Score: 9

"Nice"

submission: Thing-Thing Arena 3

date: March 23, 2009

I think this was a really good game. Graphics and all looked very nice and all the options you have are pretty good. It´s nice that you can adjust your own character and there are plenty of arena´s, weapons and types of enemies. A lot of variety in the weapons as well, which is great. I would say the diffeculty is also perfect. I remember in your former Thing-Thing games I had lots of trouble, but this one seemed a bit easier but not too easy.

It´s nice that this game got medals too, even though the medals are a bit repetitive as they basicly want you to play at least 20 matches of killing 100 enemies. It takes quite a long time to get them all and it basicly involves doing the same over and over and over again. But they´re just an extra so it´s not big deal. And I got them all anyway.

As for bad points, I can not really think of anything. I did not find any bugs, the game worked very smoothly so that is another good point. The only thing I might say is that I did not always like the music. But I could turn it off if I wanted to, so this was also not a big deal.

Overall 9 out of 10, 5 out of 5. A nice game overall. Had a lot of fun playing it. Hope to see more from you soon, keep up the excellent work.

~Auz

Score: 4

"Unplayable"

submission: Fear Unlimited Issue2

date: March 18, 2009

The artwork in this game is nice. Drawings, graphics and special effects all look very good. The music and sounds are also good. Even though I am not a big fan of that type of music, it suits the game well I think. Upgrade system, ranking system, boss battles and a storyline are all good additions as well that make the game much more interesting.

But my problem is that the game is very buggy and glitched. I'll just mention a few bugs I encountered, I am sure you've already heard of some before:
-At the start of the game, sometimes I fall through the floor making my character invisible. Before I can move I have to attack, but an enemy also spawns immediatly who sometimes slashes my character.
-After all the button mashing, I have a feeling the game stops to respond after a while or responds very slowly. What mainly happens is that I am unable to use my D + down attack while in mid-air. This is very annoying because I use it very often. This could also be caused by my own keyboard, but it´s working fine while typing this review and playing other games so I think it´s an ingame problem.
-Medals added to this game do not show up in the game itself. On the list it still says I have 0 medals, while I have 5 in reality.
-Saving a game often does not work. I notice a lot of times that after making upgrades, saving the game and restarting, the game did not save those upgrades. So every time I restart I have to do all the changes I did before again and pray that it works. This is also very annoying.
-It does not save changes I made in the equipment section. I always have to make changes again after closing the game and opening it. Perhaps this is something that still needs to be implented, not really a bug. But it would be nice if you implented it someday.
-The camera stood still a few times after jumping from a wall. Usually the game fixed this if I jumped into the camera again, but sometimes the camera stayed on top of the screen and my character became invisible.

A bad point I would like to mention is that the actual fun part of the fighting, building up massive combo´s, kinda gets ruined by the fact that most of the enemies are not hindered by getting hit and will slash you in mid-combo. Also, you often pass by them while performing a combo so that they will stab you in the back. Because of that, the main and almost only strategy for the game is just "run and gun" and spamming helldrive like an idiot on tougher, boss enemies. Run and gun really isn´t that much fun, so I hope you will make some changes in the fighting engine of the game. Like making enemies fly as fast as you when you hit them, and always make them go in the opposite direction of where they get hit.

Another bad point that I would like to mention is that the menu is very unorganized. There are so many submenu´s everywhere and usually there is only one way to get somewhere. This makes it kinda like a maze and I was a bit lost the first few times I played this. Perhaps it would be better if there were links to all the menu´s at the top or bottom of the screen.

Overall 4 out of 10, 2 out of 5. Because of all the bugs, glitches and the fighting engine kind of ignoring the laws of nature in many ways, the game becomes almost unplayable in my opinion. Therefore I can´t say I really liked it. My advice is to work a bit more on the playability of the game and spend less time on artwork. I prefer a game that plays well over a game that only looks nice. Hope you´ll improve this game one day, because it does have a lot of potential.

~Auz

Score: 6

"Not bad"

submission: Merry Cupcake

date: February 25, 2009

Not a bad animation. I must say I did kinda like it. There´s still some stuff that could be improved though.

The drawings of this movie in itself weren´t that impressive. Both the characters and the stuff in the room seemed pretty basic. So they could be a little better and I suggest you practice with that. Perhaps you should especially practice with the use of colors and shades. I think that would improve it a lot. The animation was pretty good on the other hand. Except for when the cupcake 'came out of his eye'. That part seemed a little choppy, adding a few more frames would fix that I suppose.

Also, I suggest adding subtitles. In some parts I really couldn´t hear what was said. Not that it mattered that much in this case because I got the overall joke, but perhaps in your other projects it could be a problem.

The backgroundmusic was nice I thought. It helped giving the movie an overdramatic atmosphere, which added to the humor of the flash. The voice-acting was alright in my opinion. Could be better, but it´s probably pretty hard to find really good voice-actors so it´s fine this way.

Overall 6 out of 10, 3 out of 5. Well, I did kinda like it as I said above. Just keep practicing and I`m sure you´ll produce some great flashes someday. Keep it up and good luck with any future projects.

~Auz

Score: 10

"Wonderful"

submission: 2 - The Story of Khale

date: February 1, 2009

This is really a great movie and I´m sure this is gonna become one of the best series on Newgrounds. Your drawings and animation skills are awesome. I rarely see anyone with better drawing skills. As a matter of fact, I don´t think I know anyone, besides Chluaid maybe. The styles of you two seem to be quite similar. You both make very detailed and wonderful drawings and you both create a whole fantasy world around a certain main character. Also you both use certain types of music in your animations. I hope you don´t mind if I compare you to him by the way. I can imagine you get a bit sick of that as you have probably heard it many times in the reviews.

But anyways, your series has voice-acting in it which is nice. The voice-acting was well done so far. Just a bit hard to hear sometimes, so perhaps some subtitles would be a good idea for your future episodes.

Overall 10 out of 10, 5 out of 5. Well I hope to see the next episode soon. And I really wonder when this series will be finished, since 42 episodes is really a lot and it took you over a year to do two. I can imagine you need your time, but I just hope you´re not gonna give up somewhere halfway because the project is to big. Anyways, I added this episode to my favorites a long time ago, just like your first. Keep up the excellent work and good luck with creating the rest of the series.

~Auz
(500th review)

Score: 10

"Great!"

submission: Coldplay - Yellow

date: February 1, 2009

This was a really good movie in my opinion. The drawing style is really great. It is indeed a bit Gorrilaz-like, and I personally love that style of drawing. Everything is also animated well. I think the music was very good as well. Yellow is one of my favorite songs from Coldplay and it suited well in this movie.

As for bad point, I don´t think there is much bad to say about this movie. Only in the very first few seconds, the guys head seemed to dissappear for a brief moment. Only for like.. a few milliseconds, that was a bit weird. If you ever wanna improve anything on this video, take another look at that.

Overall 10 out of 10, 5 out of 5. I added this movie to my favorites a long time ago. Really loved it, and I would like to see more from you. Keep up the excellent work.

~Auz

Score: 5

"The first episode was much better"

submission: Waddle Dee's Wild Day 2/3

date: February 1, 2009

I liked the first episode more to be honest. The random, stupid humor turned more into ordinary randomness and I would´ve left out the scene at the end if I were you. More like almost the entire second half of the episode. It was just weird and I couldn´t really read most of the text as it dissappeared quickly. I know there was a pause button there, but I don´t feel like pressing the pause and play button every second just to follow a conversation that is not really going anywhere. It´s a little annoying, so just make it go slower next time you make a scene like that.

And also, you say your goal was that the people would actually watch/read the credits if you added a scene like that, but I have not read any of it as all my attention went to what was happening at the right side of the screen. There it seemed only two people got credited between the lines, while after looking it back there were more people mentioned in the textcredits. So perhaps next time blend all of them in the conversation.

For the rest, the music and sounds were still pretty good. The sprite animation was alright, it seemed a bit more fluent than the first episode so I guess you´ve made some progress there. And the scene-selection at the menu is also a plus. It´s always nice of those are implented.

Overall 5 out of 10, 2 out of 5. Well, I hope your last episode is gonna be a lot better. Just keep some more of that random humor in it, like you did in episode one. And perhaps do try to at a little bit of a plot in between, to keep things interesting.

~Auz

Score: 8

"Good, but too long"

submission: Zelda: Gorons Need Liquor

date: February 1, 2009

This movie had some funny moments as well. The part after the Goron took the drink was pretty funny and well made with the time-slow scene. "Do you have any idea how fast you were going?" was a good one too. After that I think the movie dragged on a bit, and I think some scenes could´ve been left out. Such as the Dodongo scene and the scene with Clarence. Basicly the whole ending could´ve been better as it ended quite abruptly too. If you were planning to end it abruptly, you might as well have ended it after the "When I´m drunk I am the second best driver, only to myself"-joke.

Anyways the voiceacting was good as always. I assume that BarryToon guy did some of the voices as well, and I thought they were very good. He also has a good voice for this.

Another point of critic that I have by the way is: Why you have not subtitled the conversations in this one? You didn´t even bother to change the original text or anything. Original text was barely readable though, but I think you should´ve subtitled it again like you did in your older voice-overs. Makes it way easier to follow the movie.

Overall 8 out of 10, 4 out of 5. A good and entertaining movie, but not your best voice-over if I´m honest.

~Auz

Score: 5

"Not bad, but not that good either"

submission: MSLand C3E2

date: February 1, 2009

The drawings could´ve been better, but some parts were alright. The newsreader guy looked pretty good for example and the mouths were nicely animated I thought. Also I liked the dustcloud behind that guy when he was barricading the door. Thought that was kinda funny.

It´s good that there was a button added to continue the dialogue. At least I could read it at my own pace and could pause the movie for a while if I wanted to. The sounds were also good, but adding more sounds would be nice I think. Voices would especially be nice, but I don´t know if you have a good microphone/a good voice for that. Otherwise just leave it at text, but do add more other sounds like hammering for example as Haggard already suggested.

Also I can see your english wasn´t always that good :p But that was okay, since it was still followable for as far as I could follow the movie. Haven´t watched the former episodes so some stuff came over a bit weird, but I could see what was going on.

Overall 5 out of 10, 2 out of 5. Not bad, but not that good either all in all. Practice a bit more on drawing and add some more sounds and I think we could have a pretty good movie here. Good luck with the rest of your series.

~Auz

Score: 8

"Too much defending"

submission: Get Off My Planet

date: February 1, 2009

I think it was a good game, but not the most fun defence game I´ve ever played. Graphicwise it was all really good and the backgroundmusic was awesome in my opinion. That Ben Leffler guy did a really good job here. The whole idea of invading a planet and keep it from aliens who attack from all sides was quite interesting too, especially the way how that concept was put into this game.

But the bad point of this game was that I was constantly busy with defending, even on nooblet diffeculty. After a while I barely had money and time to do anything else because the waves just kept coming and it was hard to keep my head above the water. In the end I usually lost the game because of too few powerplants. And the bad part with that was that buildings got more expensive as you bought more of them. So I needed to get like 1800 cash for one more powerplant, which was way too expensive.

So what I suggest is that the buildings do not start to cost more as you buy more of them. Just have them have a fixed price. I think that will take away the "constantly keeping your head above the water"-thing.

Also I think I found a bug in the game. When I lost and started over, sometimes I was unable to build the base city. It just didn´t show up when I moved my mouse over the planet, so I had to restart the game. You might wanna take another look at that.

Overall 8 out of 10, 4 out of 5. The diffeculty of the game ruined it a bit for me to be honest. Still it was good and well made and fairly enjoyable too. I do hope you´re gonna make a few more adjustments, this could really be one of the best defence games on newgrounds.

~Auz

Score: 9

"Very addicting and fun"

submission: Boxhead: More Rooms

date: February 1, 2009

It´s a really addicting game, and a lot of fun too. I could really play this game for hours without getting bored. Getting killed after a long game was kinda dissapointing though, so that´s when I usually felt like quiting.

But anyways, I think it´s a really good game. The score system was very good in my opinion. It´s fun that after a while you get thousands and thousands of points by just shooting one zombie. Yet it was still diffecult to get your score up to 10,000,000 points. Often I could hardly imagine I got such a small amount of points after a long game. It was also nice that you needed to make combos to get upgrades, although after the fastfire shotgun with max damage and 80 ammo most of the upgrades didn´t matter much anymore. That was really the best weapon in the game I think. Rocket Launchers and all that shit were way to dangerous to use when the field got crowded and the Rail Gun was kinda dissapointing.

There´s not much to improve about this game, except that I would´ve liked some backgroundmusic I think. Sure, I can turn on music of my own but that doesn´t mix very well with gun and explosion sounds. Also I kinda disliked the fact that if you were close to one of those devil creatures and they started throwing fireballs, it was hard to get out of their combo and that was usually the way I got killed. That was kinda frustrating.

Overall 9 out of 10, 5 out of 5. Really good game, I really liked it. Added it to my favorites. I haven´t played any of the other Boxhead games yet, except the Zombie Wars I think. But I liked this one better to be honest. But anyway, keep up the excellent work and I hope to see some more of these.

~Auz