fuckoffasshole's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Dungeon Blocks]

Classic masterpiece with high replay value. Too bad that this game doesn't have medals, as I would get them easily. Either make a sequel or develop it for steam, or whatever.

[Zombie Society - Death after death #2/3]

Jesus christ. This is brilliant. The message and the game. I don't really care for medals, maybe someday I get them all, but this is a brilliant submission. It has a great re-playability, as well as skip button.

Muja responds:

Ahah thanks a lot for your nice review and your enthusiasm. You probably get where I'm going with the story... but I have a coulpe of twists up my sleeve yet, I hope you'll like them.

(It seems that skip button was really needed, I'll remember that for all my future projects)

[A Snack in A Castle]

I'll bite and try to give you a useful review.

The game itself is actually good, the mechanics work well, and the gameplay is good with the upgrade system engaging the player to play for longer than a minute. Of course, you should always try to improve yourself, if you want to make games, and who knows, maybe someday become a pro. The worst and most difficult part in making a game, which is coding, and making the game working, is not a problem, since you already proved that you are capable of that. But what this game obviously needs are good graphics and slightly better sound.

Apparently, you are "no budget games", but the beauty of newgrounds is that you don't need budget, you just need to find someone who can work with you. Search for someone who is good at pixel art (pixel art is an instant 5/5 always, every time), ask that person to create some graphics for your game, then search for someone who is good at making video game songs (there is a whole genre here dedicated only to that), and voila, a good game is made. And of course, don't forget about giving credit when credit is due.

Obviously, I assume that you made this game "just because", but you never know when it stops being a hobby, and becomes a lucrative job. It's much better to start with one good game being a hit, than making thousand meh games.

And that's it from me. Now, I'm going to get drunk, because it's weekend.

[Lost]

Indeed it's short. That's why only 4/5. But otherwise perfect. Consider adding medals, OR making a longer version. I will definitely vote it for february's bests pick, though.

Galbert responds:

Thanks a bunch! I added medals now, thanks for the suggestion~

[IceCream Puzzle]

The game is so-so, but you should upload the loop music from the menu.
You should overall publish the soundtrack from the game.
It's one of the best things I had heard in my life, and I heard a lot.

[We used to be Neighbours]

I've seen two endings, and the game did not convince me on your message.
It's kind of funny, because you yourself reward the player for being harsh tyrant much MORE in term of points, than for choosing the multi-cultural way.

I don't think you gave a good example in your game. And I don't think you understand the meaning of the word "multi-culturalism". You presented TWO NEIGHBORS, who look the SAME, and whose only difference is color? It would work better, if you wanted to make statement about "racism" and "racial issues", but even then it would be very simplistic. If we use the word "multi", I think we should talk about more than only two types, and also about a radically different types of people.

Personally, I don't believe in multi-culti, because every nation, every culture and race desires a safe space for themselves. A space, where they can just be themselves and live the way that they believe. Not to mention that multi-culti tends to be associated with media censorship, political correctness, lack of constructive criticism, and instead offers "don't worry, be happy" attitude, which is exactly what's your message was, because in your opinion, every real and serious problem magically disappears, if we just don't worry and be happy.

Now, what is happiness? The newest game, movie, product, or values, family, love, future, safety? Or having power, being superior, dominating others? Every person will have different set of values and will define happiness differently. It's funny that people think that in a concept based on different cultures and mentalities, that somehow these mixed groups of people would have unified goals, dreams, morality, and desires.

Look at USA, and how many problems this country has on daily basis. So many decades passed, and I don't see any positive progress, and I doubt I will ever see. Let's look at history. Rome became multi-cultural and it fall, Yugoslavia tried to be multi-cultural, and it ended in regular genocide. ZSRR was multi-cultural, and we know how bad this union was. Of course, these are purposely negative examples.

So let's look at positive one. Let's look at UE. It also is multi-cultural, there is huge freedom there, no dictatorship, no oppression, and yet, it has nowadays huge problems with rapes, assaults, and overall increased crime rate. And it keeps increasing. And governments are clueless on how to deal with this, as they keep debating and debating, while nothing is being done.

ENOUGH POLITICS, LET'S TALK ABOUT THE GAME. WHAT I WROTE SO FAR HAD NO BEARING ON MY JUDGEMENT OF THE GAME.

The game itself is okay, it's a little difficult, the graphics aren't impressive, but aren't shitty, and the gameplay is challenging, it requires a lot of trial and error, and I did try to experiment with various strategies. So definitely I can see a potential. Also, very good sounds used. So the overall aesthetics are good, and the game has this slight "artsy" feel, which is good as well.

You definitely have a potential to be a good creator, and I will look forward to your future projects.

axoona responds:

Thank's for taking the time to write such a thourough review!

Well the game is obviously a simplification of an overwise complex pro
blem. Red and blue is just an image, I explicitely didn't want to use any real identification, because you can find many other situations of "wall building" (be it religion, race, sex or sexual orientaion...), but it was inspired by the actual migrant crisis in Europe. I actually don't know of any real multi-cultural society in Europe. USRR and Yugoslavia were tyrannies with one nation imposing on all the others and nowadays what we call multi-culti in France or Britain isn't really. There's always a bunch of taboos that prevent from talking openly about rasism problems.
I do believe that we could solve many problems by accepting people as they are. What we give (or don't give) will eventually come back to us. There are bad people in this world, but I believe that most just want to live a peacefull life without hurting anyone (on purpose) no matter what their background. It's ironic that even though there are so many bad people amongst the people we call "us", we are more afraid of the peaceful people that are different in some way.

But I agree with you that nothing will ever change. The recent extreme right wing rise all around the world just confirms this. There's a lot of talking and no doing. The politicians think only about the next elections. Human rights are reinforced if there is money behind. And there's no political vision of what we would like our world to look like in 10, 20 or 50 years...

Anyway thank's again for commenting on the game! I really appriciate.

[Smashing Slots : PDS]

144 score and 4 machines later I blew up the world. It doesn't matter how long you play, to blow up the world, you need to have an error / Jackpot.

Which is RoboJebus, The Beast, Damian.

Overall, I didn't like it, but I do like the medal.

[Faces of 2012]

eh, apparently one of the entries was removed by author (bottom row, "the dude that shoots lasers")...

it's weird that I already knew more than half of these toons, and yet, it took me a while to have 100%.
I guess some descriptions are purposely misleading, to make the challenge more interesting.

anyway, I really love it (even if half of the entries probably didn't deserve being featured), because it gets me in teh nostalgic mode, to the point of me needing tissues. it's only 3 years since it was submitted, and yet it feels like it was decades. How come the time flies by so quickly?

[They Live: The Game]

There is this unspoken rule on newgrounds that you have to mandatory give deathink 5, or else you'll get the hose again. But I also give extra 5, because I like X-Men, and Genclops has Cyclops as an avatar.

At first, the game was confusing, and I was massacred mercilessly, while also earning medals.
Then, I was sad that I had death penalty, but later I realized that you can escape the bank and thus
gaining points. Then I wondered, how do you get x8 combo, and later realized that you have to wear sunglasses, and that it's most effective when you use both special and sunglasses to have easy combos. And from then, it was easy as hell.

I love tributes to games, and I love retro / pixel tribute to games, which is why I love the (legendary) The Room tribute made by Fulp and co. I didn't know that Piper is ded. First Craven, now Piper.
The last 2 years weren't merciful for the greats, weren't they?

It might be also one of the longest reviews I wrote, and I wonder, if there is something constructive criticism that I can give, but there is none.

The only thing I do want to do, is to give advice to players - be patient, and don't give up early, and all rewards will be yours. Okay, now I can go drink beer.

deathink responds:

Thank you very much my man.

[Symbiosis]

Oh my god I loved that game! Now when I have an account, I have to replay all the games I've beaten many times for medals, but this one is going to be enjoyable.

Love it, love it, love it, and I'm happy that you made a sort of sequel