Ericho's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[July 4th Soundboard]

Nice little tribute

It's great that people are making tributes to the holidays. It really shows how cool it is when you manage to set off every single sound at the same time. A lot of these are pretty lengthy, and I'm glad they're all in one place. For something pretty simplistic, you have a ton of credits for songs. The only downsides are that it should probably be more detailed and have an actual background. The sound is perfect, the visuals are just not.

Of course, what else could I expect from a soundboard? You have done this country a favor with such a nice tribute. You know people will want to get that easy medal to help people. Everything is just so amazingly elaborate with the massive selection of songs. Some of the really longer songs could be flash submissions in themselves!

[Scope Assault]

Most viewed?

It's too bad this is your most viewed submission, because it's not one of your best. It's great that you guys go on to make much better stuff! It was actually your games at first that made me aware of you, not your movies. Anyway, the background and everything is actually pretty well done. The main problem is that the guy doesn't shoot back at you and there's not much of a challenge. Well, it can be pretty hard to find him, but that also gets a bit annoying.

I find it amazing how easy it is to take down Snake! This could have used a lot more things like music. The graphics with the sniper thing are actually the best use of animation in the whole thing. It looks like this was never made into a full game, or at least not one submitted to your website. It's always nice to acknowledge when you've made something not good.

[Pothead Zombies]

Those potheads

That was a great game because it just had so many things going on! The hardest enemy was by far the weird clown car, which you had to shoot too many times to hit. The thing I found annoying was how you and your partner could not have the same kind of weapon. It would have made everything so much easier! At least there's another guy who's there to help you. The graphics in this are really good, especially with how the characters are designed.

It seems like a reminder to us all how great the program of Flash can be! Every enemy was full of energy and moved all the time when it was shot. It's probably the first game I've ever played where I've had to kill people high. They sure look like zombies to me. All of the enemies are even different colors, how good this was!

leonardozimbres responds:

Hehe, thanks.
Im taking note on the weapons usage for a future version of the game.

[Happy Bees]

They are happy and so am I!

This was a very interesting game to play because it allowed you to have so much fun with it. The best levels are the ones where the bees multiple and you basically let the game play itself. I do wish that there could have been more variety. It's still interesting, because everything's presented in a very adorable manner. I love the cute little da-da sound you make when the bee touches the flower. You have to work hard to get all the points, though.

Sometimes I was unsure of how many I had to get in order to pass the level. At first I thought you had to pop every flower, but that did not seem to be the case later on. It's a pity this was not released in Spring. Of course, I suppose bees are fairly happy during the summer too. It was great how you ommitted the outlines in favor of really lush color.

[Lil' Jose's Build-a-Bot]

Decent for what it is

This was an interesting game to play because it took awhile to understand what was going on. As you didn't have any setup for what the robots looked like, you just had to go with similar colors. I thought it was funny how the purple robot I assembled was actually by accident. I had all pieces except for the head. The one that I picked didn't even look like a head at all. You really have to experiment with this game and see how accurate you are with the green lights.

It was funny to have a pokeball be one of the things that gave out robot parts. Yeah, it is similar to the stuff MindChamber has worked on. The music is pretty nice and it's great that you have such good mobility over your character and where you can go. It's the kind of thing you can spend hours with collecting medals. Lil Jose looks so stupid and eager.

DieterTheuns responds:

Lol, thanks a lot, Ericho, glad you liked it :)

[Robotic Heart]

Not that good

At first I was disappointed because I thought it was going to be too easy. Now I realize that it actually is a lot harder than it looks. It doesn't help that the graphics are cheesy, but that was probably the whole point of this. Well, this is my first review for Robot Day 2011. I suggest that next time you put in a lot more detail into the characters and don't make it so easy to die. Those purple things reminded me of the "Shadow The Hedgehog" video game.

The music wasn't half bad, but did get a bit irritating. It's also annoying with how the background in each area is basically the same. At least you provided checkpoints and the first couple parts of it are easy enough. The robot's design itself isn't half bad. Just also try to make the robot smaller, so it doesn't clutter up the whole screen.

EventHorizon responds:

Thanks for your review and for your advice, you're right about some of the flaws of the game so I will try to improve.

[Aliens Attack RPG Action]

Kryponite?

I'm not a fan of RPG's, so I am glad that this turned out to be more of an action game. The best part was probably you could just roam everywhere and shoot at your enemies. The only problem is that it did get a bit redundant doing that over and over. Another flaw was how you could have made it so that the gun didn't have to be clicked so many times and you could just continually push it. I was amazed at how fast I ran out of ammunition.

The graphics, are, for the most part, really good. It's also good how fast paced everything is. It's also nice how there are different monsters for every level. There must have been some glitch, because I couldn't advance to the second level the first time I played this game. You could have also had a better name. The bosses aren't bad either.

[mud and blood 2]

Wonderfully elaborate!

This is a decent game because you can tell a lot of effort was put into it. The coolest thing was how there were so many weapons and options to choose from. It may in fact have more of those kinds of options than any other war game I have played here! The sounds are wonderful too. Where you really lost points, however, was that the graphics needed improvement. It seemed like they were hastily made and not very detailed.

While the gameplay is good, you should put some better design into it. It just seems to be a lot older than 2008. I'm surprised at how complicated it is, again, with all your options. You definitley get points with the ways your troops can fight and everything. People who are really fans of war games should have more fun with this than I did.

[I Wanna Win!]

Great!

I have no clue why this did not win Daily Feature, as it is simply a fantastic submission! It's amazing how much variety you can put into the same objective. At first, I thought it would be more than just clicking, but it doesn't have to be. It must have taken forever to think of all the different things to do in this game. The hardest one is easily #18. As usual, it is great to include a walkthrough because everyone will inevitably get to a level he or she can not advance.

The music is really cute and gives off an old-timey feel. I do wanna win, not because of the title, but because of how awesome this game is. You had to do so much experimenting with yourself. I think this should be in "Puzzle" instead of "Action". It's amazing how a game with such a simplistic design could be so fun.