Score: 9

"Cheap enemies and good time fun"

submission: Portal Defenders

date: March 28, 2009

Alright, I must admit that even though I'm more of a console gamer than a computer gamer, I had to try this out and promptly got hooked. I still suck at fighting games, but it's fun for what I get out of it.

However, I just experienced an odd glitch and I'm too lazy to root through 2,400+ comments to see if anyone's had the same thing.
I was fighting Mindchamber as Dan Paladin and was running around trying to get the missiles to hit MC. When I lap back around the room, MC is gone but his life bar is still up. I look all around... and I'm stuck. So I closed the game since I was more than half dead anyway.
This was probably a fluke, but I thought I'd mention it anyway.

Score: 8

"Ew."

submission: Fucking Kids!

date: November 15, 2008

Oh, you sick sick person, you... :P At least it was effective at burning itself into the brain. I did like how you did the framing at the beginning.

But I guess when you're popular, you can get away with submissions that barely stand within guidelines, and sometimes not even that.

I'm not popular enough, so my radical feminist flash scripts will have to wait. ...Then again, with a 98% male viewing audience, it probably wouldn't pass no matter how popular I'd get.

Score: 10

"Had a lot of fun figuring this game out!"

submission: Journeys of Reemus

date: September 6, 2008

I haven't read through the 300+ comments, so I don't know if this bug has been reported or fixed yet:

In level 2, after you jump down on the sponge, if you click on Liam his mouth will keep moving and his eye will blink after the text bubble is gone.

Still, great game! You deserve a reward for all the hard work put into this!

Score: 9

"Oh god..."

submission: Roshi's New talent

date: May 20, 2008

This is deceptively good. If it were just colored decently (heck, even just filling in the characters with white would be great) and the drawings more refined, this thing would no doubt be on the front page. :D

Score: 6

"Not bad... for a Dr. Who fan flash"

submission: Doctor Who: The Season 3

date: April 5, 2008

Sorry for the low-ish rating, but I tend to be too critical for my own good. ^^; Also, I'm not a fan of the Dr. Who series (except for maybe a few episodes here and there). Anyway, onto the critique:

The subject matter is definitely something you only see coming from true Doctor Who fans, so you're got a pretty clear field when it comes to decent fan animations.

The audio is horrible, but you can't really do anything about it as the show's sound was recorded on hissy, crackly magnetic tape and then having it degraded further when the show was recorded on VHS. In other words, the sound in this flash was a perfect copy of the original. XD

The drawing and animation... sad to say, needs some improvement. Even having the arms fleshed out would be great. I do like how you made the faces, though.

Overall... The pokemon reference made me laugh, and that's good enough for me!

Score: 10

"Wonderful piece of animation!"

submission: Promenade the Puzzle

date: February 29, 2008

To me, the animation conveyed the trappings of addiction. It starts out pleasant and comforting, but even near the beginning a hint of malice crosses the smoke's face... The smoker eventually gives in to the lustful pleasures, despite the small warnings, as seen with his initial coughing. He keeps going back to his cigarette, wanting more pleasure, and the smoke keeps giving it to him.
...But after so long, addiction shows its true colors by taking away his health and betraying him. By now it is too late, and addiction has consumed him while he slowly dies.
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Ironically, I've found the flash itself addictive! The pacing could've been a bit better, but I'm pretty sure that was due to music synchronization constraints. The flickering black-and-white is distracting for the first viewing or two, but after multiple viewings (unless one is prone to epileptic seizures), it's not quite as noticeable. The graphics are amazing, clean, and beautifully done, especially considering that a lot of it was shape tweening, which is hard to pull off convincingly.

You do some amazing work, and I hope to see more in the future!

Score: 4

"I can sorta agree."

submission: Awesome Grounds

date: January 10, 2008

Sadly on Newgrounds, people will lick up whatever crumbs they can find as long as it has a familiar sauce to it. Sure, a few of them were funny like the Prince of Persia one (sorry if I have no taste, but anyone who's played that game should feel that the douchebag prince deserves it...), but after 2 or 3 barrel scrapers it does get kinda dull/irritating. What's really bothersome is that I'm pretty sure he was commissioned and paid to make these things by the G Hole, so he's been paid twice over.

As for the flash itself, it could use a reworking. Sadly, if you had included even some intermediate fbf animation and a more consise monologue without all the long pauses, I'm sure this would've gotten a higher score.

Score: 7

"Ok I guess..."

submission: The Inquisitorial Charge

date: December 6, 2007

The way you made this simply cries out, "I need a Wacom tablet!!" :3

Unfortunately, the flash doesn't seem to convey much of a story. Some guy dressed in robes stands in a honeycomb-like library looking at books through a microscope. o_o; I've never read the book, but surely there's more to it than that.

Still, it's a good try. Next time just give it a bit more oomph with a story that has at least one cause 'n effect mechanism worked into it.

Score: 5

"I've only one thing to say:"

submission: The Masked Mosquito 2

date: November 19, 2007

Ctrl+Alt+Shift+C.

Trust me, it works wonders for getting that pesky file size to a minimum. :)

Score: 8

"Good...short, but good..."

submission: Heist II - Greed is Hell

date: November 16, 2007

There's a lot to be explained in the game, but I guess that's what adds to the charm. :)

I got through on my first try (albeit part of it was inadvertent cheating by watching over the shoulder of someone else), but I never did find those two other keys. ...So is the washer locked for no reason, or can it be opened in the current update?

Also I learned the hard way that to pry out the nails, you have to get it out on the first click. If you don't, the mouse resets itself but it still has the tooltip showing. Many frustrating clicks were spent trying to get those damn nails out. :(