Starblinky's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Water Creature Land Creature]

I didn't really understand why sometimes my dude would go FLYING out of the water and other times would do a smaller jump.

I understand that the more you are in the water the lower your jump is, but when I FLEW out of the water it would just seem to be random. I was only able to get out of the first area by luck it seemed.

Also I am not sure why you have a lower jump when you are in the water for too long. I think it would be more fun if you had a HIGHER jump or you were able to use your wings for a moment

MarcoMcG responds:

Thanks for your feedback Starblinky. Yes, there are definitely some issues with mechanical clarity in the game.

The way character movement and jumping changes varies depending on the current medium you are in. If you are mostly a water creature, you will move and jump slowly on land but will be able to swim very quickly and do huge jumps out of water (like a dolphin). Whereas if you’re mostly a land creature your swimming skills will be pretty bad and you won’t be able to jump very well in the water.

[sk8away]

It was a well presented game with good music and visuals. My main complaint is with the controls, they are pretty difficult to get ahold of.

You should just have him grind automatically and get rid of V. Because why wouldn't you wanna grind if there's only a pole there? The player should want to interact with the item that's passing by when only 1 item passes at a time.

Also you could get rid of C and just make flip tricks the default for arrow keys.

And then remove holding Z button to go faster and have it do that automatically.

I think this would make it more accessible. For me at least it was a bit difficult to control and remember what key did what

[Sleef]

Kinda neat. I beat toxicpirate's level. Where there really only 6 levels? Seemed like it was just a tutorial. It could use some more levels, maybe add some usermade levels to the actual game so we dont have to copy paste everything.

Might even be able to use newgrounds level sharing api to have new levels uploaded instantly in game.

[Gridlock]

I played it yesterday and it got stuck "loading" the 2nd level. Today it let me passed level 2 but now level 3 stalls on the "loading" level thing. After typing this I found out I can go to the menu and reset level then it works.

It's a nice game though, nice sounds and art. I like the initial intro too.

[EnigmAttic]

Did you create your own text field for this? I like this game, the puzzles are fun to figure out.

A few suggestions would be to make the icons a bit bigger and to make it so the text field doesn't lose focus when the puzzle changes.

One of my favourite jam games.

Veinom responds:

Thank you so much!

Yes the text field was a huge challenge to do. There was no way for me to make it not lose focus, because then other things would break. It took days for the whole thing work as it does, even with some small compromises (you can't type capital letters for example). But hey, at least you can press Enter to check the answer!

The icons are small because it was supposed to be played fullscreen.

[Sausage Game]

This was so incredibly good. It reminded me of how I felt when I played Broken Age. I normally don't have the patience for adventure games but everything hit right in this one.

Super creative and a joy to play through.

You guys made a great team, I hope to see more from you all

[Volcano Maintenance]

It was fun :)

[Tenko's Magical Sword Quest]

It was pretty satisfying to play. I liked collecting those orbs and the controls felt pretty nice and great audio.

It would be cool you designed the levels where using the speed boost would allow you to make significant short cuts.

LVGames responds:

That's a very good idea. Speed boost shortcuts!

[Madness Roulette 2]

Okay so I died instantly then went into the 3D part with tons of hallways.. I walked around for like 5 minutes, is that it then? What am I supposed to do?

edit: oh just checked when this was uploaded :<

larrynachos responds:

Unlock characters escape via door

[A Viking's Tale 2]

How big is the file size? Seems like the Ruffle player won't even load. I don't get a white screen, just black. As if Ruffle hasn't even loaded.

I'll post in the Ruffle discord, maybe it's a Ruffle issue

RunningZombie responds:

actionscript 3 doesn't work with well with ruffle.