Ericho's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Pit People]

I can see why this has the lowest score of anything on the Dare 29 thing. I still didn't hate this, because it really is an interesting looking game. I mean, it's easy to understand. I say that waaaaaay too much in my reviews. What really killed it was how there was no sound. That's always something to put in anything.

I didn't know how I was losing points. As you might have guessed, it's not a game that I would be too eager to look back at. It isn't really horrible. I get the sense that you at least tried. Obviously, it could have been more detailed.

[Dynamole]

Well, this makes no sense. I have reached a point where I simply can not progress. I go across this one place that has this area I can't cross. I have no choice but to stay behind and die. I have tried outrunning it, but I can not do it. There must be something I am missing.

I can tell this didn't take too long to make. That's not a criticism, just an observation. What detail it does have is pretty nice. Is there some hidden switch I'm missing? I guess it's fine for something really quick.

Zanzlanz responds:

Of course it didn't take too long to make; it was made in less than 48 hours for the Ludum Dare competition. It says it right on the title ;)

Anyway, it's completely possible! I've beat it a handful of times (albeit it was challenging), as has 80 people on Newgrounds and several of my friends in person. Hope you'll return to conquer the game!

BeminFire suggests telling you that you can wall jump. I didn't realize if that was what troubled you? Hope that helps!

[Pico's Nightmare]

I did not like this game. I think its biggest fault was how difficult it was. Well, the graphics were pretty bad too. I am glad to have played this Pico game. The artwork seems even older than a lot of the stuff made back in those days. I guess this was intentional.

It doesn't rank high with Pico games. I just had to keep on firing at the nerds and their shields almost never turned off. Is this supposed to be an actual nightmare? It sure was one for me. The music isn't bad, though.

Lenke responds:

hard?
you just have to wait to some bomb explode close to they, then you can shoot ...
most of people get it ... (? or not (?

[Jeff the Killer]

I'm sorry, but I really thought the graphics were subpar in this one. It was weird how this came from this year, but looks so old. I was also confused as to why the Slender Man was there. It was cool to play a game featuring Jeff The Killer. He should be used more here. The music is truly haunting in this!

I don't know why this was frontpaged for Pico Day, but at least it's a cool game. He does look pretty scary. I remember how shocked I was when I first saw that face. This is a fairly good game.

Lenke responds:

is weird, I had a pico game and they front paged this old game(3 months), at last they frontpaged my pico's game, so I have two games in the frontpage at the same time XD!!!

[P-Bot Has No Hope In NG]

I was really interested into how fun this game got to be. I was a bit confused to the layout. I'm glad I was able to kill a good number of bosses. I do think that the cutscenes went on a bit too long. Then again, that could have been the joke. I'm surprised this didn't get an award for Pico Day. It really is a fun game.

It was cool how I didn't even use the flying until later. Of course, I still died in the level I was on (fourth). These are the kinds of spam flashes we have to deal with. Of course, there will always be those who vote on it highly. It was good fun and Happy Pico Day!

[Cathode Raybits]

I honestly myself had no idea how to beat this game at first. Well, I knew how, it's just that it was impossible to play. I don't see what this even has to do with Pico. This was still a good game. I like standard platformers. I'm glad you got upgrades as the game went on. Skipping ahead to levels was a terrible idea.

I didn't even know they were in any random order. That doesn't matter, because I got that freaking medal! I think the design is good. Happy Pico Day 2014 with this great game! It's good enough to want to know what's in the next level.

[Boulder Basher 2]

While the animation isn't that good, I still really enjoyed this. I find it to be better than the original, because it seems to be easier. The lines do seem to fade more. I just always did it at the wrong time here. I like how nice the music is. It's very calming.

I really liked killing those guys. Yeah, I know that sounds mean, but it's interesting how it is laid out. It really does seem like their own fault here. You do need to work on the animation. It's still a great game!

[CitySmasher]

I was pretty impressed by this game. My only complaint was that it was a bit hard to control. You mostly just did the same thing over and over. I was quite impressed at how well this game moved. I thought it would be easy to just destroy all the cars. It really is a lot harder than that.

The protagonist of this is also pretty cool looking. He looks like some giant punk rocker. It seems like you tried to look cool by putting the two words in the title together. It is fun to see all that destruction. I even like how everything fades away or something when you lose the game.

[Gully Cricket]

I really don't know that much about culture, because I kept thinking of baseball. Wait, this is a lot like baseball, isn't it? I appreciated how it was fairly unique. It's always nice to hear about sports popular in other countries. It seems I learned a little here. Of course, I don't know much about baseball either.

For a sports game, I thought this wasn't bad. I don't understand was the whole "being on fire" thing meant. It didn't really injure me. I guess you just had to throw in some magic there. It's hard to see any popular thing that doesn't have at least one thing that can't happen in real life. The sounds are okay.

[Two Wheeler Trauma 2]

I admit that it does look very nice, but that was pretty much it. If I touched anything at ALL, I died. I'm pretty sure if I just grazed the side of something on my motorcycle, that wouldn't be too bad. I will admit that the graphics aren't too bad. There is just so little going for this. I thought maybe you were supposed to kill people. I mean, India does have the most deaths by car accidents.

That's what I get for knowing about statistics. I couldn't get any points at all. Good design doesn't matter if you can't play a game. I guess the music isn't too bad. I can see why this never got too popular.