BlueMonday1984's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Puccio - The Tower Defender]

You made a real good call with that quick tutorial - I had a lot more fun playing this now that I knew what I was doing.

I initially started by dropping anvils on foes, but ended up switching to jumping on their heads instead - found it a lot more fun.

RichardOz responds:

Thank you very much! I'm glad these updates have made your experience with the game better!

[PUNCH OUT: TomFulp]

The lacking telegraphing on Fulp's punches and generally awkward, sluggish controls make beating Tom's ass a goddamn nightmare.

Its reportedly pretty easy if you can get knocked down before a round ends, which makes you invulnerable, but good luck pulling that off deliberately.

deathink responds:

tom does telegraph all his movies... you just have to be very observant. the easiest hint is he will wink before doing his KO special movie. I've seen people beat him without taking a hit

[They Live: The Game]

The awkward gameplay and weak-as-hell shotgun make this pretty difficult to get into, but I can still appreciate a nicely-made tribute to Rowdy.

deathink responds:

yeah, the thing is, I never meant this as an actual game. in my mind it was just fan art, like a "what if they live was a nes game". the fact that some people confuse it as a legitimate game is kind of flattering

[Da Best Gaem]

Between Nyan Cat being the main star, the bacon strip cursor, and the background appearances of Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Pedobear and Hitler (🎶two of these things are not like the others🎶), you can instantly date this to the first half of the 2010s. ESPECIALLY the frivolous use of Hitler - that comes off in pretty bad taste these days.

The basic gameplay's pretty fun, though - can't exactly go wrong with having the player bob and weave through obstacles.
Would've liked to have had an autofire for the lasers - holding down this mousepad is hell on my finger.

deathink responds:

Some extra context to this game is that I made thi sover a weekend-ish, and all the features came from a twitter post where I asked for suggestion for making the worst game ever made hahah
that why it is so random, like a fart button and an mlg horn... they both do almost nothing haha

[The Exterminator]

Simple, straightforward, roach-slaughtering fun. Does feel like those roaches have pretty finicky hitboxes, though - not sure why.

Visuals are pretty solid, being essentially a hybrid of 2600-era and NES-era graphics, and the gunfire/bomb SFX was nice and snappy.

deathink responds:

this was the first game I ever really made. I actually even got it sponsored. The hitboxes are real bad. Admittedly, I didn't know what I was doing, but I learned a real lot.

[Extranatural Matters: sewer work]

Simple, but pretty damn creepy. That jumpscare got me good whilst I was fucking with the valves, and the post-death eating sounds sounded seriously disgusting.

Dreadeam responds:

yeah unfortunately there are features that for some reason don't work. But I'm glad you liked it :D!!!

[Project Ruffy]

A pretty basic, but fun little platforming test. Main major bug I noticed is that shooting the crusher/sawblades injures Ruffy.

Funny how Flash is doing so well, in spite of its official death back in 2020.

MebroukTheCat responds:

I hope It'll be better in the official release of Ruffy the Shelline.

[Athena's steamworks]

Got a score of 34 first-time around.
Pretty basic, and the difficulty curve rises far too slow for my liking, but I still had a fair bit of fun.

Samburger360 responds:

Yeah, I made the difficulty increase every 10 points, but I can see that it's a bit slow 😅

[GrimeySmiley2 Snake!!]

I can appreciate using new and interesting ways to get your album out, but your album cover does *not* work as a background - looking at it gave me a headache whilst trying to play.

Slowsolid responds:

Was a 1 star really necessary though?