Auz's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Medieval Massacre]

Nice, but much too diffecult =S

This game was way too hard in my opinion. Is it even possible to get to a high level? I didn´t got further then level 3. In the first level I was able to survive quite easily, but I still had taken some damage on my wall. I lost my wall in the second level, those lava guys had too much HP in my opinion. I couldn´t stop them before they reached the wall, even when I hitted them with about 4-5 shots. Then they came for the Tesla Coil. I was able to stop the first one, but there´s always about three on the field at the same time. Please make this a little less. I couldn´t beat level 3 cause those spearman made it much too diffecult and you had to defeat dozens of them before you completed the level. Please keep them out till level 10 or something.

I was also unable to buy any good upgrades. I buyed a lot of faster reloading, but this didn´t helped much. You just don´t get enough cash in this game. Either make the upgrades cheaper or make us get more gold for defeating enemies.

As for other stuff. The graphics were pretty nice, but the enemies didn´t looked that good. The background could also use some trees and stuff like that. I didn´t liked the music much, don´t think it suits a game like this and it was kinda depressing somehow. A different song would be nice.

Overall 7 out of 10, 3 out of 5. It´s really a shame that this game is so incredibly hard. But I´m sure it´s not much of a problem making it a little easier. Anyway, keep it up and good luck with your next flashes.

[Avian Wars]

Great game

I think it was a very nice game. It has good graphics, nice sounds, a nice story and I especially like all the different game modes you added.

There were a few bad things in this as well though. First of, controlling the plane was a little annoying and I´m talking about moving to the right or the left. It accelerates very slowly and once I was finally behind the plane I wanted to attack, it kept on moving till it was at the side of the screen. I suppose this was to make it look more realistic, but I just got a little annoyed by it. And I was lucky the enemy planes also went to the side of the screen a lot, otherwise the battles would take very long.

Second, when there was a lot of firing and a lot of explosions etc. the game started to run a little slow and the sound-quality became very bad.

And third, I dunno if you did this on purpose, but the enemies could actually shoot eachother down while they were attacking me. I thought that was great of course, it made huge battles a lot easier, but perhaps you want to change that.

Overall 8 out of 10, 4 out of 5. I enjoyed this game. I´ve been playing it for quite a while now and I´m still not bored or anything. Still it could be a little bit better, I hope you will improve a bit on all the stuff I wrote above. Congrats with you daily first and please make some more...

~Auz

josh-tamugaia responds:

Your review is very meaningful and informative. I appreciate it.

Well, for the plane controls, the slow acceleration is because of the plane model. If you use a different model (not in campaign mode), it could be faster.

Sound quality, yea, it became bad when lots of explosions happen. I'll be sure to avoid that in later games.

3rd, yea I did that on purpose, to make huge battles a lot easier, as you predicted. I won't wanna take the way the fun of dodging an enemy laser that would later gun down the enemy's on ally!

Thanks again for the review. Avian Wars 2 (if there is one) will be in 3D. I'm fed up of the limitations of 2D.

[Fishie]

Simple...I liked it

Personally I think this was the best version of Fishy that I´ve every played. It was very nice that you could choose the diffeculity level. And that you could make the game as diffecult as you wanted with the custom menu was great. Moving to the left and to the right was also new to me. It´s nothing big, but I liked it cause you don´t get trapped by huge fishes in a corner now. Always thought that was very annoying in the other Fishy games.

The graphics in this were decent. It´s probably the only thing that you could improve on. Unless you added powerups and stuff like that. Would be cool, but I´m not sure if that really is such a good idea. Anyway, you could improve a little on the graphics like I said. Nothing looked bad, but it could look a little better. However, if you decide to work on the graphics a bit more, do try to keep it simple. The simple style of this flash was also something that I really liked. And I also liked the music. Even if it was the same tune the whole time, it didn´t bored me or anything...

Overall 8 out of 10, 4 out of 5. Well it was great in my opinion, one of the best things I´ve seen today actually. I really hope it´ll win an award. It´s not gonna win a daily first or review crew pick or anything, but daily 4th-5th... Anyway keep up the good work and hope to see some more from you.

~Auz

adypete responds:

thanx for the review

yeah, about the graphics, im not normaly any good at graphics, but i gave it a ok this time and thaught they where ok, but yes, im sure they could be better

and yeah, i thaught about powerups and such, but decided id like to keep the game nice and simple, don't want to complecate the game

i too hope it wins an award, but not too sure on its chances

['Kin Edd: Into the Abyss]

Making it shorter is a big improvement

I played it while it was under judgement yesterday and even though it looked pretty good, I thought it was very, very boring. It took ages before you finally got to the bottom. But I see that you made the game a lot shorter now, which is a very big improvement in my opinion.

However, isn´t it a whole lot harder to win the game? I really did the best I could, but the highest score I got was only 48%. I dunno what the minimum score is to win, but it seems impossible to me to beat this game. You´ve made the enemies come in a lot faster, but Kin Edd is still very slow. I think it would be fair if he got a little speed boost as well, it would make the game a bit easier.

As for other stuff, well everything still looks great. Liked the style of this game a lot. The music got a little boring after a while, but since the game doesn´t take that long anymore, it´s okay. The interactivity could improve a little bit maybe. I prefer to use the keyboard instead of the mouse.

Overall 7 out of 10, 3 out of 5. Yesterday I wanted to review it and I would´ve given it a 4 out of 10 probably. Making it shorter was a great idea. Anyway, congrats with the award and keep up the good work.

Leonardo-Da-Finchy responds:

The minimum score to win is 50%. The minimum score for a great victory is 75%, which I struggle to get myself, but is possible.

I'm glad you liked the style, and... I'm still figuring out how to incorporate keyboard commands. The game isn't harder at all, the enemies don't come any quicker, it just switches type sooner. Maybe you just got into the flow of things before (which is why it got so boring) but now there isn't time.

Reading your review was the first time I knew of the reward!

Thanks for the review!

[Thing-Thing Arena 2]

Great game

Graphics: Graphics were very good. Really nothing to complain about here, except that I don´t really like all those dark areas. But the guns, the backgrounds, enemies, the main-character, the animation, everything looked great.

Sounds/Music: These were also okay. I didn´t liked the music that much, but it suits the game pretty well. Also a good thing that you added many different songs.

Interactivity: The diffeculity of the game really depended on lots of things. First thing is of course the mode you pick. I think Zombie Survival and Sentry Survival were very easy. The zombies were very slow at moving and attacking, so you could go on for hours without having any damage at all (the annoying thing was that the game runned very slow later on cause of all the blood). Sentry was a little bit more diffecult, but dodging them wasn´t that hard either. A fast one flies at you once in a while, but you also get more then enough health boxes. I had 1100+ kills and my lifebar has been full most of the time. The game doesn´t seem to get any harder after a while, so I got a little bored. Would be better if you added a few more (stronger) types of sentries/zombies as well maybe. The Stinky Bean survival was very diffecult, those creatures are extremely annoying and hard to kill. Only 100 kills was my highest score there. Ultimate survival was the best mode in my opinion. It wasn´t so hard that you die in a minute and it wasn´t so easy that you stop out of boredom either.

Second thing was the level. There was one level that didn´t had many platforms to jump on, which made it very hard to escape when the enemies came from both sides. So when you got a good level, it was easier to get into the high score list. I think you should make it so that every mode has it´s own level.

Third thing were the items the enemy dropped. The Gauss-gun and the Auto-12 were by far the most powerful ones (although the Gauss gun shot right through the enemies sometimes without doing any damage at all) and if you got plenty of clocks and health boxes, the game is a lot easier.

Overall 9 out of 10, 5 out of 5. There could be some improvement at some places, but overall the game was very nice in my opinion. Congrats with all the deserved awards and I hope to see some more great games like this. Keep up the excellent work.

~Auz

[Air Hockey Ikoncity]

Nice game

Graphics: Very nice graphics. Menuscreen looked very good and the airhockey table was also looking great.

Sounds/Music: The sounds were alright in this. Can´t really complain about them. The music ,however, was a little repetive in my opinion. It was okay, but it really started to get boring after a while. I would choose some different backgroundmusic.

Interactivity: Menuscreen was not much special (except that it looked very good). Perhaps you could add a highscore list and stuff like that there. And maybe you could add some more options for matches there as well (like 1 on 1, 2 player mode, first to 10, hit the targets etc.). As for the controls, they were very easy, which is good. The only bad thing is that if you move your mouse to fast, you won´t hit the puck. Seems to be a problem in every Air-Hockey game though, so I guess that can´t be fixed.

Overall 8 out of 10, 4 out of 5. I think this was a very nice to play, very enjoyable. Hope you can make a few more of these, keep up the great work.

[Jungle Fruit]

Too bad this got flagged

Excellent game. Really liked it a lot. The graphics were pretty well made and the sounds were also good. The game itself is pretty simple, but I´ve never seen anything like it before.

Only thing that I think it really misses is backgroundmusic. Don´t really like it when it´s so quiet. I´m sure it´s not that hard to find a good backgroundsong for this, so please, if you ever read this, add some backgroundmusic. Another thing I did not really liked was that sometimes I had only one barrel left on the field and about 10 barrels remaining, and I just didn´t got the right barrel and went game over. This was very annoying, so maybe it would be better if you only got like 5 barrels, but always have the right one.

Overall 9 out of 10, 5 out of 5. Really liked it a lot like I said. Hope you´ll improve on the points above, but I don´t really expect anything. The game has been out for almost a year and I´m probably the only one who still knows it exists. Really too bad for you that this got flagged unfairly. Missed a lot of attention that way.

[Year of the Snake]

Liked it

I really liked this game a lot. The graphics were very good, I especially liked the blue-slashing effect, that looked cool. The sounds were also pretty good. Liked the bird sounds at the background. Still I think you could improve this game a little at some points.

First off, I think you should add a few (more) sword combo´s and stuff. The current moves were okay, but just keep pressing A,A,A all the time gets boring after a while. And it was too hard hitting enemies while jumping. More combo´s would deffinatly make the fights more interesting and fun. Second, the bird sounds at the background were nice like I said, but I wouldn´t mind if you added some real music as well. And third, you could think of a story for this maybe. I´d like to know why I have to kill all these monsters and why a village is burning and who the main character exactly is and what he´s doing there etc. It´s not totally necessary, but I just think games like this should have a good story.

Overall 8 out of 10, 4 out of 5. Well it could improve a little, but I think it was very good overall. I hope you´ll make some more of these, keep up the excellent work.

[Swords and Sandals]

Enjoyed it

A very nice game. Really enjoyed playing this. What I especially liked about this game was that there were only 3 places to go to. In most RPG-like games there are a whole lot of places to go which is pretty confusing. I also liked the battle system. I know it was turn-based, but the fights went pretty faster and looked a lot more realistic.

There were also a few things that I didnt liked though. First off, once you lose a fight, you have to start all over again. That´s pretty annoying, especially if you got really far. Would be better if you go back to the last champion you defeated for example. Second, the enemies differed a lot. Sometimes you had to fight a pretty easy one first and then a very hard one after. Would be better if the enemies become a little bit more diffecult after each fight.

Overall 8 out of 10, 4 out of 5. Really enjoyed it like I said. I hppe you´ll make some more of these, keep up the excellent work.

[Chaos Faction]

Awesome

Excellent game. Liked this one a lot more then the recently submitted "Super Smash Flash". All the moves, powerups, (unlockable) stages and characters really make this a great game. There was even a level editor =) awesome.

I don´t think there´s much that can improve in this game. Only thing I can think of is that in the campaign mode, it is easy to finish the first 8 levels and 2 bonus levels. I finished 67% of the game in less then 10 minutes. I had some more trouble with the "hard" levels, but those matches usually ended up in 5-4 or something. And also they shouldn´t be any trouble at all if you get the right items thrown before your feet. Perhaps you should add more levels or make the stages a little longer. Like there´s 2 rounds or you first have 2 rounds against many easy-to-beat characters and fight the unlockable one as a boss at the end.

Overall 9 out of 10, 5 out of 5. I really enjoyed playing this game and I´m sure I will play this more often in the future. I hope you´ll make a lot more of these. Keep up the excellent work.