Viridis's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Being a Helpful NG'er]

Good :D

Excellent, this is a great "Interactive Movie" ;P and you did a great job on it, its informative and easy to understand and im sure it will help alot of people. It even taught me a thing or two. Hahaha. ;P

Graphically it was plain and simple but good, because i hate tutorials and such with great big fancy backgrounds where you cant read anything because of all the distracting pictures in your way, nice and Grey and White. Very good indeed. The buttons were nice too, easy to see, and all the screenshots taken and put into the flash were clear and understandable, if a little bit off quality at times.

The sound was alright, not my style but it fit the flash, and a nice mute button for those who do not want to listen to the music. This flash covered alot in it and its gonna help all the n00bs on here, but it needs more views and publicity for it to be seen damn it. I'll recommend it for a collection now!! :D

Overall it was great. There's only one problem with it as far as i can see, and i blame Corky for this, WHY WASN'T I LISTED AS A GREAT REVIEWER!? Look through my reviews and you will see i put lots of lvoe into every word and i've never had one deleted. I'm insulted. ;)
Nice work guys.

<3

RohantheBarbarian responds:

Wow, awesome review, glad you liked it!

Em, the helpful reviewers were sort of chosen fairly quickly, a few names popped into our heads and we checked them out. You'd have definitely made the list had your name come up.

Thanks for the review!

[Newgrounds Helpful Guide]

Yummy Quiz

Ooh!! A game, i haven't reviewed any of your stuff for a while now Yoshi! I like this game, its cool and lets you know what sort of a Newgrounder you are, even though it may be a bit far fetched, i got a score of 44 meaning that i would be a worthy Moderator, even though i'm not so sure about that. I wouldnt like to Mod the BBS, but i'd love to be a Review Mod. ^_~

Graphically its nice, presented pretty nicely using the normal Newgrounds yellow and orange beams, gotta love those beams! It looks bright and colourful, very nice. I like the buttons, the buttons for selecting your answers were very BBS like and they fit the whole theme of the quiz. Nice work on the presentation overall. ^_^

The sound was alright, not exactly my choice of music but its Newgroundsy which fit the quiz, and im very happy you put a dirty big MUTE button in there for people like me, it allowed me to quiz and listen to Slipknot at the same time. THNX ^_~

The questions were of a good quality, but there werent very many, so next time make more so you can evaluate better, you could use questions such as:
What colour is your aura?
Whats your posts per day?
How many times have you been banned?
And many more, if you decide to make another, consult me for questions bitch!! :D

Overall its a bitchin quiz, i like it and your flash submissions seem to be getting better and better, im proud of you! :D
Also get on MSN more often, i hate using AIM. I havent chatted to you in ages. D:
Congrats on dialy second as well my friend. Excellent Quiz.

<3

Sispri responds:

Thanks man. ;) Be on later.

[Button Finder 2]

Not bad!

This was a cool game, a nice little game that provides a challenging little time waster, fun to play and really mind bending as well as sometimes you cant see the button for ages, then its in a really obvious spot. Nice work.

Graphically it could of been better, The overall presentation of each level was alright, but the pictures could of been better, and the menus were a bit sloppy, could of jazzed em up a little bit ya know?

Cool Music for it though, gave a good atmosphere! Good choice for it. Well Done.

Overall a good game, took me a while to complete and i enjoyed playing it, nice level variety and it was difficult, which is good for a puzzle game, nice work on this and hopefully we'll have a uton finder 3 coming our way.

<3

[Review Request Club]

EmmDubya responds:

Thanks for high vote. The menu on 3 is more well made. It's amazing how the first half of reviews were saying that they didn't enjoy the music and the second liking it. You completed all 45 levels!?

[Awesome Sprite Tutorial]

Great!!

Great tutorial, and very helpful. Im sure this will help lots of upcoming sprite flash artists in the near future. We dont see too many good sprite flashes nowadays. :(

Ths tutorial was very clear, nice black bacround, coupled with occasional animation and pictures. It was very easy to understand and very clear. The lack of music was good, as i have looked through too many tutorials with annoying music in the backround.

Overall a great tutorial. Nice work!!

[Review request Club]

Swizardv2 responds:

Glad that you liked it, thanks for the review =]

[Choices: a poem]

New And Innovative

Hmmm this is new, but its not bad, its very creative for one thing and the poetry in it isnt half bad. Nice work, its nice to see Newgrounders exploring new ways of expresing themselves through flash and this is a good one.

To be honest the presentation is terrible, lets start with the main menu, its bland, boring and doesnt fit. You'd think for something as expressive and creative as poetry you could of done a bit more graphically? It unbalances the style of the flash.
Plain white backrounds and cut and pasted images dont do anything for appearance, it makes it look sloppy and rushed. :/
One major annoyance was the constant font changing throughout the poetry reading, its not necessary.

There was no animation to speak of, but the whole choose your path interactivity side of the flash was very interesting and i like the idea. The narrative was good, the vocals were clear and enunciated well so i could understand. The reading was very expressive as well, was that you reading?

Overall its good, needs work to perfect but i liked it, i hope to see mroe creative and interesting flashes like this from you soon, and i may even have a go at making one myself. If i do ill credit you. :P

Graphics/Presentation - 4
Animation/Interactivity - 7
Audio/Music - 6
[Review Request Club]

Vert responds:

Wow, thanks for the extremly detailed review! It's always nice for an author to have someone review their work in such detail. Let me reply to some of your points:

Did you really think that the menu was that bad? I mean, I can agree that using pasted images wasn't the best idea (but I thought it was better than leaving nothing or, even worse, me actually drawing something!), but I thought the menu had a minimalist quality to it... guess not. =[

Because there is no animation at all in my flash, I tried using the font changes in attempt to keep things less repetitive. Again, I thought it was reasonable, but I can understand if you didn't like it, because even to me it doesn't feel altogether natural.

The presentation as a whole is naturally where I'll concentrate my efforts in improving, should I try to make another flash poem, probably by acquiring a co-author (given the lack of personal skills in this sort of thing).

As regard to the reading, yes, I did everything in the flash, including the reading of the poem. I do occasionally do voice acting, but I have terrible track record (of the 4 projects I've participated, only one has been sucessivly concluded!). Feel free to PM me if you ever need one.

Oh, and I'd heartily encourage you to try and make something "creative", I've felt that NG could do with some more variety in the type of flashes it receives.

Thanks for the compliments and the critique!

[Kill Boe 2]

Class

I liked this, it was really cool and you see alot of "Kill ____" stuff but yours are the most original, you had many ways of killing him off and all them made me laugh, as none of them were quite what i was expecting. :P

The graphics were good, the simple style suited this well, nice colours too. Blank white backrounds for the most part were good too. I liked how you put an equal amount of effort into each death scene and didnt get sloppy.
The animation and interactivity were good too, the animation was smooth and the only problem i had with these was the death selection bar, it was kind of annoying to use. :/

The sounds were pretty good too, the sound effects used were nice and varied, and were timed well. I didnt like the menu music though, it was alright at first but after a while it really got on my nerves.

Overall it was good, i saw you mentioned a third will be made and i look forward to seeing it. Nice work with this one though.

Graphics - 8
Animation - 8
Sound - 7

[Review Request Club]

Graeme responds:

I cut the amount of deaths short. I felt if I made more, then I might start getting sloppy, and they would lose someof their quality.

I just liked the death selection bar. I thought it was cool. Only thing I wish, is that it had a memory, so it knew what the last song you were on was, and positioned itself accordingly.

Right now the 3rd is looking fairly distant future. But maybe I'll post in the RRC when it's made, and you will get to see it.

[LoZ:A Link to the Future]

Hmmm

It has alot of potential, but maybe work on the events and collision detection. Especially the collision detection. First I thought "YAY! Rupee farming!" Then I figured out that those enemies are the same way... So it got pretty old in about a minute...
Some more details in the background would have been nice, and better movement and more sprites.
Apart from this it could be a really good game, but it needs some work.

[REVIEW rEQUEST cLUB]

ZiggyZack99 responds:

Thanks.

[Windows XYZ]

Hmmm

Hmmm, another one of these wierd pc parodies, this wasnt very good, boring game for a start. I didnt look great either, this wasnt covincing at all.
The screensaver thing was a bit weird. When i wnet to change it the image takes up the whole screen. Also, in the media player, it doesn't seem to be able to choose another MP3 path. I couldn't find a way to get back to that.
Needs alot of improving.

[Review Request Club]

ZiggyZack99 responds:

OK.

[NSG015: Apples & Bananas]

Apples And Bananas!

I got 19/21, i want a visual cock joke :(
This was a REALLY weird game, one of the wierdest and most original ive played in a while, it made me lol. Cool concept but what does it have to do with Pico Day?!

The graphics were simple enough, nice clear buttons and backrounds, and the characters at the end were well drawn. The photographs were crisp and clear as well. Good job.
The music kinda freaked me out though, it was scarily wierd. LOL

Overall it was a pleasure to play and i hope to see more strange and unusual games coming in the near future. Nice work Bez!

[Review request club]

Bezman responds:

The visual cock joke needs to be visualised. In your mind.

See Pico's School's opening dialogue for the connection. Does no-one else pay attention???
It even has the same teacher (wearing the same clothes) at the end...

Thanks for the comments on everything.

Great review!

[NSG014: ASFree]

Its ok

Hmmm this game was really hard, as i didnt get wnhat i was supposed to be doing at the start, and even when i did things prefectly it told me i lost. The idea behind the game was good, but you didnt show it in a god enough way. It needs work in the gameplay and instruction area. Maybe add levels too.
You need to add audio to it as well, to have something substansial in the background. Apart from that it was alright.

[Review request Club]

Bezman responds:

I thought everyone would work out the game as they went along, but I guess I forget that not everyone thinks exactly like me.

On the last frame of the game, there's a 'secret winning button'. It's invisible.
However, if you follow the trails and clues, you'll be able to find exactly where the button is.

Because of the AS-Free nature, levels aren't an option. Audio is something I should have done though, yeah.