Renegade-Hamster's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Journeys of Reemus]

Very good

Beautiful graphics, odd puzzles that test your brain, and a satisfying ending.

Please tell me that your next game will be a continuation of this series!

[TD: Demenius' Darkness.]

Some problems

You've designed it so that you go back to the beginning of the level if you touch a bad guy. It makes for some really annoying gameplay.

The jumping is a little slow, and it doesn't correspond to how long you hold down the jump key. e.g. just tapping it and holding it have the same effect: a really big slow jump.

I understand if you need to study programming a bit more, so please don't take my criticism as an insult. I'm just telling you what needs to be improved.

TheCriminalDuder responds:

I know... This game was made also as a practice for programming.

[Ragdoll Invaders]

This is a fun game!

But the controls are so unwieldy. It's like I'm piloting... a RAGDOLL!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

...Ahem.

[Plankton Life 2]

Cute, but not a lot to offer

The graphics are very cute and nice, but the gameplay could be more exciting. It becomes repetitive quickly, because the enemies do not change their behaviour, there seems to be little consequence for getting hit, and each time you "evolve" (more like metamorphose), you don't change very significantly, so you have to play for ages just to see you turn into something different.

The controls are a little annoying too, where moving in the same direction causes you to increase in speed, and you bounce off the walls. It felt very clumsy and handled like a dump truck.

Shooting would be a fun element to include in future versions, too.

[Slug Smash!]

Fun at first, but gets frustrating

Nice game, but you must give us more than one life. All it does is frustrate the player, and nobody finds this "challenging". If you gave us a save point at the end of a level, or gave us three lives for the entire game, or even a sheild item or something, it would be much more fun.

As it is, it's fun until you get hit once. Then you have to start all over again.

Greg-Anims responds:

yeah youre right. Mistake on my part in terms of game design. but hey..im still learning!

[Swept to the End]

Good, but needs work on the gameplay

Great graphics, style, and animation.

The gameplay was fun, but you've got to tweak the controls to make this less annoying.

The back attack is S and the up attack is A. This is confusing, and since this is an action game, we shouldn't have to be constantly figuring out the controls. It should be natural and easy to remember. D= forward attack, S= up attack, A= back attack. That's what it should be.

Another thing that was annoying was how you could get stuck on a bad guy, and keep getting hurt without being able to do anything about it. I suggest giving the player a small time of invincibility after he gets hit, so this doesn't happen.

SecretSecretary responds:

Great suggestions that I will agree on and will all take with me to the future! Thanks.

[Shen Long - Spirit Dragon]

Good game

A really nice game. The graphics are great, the animation of the dragon is fluid, and the concept is interesting.

The control scheme is too unresponsive, even when using the mouse. Making it more responsive would stop the dragon looking serene, but beauty should be sacrificed for the good of the gameplay.

[Tomb Chess]

Great game, but not anything like Chinese Chess

It takes a bit of a learning curve to figure out how to use the luck-based piece summoning to your advantage, but after that, this is a really fun and addictive game to play.

I don't know why you compare it to Chinese Chess. I've checked the rules of Chinese Chess, as well as several other chess-like games from different cultures, and it is not similar to any of them, least of all Chiness Chess, which, like "Western Chess", is far more complicated.

Some other reviewers have claimed there is a strong similarity to stratego, but that is not the case either.

It's hard to say if this game is unique in its rules, but I cannot find any other game like it.

Graphics are good, animation could be better.

[Super Chick Sisters]

At first, I thought this was a joke

Since Pamela Anderson was the one breaking the news about KFC's mistreatment of chickens, I thought it would turn out that the big news is that KFC kills the chickens for us to eat, and that she just found this out. You know, a bit of a joke on Pam's ignorance, especially since she didn't even know uggboots (aka sheepskin boots) were made out of sheepskin, and was horrified when she found out.

But as I kept playing I noticed these little protesters spewing old urban myths about KFC as if it was fact. What deceitful propaganda. No, they do not "de-beak" the birds. No, they do not scald the chickens alive. It seems people are willing to believe any rumours they hear about large multi-national corporations, because they already believe them to be evil.

Another thing I noticed is that the KFC flag changes to a PeTA flag when you end the level. PeTA is not the friendly animal loving organisation they claim to be. They don't believe that humans should have any control over animals AT ALL. They don't want people keeping animals in zoos, (even in breeding programs) and not even as pets. Infact, per year, they euthanise more animals than they save.

The gameplay itself is a good standard platformer, but the propaganda left a bad taste in my mouth.

P.S. Please do not think my disagreement with your views is because I eat at KFC. I don't. Also please do not think I am so naive as to believe that KFC is a completely righteous, upstanding organisation. Perhaps they do mistreat their birds, but it's not in the way you describe.

FunkWaxPuppie responds:

Thanks for your comments. I do WISH these were urban myths -- and I would love to be proven wrong on this -- but undercover investigations in numerous award winning KFC's 'supplier of the year' establishments, whistleblowers who used to work in KFC supplier companies, and former members of KFC's own animal welfare board tell another story... :( Aparently these practices are accepted and somewhat routine, but KFC refuses to implement even the most basic welfare improvements.

I actually used to eat and enjoy KFC, but after hearing about this god awful stuff, there's no way I will go near the place any more...

[Trigma]

I like this

It's a very different type of space shooter. What a good, simple concept.

5/5