BlueMonday1984's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[The Newgrounds Bug Collab]

A goddamn smorgasbord of adorable and awesome bug designs, all held together with an excellent throwback to Pokemon's first gen.

(Quite fitting, given Satoshi Tajiri's childhood bug collecting inspired the series.)

[Space Battle]

Basic idea was okay, but the complete lack of challenge meant this got old quickly.

I wrote this entire review whilst keeping the game running, and didn't struggle at all to keep the red balls at bay.

Playing this reminded me of -Red- (https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/341598) - I'd recommend playing that if you want some idea on how to improve this.

(Final score for this was 364, after I waited for an eternity to lose.)

Lovedogs2178 responds:

It will get harder. The harder version will be released at 7:00 AM EST on July 6, 2024. Thanks for the feedback!

[Danger Cube]

Basic idea was okay, but the physics felt jank as shit - ground movement felt like I was stuck in mud, whilst air movement felt difficult to control.

The falling cubes also had a bad tendency to feel just plain unfair.

Lovedogs2178 responds:

Sorry about the physics. The physics engine I used didn't work how I wanted it to... And the game was made to be hard.

[Colorful Runner]

Main major complaint is the inability to control your jump height, which makes platforming much harder than it should and makes the double jump into a major liability.

Another complaint's with the respawn system - respawning at a set location means its pretty much pure luck if you get to try another run after dying.

Got a high score of 20.6 seconds before giving up.

Wreaker404 responds:

Thanks for the tip, I'll try to make the jump height based on how long you press down or something.

You only got 20? Sounds like a skill issue, it's pretty easy to get over 100 if you're good at timing your double jumps.

[Playground 3.0]

A solid all-around platformer with an interesting premise.

Main complaint's the unskippable dialogue - it made restarts a lot more tedious than it should be.

Virhinic responds:

Updated the game and added a way to speed up the dialog (D/Right Arrow)

[Defuser]

A simple, but solid puzzler, sure to test your skills.

[Treadmillasaurus Rex]

Simple, skill-based (sorta) fast, frantic fun - all amped up with some high-intensity sonic euphoria from ZeRo BaSs.

Good luck getting those final medals, though - you're basically at the mercy of RNGesus with those ones.

[NGADM 2024 Brackets]

This'll be helpful to watch the Deathmatch.

AED4 responds:

Thanks! Something like this hasn't been done before for NGADM as far as I'm aware, so I'm interested to see how well this works :)

[Jumper (Ext.)]

A pretty damn solidly made Scratch platformer. Sure, I did encounter the occasional bug (one level spawned me inside level geometry, and the timer ended up freezing after I got two coins), but this was still pretty damn enjoyable.

Iwannakillguy responds:

Thx ;) I`ll fix that