JJMAJR's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Stealy]

Played muted so I can't tell what the sound is like.

It's nice. Certainly seen better games in a ludum dare, like Cancelled Refuge.
Visuals - has its own charm, and it's surprising that you could get something looking so cartoony in 48 hours. However, I disliked the escape text, and prefer having one consistent font. My preference would be the "STOR" font you had, since it works well with the charm. The characters shown are goofy and make you remind yourself that you have to turn your brain off for a bit.

Gameplay - the endgame and the grind is a relatively bland experience. My experience is trying to work out the perfect math for stealable objects, and found that besides the presents and the gold, none of the items are worth getting. Even the lava lamp, which is a guaranteed 150 ... credits ... isn't worth getting because the gold takes a lot less weight and the presents especially take a lot less space. The combined synergistic effects of the presents and gold make them more profitable.

The maze itself isn't worth going into nor is it very interesting. It's relatively easy to remember its layout given a few moments of time. It might have more consistency in providing the above items but I find plenty in the Mansion to not overwhelm any player that upgraded their carrying abilities.

Keep it up though!

Grent responds:

Balance was definitely an issue for us, since our inclination was to add more features rather than tweak the smaller things. As for the font, a lot of what you see is Des' handwriting (STOR title included), but unfortunately we didn't have time for him to write everything, so a lot of my placeholder text made it into the final game.

Thanks for the feedback, and thanks for playing!

[Midnight Spooks]

This shouldn't be an E rated game...

Anyways, MouseCity's website is a chore to go through and is very unoptimized. When I went there my computer slowed down because there's so much trash. I highly recommend people playing this game to avoid that site (and avoid looking at walkthroughs) until it gets cleaned up.

So, after getting frustrated with THAT, as a Newgrounds game it isn't that bad. However the token part is a real headscratcher that turned me to that hindrance of a site.

If nothing works to a certain point, test everything with your mouse. If there's a certain bit of information that comes up, keep that in mind but don't let it distract you. Talk to the humans too.

[Running VoltGun]

Some complaints:

There are numerous glitches in temper gadget. Scene one: there's one flame pit where you don't take damage when walking into it. Scene two: the destructible blocks can't be wall jumped off of, which makes the lava pit section of the stage really hard to do.

[Ant Grab]

This is a working game, but it doesn't interest me enough to think it should be on Newgrounds.

It would be cool to have some more features. Right now though it's bland.

[Winter Question DEMO]

Okay, several things that I wish this game had:

1. More difficulty in solving the actual problems.
Okay, provided that you actually made a working game, this alone is insufficient. The problems are really easy and predictable. It can't keep the attention span of anyone for long, and people who like slower things are also the type that has potential in reading a law textbook.

Therefore, in either situation, the difficulty needs to be both as hard as a law textbook or as fast-paced as a first person shooter, or a mix between the two. Games that were slow-paced but rated highly tried their hardest to engage the mind. One example is ir/rational. Most people aren't used to working with logical statements and arguments but that's what made it fun.

2. More control over what the player's actions cause.
When playing this game the cannon moves slowly and I feel like I have no control over what it fires at. That doesn't feel nice, and gets somewhat frustrating.

That being said, the animations are pretty. It would have been a better use of assets to make a movie out of this instead of a math game, but obviously you intended to make the focus around math.

I'm sorry, it's just a bit weak for me to give much more than 2 stars.

[Hold The Hype]

Warning!

This game is incredibly unfriendly for desktops and laptop devices. If you want to have a chance at getting more than a minute of play time, you need a touch screen.

On the other side of the coin though, I never seen a mobile game like this before. It's a nice addition to Newgrounds and could be addictive enough to get advertisement money.

I would totally recommend this to be featured sometime soon.

[Trumpy Game]

The game is still pretty poor. Reminds me of Homestuck's Lord English when he was a kid. It still works, and it still looks like he tried. I did laugh.

2 stars, end of story. The next bit is a rant, because I'm pushed over the edge.

"Seriously, respect the President."

I would make an entire fucking game about how your STUPID president made a world where food is rationed to the point that cheating on those rations result in EXECUTION and I bet I can make a better plot and gameplay experience than this.

I mean, there's so many things that the STUPIDITY of your president could cause that can and should be turned into a gameplay mechanic. Check out Create the Police State by IlyaKrivenko. Other end of the eco-political spectrum, message still the same.

Fuck the president. If you make biased reviews because you can't handle it, then fuck you! I'm sick of seeing these idiots posting zero star reviews over some PETTY shit.

In the mean time, I'm going to figure out how to make a ration using maize, beans, squash, and crickets. Because that's what you apparently want me to eat.

trumpygame responds:

Poor? Are you kidding me? I'm worth BILLIONS. I'm so rich, so rich, so RICH. I can literally point a gun down 5th avenue and shoot someone and people will still love me!

Btw, could you do me a favor and hold this apple on your head and then stand in the middle of 5th avenue?

Trumpy

[TIEM magazine #5]

I liked the satire of the horoscope shit on newspapers.

Oops, spoilers. :)

TlEM responds:

yes, we certainly had fun with those horoscope-like things! :D

we thank you for your review.

[Battery Efficient]

You say the goal of the game is to get to the end without running out of batteries?
Not if I run out of batteries first!

Great for a laptop.

[The Impossible Black And White game]

One of the 5-permutations of "tiles" is "lies".

The above statement is a solvable puzzle, and entertaining. This game is neither.
This set of statements is true as long as you can figure out why in 24 hours.

Go.

OnAlfiGrounds responds:

I already solved it. A permutation doesn't involve using all the elements.Since the word 'tile' is formed from the characters 't','i','l','e','s', any combination of any of theese characters is a permutation so 'lies' is a valid permutation.Am I wright? Yes, it was entertaining.

---(Should I delete it, since this game is realy no good and it was just a first game upload try?)---