T-H's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Project: Monochrome]

Decent game

A pretty generic shooter style game with a few nice touches. Liked the colour scheme, wasn't really apparent to me why you chose black& white but it worked (did you just like the word monochrome? heh).

Felt a lot more solid to play than most games of the genre, with proper hit tests and good visual effects. I'd say in the same league as stuff like RaidenX.

One of the highlights was the difficulty level, you just it just right where the game gets you hooked trying to beat it, but doesn't give in easily (and I was playing on EASY mode, man I must suck.) Enemies weren't bad, those turrets were a real pain in the ass. It played well even though the enemies flailed around mindlessly shooting.

The constant background got a bit tiresome as well, perhaps you could have replaced it every so often with an API pattern or another space style graphic.

I loved the sound, if it was all your own work then congratulations! Fitted really well with the game and didnt get on my nerves either :)

Only problem I had was that it wasn't apparent to me what those powerups were doing, was there an explaination somewhere for each one? If there wasn't then might I suggest one for ver.2?

Nicely polished game overal, well done.

Glaiel-Gamer responds:

The powerups are different weapons. Click on instructions on the main screen for a further explanation

[Operation FLASHback]

Well thought out but...

The site has enough tutorials already, why do people keep on submitting more? With the same stuff covered in each one, seems like a bit of a waste to me.

This was an above average example though, description was decent and walkthroughs were not complecated. Had some good quality print screens as well to aid the user.

But again, the tutorial content was no different than the hundreds of others that exist, so I see little point, put your skills to other use instead.

corrosiondestruction responds:

Once again i appreciate the input, but this wasn't for NG it was so i could get feedback for my studies.
Glad you liked it though

[Overrun II]

One of the most sophisticated games on the site.

I think its a shame that Overrun II's score is hanging at just under 4.00, It does take someone who is familiar with actionscript and has developed a game or AS oriented project to appreciate the sheer amount of effort and work that must have gone into this. It must be dissapointing to find some reviewers that are clearly just regular people on their coffee break saying that the game is repetitve, as when playing it, I found just the sense of awe at the game itself enough to keep going.

I'll comment that the backgrounds were exquisite, especially considering you created them from scratch, the soundtrack was suiting and the enemies were interestingly designed, the 3d models had both positive and negative aspects to them (they looked like they could have been from a minor's tv program, but the models helped the psuedo 3d effect work really well.

I found you comment that this would probably be you last NG submission to be rather distressing. Surely you can't throw in the towel after such a great game like this? What about Overrun 3?

All In all a simply mindblowing piece of work.

Denvish responds:

Thanks for the lengthy review. There won't be an Overrun III, I'm don't intend to take on any more projects as massive and time-consuming as this. And yeah, as I said on the BBS, the fact that Throw It did better than this is extremely frustrating.

[Origami Studio 1.1]

Not bad

You really got the sound nailed on this one! Soothing stuff, not the usual annoying techno loop that accompanies tutorials. An original idea and something educational, I made the 4 point star.

carmelhadinosaur responds:

Yay, thanks!
Glad that people take time actually trying my flash on real life, w00t!
And good luck to us with the collab ;)

[NG BG: Parastone VS Jimmy]

I don't get it

I thought the characters were supposed to fight eachother in both battles :S. But it was ok stuff nonetheless. It looked like you could have spent more time on it and added some nicer effects on the 2nd battle.

BuRnBoY responds:

the 2nd battle was made by MetalChicken, not me.