Makakaov's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Zombie Frogger]

It's easy, it's short. The sprite doesn't turn to the mouse properly and probably rotates too slow. As I understand, the invisible walls are supposed to make the game harder. Unfortunately It just made the game worse. I do like when my game challenges me, but that wasn't a challenge at all. It was a time waster that made me look for a stupid passage in a safe zone. I wasn't really endangered by anything while looking for the passage. It was just a time waster. Also, you CAN see the passage when you look closely - it's a little bit darker than the rest of the stripe that's not passable. And that's actually worse, because it made me naturally look closer and use up my eyesight to detect a little gap.

The cars were passing in a pattern, everything was simple sprites, I didn't experience any sound effects, so I guess there isn't much to judge apart from what I have already mentioned. It's not a terrible frogger game, but it's not any good either. There's so many things I could think of that could improve this "just cross the street" mechanic. I see none of those in your game.

[Gold Mine Jurassic Dig]

I assume this game is meant for kids, and that's saving this game from bunch of harsh judgement, since the potential player is not very demanding.

The music doesn't loop. It get s silent after a while, and if you want it again, you have to press the music button twice. It's a minus. The digging mechanic is pretty much a time waster. The only reason for this to be in a game I can find is that it's supposed to teach kids, that digging does require some time and effort. Firsly I wasn't sure where you're supposed to click and tried clicking gems and stuff, but later I noticed that it doesn't matter. The 'tutorial' which is a link to a youtube video (which is a disguisting move in itself) didn't really explain to me how to play, it just showed me gameplay. The 3 star rating below is completely senseless. You get a star each time you uncover some bone pieces, and those usually are in more than 3 groups, so you keep looking for bones even after achieving 3 star rating that doesn't really mean anything. If it's tied to time then it's also bugged, since my first excavation was quite long.

The assembling bones part is the coolest thing in the game and it makes the game. I actually enjoyed it even though it wasn't even remotely exciting. It just looked nice, there wasn't anything bad about it, if you ignore the visible gray seams between bone puzzles you assemble. The game has absolutely no ending which is pretty dissappointing. Not even a small panel congratulating you on finishing the whole game. You should reward the player at the end.

Music choice is decent, children should be familiar with melodies like Hanabera.

[Dungeons Deep]

I assume this game was rather designed for touchscreens. I played it on mouse and well... I don't think it was as engaging as playing on the touch screen would be. Apart from that, we get yet another pixelated excuse for graphics and decent, little gameplay. I played little, reached 18th level and I think that I've experienced all the game has to offer. The "restart 5 levels below dying level" mechanic was a positive suprise to me, and that's cool. The treasure and high score surely motivate player to risk and play more.

As far as I'm concerned, enemies move quite randomly, maybe with prefference to reach player when he's nearby, so they're pretty easy to avoid. Multiplying them was a good choice. However, on the levels with 3x3 grid it is actually possible to get to the exit before enemies make second move, so if after the first move exit isn't blocked, you pretty much won the level. Knowing this, I was glad to see, that the grid got bigger later on.

It's not a game that I would come back to after some time, unfortunately.

Yozzik responds:

Hi fellow! Thanks for your review!

Actually the level grows bigger each 15-20 levels, up to a 7x7 with a hell of enemies. So, you can come back to it after some time. ;)

[ABoo Stack]

I really like it. It's great in it's simplicity and does actually look original to me. I'm a strong fan of games that try to show some kind of original mechanics, so that's a big plus from me. On the other hand, it's just a simple game that doesn't even encourage me to come back to it. It's not wrong, but it's not amazing either.

[Silent Neighbours]

In the beginning it was really confusing, I wasn't aware that you have to stand next to tv buttons, to interact with the tv. I clicked the tv numerous times while standing somewhere in the middle of it, and nothing changed, so I got stuck for a while, exploring the house. In situation like this, the slow character speed can be really pissing off.
On the other hand, I think that the fact that the character was a slow old man actually played a significant role here, gameplay and narration wise. Especially, since the game is quite short. Visuals ara standard for pixel games, music is fine, rest of effects (sound fx, animations) are decent. There's nothing really wrong in this game, but in my opinion it lacks some kind of clear climax, it's too short and the gameplay mechanics are pretty primitive. Anyway, good job. I believe you can improve with time and practice.

megakruts responds:

Thank you for your reveiw!

[Alien Web]

The promise of this game is really interesting. Unfortunately gameplay is crap. All you have to do is click couple of buttons on a sequence you probably cannot ever get wrong. Try looking at uplink or similiar hacking games, maybe you'll find great inspiration in their mechanics. I hope you'll improve.

[Destroy & Kill]

i have sentiment to those kind of submissions, but unfrotunately there's nothing interesting in here. If you have scripted page refresh to f5, then be informed that it doesn't work. 5f also doesn't naturally work, when the focus is on the submission.

There isn't much content to rate in the first place. You could have really developed this idea, like add more stages, some kind of timer and moving targets.