FutureCopLGF's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Escape Pong!]

Quirky game that does a lot with a little! Fun little meta-narrative to experience and it felt like it really explored a lot of mechanics considering it was just moving a ball around. Really short and sweet; I enjoyed my time with it greatly.

[DED GUY]

Cool, slick presentation with interesting and intuitive mechanics to back it up! Lotta heart in this game and it shows in almost every single element. Having said that, for me, this game rides a dangerous line between satisfying challenge and total frustration. While I did beat it and enjoyed my time with it in the end, there was a lot of time spent where I felt more like I was wrestling the controls than wrestling with the actual in-game challenges. The mouse going off-screen or not functioning or not being in the spot where I wanted was a constant frustration: game could really stand to not have the targetting be based on a cursor position on the screen, but on a direction/angle from the player, if that makes sense. You definitely have a knack for these, however!

Edit: Was able to get my speedrun time down to 0:7:1.35

Edit Two: The new gamepad controls rock!!!11

[Dwarvania]

Not bad, brings me back to the days of Blackthrone with its interesting presentation and story. Cool progression and a big mazelike exporation. It's just a bit too clunky for my tastes at the moment; movement/climbing is just awkward with a slippery and jittery feeling. AI is a bit weird and sometimes will find me or ignore me for seemingly random reasons. AI could also stand to move in set patrols instead of random movements since it can lead to un-sneakable situations. I think it has a lot of heart and some cool design elements however (scars as life system, taking out guards with traps, free exploration with multiple objectives, etc)

[Lockdown]

A fun, quirky little story! You'll probably get some complaints about the art style, but I like it; it's vintage Newgrounds. UI was presented in a nice way with good polish, and I like that the game goes above and beyond with some animated cutscenes. Lotta polish with transitions, music cues, and so on. Humor was on-point as well, though it does feel like there were some inside jokes I didn't know about, haha.

But aww, I'm bummed out at the ending! I almost feel like I forgot something and got put into the bad ending.

Afferz responds:

Haha nah, that's the only ending... Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for the review!

[Polar Potential]

Pretty cool! I think it has a nice little gimmick as well as a slick, minimalist presentation. Would like to see more in this in future; maybe some sort of level structure, or a more exciting progression as the score gets higher and higher, like new enemies, your core getting larger, pitching shifting your score higher, etc (I'll admit that I didn't get too high so maybe there is?)

JorisRollfox responds:

There isn't, but there will be. Thanks for the suggestions.

[Miner Dash]

I dig it! (hyuk hyuk) All-around solid mechanics, UI, graphics, gameplay loop, etc. Felt like it had a good sense of progression, both in terms of gameplay loop and how it teaches the user mechanics. Also felt like it wasn't just an idler; had some fun and active ways to play and optimize further with user input. Only feedback complaint I had was maybe it show how damaged a patch of dirt you're digging at is (like how minecraft blocks get cracked progressively), but that's a small thing against everything else working well.

Oh, and 247590!

[THE LEGEND OF BUBBLE BOBBLE]

Not too shabby; fun to get my bubb on once again! All in all it was a decent romp: only things I would address would be 1) change the tile set from floor to floor, maybe as simple as changing the color to make it feel like progress, 2) tweak the hitboxes so that they are a bit smaller, was having some collisions that felt like they shouldn't have hit and 3) add respawn invincibility or something to prevent insta-respawn death in some rooms (or ensure all enemies move in the same pattern when a room is reset to avoid them crashing into you instantly).

[Winter Falling: Prototype One]

A little tough to comprehend at first, but in the end it felt like a short and sweet strategy challenge! Felt like it had a lot of polish in how the UI and graphics were put together with smooth transitions and eases, among other things. Also thought the interesting choices you can make before battle were neat and gave it a lot more heart than usual games, where all you can do is place units. It can be difficult to balance things like this; tutorialize it too much and people feel babied, let them run free and people are lost and frustrated. I think it was balanced right on the middle, since I could win after a few attempts, especially considering that I've never played a strategy game with mechanics like this. Would be nice to maybe see more scenarios with this engine; get a whole story and set of campaigns going!

Rarykos responds:

Thank you very much for this detailed review!
I've been struggling to present this the right way for a long while but it's still got problems.
Glad you enjoyed it, I'm working on a full version since many people wanted it so that's a relief!

[TentaCat: The Lost Lineage]

Well-put together platformer! Was surprised at the amount of polish and nice little touches the game has, and I'm excited to see more. Only problems I had were that I felt like the jumping mechanics were a little bit awkward in how upward momentum is instantly zeroed when you let go of the jump button, the game could stand to tutorialize some of the mechanics like walljumping which I totally forgot existed (you can do this by making the level have a safe spot where you need to traverse it in a certain way, like by walljumping), and the boss was a bit of a difficulty jump (though I love the difficulty of it personally haha)