BlueMonday1984's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Scary Scuffle 3D]

Quick heads-up - this game's broken on Librewolf/Firefox. Starting a match in the single-player version causes the title screen to cover-up the gameplay. There's also some performance issues.

Still had a fair bit of fun after switching to Chrome, though.

Happy Halloween!

DaemonPlus responds:

Thanks for letting me know. That's a strange bug, even more so since I also only use Firefox too. lol I'll have to do more testing. Performance wise, I'm curious about your CPU/GPU/OS, if you don't mind sending that! Disabling the CRT effect and fiddling with other options might improve it in the mean time. :)

[HALLOWEEN HUSTLE!]

Short, but sweet, and a spectacular showcase of what Scratch can do.

Using space to fire on the ant minigame was kinda awkward, and the lack of a cutscene skip option was mildly frustrating, but that's my only real complaints.

Happy Halloween!

brwler responds:

Cutscene skip will come in the first patch, was one of the things I had to cut in order to get the game out on time! :'( Thank you for playing though, and Happy Halloween!

[Memory.exe]

Short, sweet, and simply magical. A finely-crafted metroidvania, paired with impressive puzzles, and capped off a beautiful ending sequence.

Finished my playthrough in 87754 frames, and it was worth every single one.

squidly responds:

Ahh it’s so amazing to see people appreciate this game after so long. Especially enjoying that ending sequence… it really has been so long!

[Pico Radio]

Well, this has certainly felt the passage of time (the art feature's almost certainly busted), but when you've got a playable playlist of a wide variety of bangers straight outta the Audio Portal, all wrapped up in a pretty neat package like this, that's easy to look past.

deathink responds:

Newgrounds changed the way it handled images a few years back that broke the function... but that was just a fun after thought. the read deal is the radio. such great music this community makes

[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.