sharpnova's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Tidying Up + Secrets of the Sewers]

why do i have to lift my hand off my keyboard and move it over to my mouse every single level?

this is one of the cardinal sins of web games.

edit: bumped my rating up to 3.5, since the authors didn't react defensively like most do here on NG when facing criticism.

Bleak-Creep responds:

We could probably add a key in for reading the dialogue tbf

[CypherGrid]

don't call your game a picross game if it's going to be something with different, pretty random and annoying rules.

Yes.

You did.

picross is shown as a tag for this game. Authors set the tags.

Veinom responds:

I never called it picross. If anything, Rudy specifically says that it's not picross.

[Pixel Dash 2]

perfect execution on this mechanic. good job

blit-blat responds:

Thanks! <3

[Recontra]

this game took about 20 minutes to load.

i guess my 1 gigabit connection just isn't enough.

streq responds:

Newgrounds confirmed it's a hosting issue on their end, in the meantime the game loads fine here https://streq.itch.io/recontra

[TrashKitty]

potential to be great. but so damn tedious. i hate how slow moving around is because of the need to hold down keys to jump farther.

MadNukin responds:

You can hold down the hop button in air to generate power and release it when the trashcan touches the floor (or a little bit before that).

[FulpWare CLICKER]

this is an incremental masterpiece on the level of antimatter dimensions / synergism / crank / cookie clicker / etc. etc. etc.

TappyWara responds:

are you a real girl irl...

[Unprofessional Mischief]

i really like the art/aesthetic. very hotline miami'ish

was that your main inspiration or just one of the main ones?

also, overheating on a vertical shmup is an interesting take. i don't think i've seen that before.

re dev: huh? wtf are you talking about. obviously you know what hotline miami is.

factzmachine responds:

it wasn’t my inspiration bc I did like one thing and I have no idea what Hotline Miami is lol!!!

[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!