EdwardNight's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Glitched.]

It's an interesting concept as an experiment, though it takes a very uniquely talented individual to be any good at it. Many people will be very frustrated with the difficulty involved in controlling two characters simultaneously but separately, which is why most of the people playing this game will play it through as a normal game but twice, essentially. Congratulations! You've effectively doubled the time people will invest in this game without making them feel as though they're being dragged along.

Except...

The hitboxes are iffy, the controls are wood-stiff, and the playable characters fade into the background if you don't stare at them hard enough. Smooth out the control issues and brighten up your characters, and the visual side will be serviceable. The soundtrack could use some enhancement, too. Let's hear some incidental tracks instead of just an unbroken loop. I know we see a lot of comments claiming Newgrounders tend to play their own music while gaming. Give them a reason NOT to (without removing that option, of course. You never want to take away players' options a la Xbox One). Also, I keep hearing "WATCH OUT FOR SHREDDER" in the background of the loop. Who is this "Shredder"? Why should I be watching out for him? Is Shredder a "him", or am I merely projecting? Am I perhaps reading too much into this part of the audio track? Oh, look, my character just died, and we all learn a vital lesson about why unmotivated voice samples in the background loop of a game tend to drive players toward the "mute" button.

Very challenging game with a lot of promise. Most importantly, it's a very different platforming concept. Just need to iron out the... eh... technical issues.

(Okay, I really am getting tired of my computer yelling "WATCH OUT FOR SHREDDER" at me. So, at the risk of not being warned to watch out for some individual whose name or designation is "Shredder", I'm hitting the mute button myself.)

[Galactic Bombers]

What is it with people and forced multiplayer now? This is a functional concept, but it's entirely broken if I don't have someone else to play it with at all times.

[A small talk]

I absolutely LOVE this game. It's visceral. It's intellectual. It's challenging and yet deceptively simple. It's heartbreaking, but oddly uplifting. You can leave it feeling like the worst person in existence or the best person ever. Complain about the graphics if you will, but the game feel was perfect. Thank you, scriptwelder, for reintroducing the importance of the gaming experience as compared to just the sum of its parts.

[Elf Story]

In the third battle, the evade area refuses to respond. Other than being broken, it's a pretty good game.

[Evolvo]

It's great except fish constantly hide behind bigger fish, which makes it look like you can eat those bigger fish, so then you go to eat the bigger fish and get eaten.

[Arrow]

Come on, Tom! This is too far. I didn't mind as much when these advertisements invaded the margins, thus covering up the backgrounds community artists worked so hard to design, but somebody got shoved off the featured board for this crap. I don't think I'd mind so much if it was at least well done. This doesn't make me want to watch the CW's show more. In fact, I was very interested in seeing their take on the Green Arrow until now. If this is the level of quality the show's producers don't mind being attached to their project, I can only imagine it being slightly better (possibly slightly worse) than the Wonder Woman pilot.

[Talk Head]

The saving function is completely broken, loading text strings returns nothing more than a "bad url" error message, and now, I can't even create because the controls are completely blacked out. This is an utterly broken tool.

[The Final Experiment]

So, the key to survival is to mate like rabbits?

[Slime's Cake Quest]

Nice game with one major flaw. Collision detection is LAZILY HANDLED. This doesn't become all that apparent until you hit the spike level where you die even if you don't hit the spikes. Fix that, and you've got a playable game.

[Cubikill 5]

That was impressive. I've never been so bored playing a game involving nut shots in all my life!