starrykid's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Pumpkin Hordes]

Awesome! This was lots of fun! The visuals look amazing. You can even see the texture in the players fingernails. Game play is really fun. If that dot is on that pumpkin then it hits. Distance and moving targets are taken into consideration, which is a very nice touch. I also hear some CS sounds when the guns are firing and reloading, nice lol. I only have a few minor issues with it. There is no mute button in the game itself. The only pause button is the escape button (not a bad thing), and there is no way to get back to the main menu without refreshing the browser. In the main menu options there is no full screen screen. I tried alt+enter and nothing. Full screen is something to look into, especially Unity was used. You specified that the rifle was a semi-automatic rifle, but the rifle used in the suburbs was a bolt action rifle that just shot semi-automatic. I got a laugh out of shooting a bolt action over and over with out chambering a new round though. One more thing is that when you sit at the main menu for too long the pumpkin heads dance their way around the screen. The left one will dance itself across the menu and eventually glitch into the screen, while the right one will disappear off the screen. Other than that I think this is a great game! Audio works pretty well with the game and all menu buttons work (I highly suggest you change the link buttons to an external tab/page. Clicking the link and having it go to that page on this page is a bit annoying because then we have to go back and restart loading). Keep it up!

P.s. Found a glitch when writing this. When you hit the escape button while its in the slow-mo mode after hitting something the game will freeze.

[Super Platforming Boy]

why? Did you test this "game" out before submitting it? There's one action, which is to jump. Other than that there's nothing. When clicked out of the screen the game pauses, but not the timer. The character moves on his own. The text at the bottom right of the screen makes me worry a bit "For educational use only". Everything looks like its drawn with crayon. Now I don't mind alternative drawing styles in games. I enjoy it in fact, but this looks like it was scribbled. If the game had good game play, or any at all, how it looks shouldn't make a huge difference. I guess as long as it looks presentable. All you have to do is fix the game and re-upload it and you will get a lot better score out of me.

Master109 responds:

I'm sorry to hear that you didn't enjoy my game. I am now considering whether to change the art, and will definitely look into how to erase the "For educational use only".

I also experienced the glitch with the player moving automatically. As soon as I reloaded the web page the game worked fine. I have a theory that clicking on the game while it's loading might sometimes cause the problem.

[Barons Gate 2]

Well I did rate this a pretty good score until I found a glitch. I have no idea what I did but I broke it. I was on level 2 and I Just killed the second skeleton on the rocks then destroyed the boxes and then nothing. It zoomed out, held the screen where you started and I heard the character running on the left side of the screen. I hit restart and then started again, but it did the same thing in a different part. I tried it over and over just so I could maybe finish the level but I can't. I restarted the browser and I got quite a bit further in the level but still did the same thing. I really want to like this game. It has so much to offer as far as I can tell. If its fixed I will more than gladly give this an a lot better review.

[Dame Celeste]

Major glitch! I played around for a bit looking at everything, and I went to see what happens when you get caught by the guard. Well after I got caught I got sent back to the tunnel. Celeste climbed out of the tunnel and then nothing. I couldn't move, I couldn't use the menu, no escape, nothing. I tried clicking inside the screen because when you click outside of the screen it pauses, nothing happened. Thank you so much for not making me watch the cut scene again after I started a new game. Absolutely nothing wrong with the cut scene. It's just I would rather not watch it over and over. I also tried the continue option but still the problem persists. The new game option does fix the issue. So after playing a bit I can see how good this game can be. I want to say it almost reminds me of rescuing the princess in the castle/palace. The guards are somewhat easy to get by, not a bad thing, but they can see you through the walls. They are a little easy to overcome because of all the Matryoshka doll (yes I did have to look that up) looking hiding things. It did get a little annoying when I walked near each and every prisoner cell and the prisoners made sure that they had a conversation with me. I get that most if not all had some story or task to them but why not make it so the player has to walk over to them and use an action button like the space bar to talk to them. I love the get 10/10 drops/bit of water you get super speed, nice touch. Sorry I would make this review alot longer but I'm quite tired, but I do have something very interesting to tell you. The game was on pause and I switched over to a new tab and watched a youtube video. I full screened said video and the music from the game played over top of the video play or pause. I've never had something do this so some testing is in order! Great game, could use some minor tweaks. Keep it up!

AdjectiveAnimal responds:

Thanks for letting us know! We'll work to fix the issue.

[ColorChase]

If you switch what you have to pick up this would be a lot harder. I'm pretty sure the trick is to read the color and not the word itself. I just looked up the trick just to make sure I wasn't making stuff up lol. Otherwise its a good game with no found glitches or any other complaints. Good job!

TreSensa responds:

Thanks for the feedback starrykid!

[2048 3D]

Amazing idea!! I'm a bit speechless this. Mainly because no one has made (as far as I've seen) a 3d 2048. It's so simple but so brilliant! It's a little funny I wrote an fairly long review stating how the game should continue on past 2048 and then realized then it actually lets you play past it. So outstanding game and props to you for that. I honestly don't see any flaws. Thanks for the additional controls. Also thanks for making the game HA! I'm sure this will be front page material (at least I'm hoping it will make it).

[Solar Steadfast]

First and foremost you need some sort of credits with a song list. Even if you made the music yourself. One more quick thing about the music, mute button! It's one of the biggest flaws I see in a lot of games. Not a deal breaker but it does add for a little more replay-ability. I like the music selection though, good choice. Okay so on to the gameplay. It feels like a space shooter for sure. I got used to the controls pretty fast. Maybe add mouse controls and it would feel a little more fluid. The buildings are a little wonky because the enemy can shoot through them. It's not a terrible thing just someplace to get away from the bullets for a sec would help. One more thing that might be a windows thing more than anything but when you hold down the space bar and hit the shift key a few times, sticky keys come on. Obviously...but when they come on and you click the exit button the ship will keep firing and the boost will keep running. Maybe a trick more than anything. Great game overall though. I like the mechanics of it, and the sprites are well done. Keep the flashes coming!

larrynachos responds:

Sticky keys will be activated if you hit shift a bunch, no matter what you're doing.

I agree with all of your other points, though. Thanks!

[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.

[Icarus]

SPOILER ALERT!!! Well at first I was like don't tell me what to do! Then I was water. Restart! Then I was like let's try up and not down. Boring....boring...boring...BIRD! BAM out of nowhere I was mounted. Then I became bird. More wild birds appear!! 3 birds and then I AM BIRD! Im soaring and stuff as BIRD. Then some evil clouds come by and I'm no longer BIRD...I am plane again..it just wasn't the same. So I went higher and higher looking for maybe another way to be BIRD again. No such luck. Then all the sudden I am Space and Space alone. Then it all went wrong when I caught fire. 5/5 good game

[Korra Dressup]

Well it was a good dress until you tried to pull that shit off.. you know exactly what i mean.