Luis's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[The Nutcracker]

Middle of the Road

I'm late in playing this game but now that i finally have i figured id review it.

I think it panned out to be a very mediocre experience... i think that its good that you had a good variety of minigames but i think they all arent fully executed and i almost wish that you concentrated on one concept if you feel like by doing that, you'd nail it. The first level was kind of dry. the enemies have no AI ... the nutcracker feels sluggish even at the worst quality setting.. storywise.. its kind of wierd that the nutcracker is fighting toys, he's like supposed to rule over them...not be out destroying em.
The second level, uff this was so frusterating... its impossible not to get hurt, you never feel that incontrol of the character, im glad my life bar gave up draining at some point cause i would have been trashed.
The indestrotank level was pretty good, it ran smooth it felt like a bonus level and reward for getting through that nitemare of level 2... the horse level back to nitemare mode.. ^___________________^

did you beta test this? i mena i know you all just did this as a quickie but i feel like alot of the issues could have been buttoned up if you had an average joe go through it...

its cool that you had the trophies feature but you have to figure that if its so frusterating, who is going to want to give it another go?

Art wise, Bom's sprites were pretty good, some stuff was a bit scruffy some stuff was pretty stylish. Kudos to getting around to using tom's tablet <3

I think this could be a nice little game but you gotta put yourselves in the shoes of the average player this was a hard lesson i learned myself in camp hostility... when you make games youre serving the public and not really yourself.. so if something just isnt that engaging then you gotta tweak it to satisfy the general consensus.

Happy Holidays fellow Regs.

Glaiel-Gamer responds:

Feliz Navidad Luis

[Nameless THE GAME]

Totally non helpful review. i dont give a fuck.

Doesnt having house arrest mean you have MORE time to answer reviews and masturbate?

Anywho congratz on daily first. the rwd lovezzz you.

LazyMuffin responds:

Yeah, but his mom wont let him talk to friends.
:c

[Defend Your Temple 2]

jewtasticcc

Sign me up for a circumcision this game was fantastic.

FrostedMuffins responds:

I love you Luis!!!! Thanks for everything :)

[Newgrounds Levels]

informative

really creative stuff... one of the few entries where i was literally laughing at the screen. Imma favorite it.

[Lemon Smash]

hi tharr

Pretty fun for such a brainless little concept...

Coaly responds:

Thanks b, pezzo appreciates your comment.

[Luis Day 2: Splooge]

holy shit.

this is the most out of control entry ive seen... i didnt know my life was so hectic.

[Mexican Hat Catch]

i do like sombreros

thanks you two. It was a nice little game, imma favorite it.

Depredation responds:

Why thank you good sir ;). Glad you liked it.

[Edward.]

Not bad, maybe a bit too hyped tho

This is probably the best thing your duo has made thus far and for that kudos. Its good you are breaking into much larger projects than the low scale ones. On to the Good / Bad / Overall review:

Good: I like the color palette, was worried that it felt too monochrome but it actually worked out and sort of gave it a style of its own. The simple palette, matches the simple sprites and concept and you really were consistent with being simple and thats cool that you kept sight of that in most aspects of the game.

Also good: I liked the death concept, reminded me of Prey and other games that did something beyond a game over screen.
I dont like how long it takes to kill that thing tho.. it totally kills the buzz from the main game. In Prey, the game over game was simple and quick you didnt spend like 10 mins 'trying' to get back into the game. If newgrounds was a gaming system id have pushed the reset button and just did it over. It felt like the opportunities to hurt that boss were way too rare.

Need to work on: Performance, the game is so hard to play when its not running well, even at the lowest graphic setting it just 'feels' slow. I hope that you didnt design the game to be played at the lowest setting.. its sort of a crap shot if you did because the typography looks terrible at the lowest setting. sorry im a big typography buff.

I think one of the major drawbacks of this game is that you worked so hard to keep things simple and then you cluttered it with bells and whistles so much so that it affected the performance of the game. Things like heavy particle effects, transparencies, masks and all that while visually beautiful really cut into the enjoyability of a game that runs well. This was one of the hardest lessons for me to learn in the making of NG rumble and that being to think like a game animator and not like a traditional animator..

Im not sure if its because my machine has processing issues but edward feels sluggish.. especially in the air. He doesnt feel bouncy or agile at all. and the fact that he becomes more agile when you are moving faster also made it annoying.. it almost felt like you purposely made him sluggish unless i was at full speed. If so i ask why? theres some parts where i wanted that percision and nimbleness.

Overall: I think its a cool attempt, the visual presentation is cool and it had some neat concepts.. i just had a hard time interacting with it because it felt like the interaction was always 2 steps behind my needs.

TrueDarkness responds:

Yeah, we'll continue to make more adept games, but I am never spending 6 months on a project again. It was not worth the hassle to have this game score less than something I made in a week. All part of the process though I guess.
I'm glad you liked the color palette, we tried to vary it as much possible without making it too rainbowy until the end.
The death concept was just an idea that wasn't very well done, hopefully next time we can incorporate something similar without having it feel so dull. This was out first attempt at doing Bosses.
The lag was just shit, and I couldn't believe how slowly it ran in my browser. Even after closing everything it still ran like a turtle with it's legs cut off. A game should never have to be played at low quality either, specially one that focuses a lot of the graphics.
Next time (This is Kevin btw) im going to focus more on just keeping everything nice without using too many laggy ingredients like masking, filters, and all that bullshit which I have grown to hate. You'll have to pass on Jose's knowledge too :P
On my computer, it runs fine when downloaded, in the browser though it's a whole different story. I don't know exactly why, but I'm going to have to figure it out to make our next game as good as possible.
Next time we will focus more on the experience rather than the idea. That way later we can incorporate some neat stuff without lagging anything up. Thanks for taking your time on the review.
Also, when I said it was your fault, it wasn't a bad thing, being sponsored by NG is completely awesome and you did me a huge favor by pulling me away from AG. I don't care about the money or any of that shit. I hope you're not too mad at me. Thanks for the review though

[Pico's Surprise Party]

nice sprites

your pico sprites were impecable.. great job.

the story at the beginning seemed to lag a little bit..

[Newgrounds 06 memory book]

nice wrap-up

Was kind of a nice little way of ending the year. Hopefully you'll do this again next year.

Nice job.