Salamandre's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Demon's Revenge]

Great, just great. I specially love the sound. The music alone makes you feel alone, lost in this labyrinthe, and it really sounds like hell when there are lost of enemies and when you fight for your life. It is missing one thing : a reward for finishing a level deathless.

[Joeyquest]

really cool !!
I love the idea of two characters so different that you can fuse. You should use it more.

[Panic 30]

very fun and entertaining. Controls are good, hitboxes are dreadful . And there is a problem with bumpers : you sometimes jump way too high. Especially when you touch them form the side or form the bottom. I guess is is due to the number of frame you stay in contact with them. recovery frames maybe ?

[Click For Medals]

No, really. It does not work. one funny thing with those time killer games is when you have the feeling that it was as long to program the game than to play it. Here you have one sentence every 3000 clicks (5 minutes with my turbo gamepad). If you would tell us casual stories every 50clicks I would have the will to read the next one, and eventually get the next medal. But this game doesn't reach the goal to keep my brain focus to prevent him from thinking.

[Blue Pixel]

The big idea of the game is that a usual bug about controls that become the most important gameplay element. I like the idea.

BUT you have to lead the player to get it. The first level is already a challenge for whom didn't understand the gameplay. The first level should be a simple horizontal floor with the player at one side and the exit at the other end.
The second level should force you to jump.
Challenging levels should start after that.

It seams there is a story in your game. I didn't get it, make it more explicit.

[Video Game of Life]

Hi there,
Really cool game !! I got great fun finishing it.
Few thing to point out :
- level 19 a coin is hidden behind the "LEVEL 19" at the bottom left of the screen.
- the sound effect for collecting a coin occurs when the coin reaches the bottom left of the screen, which is weird and it annoyed me in the first place. Shouldn't it occur when you catch the coin ?
- I did all the levels in a row, and the game let me do the bonus levels without me having the 60 stars. Then I couldn't re-play the bonus levels from the menu before I collected the missing stars. Bug ?
- A final screen would be nice.

I like the music
gg

[River Walker]

This is a really big challenge to describe depression through a video game. This game is a very good try, yet could be improved.

[Trivial Trivia: Newgrounds (Classic)]

GODDAMNIT !!!!
Isn't it completely narcissistic ?
I "only' visit Newgrounds (how is it spelled ?) once a day, and according to the 20-80 law most of us does, so I don't have a clue to answer most of the questions. But knowing the answer would interest me. With a short explanation ? It would be Heaven.
This game is not bad as such, but THIS, compared to the rest of NEWgrounds (the spelling please), really sucks.

[Escape From Mystic Graveyard]

Lots of things to fix up to make this game a good game :
- First of all, the puzzles. When you find the answer by yourself before finding the inscription in the game it doesn't work. As an example the M.M.M on the gravestone : I found the code by myself (it was quite obvious) but it wouldn't work until I found the inscription on the ground wifing the grass. It is frustrating, illogical and destroys the immersion. This is not a key (you need to FIND a key), this is a code (you need to work it out by yourself). There are a lot of that : the nine skull heads (I found the solution before finding the paper), the three numbers on the bottom (although you can clearly see the code on the paper it won't work until you click the paper).

-Graphics : Colors are too bright, and the relevant things are hard to spot. As collecting bones and a skull are the key of a puzzle, you should get rid of all non-interactive bones and skulls of the screen.

Sound : The music doesn't match. Some sound effects would help.

Finished it in around 20 minutes. Was fun anyways.

[Drink Beer, Neglect Family]

Great ! Very funny nice Donkey Kong-like pixel art. And nice idea, I love it.

Just one thing: It would be great to have a icon in the top left corner that displays the current effect of alcohol. I am not a native english speaker and I had to stop playing at every beer to read the text line. You should put both the text line and the icon I think.

esayitch responds:

That's a pretty good idea. I had a thought to also add a pop-up that announced the effect as well, but this was a relatively short project that I gave too much time to begin with, so I opted out of "polish" improvements like that.