Mushman's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Newground Quiz]

What was wrong with the first one?

This is a really good idea. I played the first on but couldn't be bothered finishing it. Make another one. They're real good.

HomerDough responds:

I'm glad you liked it

[Chuck Attack!]

What is up with Chuck Norris?

It's like people hail Chuck Norris as a god. Well, he's just some nerd who made Google (as far as I know). Making a game of him just makes you as nerdy as him. And, no, you wont be as rich as he is either.

[ForsakenLandsbyDMA]

What are you supposed to do?

Your actiohn scripting is really bad. I can barely kill the guys there. Work on it.

[Alcazar]

Inspiration?

Did you get inspired to make this game by playing Icy Tower? Anyway it's a good game but I gave up at level 9 where there are the fragile platforms. Keep improving.

[Run Ronaldo Run]

Another great game from 2D Play

Heheheh. Look at him run. Good set up. Easy to play. Too bad normal users can't make things this quality.

[Vault: Code Breaker]

Didn't like it

I know you have to do the letters of the alphabet to crack the code but I lost interest by level 2. I got Lv2 but I also got bored.

[Fan Game 0.3]

Another Good Version

OK. Very good. I beat the game but with only 5 deaths and 6 minutes and 40 seconds. I recognised this was mainly because you got rid of fan death. Though it was annoying it kept the deaths up and the gameplay with that. Thanks for using my idea of the status bars and good thought with the auto-fail (even though I didn't use it) a pause button would be good and more levels and a level select after you beat the game. Bugs. If you try hard enough you can push the critters into the wall. That's only one. Good thing you fixed the bug where you get stuck in corners. V0.4 will be better yet I'd say. Keep up the good work!

LuckyLollipopLad responds:

Thanks for the feedback re: final stats.

Not sure if you're trying to say it's too easy now or not.

I was kinda considering having difficulty levels - hard: fandeath turned on, normal: like here. Maybe easy - fan has a smaller range and maybe critters stay in the portal?

But I think it might overcomplicate the game and I think if you died 5 times, that's still a fair bit for 7 levels.

I want to shift the focus elsewhere.

Status bar - thank you for caring enough to suggest it.
Pause button - I didn't see any point before as all previous levels could be completed in around 10s. But with the way the levels are going (like the last one of this v) I may put one in.

Next version will hopefully warrant a version number than 0.4. Maybe more like 0.47 ;-)

Bugs will hopefully be hunted down and eliminated. Check my author's comments for all I'm gonna do.

Glad you're enjoying 'em.

Thanks for the hyper-awesome review!

Stay funky!

[Fan Game 0.2]

Great Work!

Great work. Here are a few ideas, comments and bugs.
I got up to Level 6 and beat it. Well I should've. But the game wouldn't let me proceed to the last level. I had all of the critters in the protal and it wouldn't let me pass. This is a big bug you need to fix. Another bug is that the fan keeps going when you press the replay button. This moves the critter (sometimes into awkward / deadly positions) and sometimes make you kill a critter that was there. Plus it's pretty hard to get them out of the corners. Fix please.
Now to some ideas. How about you can add a status bar a the top / side / corner of the screen showing the time deaths and level. And put the level number on the death screen. Make the portal / blue circle look bigger than it really is so then you can get the critters in there and if you need to, re-position them. Also put the time in minutes : seconds. No really big ideas.
Now comments. By the time I "finished" level 6 I had 54 deaths and had spent 575 seconds (9 minutes and 35 seconds) on the game. Good gameplay. I was playing Fan Game V0.1 yesterday and couldn't get past the 1st level (mainly because you put too many critters in too early) and blammed it. Yeah. But now you've upgraded it and it's much better. So keep up the good work. I'm now waiting for V0.3 tomorow.

LuckyLollipopLad responds:

Your review is awesome. Basically as good as it can get. Thanks so much.

level 6 - I noticed this bug when I uploaded. Wasn't sure what to do as I couldn't sort it (it works at a different place in the timeline... it's wierd). I'll have a quick go again at working out the problem tonight. If I can't work it out, I'll just delete it.

Replay button - yeah. That was a design oversight. I'll make it so you get the pointer when you win/lose.

Hard to get out the corners - I will shrink the play-field to fix this.

Status bar - maybe. I'll try and fit it in for v1 anyway.

" level number on the death screen" - will do.

"Make the portal / blue circle look bigger than it really is so then you can get the critters in there and if you need to, re-position them." Not sure what you mean. If it looked bigger than it really was, folk'd get annoyed as it'd look like they should win when they hadn't. You've still got enough room to reposition them a bit anyway.

" put the time in minutes : seconds" Will do. I need to sort out other timer problems first though. (Seconds keep increasing, but don't keep updating, if you see what I mean.)

"No really big ideas." That's fine. Your ideas, specially the comments about tricky corners, were useful and excellent.

Beauty is in the details. ;-)

Glad you found this a big improvement. I didn't release a new version, mainly because I was away. Also, I'm slightly worried about pissing folk off by releasing similar things too often. I'll probably make it tonight though.

Thanks again for the awesome review.

Stay funky!

[Super Mario Sunshine 64]

Fun but too Glitchy

OK. Let me be the first to say that's an awsome game. But much too glitchy. You've programed it really good but you really must upgrade it and get rid of them. The idea and the gameplay are GREAT! But when it freezes and stuff, well, it's bad. I hope it saved my game or esle... Anyway I got through the first 1/5 of the game. But the sprites required to open levels are too low. I only 100% completed the 1st level and beat the mini games and I had unlocked the 2nd last level. Honestly, yes, it's true other games on here take 5 minutes to beat but this won't take hours. Maybe 1 hour but that's it. But remember, it's the best game on here so keep up the good work!