ethereal-monk's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[It's Pong!]

Nice and Solid

Good Job AF. It's simple but it's just Pong anyways. Everything was well done and your collision detection is perfect :D . You can't say that to a lot of people. There are a few things you could add though, starting with a larger music selection (maybe Trance) and some difficulty levels. I really look forward to more submissions in the future.

AcidicFlame responds:

Woot! Yeah, the collision detection took some work, but I think it turned out OK. Thank you for the criticism, my next project will have better music and more difficulty settings. :D

[Do Stuff!]

Uhh.. parts of it didn't work

A bit of a tutorial and a menu would help, no offense intended, but a bit better music and the worst part of all was when you get the part where it says go to work, nothing happens and you lose. I would upgrade this before submitting to Rockout.

MercuryLime responds:

On "go to work", there should be an arrow pointing right that signifies you need to press the right arrow key. It goes away after you press it five times. Did nothing really show up?

[Transmigration]

I really liked it but...

After I figured out to could actually shoot there is really was no way to get hit. Is there a certain way you fire (ex. with timing) to get extra points or what? Maybe a tutorial would help. I think you need to work on the game aspect a bit, but everything else was awesome, keep up the good work.

[Unknown.]

Really Sweet, but with some things you could tweek

The style and graphics are really sweet, but the only two things that bothered me was the game over guy, who gave me a headache and and you can't try a song lose then go straight to the song menu, just little things but other than that well done. Good luck in the rock out contest.

itsjms responds:

Thanks alot. This was truly hard worked on.

[Ongaku]

Quite a good and innovative game

I filled out the help sheet in the Ongaku shop but there was not enough room to finish. 1- When you die it is really annoying to have to watch Ongaku explode, and you could make a better animation of it exploding as well. 2- Some music was really good and other stuff was horribly annoying, the chime was great though. 3- The lines coming from the wand weren't very smooth. 4- The style could really be improved by some nice designs and colors like something similar to the new coke things, but not as crazy or even a retro feel stylized nicely.
Good Luck on a second one and just make sure if you go for a real console to tighten and polish everything to the extreme, keep up the innovation and you should go far.

[Invasion 3]

It has promise but needs alot of work

I was really looking forward to the game but once I started playing it I was sadly disappointed. 1- The tutorial was a little lacking although it was easy enough to figure out. 2- The first bunch of times I played it I couldn't even get past the first level! I was trying to use some good strategy but in the end you have to be cheap, (ex. creating a huge amount of upgraded infantry or archers only) you own the castles and it's not really fun to play. 3- The scenery really needs to change once in a while, I mean it's looped enough with the same strategies. 4- Instead of the castle just having one more cheap archer every level and some water bucket thing, try and change it up a little. I mean you could even make the maps with different paths to the castle, you could add enemy units in the field, and you could specialize the units (ex. a ram can break a hole in the castle and the infantry can enter, you could add an infantry mini-game and lost of other stuff, I mean you would have to do some optimizing but it looks like you didn't in this one anyway. And just so you know I'm not attacking you or your game, I love defense games and can see this being awesome, you just need to work on it. I truly look forward to number 4.

[-AsteRock-]

Good Flash, Bad Game

Everything was pretty well done, but game play was really annoying, even the menu was annoying

[Air Defence 3!!]

Good Overall Game

This game was quite good and I enjoyed playing it. I have some suggestions though. 1 - have some more variation with enemies (ex. color and other details) 2 - have more building options and upgrades, because its gets boring when you have a crapload of money and can only increase tower health. Last but not least 3 - make the player get more involved, once you fully upgrade your units you dont even have to watch the game just check in and repair or buy new units every so often (which I am doing as I right this) I look forward to a new one