Chris-Aldin's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Turnaus]

Nice work!

Good job on this game! It was well done in every aspect. It was original and fairly creative as well. In my review i will explain each aspect of this game.

The graphics were great, and added a whole lot of amusement to this. The drawings were good and pretty detailed. The colours looked like they took you some time too. The backround was impressive, the trees and the mountains were very pleasant to look at, and they were very detailed. The knights looked good, i could tell the effort was there. Your style was okay in this game. Your animating style was very nice, but i didnt like how it felt moving the characters. Perhaps it was a little slow, or it was just hard to move in the practise. The sword slashes were too slow, i mean you pressed it then you would have to wait a while before usign it again. It for frustrating when the computer got you stuck and you just couldnt hit him. The idea was good however, it was presented fairly well. The sound was good, the song was kind of cool and the sound effects were alright. Nothing special about the sound i dont think. The audio quality was pretty good from what i remember. Good violence and great interacivity in this game.

Overall this was pretty good, but there are a few problems with the gameplay mechanics. Im sure this would be fun with another human player, so im giving some points based on that. The final product turned out well so here is a 4/5. Keep at it!

IiroHolopainen responds:

Thanks for your great and constructive review. Mostly the reason for the long slash animations was so instead of just button mashing like hell, you would have to actually time your attacks to win. :)

[Jumping Circle 3]

Needs work....

Deep beneath all the faults of this game lies a great game waiting to be unleashed. In other words this has potential. Each version is slowly getting better. I will try to explain some of those faults in my review.

The graphics really need work. Im talking mostly about the backround, it was annoying as hell having to look at that while playing. Other than that, the graphics werent too bad , it just needs more detail in the drawings. The style was there, but a little weak. It was a challenging game indeed and the idea was good, but it just wasnt presented properly. This is where i realized this game really has potential. Put a little more effort into the character design as well, the main thing was just a circle. The sound was good i guess, but the music wasnt really my taste. It was a good addition, and i felt you could have chose music to better suit the mood.

Overall this game could be great with some fixing up. Ill be sure to review the next version. Keep at it man.

joshuaskillsrobles responds:

Well thanks, but for the music i went to flashkit and looked through mostly all of the loops they had and found those.

[RaidenX]

Fucking great!

This was sooo good man, so fun. Awesome job on every aspect, This was absolutely the funnest shooter like this i have ever played since the days of Raptor! This is potentially the best game NG has to offer, along with such greats like Alien Hominid. I will explain each aspect in detail in my review.

The graphics were awesome. Everything about them was good. I really liked the style they had, oldschool kind of , and definitely unique. The colours were really cool and added to the overall amusement factor of the game. The backrounds were cool, very high in detail, and very well drawn. As i said i really liked the oldschool style, it reminds me of the old days when i played Raptor. The animation part was pretty good, it worked on the highest quality for me. It was smooth more than half the time. Great graphics overall.

Your style in this movie was awesome too, and too close to perfect. The animating style also helps out with overall style. The feel to the game was awesome, it really felt like i was playing one of the older games that i played before. The idea of remaking a classic is a great idea, especially when you do it well, and you had your own original flare. The way you presented it was great too, the upgrades, powerups and bombs werent necessary because the game was so good already, but they really added to this by making it much more addicting.

The sound was great, and again sort of oldschool. I think this is the only aspect that could use a little bit of improvement, because the sounds of the bullets hitting an enemy was corny. I enjoyed all the other sounds though. The music was cool, and helped create that "oldschool feel". The audio quality was great too. Nothing much else to say about sound.

The violence was great for a few reasons. This game Was violent enough to satisfy any person in love with it, but if you dont like guresome violence than this is perfect. The interactivity was perfect as this was a game, and also it had menus.

Overall this was sick, as i said maybe the best game on newgrounds. This definitely deserves its very high score. I hope you can make another game liek this in the near future. 5/5

Go0gley responds:

Thanks so much for taking your time to review. I'm lost with words... all I could say is a BIG THANK YOU!!! :')

[Letters Game Final]

cool.

This was good, and definitely fun to play once through. Its a simple idea and isnt the most original thing ever but you had some elements in this that still made it fun.

The graphics were simple, but they definitely did the job. The bacrkound was cool, and i like the bubbles around the letters. Nothing very complex in the graphics....
The style was good, you took a game and kind of made it your own by adding some different visuals and the power ups of course. The feel was a little hidden, because of the type of game this is.
I think the sound could have been better, i think you only had 3 sound effects in this, and i know there could have been more, and perhaps some music, this definitely would have increased the amusement factor of this.

Overall it was good, fun to play and deserves the score it has, and congrats on that. A little more effort could go a long way, keep up the good work. Im gonna have to give a 4/5 because 3.5/5 rounds up.

k3k5 responds:

There are four soundeffects!
The button sound in the menu, the explosion, the sound if you type the right letter and the shield.
But you are right, there are not many sounds. maybe i'll search for a background music.
Thanks for the review.

[Hangman+++]

That was good!

I saw it was just a hangman game and i became a little skeptical about it being good. But this was definitely well done, and very fun to play. I congradulate you on brining a classic game back to life.I will say everything else i liked in my review.

The graphics were good. They definitely did the job, though they were pretty simple. Perhaps some colour would be useful next time. But the animation in there was smooth, and some parts were funny. I liked that little stick man, he made this more fun to play. The text was good, but maybe use a more original text next time. Overall the graphics were good and they did the job.
The style was sweet, as i said brining a classic game back to life. You also put your own personal spin on it by adding the two new modes, Russian Roulette and Shuffle Word. The Russian Roulette was particularily fun because the amount of wrong letters allowed changed everytime, and it was sort of suspenseful because of this. The only thing wrong here is the lack of an distinct animating style, which just comes with time.
Sound also did the job, just like the visuals. The sound effects throughout added something to the game and made it more enjoyable in the end. The audio quality was pretty good from what i heard.
Nice interactivity but since it is hangman you couldnt really work in too much. The new modes helped out with this, and thats why you got a 7 there.
There was also a small humour element in this too. No laugh out loud parts but some made me smile, such as after you win the russian roulette the stick dude throws down the guns and he gets shot anyways. LOL

Overall this was well done, i always enjoy playing classics. Keep up the good work! 4/5

k3k5 responds:

Thanks for this detailed review!

[Midnight-Strike]

One of the best!

This is without a doubt one of the better games i have played on Newgrounds. There were many great things about this game, and maybe a couple areas for improvement as well. I will tell you everything in my review.

The graphics were good but the character design kind of carried the graphics all the way through. The animation was very good, the colours were great and the character design just dominated the visuals. It seemed you spent a long time on making the enemies, and the main character look amazing. And that really paid off because they really do look great! The animation was very smooth and nothing looked out of place or choppy. The one problem with the graphics is the backrounds..there werent any but a shade of one colour. I guess i can understand why there werent any, usually the reason would be file size but yours is only 775kb. I think you got lazy on the backrounds. But anyways graphics rocked overall.

Great style too, your animating style helps out both graphics and overall style. Very good animating style, other than the backrounds. Everything was polished and refined and the characters were very detailed. You did have a story line, which is more than you can say for most games on this site. The feel to the game was pretty cool, kind of like "It all lies on me" type of thing, sort of stealthy as well. Very good work on the style aspect.

The sound was pretty good , though nothing really shocked me at how good it was. Thats very difficult to do and it seems you focused on gameplay anyways so its easily excuseable. I liked how you took time to find quite a few sound effects. The song was pretty good and i think it created that stealthy mood i talked about. The audio quality was good, sound was great!

I liked the violence you had in this. Not disgusting but enough to satisfy any craving you may have. Thats all you can really ask for in violence.

Interactivity was pretty good as this was a game. The controls were generally good but i have one problem here. I think you should have made shift to shoot, rather than CTRL, because shift is much easier to reach with your fingers. And it was a little time consuming swtiching weapons sometimes. But other than that i had no problems with the controls.

Overall this was great, this deserves the great score it has. Please make more games in the future and leave a RESPONSE if you can! Awesome work!!! 5/5

ArcadeTown responds:

Thanks for the input and thanks everyone else for the great and fair reviews. Overall pretty good summary here. We were did have budget constraints so graphics and sounds weren't as fully there as wanted but definitely put in enough budget to make sure the game play was totally solid and fun. Of course this leaves us room for improvement so hopefully the next version will be even better because we all know a sequel always has to take it up a notch :-)

[End of Nightmares]

This was fun.

I really enjoyed myself while playing this game, and thats what is most important about games. Every element was done very well and i will explain each one in detail in my review.

The graphics were good. The backrounds were very nicely done. The animation was very smooth and it was always clear what was going on. The colours were also pretty cool. The one problem with the graphics are the characters. The drawing of the boy could be more detailed and some of the robots were a bit plain. Either way graphics were very good overall.

The style in this movie was pretty good aswell. There was nothing too original about it, its a side scrolling beat-em-up. There arent really any unqiue game play elements. But side scrollers are always a blast to play. There was nothing much to the animating style except on a couple enemies and the backrounds. You did do a nice job on the controls and a nice job on the amusement part of the game.

Sound was good, but again there were a few problems. Some of the songs created a mood, but one or two of them did not fit in. I thought there was only one song at first and it got repetitive, but then i realized you could change them. All the songs were high quality and so were the sound effects. So good job on sound overall.

I liked the violence in this, nothing guresome and bloody but those things arent always necessary. This allows more ages to play and enjoy this game. There was obviously alot of interactivity as it was a game. The mini game and extras in the menu were cool additions.

Overall you guys both did a goos job and you got talent for making games. Keep making more, you can only get better!!! 4/5

gavD responds:

Thankyou Chris_Aldin, that's a very thorough and well thought out review, and we appreciate it. Props!

With the songs, I'd like to have blended them properly, but couldn't find a satisfactory method in Flash. I think you can fade out loops in software, but I had to draw a line under the project somewhere so I didn't implement it.

Violence wise, yeah I think we pitched it right - psychological rather than visceral

Thanks once again - if you're ever in Cardiff look me up, I'll buy you a pint!

Embeeforme: "I really really appreciate how you paid attention to detail. Not many people do that"

[Magnetism]

Awesome! A very fun game!

Im going to make this a good review as it is my 400th! This game was great, if it took you a long long time to make, it isnt a wonder. Nothing wrong in the gameplay at all. All the settings were awesome, you cant get bored with a game that had so many different methods of playing. Good job on the More Puzzle based setting and Skill based one. Now to break it down:

Graphics- Amazing! I loved the menus looked and also how they were so organized. The actual game graphics were even better. You made them so no one would hate them. They were smooth, very well animated and the backrounds were cool. You got a cool animating style aswell!

Style- Simply Cool! This ties in with your animating style which is...well COOL! LOL!!! Other than that your stlye was different then most of the games ive seen. Originality can go a long way my friend. Your originality could be a big part of why the score is so high. Good job on this aspect.

Sound-It was also pretty cool. The song was pretty fun to listen to, but it would of been awesome if there were more. You had a few sound effects, but in a game like this, only a few are needed anyways. The song fit the overall "cool" feel to this game.

Interactivity-Awesome, as it was a game. But in some games you feel like you're not doing enough. In this game it was the exact opposite. For everything to happen, youd have to press a button of some sort. GAMES NEED INTERACTIVITY!

Violence/Humoor- There wasnt much of either so thats why im combining them into one category. There wasnt violence but in a game such as this, violence isnt necessary. Everyone can play it with no violence and/or other things ;) Humour is not really needed in a game either, so adding some in couldnt hurt. But only if ya want!!!! ::::))))

Extras- All the settings in this game were great. As i said before it keeps a player from getting bored. You succeeded in making a very addictive game.

Overall-It was a blast to play and review. This might be my longest review, its and important one. MY 400TH. I hope you get to read and respond to this. This game deserves its high score and it definitely deserves in dpeth reviews! MAKE MORE! 5/5

Glaiel-Gamer responds:

"if it took you a long long time to make, it isnt a wonder" 8 days, typically 5 hours per day. Since this is such an important review to you, I'll write a long response.

Graphics: Well, swift 3D is my friend. That's my hint.

Sound: Cool Tidbit: The volume of the wood hitting sound changes based on the speed!

Interactivity: Well, I suck at movies, so that's why I make games.

Humor: The only humor I have is in the preloader, I couldn't find a good spot to put it in.

Thanks for the long review. I like long reviews.

[Engulfer v1.1]

Simply good, but could have been better.

I liked it, it was pretty addicting for a few reasons. The biggest one being how people wanted to see how big you get when you get to 100 size. As a "game" this was well done, but from a more technical stand point, there were some flaws. Graphics were somewhat okay i guess. Nothing special to them though, no real detail or style to them at all. Style was good, i mean who deosnt like addicting games such as this?!!?. Sound was also ok, once again nothing special to it. The song playin was alright and i know the quality could be higher. Interactivity is self explanatory, its a game!! I like all the difficulty settings, the ULTRA INSANE one made me laugh. Thats where you got humour points from.

Good job overall, you have lots of room to improve. But you got the basic skillz down! 4/5

Aldarnc responds:

Well i don't really have a reply for this one... i guess the music wasn't to your taste? Im putting more varity in the next one, along with even more powerup ideas, and at least 3 new game modes... i think like ive said before the graphics do what they were designed for, nothing more nothing less. You say there are flaws but failed to mention them? Or maybe you feel the graphics should be more detailed which would ultimately slow down the game and cause it to become less enjoyable. Well i guess im glad you enjoyed it, thanx for the review :).

[Overrun II]

Simply Amazing!

That was quite possilby the best and most addicting internet game i have evef played!! Im sure im not the only one who thinks this way man! This was totally wicked! Perfect graphics and animation. I really liked all the menus and the 3 dimensional enemies! Intro was also well animated! Wicked style too! The menus were creative and there was a different backround for each level which isnt always the same with most games i play. Perfect song choices aswell. There was a variety of sound effects, but what really amazed me were all the songs. Therewas a different song for each level, that provided a fantastic variety and i never got bored with the music. Obviously there was violence but it wasnt brutally animated, i mean with blood and severd heads and stuff. So all ages are able to play this....just about! :) There is obviously interactivity aswell, as this is a game. I also got a kick out of some of the enemies, like the spring and the 3D stick guys! LOL Awesome enemy creation. Now to mention the settings, there was a story, controls,Tips, highscores, 4 difficulty setting and there were more. But wow! its obvious you put alot alot alot of effort into this. There were no glicthes or bugs. It was addicting as hell! I turned down playing Counter Strike Source to continue playing this!

I cant believe how good this was! You have make more games.This totally rocked! The perfect gamein my opinion!!! 5/5

Denvish responds:

Many thanks for the in-depth review, it's great when someone appreciates how much work I put into my Flashes and returns the favour... and it's even better when they don't even have one complaint! Seriously, thank you very much for taking the time to write your review, it is wonderful to get so much good feedback.
As for the audio, it's all available from the Audio Portal if you wish to download the full versions of any tracks