Mekka23's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Noni and the innocent clowns]

It looks clean, although everything else needs a ton of work. While falling if you hold left or right into a wall you clip to it.

Also, these clowns being innocent is no fun! They don't deal any damage to you and you can ignore them entirely and move on the next area, which is the same exact level.

You don't have to upload the most polished thing ever, but at least finish your game before publishing it.

[Botty Ball 2.0]

Simple game, needs a lot of polishing. The idea itself isn't super interesting and I don't see any reason to play it for more than a few seconds.

Not a huge deal but I would have a language option because my spanish is rusty.

Explode58Games responds:

It is in quiet development that if there will be a language selector and other things only that state of absence but I will follow the project only my first game so please calm down xd

[Cat Museum Mystery]

Eh wasn't a huge fan of this. It was a weird mix between being a bit too easy while also not being too logical.

The soda for instance kinda put me off for example.

[Exit/Corners]

I normally hate visual novels. 10 seconds in and I considered backing out.
A minute or two in and I'm feeling tricked. "A puzzle game with one puzzle every hour?!"

Since then, I've finished every available chapter and it's been one of my favorite gaming experiences on newgrounds in a long time. Looking forward to the new chapters!

Percon responds:

I'll be honest with you: normally, I'm not crazy about visual novels either! I wanted to make something a bit more approachable with bite-sized episodes and puzzles to break things up.

Thanks for sticking with it, and I hope you'll tune in for new episodes as they're released (and maybe join the community on twitter/reddit)!

[Crypt Shyfter: Mon Magma]

I really liked this.. while it lasted.
I feel like there's no point in saving the game or even the cheat codes you unlock. There's no replayability.

Still, keep em coming!

CaptainJackTHAC0 responds:

Will do ;)

[CELLAR]

This was interesting, wish the puzzles were a lot harder and the art style itself took a little bit to accept.
Otherwise, good idea.

[Friend Clicker]

I think this could have been done while still having interesting gameplay.
Like maybe you have to keep up a rate of clicking or you could lose friends?
Wish honestly this could use a spacebar or something because just the sound alone of me clicking hundreds of times is annoying.

I liked the idea, and yeah as we get older we dont have as many friends but we also dont have as much patience to be clicking on something just to illustrate a point thats already realized.

JackAstral responds:

That's fair enough! It was just intended as a twist on those annoying clicker games I always see

thanks for trying it out :-)

[Rotation]

I thought this was a great first attempt, better than what I could do i'm sure.
The controls were very sloppy and felt delayed.
Also, in the beginning you can walk right off the ground, into the sky and off the screen. There's a couple boundary issues here and there.

Also, the text is a bit awkward, In the future I would run it by a native english speaker to give it the go-ahead. It just reads a bit unnatural is all.

AL1989 responds:

Thanks for your opinion!! I know my creation is not that great more or like a student work and below average.
I will fix the bugs asap. And ya I'm not native speaker so my language is a bit awkward to the native.

[Infinite Surfer]

Once upgrades are installed I can see this being an app I spend some time on.
Hard to say without knowing what you have in development.
Hoping the boards aren't just cosmetic and that there are some differences.

[The Guardian]

First off, the art was definitely amazing. I felt it really nailed that flixel/shadow of the colossus look.
Now, the audio throughout the game was an issue. These long gaps of walking over and over coupled with lack of ANY audio, including sound effects made it seem even more dragged. Even wind or maybe the sounds of birds in the distance. The stomping of the guardians feet. All elements that could've been utilized better in my opinion.
As I mentioned before, the walking was a bit tedious and I feel like you could have told the same story without having the player rewalk the same path, especially as a pixel it just seemed like filler. "Oh collect more berries >_>"
Overall, your concept is there. Story wise it could use some work. Even some grammatical errors here and there. Keep it up though, definitely had potential.