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[Chief's Customs V.1]

Broken menu + lame music = *yawn*

Graphics: Nice vector warthog. Decent menu. Some interesting mods.

Style: Ehh, nothing spectacular. Music drags it down a notch. Hiding the menu doesn't actually hade the menu options, just the frame, so what's the point of hiding it? It's not like you get to look at your warthog all by itself, or anything.

Sound: I thought the music was lame. I'll admit it was thematically apropriate for a modding game, though, so I gave it a 5 instead of a 0. THANK GOD he put in a button to make it stop.

Violence: none.

Interactivity: Well if the menus made more sense, and if you could tell what clicking somewhere was actually gonna do before you clicked it, and if painting the car different colors made more sense instead of making it look like the whole car's gonna be red and then, all of a sudden, just the hood turns red when you confirm the color change, I wouldn't have any complaints about the controls. As it is, I guess my only complaint about the menu is that it is a broken piece of crap and desperately needs to be fixed. Other that that minor detail, the controls are great.

Humor: OMG the song is so FUNNY! He's trying to sound bad-ass by singing HIP-HOP! LOL!!! Hillarious!

Overall: This is the best broken mod game I've ever started to play and then realized it was broken.

the-disturbed responds:

HAHAHA! REading this just made me crack up!

Anyhow, thanks for pointing out the bugs to me. I'll fix em, and add more music into the game thats not rap (because flash was being a prick and wouldnt let me import any other fitting song).

Thanks,

~JC

[RaidenX]

Classic 2D action! Yay!

I was expecting to be disapointed, because most of the time on newgrounds 2D shooters end up being a ship on a boring star background while random enemies appear, and remakes of sprite games usually end up with borked control or leave out crucial elements. Not so with your game! :D You did in the loading screen what most flash authors barely do in an actual game, and I was delighted to discover a REAL 2D shoot 'em up here. YAY! Do Layer Section next! XD No, fuck that, DO GUNSTAR HEROES!

Graphics: A little lackluster, but they get the job done. Player ship looks nice. Backgrounds are kinda cheesey, but they load better I guess than if they'ed been sprite graphics. The visuals don't seem as refined as in the sprite game it's based off of, but they get the job done with vectors. Animated sequences look kinda cheesey. Explosions are the best I've ever seen using only gradient balls. Enemy shots are very nicely differentiated from other types of graphics, which was a problem I always had with the sprite games. Well, that and the flickery giant fireball explosions. You will never see a more awe-inspiring sight than the fully charged purple laser ricoheting between three targets while a small star shimmers at the nose of your ship.

Style: Full points. Everything design decision in this game tickles my fancy... Well, except for that tree on the title screen. If you're flying a plane that close to a tree, I'm sorry, you're already dead. But you've sucessfully captured everything that mad the 2D shooters of the 80's great. fleets of enemy ships, streams of enemy shots (thank God Flash slows down instead of skipping frames!) Shiny, happy anime music, clunky mechanical bosses and lots of meaty explosions. Again, props to the purple laser. There is nothing more stylish than the purple laser. :P

Sound: Perky 80's j-pop tunage, nice explosions. Were they ripped from the coin-op? Music cuts out halfway through the first level in space... is tyhat a bug? Incidental sound effects (player shots, enemy shots, explosions) are PERFECT, everything is nice and subtle except for an explosion. I wish more modern game designer could figure out that we don't want a loud BE-DOOW! BE-DOOW! playign throughout 90% of our game just because it happens to be the noise our phasers make.

Violence: Big go boom. Many, many big go boom. Happy.

Interactivity: 10 out of 10. Perfect, crisp, precise movement. Enemy shots travel slow enough that you actually feel like you have a fighting chance of weaving between them. This is something so many flash game authors scew up when making a top-down shooter, and I know you were imitating an old arcade game but still, good job pulling off the imitation. This is control that WORKS, plain and simple. Pure 2D gaming. Gotta love it.

Humor: None. It's a serious, if upbeat, 80's 2D shoot 'em up. Now go blow up some planes, dammit.

Overall: 10. This is not an objective rating. This is not a sum of its parts. This is Good gameplay + stuff I miss most in modern games = TEH PWNZED. Yes, it's a copy. No, there's no real innovation here. I'm not complaining. Seriously.

Do gunstar Heroes next!!! XD

Go0gley responds:

First of all, thanks for your nice and detailed review. Don't see a lot of these nowadays. :D

The backgrounds are kinda optimised because they'll slow down the game a lot - but I guess you're right about the animations. I should have spent more time on them, instead of just one week! Sorry for that tree on the title screen. I ran out of ideas of what to put there... =P

The background music will cut in 1 out of 15 chance during the space levels (due to intensive action - Flash disables some sounds to reduce demand on CPU). And maybe 1 in 30 chance on levels 3-5 but it only happened once during my alpha testing. All methods I used to stop this had failed, so it's something we have to put up with. :(

Once again, thanks for your lovely review! It's unbelievably hard to get these on Newgrounds and I appreciate every single one of them! ^ ^

[Super Mario Revived]

Great look-and-feel, mediocre gameplay.

Well, you can't run, you can't fight a chargin' chuck the way you expect to, and there's no powerups as far as I can tell. I would not have died nearly this much in Super Mario World, and the reason is the control is much less versitile. Still, it works, it's predictable, and at least it's good and tight.

Enemies you don't actually fight drift by in the background, providing great ambiance. There's plenty of room for improvement and I got bored partway through with 25 lives left, but it's a decent ammount of game for one flash file, and I hope the author tries soemthing more ambitious for his next project. :)

Sinterkaas responds:

Thanks for the review!

[Family Guy test1]

Glitches make this nice-looking quiz unplayable.

I messed up on round 1 a couple of times, and the music starts again and again each time you are dropped on the title screen. Too bad, because I like Family Guy and this has a nice, simple, clean style to it. Author needs to fix that overlapping music glitch, and maybe also add like a buzzer noise or a "WRONG!" screen just to let us know when we screwed up.

xXMEOWXx responds:

Sorry bout that i will get right on it