Monkius's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Boreal]

Ooooh, I hope that this evolves beyond a concept demo...

Once the game is longer, I think you should add a "run" feature. If the slow walking is for creepiness or suspense, consider having some parts where walk speed/direction is fixed and others where movement is free and faster. At the current movement speed, I found myself wasting bullets out of pure boredom.

I also think it didn't make much sense when the snow blocked the entrance, but there was still light inside of the bunker. Maybe give the mysterious protagonist a flashlight and have him/her navigate in the pitch dark with only one beam of light (until the lights are turned on, anyway.)

Alx101 responds:

Alright, thanks for your review! The flashlight idea sounds awsome, definitely something I'll look into for the further development!

[Pigs L Pixel]

It's a fun game once you get used to the alarmingly-fast jumping.

I dunno if I've missed something, but I did all 10 levels plus the "bonus," but still don't have the "King Pigs L" medal.

[Hex FRVR]

I like how this game forces you to think in multiple dimensions in order get a good score.

The music makes me think of post-apocalyptic Spongebob, with the accordion and sliding guitar...

[Cursed Islands]

As a proponent of "function>form," I have to say that the graphics didn't really bug me. I will say that it would be worth the extra effort of animating the whole 5 or 6 frames of the boat swaying from side-to-side, though. Rotating it in flash--what's that called? "Tweening?" Yeah, I think "tweening"--just gives the boat really weird, jagged edges, two-thirds of the time. Everything else looked great, though. (Okay, "great" is a little strong, but you know what I mean...)

What did strike me as interesting was the concept of a shorter RPG. I am not particularly a fan of games that have massive game worlds that you can easily get lost in. I don't really enjoy devoting like a hundred hours to "grinding," either. It's gotten to the point where it is actually /refreshing/ when an RPG exhibits neither of these traits, as yours does.

I also liked the simplicity of the battles and the healing system; I never felt the need for a tutorial (although other people obviously think differently...)

I'm giving you a "pass" on my only real gripe--that the game is a little short--since this is your first submission, lol. In the future, I think it would be cool to have a game somewhere between this and those 100-hour jobbies, length-wise.

This is a solid 4; great work, d00d! I'll be keeping an eye out for your future games.

[White Umbrellas]

This game really harshes my vibes, maan.

[Businessman simulator]

Добрый день!

I feel like a bit of a jerk for rating this what I did... I started off thinking that this was mixing a horrible, boring, addictive kind of game ("idle" games) with another horrible, addictive, boring kind of game (slots.)

However, I noticed that when I unlocked the second gambling game, the odds were more in favour of the player. With a bit of time and patience, it was possible to finish the game in fairly short order and the feeling of being "addicted" to playing it soon went away. I dare say that the second gambling game was actually pretty fun and required a bit of skill, too. More than just mindless clicking, anyway. So I ended up thinking "maybe this isn't so horrible, after all." :D

[Escape Plan: Splash Park]

It reminds me of an "SD" game, only without the BS pixel hunting that forces to look at a walkthrough so that he can make ad money.

Ha.

Great work, dood!

[Fancy Constructor]

It seemed pretty easy to me, at first. I think that in a lot of the earlier levels, the "blocks" started out very close to their end position, so you could just take the "path of least resistance" and solve the level easily. Then BANG. Level 13. Difficulty seems to ramp up like crazy. I gave up at that point, for lack of patience. It would be nice to be able to skip levels.

The more major thing here is that the block movement is a little too sensitive. Maybe try making the mouse a little less sensitive once the block is "held" by the mouse and being "dragged."

Making this sensitivity extra-irritating is the fact that the block is "dropped" whenever you move the mouse outside of the square "play area." I think it would be much less infuriating if you allowed the block to be "held," so long as the cursor is in the game window. But leave the "block" constrained to that "play area."