Jeromia's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Field Forces]

It was a decent Shooting experience. And it surprised me that you managed to pull of a 3-D shooter with only using Flash! In any case, the only problem your game lacked was immersion. For one, the player's enemies didn't respond to you shooting them well, i.e. they simply stood still as you kept shooting them unless you are in their point of view.

The fact that you didn't give the players more "lives" so to speak shows that you decided to use a traditional arcade platform, which is a game that is incredibly hard to beat. This was used back in the days to make people pay more money if they want to beat the game. However, keep in mind of your target audience, i.e. Newgrounders, a group of people whom are bored and want to look for some fun games/movies to pass the time.

Finally, the controls where kinda boggy as it wasn't sensitive enough for my tastes. If you want to release another first-person shooter, I'd recommend looking into adding an option menu with the ability to change the sensitivity.

However, all that said, you've done a decent job. The textures of the backgrounds and characters are decent (considering that it's flash) and the sounds are alright.

I'd give it a 3/5...
Decent effort

[Renga Samurai]

:O I can't believe one of my song was used in a game :D I'm quite ecstatic about it and it raised my spirits a little bit so thanks guys :D

Now on the subject of the game, I honestly liked the idea, and had fun playing the game. It was quite enjoyable. The only thing I would have liked to see is an option to rotate the blocks around... but then again that would made it a fair bit too easy wouldn't it? -.-"

josh-tamugaia responds:

u r welcome!

[Psychic Arrow]

I... I shot the king in the crotch...

I feel kinda odd about it xD

[Elf Story]

The animation and style of the game was great! I enjoyed that part heaps! (the music was annoying, but I can take any sort of music soooo >_>)

Anyways, when I played through the game, at first I thought it was incredibly challenging, got angry quick and left the game for a bit (especially at the ogre boss). But after looking through the reviews, I realized the point is to click at the guy's head after dodging (and to doge A LOT!), but even then it's incredibly difficult to beat the guy.

For the people whom are stuck in that part, it's supposed to be extremely hard. The idea is the same as the NES games... give the player a hard challenge that will make it greatly rewarding to kill the boss.

Anyways, after killing the ogre (and yelling some profanities at it's corpse) I felt good... but it took way too long to get there.

Vote: 4
Review: 4
Things to improve on:
~ Walking cycle - it's too awkard
~ Indication of controls - players need to think outside the box quite a lot to figure them out

Just remember, if the player doesn't know what's going on, putting challenges in their face will only frustrate them... but if you give them a BASIC idea of what to do (maybe by saying at some point "Hey see those arrows? You have to click over there to dodge!") players will be more happy to try and try again until you beat the boss (hence why NES games, despite the challenges, got people hooked)

Anyways, awesome game man :D

mexipino responds:

Thanks for your review Jeromia. I'll definitely keep those things in mind while working on the sequel. Thanks for playing!

[DJManiax]

For those having trouble with using the keyboard, the best way to play with those controls is to think of it as a piano:
Pinky on numbers, rink finger below numbers, middle finger on the "asdf" line, index finger on the line above the spacebar and the thumb on the spacebar.

It's wayyy easier for people like me to play it once you know this XD

[Caesar's Day Off]

Very amusing XD
Awesomely done :D

[Game Corp]

An extremely addicting game. Well done.

[Skincraft]

This... this got 7 million views?
And it's a thingy that makes skins?
That's a bloody incredible achievement if you ask me :O

[Spiral Knights]

Honest to god, these MMO games that are coming up in Newgrounds aren't affecting the site badly at all. In fact, I'd argue it makes Newgrounds even better.

Not only does these sorts of games give revenue to Newgrounds (obviously because they pay Newgrounds ad revenue for every person whom logs in via Newgrounds[?]) but also the fact that you can find neat little MMOs through newgrounds makes this site even more awesome then the awesome it already had in it.

On the actual game, I think it's neat. There is an obvious amount of effort put into it (the graphics are cute :3 ... and I love the defualt costume design >:3 ). The only troublsome thing about it is that you need to download Java and the game itself before you can install it; not to mention the fact that you also have to play it outside of Newgrounds.

The missions are okay in my opinion but I would rather being able to SOLO during missions. I don't want to have another dude pulling me back, or pressing me to keep going despite the fact that I would rather want to collect extra items. I believe you should allow players to go on missions on their own.

Otherwise it's a neat game. I would recommend it to the casual gamer for a little spin.