never called it picross. If anything, Rudy specifically says that it's not picross.

[Peaceful Night]

this is the undisputed red dead redemption 2 / breath of the wild / witcher 3 of games named peaceful night.

an absolute goat in the "peaceful night" genre

[Unidentified Fishing Organization]

kind of boring. and the upgrades do very little which makes progression very unsatisfying.

i barely ever felt like the fuel capacity upgrades did anything. i'm sure it did.. but i didn't feel less rushed whatsoever.

[Haunted Rooms]

nice game but i screamed louder and more forcefully when the ghost haunted each picture than i have in my entire life, waking up neighbors and getting in serious trouble.