Ericho's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Fruity Tower]

This was fun, but I had no idea it would be this hard! I mean, I took out tons of enemies, but couldn't get any medals. This was still quite colorful. Well, not literally. We're used to a lack of color with "Madness Combat" around here. You'd be surprised how many fruits are mistaken for vegetables.

I heard corn is a fruit! Yeah, it contains seeds. The gameplay is still great. I thought the orange would be a boss. There were instead more than one in the same room.

Prox276 responds:

Haha, thanks! :D
This was an eye-opening experience for me. I never knew eggplants, jalapenos and carrots were considered fruit, but I needed every last one of them to fill out a cast of enemies. xD

[Sadmin Night]

A FNAF game? I thought this was a "Henry Stickmin" game. I guess it was both. I was thinking you could just go out the door. Well, you can't do that in a FNAF game. Point and click adventures were never my thing.

I couldn't even find that many in-jokes. There was the "Among Us" guy. It's too boring to really like. I've never played the FNAF games, but have seen gameplay. It didn't even look like the window panes had glass, no wonder he got in so easily!

Arguswastaken responds:

Haha well I think your goal in this game is to keep sadmin under lock, not really run away from him. There's a bit of lore, but the whole thing is mostly a joke made for the fun of it

[too many olskoo]

Happy April Fool's Day 2023! Also, Happy Clock Day 2023! Are we going to have to do this again in August? Anyway, this wasn't that good. It was just you firing over the same objects over and over. I didn't even know when I was hitting anything.

It kept saying "Nan". Well, that fits both of these holidays. Our background's nice. We have the same things happen over and over. I don't think I could even lose. It's not good for me, so it's definitely spam.

olskoo-the-first responds:

happy April fools/clock day to you too!

[Jogo de Tank]

Yeah, this wasn't enjoyable at all. The graphics were too simplistic. I guess it was at least nice to see something a little different. I didn't understand how the enemies were so powerful. I couldn't beat it at all. I couldn't speed up too well either.

I guess I was supposed to collect those logs. It didn't seem to help me. I didn't really care if they weakened me. It wasn't rewarding at all. I can see why this is ranked as the lowest submission for this jam.

TenentHill responds:

the logs make you shoot less fast. killing the moster make you shoot more faster. if more fast you shooting is, more logs you will gonna need to avoid. Use the headphones to predict witch side he will gonna show up. share your high score if u want, because i don't know how to implement HS board in NG.

srr for not explaining nothing

[Lunatic Lane]

That was an enjoyable game. I admit it was weird how you lost when too many cats swarmed you. How could you possibly represent that as being bad? You can never have too many cats. Don't remind me of that "Steven Universe" episode. I didn't even know you could run out of gas.

This was nice and colorful. Boy, was it fast paced! I never thought this would be as fast as NASCAR. Well, NASCAR's predictable anyway. You know, they're making a left turn?

Frosty responds:

the cats eat all your fuel

[Fat Fish Aquarium]

I have to admit that I didn't care for this. I mean, it was just a fish eating and pooping out money. That was it. I did the same thing over and over. I thought there was something more to this game. It was too boring.

I mean, it was at least easy to understand. I still felt like I was missing something. It took too long for something interesting to happen. Orange is my favorite color. That's why I liked goldfish.

Ant responds:

Is a real fish any more exciting? Guess ya don't like fish... but it's fine it's just not ur type of game.

[SQUADADDLE]

I would recommend this, if only because it was a challenge. I was annoyed by how hard it was. I mean, the controls seemed too complicated. I wish it was more straightforward. Then again, I don't want it to be too easy. I didn't even notice the timer at first.

I thought that you were supposed to collect the kiwi. I guess I just ran out of time right as I did. Whatever, this was a bit too complicated. As I've said before, I would have to mess with it to really understand it. It wasn't too rewarding.

kaiakairos responds:

The idea is that the runs are so short, it’s easy to learn from your mistakes and hop into a new one with your newfound knowledge. It's hard as hell, yes, but easy to learn once you give it a few tries. This was intentional design.
I can tell by your score on the scoreboard that you only made it past the tutorial, died immediately, and then didn't even bother trying again. I've seen IGN reviewers try harder than you.

[Merged Gravity DEMO]

I think the rating should be higher. I mean, it's not the best game out there. It's perfectly serviceable. I knew it would get a lot harder later on. I was really stuck when I ran out of charges. I can't play this game forever!

Yes, it was simple but good. The graphics were indeed nice. I'm surprised I got past the first appearance of the spikes. I'm glad there was a full screen option. I even thought the music was pretty good.

ChimeraDev responds:

Thanks for playing! The game is around 40 minutes the first time you play it! Its quite hard but it's fun to try again! Hope to see you finish it eventually! :)

[Pixel Mania!]

Well, the game was definitely playable. I just had no idea how to get a single gem or anything like that. It reminded me of the "Crash Bandicoot" games. I never could get all the boxes done! I didn't even realize there was a timer. Ignorance truly was bliss in that case.

The game was too easy with that gameplay. The extra stuff was quite hard though. You deserve some credit for that, I suppose. The graphics were decent. It was kind of too simple and too hard somehow.

blit-blat responds:

Too simple and too hard at the same time is the absolute sweet spot! There's a walkthrough here if you need it:

https://blit-blat.newgrounds.com/news/post/1334960

Thanks for playing! :)

[Watch Paint Dry]

Well, that delivered on what it was supposed to. That secret medal was far easier than I thought. I mean, what else were you supposed to do? Of course I noticed it sold 420,000 copies. I'm glad there was music. I mean, what else do you need to do?

There's tons of YouTube videos where it's nothing but a blank screen with a song. You knew how to spice it up. I now noticed the 69 number. Dang, you noticed how to use your numbers! Well, there's not much else to notice in this.

Little-Radiodemon responds:

Nice