Score: 2

"I got the high score!"

submission: [KK] :# The Game

date: March 26, 2008

My favorite part was when I realized I could double-jump. ... Or maybe it was when the wave of smileys went by, and a little icon spazzed out in the corner. I think those might tie with when I got to the end though, so I guess it was ALL great.

Then I turned on my speakers, and realized this was not a short flash game pioneering the no-joke joke with a refutation of assembly-line electronic entertainment tucked between the lines, but another shipment of music piped through newgrounds by a smuggling ring.

Dang.

Score: 6

"Uh, what happened here?"

submission: Master of Security

date: March 26, 2008

I've got to be missing something. I'm not the kind of Tower Defense player who makes it to the top of the scoreboards, but I usually can't stop playing until I think I have figured out HOW other people did it -- so why do I fail to complete this game on any mode other than Easy? I get overrun by Hijackers around wave 70 on Normal no matter what I try.

So the game's good points: the wide open terrain is fun to build on, and creating the creeps' path during gameplay keeps it interesting.

And the bad: This looks like a project which was cut tragically short of being *good.* There is no tower upgrade information, and upgrades seem simply wasteful after the first or (rarely) second. I still can't even figure out what half the symbols on the tower selection panel represent. And maybe the worst: plunking down all you've got to rebuild your defenses, just to see it destroyed by the "hard part" of the attack waves over and over again...

What if it had a purchasable or rechargable bomb to clear those Hijackers? (Heh, call it "HiJackThis.") Or some sort of heavy tower (unlockable? product of upgrades? or tower proximity combinations?) to help cut down things with many thousand hitpoints? Or a way to target a specific creep... Maybe not; that was a good challenge... Or a software upgrade to increase tower damage? ("Definitions Update?") Dare I suggest placeable Teleports?

So for (I hope) the first time, I'm going to blurt out Newgrounds Review Cliche #1:

This could have been so much better.

Score: 10

"Heh, that was funny"

submission: Penguin vs Monster

date: March 24, 2008

I'm tired of people saying "put more effort into it" ater watching a short. Thank you for the LACK of a sixty second scrolling block of text telling me that penguins survived nuclear armageddon, mutated into 2" clay miniatures of their ancestors, evolved an understanding of technology, developed thought-controlled tank tread-like machines for mobility through human environments which they scavenge, and did battle with alien claymonsters for possession of the Earth.

Score: 10

"hahaha"

submission: Game N Life metroid

date: March 24, 2008

Good short. I like metroids.

Score: 10

"It's OK Bender, there's no such thing as two!"

submission: Random Defence

date: March 21, 2008

If your flash is current, but you still can't run this game on whatever browser you can't run it on, try another.

(I couldn't get this working on Opera. You might also make sure your OS is current. Teehee.)

Links:
www.mozilla.com/firefox/
www.opera.com/
http://www.macromedia.com/software/fl ash/about/

BTW, thanks for the game Armegalo, and for trying to fix the information age. =)

Score: 10

":: Nut ::"

submission: The Snap

date: March 7, 2008

Thank you for the video.

Excellent progression. Hilarious. Terrifying. It's a nice milking of the adrenals when you're already halfway to floating off the couch.

So to sum it up, %u25BA %u266A%u266B%u266A%u266B %u263A %u263C %u2116%u203C %u25A0

BTW: Check out Mouse on Mars from the Audio link. Ten out of five hallucinated creatures approve.

Score: 10

"Another perfect expression."

submission: The Seashell

date: September 16, 2007

Thanks. I needed my faith in Newgrounds restored.

Compliments on the well-balanced audio. I could understand the voices, and still the effects didn't blow my speakers out.

It felt deep, for a short -- conflict between the lines...?

Score: 6

"Hmm"

submission: Schwarzkäppchen

date: September 3, 2007

I disagree with the previous reviewer on all points but those concerning the gameplay (and the positive stuff).

As much as I like the fancy outfit, the game's just too simple, since she takes up about half the screen. I'm glad to hear a controls-fixed version has been submitted. Thanks -- I'll have to check it out again.

I liked the intro, but the game needs some creepy ambience, or maybe an adrenaline soaked vengeance ballad -- just so long as it doesn't drown out the sound effects.

Score: 2

"why do you bother?"

submission: D4ilytoon # 326

date: August 22, 2007

I laughed a bit when the garbage cannon did "9999" damage to the Earth. I approve of that toon/author, for submitting something that at least some people could find entertaining.

Otherwise, dailytoons reminds me very much of a garbage cannon.

And of course I'm going to catch flak from plenty of you masochistic boneheads for it. "Make your own flash!" You (most of all HUNDRED AND SOME of "you") totally miss the point, just like you've missed the point of flash animation.

Score: 3

"come on!"

submission: Wii Pain

date: August 21, 2007

I was really hoping for something funny out of this. I mean, the weebles flash -- that was ingenius, especially since your characters look like weebles. I guess. Anyway I laughed at that one.

What if the remote lodged in his eye, and the guy ran out and took it back, and the optic nerve was tangled up in the strap and got yanked entirely from the socket? Maybe along with a few lobes of the guy's brain? Or the thing went flying and knocked a baby carraige into the street?