guthrie's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Tankmas ADVENTure 2024]

Tankmas was very badly missed last year.

Thank you so much to the many artists and programmers who worked hard to bring it back again! Newgrounds is the special place that it is because of collabs like this.

<3

[OBFUSCATION 100+]

This is a compelling idea, but progression is incredibly slow, unless I'm missing something crucial. It takes a ridiculous amount of time to build up 5 tokens, over a day of straight idling in my estimate. If that was your intention, that's great, but it's not what I would call "fun."

Interesting concept, execution is a bit lacking.

Edit: it took well over 2 days to get up to 5 tokens. Progress is much faster now, especially after a few updates from the submitter.

WaspVentMan responds:

I’m currently working on rebalancing the game, since I just fixed all the visual bugs and half implemented features for this version.

I get that it’s real fucking slow, since this is just a polished version of my second ever idle game, and I’m working on fixing it (and adding a real ending)

edit: update's out

[Bubblegum Blitz]

It's pretty obvious that this is a game for babies. Because even single bubbles will pop on a click, it requires no strategy and essentially is an endless time killer. Not much fun, just play for the medals and never think about it again.

[Starline Command]

It's incredibly brave of you to make a flight game with only one button input, but I think you did quite well given the limitation. Maybe a (very short!) tutorial at the start would help get over the initial frustration that all your plane does at the beginning is fly around in stupid circles. I have to admit I almost quit because I thought the game was broken, although I figured it out pretty quickly.

Nice game!

RowanFuture responds:

that is very fair honestly, I probably should add a tutorial that makes the controls clear

[Crab's Farm]

This clicker is not fun at all, has almost no interactivity, the music is annoying, and it takes way too long to progress. There's no endgame other than to collect the medals. I thought there could be an endgame, and because there isn't it feels like my time was completely wasted. I did not enjoy playing this. Can't imagine how long it would take without an autoclicker.

[Yule Duel]

This is a really fun game, but the Biblically Accurate card is way too difficult to find. I remember having that issue last year, too. Still, the game is designed well, and I love the art on the cards.

[Touchy Cube]

This game is absolutely infuriating, and the source of the frustration is the inconsistent clicking behavior. I think you should try to color the explosion effect differently based on a successful click, which would allow the player to learn what makes a successful launch or not.

[Runnin' Dude]

The art is pretty good but these hitboxes are absolutely ridiculous.

notarobot1126 responds:

Look were fixing it!

[Doom Night]

It's a completely fine point-and-click adventure. Nothing really special about it, though.

Also, the medals aren't working for me.