sharpnova's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Time to Strike]

the tutorial was enough to tel lme i wouldn't enjoy this game. i fired 3+ entire clips of bullets into an enemy and it didn't kill it. literally only a melee attack would kill it. so if bullets do something like 1% the damage of melee, what's the point of even having them?

re author: then please god give a quick, easy, and obvious way to skip the tutorial. i absolutely hate forced tutorials. and i generally dislike tutorials in general. players should be trained organically. can you imagine classic masterpieces like portal 2 with a tutorial that wasn't just a shallow learning curve integrated with the story? yeah. i can't either.

Ravernt responds:

It's a tutorial thingy. You need to execute requested actions to proceed (enemies are invincible in tutorial). In actual run bullets do normal damage.

[1-Bit Explorer]

spammed enter about 50 times. dialog was still going.

nice music. wish the game ever started though

Fiddleling responds:

Haha sorry to hear that! Sometimes long dialogs might turn some people off some games, I understand! Will take the suggestion to heart on new projects! Thanks for giving it a chance! :)

[Home 15 Min Experience!]

uh. why does the guy keep saying "this is the part where you're supposed to hit me (arrow left)"?

i hit left a dozen times. it makes the little bars move towards the center... and i hit left again when they're at the center.

i think this game is completely broken.

SquishY-Bottom responds:

I havn't had any other complaints about this issue, I suggest giving it another try and seeing if it persists. I appreciate your feed back.

[Hauling Ass]

the button inputs should flash up with a specific frequency and only register one input per cycle.

as it is, it's just annoying. and the only reason anyone has upvoted this is as a joke.

Fish125 responds:

True!

[Bleek]

satisfying/fun but i don't like how enemies can spawn right on top of you.

FodderLabs responds:

Thanks for playing the game!

Oh, was it the Sorcerer or the Demon Mask that was spawning on top of you? Or both?

I'll take a look into the code and see if I can tweak it slightly.

Thanks for the feedback!

[Sofia the Witch Curse of the Monster Moon - Demo]

was there a LD themed "bad controls" or something? every game on the front page has terrible awkward annoying controls right now.

this game has an aesthetic that tells me i should love it. and then 'z' and 'x' are never what you think they are in terms of interacting with the game. it's ALWAYS a matter of hitting one of them. regretting it (maybe having to sit through a bunch of dialog yet again with some npc i've already talked to) and then trying the other key.

once i got used to that and the annoying 's' to switch modes which up until then had confused the hell out of me because i thought i had an offensive spell, not just a bubble generator, then i was able to enjoy the game.

do not make the jump button also the button to get spammed with annoying dialog.

jakemacher responds:

I apologize for the keyboard controls. They are the built in settings for the game engine I'm using. It really is designed to be used on actual hardware, that's why there are only 2 buttons to work with. I can look at maybe adding a skip dialog option.

There are 2 spells that you acquire in the first level. Hitting down instantly swaps between the 2, with the main character changing colour as well to give you a nice visual of what spell is active.

Thanks for the feedback.

[Fall from Space]

why would enter satisfy "press start" but not selecting a menu option?

JoelJGames responds:

That's a good point! I think it's mainly due to the game engine I've built this in, the menu is made with dialogue boxes and dialogue boxes have set controls, one of the A/B buttons to cancel, one to progress to the next dialogue options. So I'm not sure if/how I can change that, I'll have a look into it though and see if there's a way

[Ruby & Rusty Save the Crows]

this makes ori and the will of the wisps look like back door metroid 5

maxoakland responds:

I don't know what that means

[Rewound]

music not working. level 10 impossible. tried several approaches and have extremely high platforming skill. there is no method that works.

HelperWesley responds:

We never added any music to the levels, it's just sound effects and the musical jingle at the end of each level.

The trick to lvl 10 is to try and stay to the right as you fall and place the checkpoint as close to the stairs as possible, then to start jumping as soon as you spawn at the checkpoint. If you fall down to the bottom floor you can't get out of it.

Hope that helps beat it. 👍

[Quantron's Game]

i hit the key to control the ai partner and it just made an exclamation mark come out of my head and i wasn't able to use the player 2 controls, despite the author description claiming that's how it worked.

what a huge oversight. practically half of the game doesn't work and you released this game?

ImmanentDeath responds:

I just want to clarify for anyone else who might be confused. In singleplayer, you don't control the other player character, Sleeper. They have an AI, so they'll act on their own.

When you press S, you're telling them to stop following you and stay put. As of v1.0.2, it's the reverse if you're dead and Sleeper isn't, and Sleeper will wait unless you tell them to move forward (I found it's easier that way, to communicate to them or to respawn yourself).

Sleeper won't always listen. And they're going to do something dumb quite a lot. I list that in the known bugs because there's some things I wish they wouldn't do. Sleeper is supposed to feel like another player who's bad at the game, and you're having to cooperate with them. They're my stand-in for a real player 2.

I hope I'm not coming off as pretentious, I'm just trying to explain my intentions with the game design.