BlueMonday1984's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Losing Sense]

The opening was a bit frustrating, given my relentless blundering, but once I got past that (with help from the walkthrough) I enjoyed this quite a bit.
Loved how you slowly built up to the big revelation, and the suffocating atmosphere you made.

[Newgrounds Wii Art Collab]

My only complaint with this is that it takes an eternity to load.
Beyond that, this was an excellent collab, loaded to the brim with wonderful art.

Fantastically done, all of you!

AlexToolStudio responds:

Probably because there a lot of goodies on here

[Help Me Clean My Kitchen!]

Instructions unclear, destroyed humanity

Cute artstyle, and pretty clever gameplay - heavily reminds me of the Grow series.

[Mecha Dress Up Game]

You can never go wrong with cool robots, and this offers plenty of ways to make your own.

Plenty of cool parts (plus some cool references) give this little dress-up game *plenty* of charm, though going backwards through parts is a bit unintuitive (had to check the help page to find out it existed at all).

Background music also fucking slaps. I need to get into Stratovarius sometime...

(This feels a bit quaint looking back - little did you know this was your first step towards becoming a beloved indie dev. How time flies...)

[Fire Fields]

A neat little Pong clone, with a ballistic twist. Good to kill e few minutes, methinks.

[benny shooter game]

The gameplay itself is nothing special, but the controls are seriously borked. I kept moving by accident when I tried to fire. The lack of arrow-key controls did not help in the slightest.

bennyb48d responds:

added arrow keys good sir

[theSWARM_]

A pretty interesting top-down shooter. Whilst the camera did throw me off a bit, the real pain point for me were the shoot and speed up controls being so far apart. It also seems like I can't turn right and move backwards simultaneously - that seems like a bug.

0x0961h responds:

Thank you for playing the jam entry! :D Yeah, I didn't have enough time to make customisable controls, so they ended up being all over the place. :\

[Piece by Piece - WonderJam 2024]

A pretty creative mix of a jigsaw puzzle and a platformer. Took me a bit to work out how to connect pieces together, though - seems the puzzle pieces' hit-detection(?) is a bit wonky.

Psonbre responds:

Thanks for playing ! The connections can be a bit unintuitive, mostly because two pieces can never overlap. Basically if you try to connect a piece to another one you have to make sure there’s nothing under it that would me two unconnected pieces overlap

[Skibidi Scratch Cat]

Well, there's not much to praise/criticise here - just some stock Scratch sprites and text-to-speech slapped together into a quick-and-dirty shitpost based on Skibidi Toilet.

I'll admit, I didn't find this fun or interesting in the slightest. You want my advice, try making some pixel art for your next game - you clearly know what you're doing when it comes to pixel art, and it'd be interesting to see some spritework from you.

sammybrickmin responds:

Its not that serious lil bro

[Jingle Clicker]

Fairly entertaining, even if it gets pretty damn repetitive after a while.

Those "+X% of current karma" presents are a fucking GODSEND - those can get you an absolute shitload of karma pretty quickly. That also makes getting as many presents as possible your major goal in this.