starrykid's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Steam Sales Sim. 2014]

I glitched Gabe in the wall some place and he hasn't came back yet. Did I win? Did i break the steam curse? Will I finally stop buying so many games? oh wait no never mind. Just got an update for another sale. Seriously though, What was the papers counter for? I hit just about every button and I didn't shoot anything or speed up or anything. Was there something I missed? Still a 3.5 star game from me for just the comedy of it.

Dylpex responds:

Thank you like I said before I really didn't try it was just an inside joke with me and my friends. Im glad you liked it.

[Simple Monster Hunter]

This would of been a pretty good game to play. Like the title says its simple, which isn't a bad thing. One of the main flaws i saw was that i couldn't equip anything i forged. i tried refreshing the page and all that i saw was that it did save it and that everything i forged was gone from the list of things you can forge. About saving, you could add a reset data button just to have some replay-ability. Sounds and music were good. Overall a pretty good game its just it could use something during the battle sequence like maybe a background or something. It's just the utmost biggest thing was the inability to equip your items you bought. keep it up though!

gd4219 responds:

starrykid , i'm sorry. i should be make a tutorial. In fact, you can equip your items. just click forged item banner again ,and them "forge button" already change to "equip button".

[Astroflux]

i cant see anything, its just all blurry i can kind of see whats going on by hovering my mouse over it but thats it.

FulaFisken responds:

This is usually a problem with NVIDIA graphic cards. Try to change to “fast” instead of “quality” in the NVIDIA setting. Hope it works!

[Spin]

not bad! its a new twist (no pun intended) on the standard bubble pop shoot game thing..i didnt quite get why the game area didnt spin a full 360 degrees but then i missed a shot and realized that you kinda took it to a whole new level. it really sucks when i have two+ balls in a row and one apears in the middle of them, most of the time when i shot a ball and its in mid air and hasnt hit the other two+yet. that was annoying. i get the laser but its iffy, it works pretty well sometimes and then others it lasts for like 2 seconds. the bomb ball upgrade works really well lol.im not sure what the nuke drop does, there was no item storage or item slots so i have no idea what the use for it would be. the music is good, is repetitive but not in a bad way. the metals need to be fixed i dont feel like playing this 100 times to get 0 points.im honestly not sure if i want to play this 100 times at all really..100 times? thats steep. but overall i think its good it needs some tweaks here and there but i think it should stay on ng's because it is original, and has nice replayability. goodjob, keep it up!

shadwstalkr responds:

Thanks!

Some of the medals were showing zero points because no one had unlocked them yet. I went ahead and unlocked them all myself so they display correctly.

The nuke drop does random bad stuff, like make the balls you shoot slower or make them stop bouncing off the walls. Item slots are a good idea, then you could see which powerups are active.

[Ice Run]

fun but repetitive. it just seems like its the same level type over and over, granted they're penguins so its going to be in the ice, but maybe add different elements to it such as ice traps or maybe water traps later on. The playability is good I could turn at every turn without hitting every wall (it was a little iffy on the sixth level) and getting the stars (yellow) wasn't any trouble because it seemed like any time your anywhere near them it would automatically pick them up. I'm not sure but when you pick up some stars they turn dark yellow, purple, and blue, if that gave you more points then that is amazing. Good choice to have random upgraded stars. The blue ones though you had to be right on them, i think that's the perfect set up with the yellow and blue stars. the take down score was new I've never seen this kind of game with a take down score. The ability to hit people and get hit was a good idea, its been done but its fine. Getting hit didn't seem to outrageous, like i wasn't getting hit every 3 seconds and when i did get it i could recover from it in a good amount of time. The penguin you were controlling was a little different at first because of the camo helmet or hairdo. The other characters or opponents were fairly cookie cutter opponents, except for the random black penguin. I didnt notice a pattern to if they switch or are added in. Thank you for putting in basic things such as a mute, and pause menu ive played countless games where they had neither and it drew away from a good score because of it. The music is pretty good. Its repetitive but its not annoying when its repeated over and over, its a nice tune for both the main menu and game play. Here's some things that i think would be beneficial if you added..

-Character select/design (maybe stats for select and for design maybe unlock-able clothes/boards)
-Simple controls but a different setup would be nice such as WASD keys or mouse with shooting the stars with a mouse click and to move it could be the space key. (mouse would complicated but challenging)
-More levels (the levels that were there were good enough but i think more levels would make the experience a little more long lasting-obviously lol-as long as they were more unique levels)
-Something needs to happen when you beat it. Nothing happened when i beat it. say the credits or how about you unlocked a new character and have it be an uber penguin so that way you have some re-playability or at least a thanks for playing or something

Overall it was a pretty good game. There's always room for improvement though. So keep up the good work! 4/5

P.S. When i was writing this the main menu music loop stopped. The sound was good and kept going. I personally don't have a problem with this but its the little things that count. So you can probably look into that.

rumblesushi responds:

Thanks a lot for the detailed feedback. Your ideas are solid and if the game gets enough worldwide plays to warrant a sequel, they are things we'd implement.

Mouse controls are something I've considered before actually, and I'll start work on a mouse control system for future games. If done right, it could be a very good substitute for an analog stick, allowing for more precise control than a keyboard can offer.

We made this as basically a test run of a Mario Kart style engine, in the hope of building upon it in the future, for a more involved game with more characters, more tracks and weapons.

Cheers,
Joe

[Fish And Destroy]

fun but replay-ability is limited.i liked how you introduced different enemies throughout the game. using the fish you ate was innovative. upgrades or maybe a new mode for some replay-ability would be awesome. music had a nice touch to the theme which was cool. good job, keep up the good work.

Bandana-Crew responds:

Thank you very much starrykid, this was a very helpful feedback, which we could definitely use to improve the game! And thanks of your compliments and great rate! Thanks again and good luck! : )

[Madness: Project Nexus (Classic)]

lag is ridiculous.. i cant really enjoy this game really with all the lag. i know it would be ALOT more fun if i could actually control my character. theres only 3 ppl on the screen and my char will just kind of go of on his own doing whatever. i love the game though plenty to do, plenty of weapons, action, ppl to kill, team mates are a good idea. great game overall but maybe add a change quality button?

Krinkels responds:

Did you try the Quality buttons in the Options screen?

[ZitS the Saviour - act1]

well..

i cant even play the game because when i load it it always goes to a certain point and stops, normally on the voices. i gave it a 7 because it has quite a good rep about it. if this gets fixed and its good ill 5/5 10/10 and fav it.

Xplored responds:

please try to update your flash player to the last version by adobe and then tell us with a PM if it's solved or not. Other ones solved it this way :-)

[Escape from ice mountain]

really good!

i found a few things that werent quite right though. 1. when you talk to anyone with your inventory open it will flash constantly in the background. 2. you cant look strait at the ice bars to get rid of them i think it was you needed to look away and then it worked. 3. when you go out of the kings room you dont end up at the right end of the the hall you end up at the left end of it. 4. i picked up the hook, and then the ductape and nothing was created. ive reset the game and did everything the walkthrough did and nothing worked. the game is a little short but thats ok it was fun for while it lasted. everything else that i didnt mention was really good like the graphics and the secret medal was a good one lol. id like to see #2 come out

MonoFlauta responds:

Because you still need the rod, look carefully the walktrough :) thanks anyway for the review :)

[4th High School Quiz]

well idk anything about greek but..

it is glitched. i have no idea what the answers are but i clicked on some of them got like a -9 score and then it wouldnt let me start over, or click another answer. oh and i really havent seen many high schools who offer greek as an elective.. but w/e.

DaKnOb responds:

Its not. Score can go minus on purpose. This High School is in Greece that why. You dont have a second chance on answering a question it moves to the next and it tells you the result in the end.