sharpnova's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Peter's Quest]

spent a solid minute clicking everything and hitting every key possible until i noticed in the tiny little text in the game designed for people playing on 320x240 displays that you wanted me to equip some stupid item before letting me play

i HATE tutorials. they're condescending and boring.

let players explore and learn mechanics organically.

plus you commit that annoying cardinal sin of forcing the player to move their hand between the mouse and keyboard. why? how did that not occur to you as kinetically cacophonous during testing?

7henderGames responds:

my purple dick goes doot doot!!

[Piece by Piece]

great game.

few suggestions:

1. don't reset us when we die. give us something so that our progress wasn't for nothing

2. zoom out as our ship becomes bigger

3. let us sell components. if you just fill out your starting slots you're screwed.

4. get rid of the extenders that just eat up one slot and give you one slot. they are completely pointless.

5. add the tag: shmupgrade. that describes this genre perfectly and is a term i invented.

edit: thanks for responding. love this game

YaenGames responds:

Thanks for the suggestions!

1. Meta progression would be really cool for a game like this. Within the constraints of only having 4 hours per person to work on this, we had to cut some corners, but for a full release, that would be the way to go for sure!

2. This is actually the case already. The camera zooms out when you add size modules.

3. This is a much requested feature and I think you're right. That, with some tradeoff, would make the game better.

4. I agree that they feel a bit useless in most cases right now. I think we should have added a slot on the corners / in the middle of the pipes.

5. I have added the tag! :D

[Frogeiner]

eh. very first road, the second lane with the red cars is unpassable. how dumb.

FriendlyLlama responds:

do you really think I'd make it unpassable? 😂 try getting between the car's wheels

[Hen in the Foxhouse 2.1]

fun, good art and sound. music is meh.

gameplay loop is bland.

overall, if you added upgrades and cleaned up the story a bit it could be awesome

VerilyFine responds:

Thanks for the feedback, I plan on continuing to fix and add things.

[LeviRamirez NFT Generator]

the circlejerk side of NG is so cringey. but i recognize it needs to persist so that the website doesn't die so.. i guess proceed.

MrKaktus81 responds:

This is literally a joke game for someones birthday, they basically brought down the concept of NFTs to what it really is. A huge joke.

[GOMBI-ACTION]

not a fan of the controls. either adopt a z/x control scheme or don't. don't have part of your controls (firing) be tied to a z/x design and another intimately related part (jumping) be completely different (space bar)

i don't even get what you were thinking with that.

re author: waifu jokes. check. mcdonald's physique. check.

Just-a-ng-dummy responds:

Sorry I was busy eating a Mcdonald's meal. Yeah yeah z/x is more common and better, and sure I might add it. Now if you will excuse me I will go and do the nae nae to senpai fnf week 6

[Forest Shack ( Prototype )]

just because you developed this on a 640x480 resolution monitor doesn't mean you need to make it everyone else's problem.

Template88 responds:

i agree the ratio _is_ retarded. also fuck off and die.

[Teleport Tower]

without any way to see where your portal is going to appear before you release the mouse, this is a very frustrating game and an extremely bad implementation of your core idea.

re author/artist who responded: git gud at game dev. because you aren't. and i didn't say it was too hard. i said it was badly designed and frustrating. difficulty is something else entirely. it's something a good game dev (which you aren't) would understand.

lmao. rekt.

EvanMMO responds:

git gud

[Madville]

You blocked this from working externally... so now it won't be preserved by NG's external player?

That is absolute greed and disgustingness.

re: author:

The error literally says:

"UNAUTHORIZED GAME! tHIS SITE BLOCKED OUTGOING LINKS IN THIS GAME... ETC. and then tells you to visit gamedistribution.com"

So yes. You blocked this from working externally. And you did so by allowing this site locking to be part of your game's engine.

Even if that wasn't your explicit intent, you still did it.

UmutDervis responds:

Hello, dev here. This is ridiculous and false. I wrote an answer to this absurd claim, you can read it in the description now.

edit: You didn't even read or understand what I wrote, did you? Do you send this kind of messages to website owners when google shows you a message when you have no connection, too?

Also here is Tom Fulp's message about this, owner of Newgrounds, confirming what I wrote above:
https://twitter.com/TomFulp/status/1564266409533865984

[CryptoCoaster]

don't like this at all.

it's a nice idea, executed terribly.

0x6a61686e responds:

thx