sharpnova's game Reviews on Newgrounds

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another, essentially flawless, game by this guy

[A Hollow Heartbeat]

wow this game is bussin'

[Juurru]

glorious and perfect

[SilkSong Demake]

too difficult imo. and i ravaged hollow knight without too much difficulty.

still a very nice presentation though

[Nyghtmare: The Ninth King]

this is fantastic. literally my only complaint is your explanation of the controls in the description. what an absolute cacophony of words and controls that could be so much shorter and simpler.

WASD - movement
J - attack
K - jump
L - shoot
down+K - slide

that's it. not all the dumb alternate controls which just confuse things. besides half of those "alternate" controls don't actually work.

regardless this is a great castlevania.

but remove the metroidvania tag. this is not a metroidvania. it's a legit castlevania.

Elv13s responds:

those were for the gameboy console that is why its A,B,Start,Select etc. I changed it, hope this clarifies the controls more, thanks

[Bore of Time]

black screen. using chrome. please stop responding to people as though this isn't an issue that is affecting lots of people.

re: ok so now it works. congratulations. why was it submitted before working in the first place? nevermind. so now you have us use arrow keys but we have to click to restart? so we have to move our hand between keyboard and mouse? why not wasd + mouse.. or how about arrows/wasd + something other than mouse?

amidos2006 responds:

I added space to restart :) Sorry about that :)
I was trying to submit to a game jam so there was a lot of stuff that was from older version of the game and didn't have time to change before submission.

[Fat Fish Aquarium]

needs an idle upgrade.

re author: that would be multiplicatively bussin' and tremulously cute af

Ant responds:

Hmm I might have an idea for this
I could ad a wind-up robo fish that drops food that you could buy, what would you think of that?

Edit: It's updated, feel free to take a look!

[Complot]

i liked it. great design. i don't understand why it's in black and white though.

the atmosphere and black and white don't really mix. this isn't noire or whatever.

[Glash: From Cinder To Cinderella]

everything was great except that i never used anything but the fully charged, omnidirectional attack. and i assume most others did the same.

[Octillery VS. Collection]

could there possibly be more menus/text windows to click through to get to the actual game?

sorry. it's not that rpg maker games are inherently bad. it's just that just about everything that engine can do has been done a million times before. so if you're going to use it, you need a certain level of creativity and polish in order to stand out. such a level of skill begs you to use a better engine and make something else.

but the real nail in the coffin for me was the excessive number of menus and screens. i think i selected some kind of "play" option 3 or 4 times before the game actually started.

re tewm:

No. Identity is a negotiation between oneself and their family/friends/community/society/world. Insisting on ones own identity by fiat is a recipe for pushback. And that just ends up being part of the negotiation. I get that you're joking and trying to use the review response space to spam and troll, but I can tell you really believe it so I'm happy to shut that line of thinking on your part down as well :)

Vidyabatter responds:

i dont think having to press a button a few times really warrants a 0 star rating, lol. if that really sucks away all your precious free time then literally just use the fast forward feature, by holding F or G. you don't seem to care about reading the dialogue anyway lol. i am aware that this doesn't stand out very much, it doesn't need to. i made this out of passion, not for attention. i get the feeling you only played 1 game in the collection for a few minutes until you like died and got a game over or something. lol