sharpnova's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Delver]

incoherent design.

fuel flies down rapidly even with all but last upgrade in it. don't know what the last upgrade does for it. i just know that i was so disappointed in how NOT empowering the fuel upgrades were that i lost any incentive to play.

but i will go play motherload. cuz this reminded me of the genre. and motherload actually knew how to do it properly.

Template88 responds:

Contrary to what you may think, the fuel upgrades are balanced out to match the depth of the game. You'll find it difficult/impossible to beat the game without upgrading. The fuel levels are pretty significantly spaced, so if you didnt feel a difference, perhaps it was because you were running out of money staying up near the surface? I think you prefer a slower paced version of digging game to this, the fuel runs out faster in this game because the game is much shorter than motherload 8V.

[Night Strike Infiltrators]

top notch. investigation initiated into anyone who rated below 3

Wolod responds:

Well, what can I say? Thanks :)

[Nymphiad]

underrated imo. i've submitted a report to investigate people who rated it low.

Wolod responds:

Thanks for your support.

[Gragyriss, Captor of Princesses]

I was excited when I saw this here with a Jan 20 upload date....

and yet you added nothing. Really a huge disappointment. You already got my high score on kong. Adding zero is what you get.

edit: alright I'll update to a 3.5 because it actually is a sick game. but damnit i hope that sequel doesn't take too long!

SnowRoadGames responds:

We are working on the sequel, okay?

[Mnémora: The Lenses of Galimán]

so just want to give you my limited experience:

at first i was compelled for sure.

third medallion i missed the jump for it and couldn't backtrack because the jump back up was too high. so it was a one-attempt type deal. that is when i was done.

nevermind. i finished it and it was good. but you need to fix that backtracking problem.

DavidMarchand responds:

Thank you for the feedback! We never really intended for the levels to be fully backtrackable, but you’re right that it might be better to never block backtracking right after failing a medallion jump. If it’s any consolation, you can retry any level from the Main menu, and the Extras menu tells you which levels you’re missing medallions from (and, medallions are saved right after you grab them, so no need to finish any level after you beat the game once). Just don’t expect anything fancy to happen if you 100% the game. It just shows you concept art from the movie and the game.

[Ultimo Games 2019 Gifts]

got all the medals but the last one.

UltimoGames responds:

look in other screens, you will find it!

[Neon Run!]

Shield obstructs the view considerably. The moving blocks don't look any different from the regular blocks. Some of the gaps are too small. Your low velocity is annoying at the start for jumps.

Later on the hitboxes are clearly badly tuned because I'm hitting things that I'm clearing with jumps every time.

Also music not slowing down when you pick up a slow object killed the atmosphere.

Also the view angle is terrible.

My top score was 67. I felt like that was probably good given that the difficulty is so badly tuned. Almost immediately having to react instantly to the next obstacle after each action is such bad design it should have been glaringly obvious to you before you launched this.

re: author's response. this isn't about making the game difficult. it's about the crappy lazy and badly designed WAY you made it difficult. no. your design decisions were not justified at all and i suspect you will reread my review and take the criticism better this time. learn from a superior mind teaching you something, kiddo.

stuthemoo responds:

I intended the game to be difficult. I think forcing the player to react quickly makes it much more exciting. Thanks for your feedback.

[Kill Bugs 2]

There's something wrong with your accuracy calculation.

I had 100% and I killed two with one shot and my accuracy didn't increase.

You have to be doing something weird and unfair for that to be the case. Either it's pretending it took me two shots to do what it actually only took me one shot to do. Or it's pretending I shot less targets than I actually shot.

response to author:

Two things:

1. thanks for the clarification. that makes sense.

2. I didn't mean to rate it 0. I must have forgotten to rate it or accidentally clicked the leftmost star thing. fixed it

hosani69 responds:

Hi there, Thanks for your interest on the game system. The accuracy cannot be more than 100%. I used three variables to calculate the score. number of kills. number of hits. and number of shots. the accuracy is calculated using the hits / shots. for example. if you killed three bugs in one shot, it will be shot=1, hit =1 , kill=3. I hope this explained the math behind the game.

I hope you can increase the rating you gave me :)

[Friday Night Death Slot]

came to play a platformer.

found a hectic thing that kept killing me cuz i wouldn't rush through fast enough.

it's like.. some developers just don't understand what makes games fun.

at all.

Despedite responds:

Sharpnova,

I'm sorry you didn't like FNDS - I'll keep it in mind for future projects. Anything in particular I should work towards? Thank you for playing anyways, and have a nice day!

[Selectorium]

the controls for changing your loadout were retarded. why didn't you make it the default? very unintuitive and resulted in several instances of me starting a level over with the previous loadout and having to annoyingly suicide because i forgot to hit left and enter to change my loadout. the default should just be the loadout selection or something. you wanted too few keys for input. and you sacrificed usability for that goal which was as bad design philosophy.

also your training for the clone was poor. up until the last level i was under the impression it was just an explosion. i didn't realize it was something you could control.

i beat your game. but mostly out of spite. and you should not be aiming for that.

StuffedWombat responds:

"why didn't you make it the default?"
because sometimes you want to retry with the same loadout.

"the default should just be the loadout selection or somethin"
that would create the new problems of having to enter your loadout a lot of time if you miss a jump.

"also your training for the clone was poor."
this is 100% true

"i beat your game. but mostly out of spite. and you should not be aiming for that."
You do not get to tell me what I should be aiming for ;D