Starblinky's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[PowerPutt Legend]

This is really good! I definitely could see the effort put into making this feel like a SNES game. Like the shop menu was 100% something you would see in a SNES game. Super nostalgic in that way.

I liked the gameplay too, it was a clever idea and cool mash up of genres.

Surprised the game is free honestly.

[Olive's Art-Venture]

I fucking love the concept behind this. And the way its presented is really really well done. I love the lobby/intermission area and the wise cracking receptionist.

It's all laid out very thoughtfully. The fighting is pretty fun. It would be cool though if there was a bit more strategy behind the attacks or why I might want to use a certain attack. I like that it gets a lot harder later forcing you to use the shield, it would be cool to have more situations where I really have to use a certain shape.

Overall I really liked it. Cute game, fun ideas and really reminds me of classic indie games I used to play on the Macintosh when I was young

Stepford responds:

Thank you so much!

[PICO VS BEAR DX]

I enjoyed tormenting Pico into rummaging through the trash :D

The ghost almost gameover'd me twice.. I thought I might have to shoot Nene in the face so like, her ghost could fight the other ghost or something. ​I ended up killing her anyway in the end :O By accident though!

Got to the end and died instantly. I loved the voice acting and the addition of some newer Newgrounds stuff. Great remake, I'm gonna have to come back to finish (what I assume is) the final fight though.

Also, as someone who's also making a game in Actionscript 2... You have my sympathy! This game is a huge undertaking especially in Flash. Great work 10/10

[ART TELEPHONE: Holiday Edition]

ooooo, please do more of these! This was so cool and I like how it eventually just turned into dogs

[Super Pickleball Adventure]

This game is RIDICULOUSLY GOOD. I loved every fight was so different and clever. Really really really good. Any way I could send over a donation?

Btw I was confused at the end where she said I'll never be able to beat 'him'. Is there another boss? I can't find him if there is. (I was hoping it was gonna be the dog) Great game though 10/10

Edit: NEVERMIND the lady told me hes in the elevator

Would definitely play a bigger version of this

[Pengu Saves Christmas]

I love this game!

I like how Pengu spins when he jumps on jump pads. Soo fun

And that music is so good! Instant classic

[Tonight We Hunt]

The visuals here are pretty impressive. The animations and character designs are well done. I played the first one too when it was for the Flash jam. The gameplay feels pretty good in general, although from what I played there wasn't a unique hook for the game?

I bought the game on itch to show my support for you, good luck with the game and congrats on finishing it!

[Uniquackle]

For something this difficult there needs to be some checkpoints. Or make the gravity not so strong, or let me use my wings somehow to float down a bit slower.

Just trying to understand the double jump thing I died. If there were checkpoints I would definitely continue, it was a bit fun and had nice music. Too punishing though

[TREES' ADVENTURE - Demo]

Great music and sound, great graphics. I like the movement of the character too, really nice stuff. I'm not sure if it's only me experiencing it but when I land on a platform the camera just snaps to my position instantly. No smoothing or anything. It's really jarring and definitely affected the quality of my play through.

The level designs were best when I was constantly moving to the right. I felt like I was progressing toward the end. Near the beginning there was a lot of back and forth which made the game feel slower than it wants to be. Later on the levels get better and have a good flowing feel.

Great game. It's fun.

[Wika Wicked's Egg]

This is my favourite game of the jam so far. Played some REALLY damn good and polished games but this ones got something special.

3rd game I played with Yoshi's Island flavours. Really like the art style, reminds me of some older PC games crossed with Yoshi's island, super nostalgic especially with the audio. Honestly the audio was really good, loved the different atmospheric sounds changing in different areas and the bug noises suited really well.

Gameplay is fun, I like that you keep your power ups. Wish it was more obvious what the power-ups do in-game rather than having to read the authors description. And the hit boxes on some of the enemies feel too big. But I really enjoyed exploring and discovering new enemies and dying because I didn't know how they'd attack me, stupid frogs >:(

You could actually dial back the power ups quite a bit and force the player to collect all of them to be able to reach the end.
I would have been happy to keep playing, only issue was I had no idea where the other power ups were!

I did feel like I kind of found my own path to the end though which was cool, rather than being forced into a set path. At least it felt that way. Great job, 10/10

https://imgur.com/a/MmjK0In

gustavvonperiwinkle responds:

So glad you enjoyed it! The hit boxes on the beetles and caterpillars are a bit too large but it was too late to change it for the jam submission. I had gotten good enough playtesting the game that I didn't notice lol. I plan to add a little "Stamina +" and "Speed +" cartoony text that pops up when you collect the items as an additional in-game nod to the player.

Thanks for the comment on the sounds! I spent a lot of work on those. Half of them are me making noises into a microphone and processing them =P Was having trouble finding VSts or synths to emulate what I wanted in my head so I just used my mouth lol.

As to the paths--there are about 4 or 5 main ones with several offshoots. I added all the wood signs to help guide the player--but not constrict them. The goal was for every direction the player chose--to reward them with something.

Thanks again for playing!