sharpnova's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Swipe Kicker]

Very mouse unfriendly.

Also sports games are stupid.

[Nend.io: The Online Real Life Simulator Game]

what a poorly designed game. everything i do results in a red frowny face stat change.

uninteresting and not player empowering at all.

[Grave Greed]

uhm what the hell is with having no way to heal? so you get knocked down to 1 health early and then spend the rest of the game at 1 health. lol how STUPID.

enter to block? how STUPID?

first shield = god mode, upgrades make you take damage? how IDIOTIC.

[Viridian]

i feel a cardinal sin in platforming is making your character slide around on the ground as though they're on solid ice. you committed that sin here.

otherwise i did like it.

LVIStudios responds:

Thank you so much for your feedback! We've heard this from a lot of people, and so when we upload the updated version of the game, the platforming will feel crisper!

[Defend Your Castle (Full)]

the upkeep system is incredibly dumb. it shouldn't be going back in time to penalize you if you didn't have enough money when you were born to pay your rent in your 30's.

what a stupid idea.

this game is a classic so it gets a decent score. but the way xgen doubled down on that dumb upkeep system rather than listening to the players who are much smarter than the developers and fixing it so the upkeep is calculated at the end of the round (both cost and payment) cuts off a star. the other half star is because in the 15 years since they released it they could have added to it but chose not to. very bad form.

[Spini]

ridiculous hit boxes.

ridiculious UI that requires you to move your hand between the keyboard and mouse to play the game. (cardinal sin #1 of flash gaming that smart developers NEVER made)

annoying... text at the start of levels that you can't instantly spam off. you have to wait a fraction of a second before "any key" will clear it. makes pla ying tedious and cumbersome.

i don't care if this was from 6 years ago. flash was already dead even then. the lessons had been learned and you repeated all those old mistakes.

[CubeRunner V2 Eng]

just feels horrible. and it's way too small. why are NG kiddies uploading their games in such tiny windows?

Svetozark responds:

thanks for the feedback)

[Ruya DEMO]

a little slow for me. UI elements react too slowly and the tutorials are overbearing. let me figure out the mechanics myself. make the tutorial optional so bad players who don't like discovering things can voluntarily ruin games and intelligents like me can play them in a superior way.

MiracleTea responds:

Thanks for your critique! :) We might amp up the pace and responsiveness of everything. The pockets of time where players are waiting for the things to occur has been something we noticed that breaks immersion in testing. It's always been at the back of our minds.

Optional tutorial is also a good shout for those that feel it's a little too hand holdy. Tricky to keep a range of play styles happy but that's a decent solution. We'll see what we can do! :)

[CopyCat]

too short but very nice.

i don't like lunaticdancer's use of the 'juicy' term. i watched that dev talk where those developers coined the term but it sounds kind of gross and sexual. there could be a much better term and they never developed anything iconic enough to deserve to affect game dev vernacular.

[Labyrneath]

"it's real it's real and it's fantastic"