Auz's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[First Light]

Nice time waster

I liked it. It was a nice time waster. It had a good lay-out as well, I liked the relaxing color you used for the background. The music was a little bit weird, but I thought it was good.

I just have one complaint, and that was that quite often new black dots were dropped right next to me or upon me so that I immediatly lost the point that I just gained. This annoyed me a little, you should do something about that.

Overall 8 out of 10, 4 out of 5. It was nice, short and simple. Very diffecult as well, I did my best but had loads of trouble getting to 18 points... =/ Anyways, keep up the good work and I hope to see more.

~Auz, Review Request Club
(#459)

[Visual Illusions 4]

Interesting stuff

I like these sort of things and I was glad that there was some stuff here that I´ve never seen before. My favorite was the thing with the flags and the Cyan color, I wish you had added some more of those.

Not all the illusions seemed to work for me though. The flashing square with the dots that you created yourself did not seem to work that well. All I saw were small yellow edges around the dots, but I think those were there already. The reversal thing with the cube didn´t seem to work either, I kept seeing the same cube from the same angle.

As for what to improve, one thing that annoyed me a little was the add that popped up when switching menus. It wasn´t that much of a problem, but it seemed to me like some sort of bug that you just couldn´t fix. Also, the lay-out could be improved a little perhaps. The music was alright. It´s not really what I would call great music, but it was good that it was there.

Overall 7 out of 10, 3 out of 5. I thought it was an interesting submission. I would like to see some more. Keep up the good work.

~Auz, Review Request Club
(#458)

Treerung responds:

Hey the cube illusions works fine..but it took me like 15mins of looking at it to see it..In my opinion its actually the coolest illusion here and I definetly recommend that you take a second look at it.. just follow the blocks through with your eyes and you should see it.

[NSG015: Apples & Bananas]

Nice

Quite a funny game. The graphics were pretty good, and I liked how all the pictures were black and white. I guess it would´ve been way too easy if they were colored so that was a good idea. The little animation after you answered a question also looked nice.

As for what could improve, I think the backgroundsong was a little annoying. It was funny at first, but I just had to turn off the speakers after a while. It almost drove me crazy.

Also, the game has absolutely 0 replay value as all the pictures are the same and they stay in the exact same order. Maybe you should add a lot more pictures and let the program pick 20 randomly.

Overall 7 out of 10, 3 out of 5. It was a nice time-waster. Keep up the good work.

~Auz, Review Request Club

Bezman responds:

Originally, I was gonna have the starting ones be coloured, then go B&W, then pixellated, blurred etc. I think starting off with B&W art helps show that it's not gonna remain totally easy throughout though.

The text took a little bit of experimenting. I almost didn't bother adding the trails for 'wrong' and 'timeout' but it definitely makes a big difference.

Sorry about the song. It's meant to be my version of the song that I think Tom Fulp references in Pico's School, but my mic had static and I didn't spend the requisite amount of time to get it to sound good... I guess I could ask someone else to do a better version...

Randomly chosen pics? Maybe for next year...

Thanks for the great review!

[Scottoons Cat-a-pult]

Great!

I must say, this is one of the most fun kitten cannon type games I´ve ever played. The graphics were pretty good, the sounds were good, but what I liked most was the fact that you actually had some influence during the flight by being able to let the kitten float for a while. This was a great idea since some of the flights took long and it would be boring to sit back and watch your kitten gets blown up over and over again. I do think the kitten had too much energy though, I could float for about a whole minute which was a little long.

Another bad point was that the high score list didn´t always seemed to load properly, which was too bad since I had a good top 10 score in height (1100+ feet) and possibly a top 10 score in distance as well (12,540 feet). I wasn´t able to submit these which was kinda frustrating since the flight was like almost 5 minutes long.

Overall 8 out of 10, 4 out of 5. It was a very enjoyable game. I hope to see some more. Keep up the excellent work.

~Auz, Review Request Club

Scottoons responds:

Wow, thanks Auz. I appreciate the feedback! You have mentioned exatly why I made this game... to have some control during flight. :) THat's what I wanted when playing the other cannon launcher games. I'm not sure what is going on with the leaderboards. Most of the time it connects great but there are some odd instances where it does not.
Thank you again for the comments!

[Rockin 2 Fame]

Not bad

I think the idea of this game was pretty good. The drawings were pretty nice and the music was good. I liked the fact that you choose music from the audio portal. The extra mini-games were nice as well. I think there is still much too improve however.

Although the drawings were good, the animation was a bit choppy, even on low quality. Especially in the intro movie, but also during the concerts. This was pretty annoying since it made me miss quite a lot of those arrows and costed me some points. Also, I think the game needs to get rid of some pointless stuff. The pool table, dress-up game and the slot machine were nice like I said, but those things were almost more fun than the actual game. It´s okay if you keep them in, but I think it would´ve been better if you had focussed more on important things. Like creating a map that´s actually bigger than just the house, adding usefull stuff to spent your money on (a bigger house for example), maybe adding a bit more of a plot as well.

Overall 7 out of 10, 3 out of 5. I think this could become an awesome game if you develop and expand it a bit more. I really hope you´ll do that. Keep up the good work.

~Auz, Review Request Club

[A How to of Sprites]

Good tutorial

I already knew most of the stuff in this tutorial, but that´s okay. It was easy to follow and it explains the most important stuff about sprites. It´s good that you added a lot of pics as examples, it really helped the explanation. The lay-out was also pretty nice. The text was easy to read, except for the song titles. Maybe you should use a different font for them.

As for what else could improve. The only thing is that I didn´t like any of the three songs much. But at least you added three totally different songs and at least I could turn them off by using that handy button you added, so it´s alright.

Overall 8 out of 10, 4 out of 5. If you follow this closely I´m sure you´ll should be able to make a decent sprite movie. You did a pretty good job here, keep up the good work. I´ll suggest this for the flash tutorial collection.

~Auz, Review Request Club

knuxrouge responds:

Well, I'm glad you liked the usefulness of it, the songs are "Zetsubo Billy, by Maximum the Hormone", "Ichirrino Hana, by High and Mighty Color" and the more famous "Fukai Mori, by Do As Infinity.". Sorry you didn't like them, but thats all chocked up to person opinion. I mean, how was I supposed to know what kind of songs you like?
But thanks for your review. I'm glad you found it helpful.

[Short Term Memory Test]

Nice

Cool, I was two digits above average on my highest score :p I must say it kinda depended on what number showed up. 121,212,121 is obviously easier to remember than 456,234,787 for example. But like you said, you needed a couple of tries before you could really make an accurate guess on how good your short term memory is. It might´ve been better if you had made it so that you get a few tries, the game remembers your scores and gives you an average in the end.

The game itself was pretty well made in my opinion. Very nice backgroundmusic, nice music buttons, graphics were alright and I didn´t found any bugs. The only thing that you can still improve by a bit is the lay-out I think. Especially the font and color of the text. That was a bit standard, try a nicer looking font and perhaps make the textcolor white. The clock just looked a bit ugly in my opinion and maybe you should change the backgroundcolor as well.

Overall 7 out of 10, 3 out of 5. I think this was pretty good. I hope you´re gonna try and improve this game and perhaps make a more expanded version with more kinds of memory tests and stuff. Keep up the great work!

~Auz, Review Request Club

MinusNick responds:

Thanks for the review! I really need to develop some sense of artisticness; everyone says it's not that great, lol. But I'm glad you liked the gameplay, and I will DEFINITELY work a whole lot on the visuals of the next one.

[Defend Your Dirt]

Good game

This was a pretty good game in my opinion. The graphics are nice, but not that spectacular. I also liked the fact that your "pile of dirt" keeps getting bigger which made the game harder and harder as you proceeded. The last few levels were really insane though, even on wimpy level I had trouble trying to survive. I doubt it's possible to beat this on medium or an even higher level. Anyways, I think the system of having to pick up upgrades instead of having to buy them was a good idea as well.

As for what could improve. The game got a little repetive after a while. I think you should deffinatly add different types of enemies. Enemies that are big and slow, enemies that are weak but fast etc. Maybe even some boss enemies. That would make it a bit more interesting. Different types of weapons could be nice too. Not just energyballs, but also laserbeams, rockets and stuff like that to shoot at your enemies. Ability to lay down mines would probably be fun as well.

Overall 8 out of 10, 4 out of 5. The game could still use a bit of improvement, but overall I think it was nicely made. Keep up the good work.

~Auz

pillowbasher responds:

Thanks a lot.

Haha, it probably is impossible in the harder modes, I think I might have made the dirt too big.

[Turf war]

Nice

Good parts:
The graphics were very good. I liked the drawings and you used a nice mix of colors. I also liked the weapons you can use, they were fun and interesting. The weapon-buying system was nice as well, although I think the amount of cash you get is a bit too much. I never had any money trouble.

Bad parts:
I think the game ran a little bit slow. Especially when throwing weapons across the field. You did not have much time to walk or switch weapons, so quite often (because it ran slow) it happened to me that I lost my turn. Perhaps you could give us a bit more time, like 45 secs. Also, I think the music was a bit repetitive, but luckily there was a button to turn it off.

Overall 7 out of 10, 3 out of 5. A good game, it was fun. Keep up the good work.

~Auz