Ericho's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Happy New Year 2011]

Simple, but tons of fun

I am glad people are making New Year's theme stuff a lot. In fact, I think this might be the best year (or years) for submissions about the new year. It was a little hard to understand the gameplay, but it really took off once you got started. In fact, this is really the kind of game that plays itself after awhile. After you get a bunch of them on screen in the later levels, you can really just click anywhere you want and it will look nice! I love how this turned out to be exactly what it should be, a very simple game.

While the graphics could use some more detail (especially the balloons) it becomes so absorbing the player does not count. It seems like you were really trying to reach into the inner child of us all. Balloons are a great symbol of childhood innocence or simply celebration. This really celebrates in its own simplicity. Another nice touch was how there were random balloons that exploded on the screen. I certainly hope this will indeed be a great year.

[Mechanical Ice Apocalypse]

Nice, but hard

This game definitley has good points that probably override its weaker parts. The thing I liked most about this was that the graphics/animation were really good. Everything looked like it was detailed well, and I especially like the ice theme. It seems like kind of a random theme for a game about a machine, but no random than anything else. The bad part is that you really have to pay attention as to what is going on and learn from your mistakes. I imagine it would be impossible to beat this thing on your first run.

As the game goes on, there are more hazards produced and you have to notice the exact pattern of every single one. At first, I thought the missiles were something you fired at that would eventually be destroyed. However, they seem to really just stop on their own. It might be my controller, but it seemed hard for me to keep up with the changing waves. It is a good game, but boy, do you have to pay attention as it becomes more unpredictable.

[The Business Man]

What?

This needed tons of work because it just had so little about it that stood out. The sound was really off and there did not seem to be any color at all except for the blood. I suggest that next time you try to work a lot more with different colors and shading. It kind of made me laugh with how silly and easy it was. I guess I am the kind of person who is on the move or at least right now I am. You should try to put in more detail like better design and more things going on in the background and stuff.

[Asterozorb]

Fairly good

The only Christmas theme it had was with the green and red lights and stuff. It was still fun to play this, even though the controls were fairly hard to understand. The funniest part was seeing the balls get hit by asteroids and I am almost disappointed that was a bad thing for the player. It is certainly an original game, it is perhaps not executed in the best way. The mouse and the WASD keys seem to be in conflict with each other. It still had a nice theme to it with you just spinning in space all the time.

CyanSandwich responds:

Thanks for the review. It really wasn't supposed to have anything to do with christmas, but I chucked a christmas cracker in there because it was close to that time.

[Santa Can Fly]

Merry Christmas!

This was a fun game to play because the graphics were really good. There were some things about it that were kind of weird, like how you had to wait so long for it to stop reducing your points or something. I am still very glad to have this as my first review for none other than Christmas Day! I like how everything seems to have a lot of detail put into it. I have little idea what pies and grenades have to do with Santa, but I can appreciate random stuff. It was also nice to include the Christmas tune with it.

[Kill some randoms!]

Needs more work

I guess this was not the worst game I have ever played, but there was a lot of room for improvement. The best thing to do would be to really work on the animation. This sort of game has been done before many times and there was just not anything unique about it. The best part was that the weapons were actually pretty well designed. I would work on things like shading and having a wider variety of colors. The music was pretty appropriate but it seems like the characters could have had more variety.

[QWERTY Warriors]

A typing master!

I probably only enjoyed this so much because I just pride myself on being so good at typing. I was able to get a score of 49,000 which I believe is fairly high. This was a weird game because it had no time to change a level or anything, it was really just the same thing over and over. While it got a bit repetitive, still definitely something that I would recommend. I hope you have a merry Christmas as I believe this is going to be the last review I write here before I go on my vacation. Thank you for making me feel good in some way.

[DJManiax]

Great!

Wow, this has got to be a record for the submission with the highest score that did not give you medals with points. I have a feeling you guys will eventually be able to get some points with this! This was fun, because everything was just so high-classed. It is a best too complicated for me to devote too much time too, but still very enjoyable. The graphics themselves were great and there was just so much detail put into every single thing I saw on the screen. You are going to need to read through the instructions.

TaroNuke responds:

I don't know how to get medals to give points ;-; the point values are there.

[Snakebite]

Poop

This was a pretty good game to play and it is especially great to see someone as revered as Yoink work on it! I of course appreciate the efforts of all the other people who worked on this. The best part was how it was easy to get the medal about taking a crap and then you could just go around and crap all you wanted everywhere. The animation is really silly, especially with how Snakebite. There was apparently some trouble, as the advertisement's audio kept going into the game. Speaking of audio, the sound was good and it seemed to fit the mood of the game pretty well.

YoinK responds:

there's more to the game than just taking a shit. lol but glad you liked it.

[Crystal Crisis]

Mostly great

This was a confusing game because at first I thought it was just going to be me starting at a certain level, but there was no resting period at all. At first I thought you had to dodge the big ships or get hit by them. It's refreshing to know that they are not an actual hazard. I have no idea what this guy is supposed to be, but it is a great environment he puts himself into. If you want to go easy on yourself, just try to keep advancing and don't even care about the gems. If you go long enough, then you will get a great number of them sooner or later and It's mesmirizing how the sectors keep getting longer.