Ericho's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[They Came From Nam]

What?!

Woah, this is definitly the most random game that I have ever played for the NG Game Jams. I had to continually spit out fireballs (I think?) to get rid of the papers coming towards me. Even if I avoided them, they still came to me before they left the screen! Maybe you could just let them go, okay? Anyway, what was cool was that it was a pretty original idea, I mean who would ever think of a game where a giraffe was papercutted to death? I think this might have originally had the name "Giraffe".

The graphics are decent but the main problem is that it is just too dang hard! I fire my weapons at these papers and even the smallest ones take forever to kill! I do always look for uniqueness and you definitley delivered in that sense. It was nice to have so many people working on this. I have not heard of most of them, but you should always give anyone a try.

thinking-man responds:

Try charging after every shot.

[Duplicator]

How odd

This was an odd little game, because I had little idea as to what was going on. I guess I still have to give it credit for being original, even if I could not understand it. There were times when it seemed like you had to click something to advance through the door. Previously, it worked just fine by doing nothing. The music was good and it creates a good, spooky atmosphere. Another cool thing was the design of the character.

There are a lot of things going on in a game that seems so peaceful. I must have pressed something because I started being able to use the arrow keys. It takes awhile to get used to, but can be fun when you get everything down right. It was weird how you kept the score with the points deterring as it went along. I guess that'll just encourage me to solve it faster.

z3lf responds:

It was interesting to read.
Thanks all.

[The Underrated Art Collab]

Really good

I am glad that this went from a 3.15 to a 3.22 simply when I watched it again! It's too bad these medals do not have points. As far as I can tell, as they are not listed, you get them simply by viewing all of the profiles. I was unexpectedly impressed at how good these drawings were. It just goes to show that you should never judge something as being cheap if it has no medals. It is easily the best thing you (BanglaBoy96) ever worked on.

The best artwork was from Boredouttamymind and Sunshinda Fox. There was a lot of variety in this pictures and it was so great to see different characters being shown. This is indeed very underrated stuff. I do not review things on the art portal, so I am always eager to look at collabs like this. I hope you all had a great Valentine's Day too!

BanglaBoy96 responds:

Great to hear it Ericho! XD
Thanks

[Windows Rubbish SP1 BETA]

Could be better

It was kind of weird to watch this because I kept thinking I could do it better on my own computer. I guess that is only because my real computer went through a bad virus. Hey, maybe you could find some way to more accurately show off an actual virus in this! I just feel as though this has been done many times before and better. I still thought it was not the worst because it was entertaining in how cheesy it was. Given that the computer here was supposed to have viruses, I guess that was the point.

All the icons seem to be pretty authentic. I think that I would know as I just recently interacted with them right now as I use my actual computer. I liked how you could use a new username and password. I simply used the same password as my username here. Wait, does that mean that someone else could use that and hack into my account on this game?!

syko227movies responds:

No it doesn't. Man everytime you play this you can enter a new pass.

[Drake And The Wizards]

Wizards!

This was really fun to play if only because it was so dang cute! I loved seeing this silly little dragon go around and interact with the goofiness that was the world around him! It really brings a person back to his inner child. It was still fun to just fly around and collect all the coins and of course 100 would add up to an extra life for you. The best part was how lush the design was. While not the most creative, it was really cool to meet the weird enemies.

It can be difficult at times, especially when you are trying to fly. While you are good about staying in the air, it gets hard to fly any higher than when you jump. The cutscenes were a bit too weird, but no big deal. I like just plopping around this silly environment. It seems like this is something that would appear on a kid's educational site, not that that's bad.

lartar responds:

Im glad you like the game. Thanks for your comments. And as you said, the game was nice for kids, and we are making now a special version for an educational site.

[Mr Agnry Faic 4]

Why doesn't this have points?!

I always look for games with medals even if the medals come with no points. Thank you for giving me meaning on doing this as I have found the best game with no medal points out there! The music is great and the overall is just fantastic. I think the highest combo I ever got as 93. Yes, it was very devastating when I had to stop that combo. I find that the best way to beat this game is to do a color and then try to get every face of that color on the screen.

The hardest part was the one where you had to switch colors on the side. I kept accidentally changing because that's where the other angry faces were. This is quite different than other agnry faic games I have played, but still manages to be great! It's weird how the cheerful music contrasts with the agnry faic. I do hope you eventually get medals with points for this game. Thank you for this fun time!

MintPaw responds:

The medals don't give you points currently. This is because Tom hasn't approved them, feel free to unlock them. You'll get the points in due time.

[Riddles of Renaissance]

Fairly hard

It would be kind of inconsiderate of me to just go out and tell all of the answers to the ones I got. I will say that I was lucky enough to get a secret medal on my first try! At first, I thought this was going to be something where I had to type in the answers. It was a little hard to tell at first, but that hand icon did make it easy to understand. If nothing else, it was great to see all of these authentic replications of art pieces. Looking at paintings has always been a pastime of mine, especially considering that few modern people seem to make paintings.

I managed to get all of them without any hints until finding one that did not give me a hint. The music/sounds were really good and it was great how clicking the wrong thing wasn't such a big penalty. It was also great to include the names and years of each painting. I am not sure if these painters intended them to have meanings, but whatever. While it did not have much action, definitley a classy game.

mrty responds:

Well, it didn't mean to have action.

Thanks for the detailed review, glad you liked it.