Anonymous-Frog's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[We have come for your nectar: The game]

== WE HAVE COME FOR YOUR COME ==
Score: 6

This is based on YouTuber GoLuB's take on the 'We have come for your nectar' meme, where Nikocado Avocado takes some honeycomb from the Spongebob bees. That has 1 million views.

Footage from the original video are used in cutscenes while the main gameplay is to keep clicking to shoot at the hand. Lose, and ol' Nick grabs the comb and eats it (also from the original video). Win and you get a slightly more original cutscene where Nick falls over and cries.

Not bad for 2 hours, but 2 hours nonetheless.

Graphics: 6 | Sound: 7 | Accuracy: 8 | Gameplay: 4 | Style: 5 | Originality: 4

[TBH Physics 2.0]

== Big screen, little game ==
Overall Score: 0

If you tell people to play at 50% zoom, you know you set the resolution too high. 720p should be good enough, maybe lower to accomodate for smaller screens, and if possible, the option to fullscreen.

Aside from that, it's just a basic ragdoll simulation with barebones graphics and the ability (TBH's House) looks nothing like a house) and no sound effects

Graphics: 2 | Sound: 0 | Gameplay: 3 | Stability: 4 | Style: 2 | Entertainment: 2

fraglord123 responds:

The big screen will be fixed. Thanks for the feedback tho!

[Morbsweeper]

"The Newgrounds game of all time!"
Overall Score: 100

This ain't just a regular old game of Minesweeper, and not because it's themed around the Morbius meme. It instead encourages playing fast in order to activate "Morb Mode" and build up combos. It's a real test on your brain since in Minesweeper you're supposed to spot mines based on visual clues (such as 1s near corners or a 4 sandwiched between a rock and a hard place)

The soundtrack includes chiptune remixes of existing songs like Fur Elise in the title screen, and the Turkish March for the results screen, and also Off the Meds' EKSE, a song used in the film itself. Those suit the game very well.

Only thing this game is missing is the option for a larger playing space and varying amount of mines / rotten tomatoes. This may help gain some replay value.

Graphics: 94 | Sound: 99 | Morbin: 100 | Gameplay: 78 | Style: 89 | Humor: 82

[Portal Panic]

= It's good, but a bit unfinished in areas. =
Overall Score: 6
This appears to be a run and gun style Metroidvania where you play as multiple characters, each with their own attacks and abilities. (Refer to author comments)

You can switch through them to unlock hidden areas. Although this was named 'Best Game' for Pico Day 2012, I still have a few criticisms.

- Cutscenes are very easy to skip. This is one of the times where I WANT to watch them.
- I couldn't hear sound effects, even though the intro cutscene was fully voice acted. This is off because there is a SFX setting. I thought this was an issue with the Newgrounds Player, although I did hear one for the collectibles.
- The tileset appears to be obviously tiles. That may sound as ridiculous as 'Too much Water', but I can see a noticeable seam for all the tiles, some of them might be intentional
- There's a section on the top left of the 'Dad n Me' stage that's just a grey square on the corner, which can be seen by using Bitey to jump up there.
- Most of the enemies are just reskins of the same types. There's the tiny hopping thing, which can be either a fatsack or a soccer ball, a human-ish enemy that walks back and forth and can either use melee or ranged attacks, and a stationary gun that doesn't hurt you on its own, but does fire small projectiles every few seconds
- In the Pico's School stage, it is possible for the enemy near the checkpoint to attack you after you've selected a character.
- In the final (and only boss) P-Bot being messed around by Blockhead, there's no damage indicators, and I also found a bug with Bitey where he stays still after attacking and moving and with Salad Fingers where P-Bot fires three missiles and one's stuck in an explosion animation.
- In addition, you start the fight as Dad but the blocks he breaks before the encounter don't disappear.

Other than that, it has excellent character animations that imitates Mindchamber's art-style very well and a great soundtrack and the gameplay DIDN'T make me want to tear myself a second arse.
~frog~

Also BOSS STRATEGY: P-Bot
Dad: Stay near the middle and dodge his drill attack
Tankman: Same trick
Pico, Keep your distance and fire your gun at him
Bitey, Keep kicking, dash to avoid danger
Salad Fingers. Use the puppets to deflect his rockets back at him. Throw your hands at him to stun him if you get too close.

Graphics: 8 | Sound: 7 | Repetitiveness: 8 | Polish: 5 | Style: 10 | Gameplay: 8

[All Right on the Knight]

= Just run RIGHT! =
Score: 7
Updated July 19th 2022

For all intents and purposes, this is a very basic, albeit difficult platformer. You jump on dragons, those are your springs, there's another one that presses down when you walk in their line of sight like a Thwomp, and switch blocks. Oh and there's signs.

To interact with signs you press the jump key, which I find inconvenient. This is especially a problem in the first level since there are signs on top of one-tile thick pillars that are difficult to jump off. You have to be at the very edge of those pillars in order to reach a checkpoint and some chandeliers.

Later on I figured out most of the later levels can be solved just by holding right and letting the environment control you, which this game dubs 'The Path of Right'.
Turns out the whole game is designed around just holding right, even though there's nothing stopping me from walking left or jumping to access different parts of each level and find more signs written in Old English (or at least an imitation of it). On one hand, it's a very neat idea, on the other hand, "don't move" or "move right" levels aren't too hard to find in Super Mario Maker.

Speaking of Mario Maker, you used a similar tool to create this, notably a tool called Pocket Platformer. I looked into this and I found that it was extremely limited in what you can do, not unlike Mario Maker. You can change your player's speed, jump height, and slipperiness, but there's only 12 ground tiles (previously 9), 15 background tiles, tiles can't animate more than 2 frames, no 'actual' enemies you can kill and no power-ups. Although it's a decent tool for beginners, I personally wouldn't use it to make a game on Newgrounds, it's not really in the same league as Unity, Godot, Construct 2 or even Scratch, which is also designed for beginners in mind.

Anyways. One cool thing you did with this is a fast-clip, which you can perform by getting stuck in a switch block and moving in the opposite direction. And the music is good, but there's only 3 tracks. And the 'box art' looks good too.

~frog~
Graphics: 7 | Sound: 8 | Entertainment: 7 | Style: 8 | Creativity: 6

TmsT responds:

One good thing about Pocket Platformer that must be said is that complete casuals like me who can't handle the learning curve of Unity, or the price tag of Construct 2, can pick up Pocket Platformer and make a game without much trouble. When making a platformer there are many great options out there, but fewer options if you're a casual or a beginner, so it's nice to see someone make something like Pocket Platformer as a gateway to game design.

Another thing to note is that between when I released this game and when you reviewed it, the developer added more tiles, so it was even more limited (to only 9 ground tiles) when I made it. lol. But it is still being developed all the time, and many of the things you found it lacking in are things that I do too, and I've suggested such things to the dev. I might have to make another game in it later with all the new features that are currently in the pipeline, if I haven't got good at Unity by then!

[GreenWood Defense]

It still has this one bug.
You can still fight on the win/lose screen even after you have won/lost the battle and even after both kings are dead. Hit the fast forward button and rack up infinite cash!
ie. Enemies still spawn

Wombart responds:

It's now fixed :)

[Flappy Bird in Scratch]

So you made a Flappy Bird clone in approximately 5.103 minutes, or possibly longer depending on how you were able to follow it.

Most of these points aren't covered in the tutorial, but here are some 'less than ideal' points about this game.
- No floor, and also no dying from the floor
- No background.
- Poorly drawn 'Game Over' screen that shows up instantly
- No flap sound effect
- Sprites ripped from Super Mario and Flappy Bird.
- The sprites still have some white artifacts leftover.
- The bird doesn't rotate like in the real Flappy Bird or most other clones

Graphics: 2 | Style: 0 | Grace: 0 | Funny Face: 10 | Effort: 0
Overall Score: 0

[catnapped]

Although there is smooth scrolling and Mario-esque gameplay, such as jumping, the controls are slippery and unresponsive and there's only one song in the game, not even title screen music.

EAsports7608 responds:

sorry its my first time coding i hope i will be able to make better games in the future

[Suicide Hotline]

It may be cryptic, but the presentation is a little crap. Personally I wasn't able to solve it. Am I supposed to get the watch list higher or lower?

Visuals are in all red, like with the Virtual Boy. The phone and laptop are digitized and are restricted to this palette, but the character in the middle looks a bit bland (and is also made up of red outlines, so they don't really fit in). Overall there really isn't a lot of stuff going on and it just feels barebones. It could also use some music (preferably something ambient or some other background noise) and sound effects though.

In addition, you should probably work on your grammar.

[Faces of 2012]

ALL ANSWERS (with links and info)

= ROW 1

Column 1
Ace
from AlmightyHans's "Ace Pilot"
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/589750

Column 2
Calumn rides him
This is Castello from 'Calumn and Castello' by fantasticmissfox
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/595604

Column 3
Murray from New Eden.
The other character is Hamilton. The episode Slappin' Slug released on NG in 2012
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/599336

Column 4
Sergio
from Sergio and Bear by Jaxxy and TomaMoto. Episode 3 released in 2012 and stars Egoraptor
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/591924

Column 5
Athenos
from Knowledge is power by Impkid
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/593834

Column 6
Bounces on Gummy Bears
Burrito Bison does that in his trilogy of games by JuicyBeast.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/590901

Column 7
:3
The 'Meow' face emote from Newgrounds. Drawn by Luis and submitted to the Art Portal in 2012
https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/luis/emoticons

Column 8
Conroy the Cat
From his eponymous series by Doodley
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/592322

Column 9
Wondercat
Appears in 'Rover Rescue', which was actually released in Dec 2011, but was put on the front page in 2012. Wonder Cat did not appear in any official movies in 2012
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/586996

Column 10
Dude from Snake Squad
Snake Squad is a shooter game by yzigames.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/603625

Column 11
Effing Game
The worm from Effing Worms and its sequel (linked) by EffingGames.
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/598901

Column 12
A cop, not a man.
The dog from Cop Dog, by high5toons. This is a NATA 2012 entry.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/601966

Column 13
His partner is a dog.
He's a human police officer partnered with Cop Dog (see row 1 column 12)
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/601966

Column 14
Cornellius
from 'Cornelius & Toots'. He along with Toots are paranormal investigators.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/596221

Column 15
He went back to the Cubeture
This is Cuboy, a series by Will Arbuckle. The clue is based off the 2nd Cubeture game, guest-starring David Firth, D-Mac-Double (of Dot Dot Dot fame), and TomaMoto
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/590226

= ROW 2

Column 1.
She likes flowers
From the now deleted 'Fleur', a NATA 2012 Novice Round entry

Column 2.
He's a thief.
from A Thief's Tale, also deleted and also a NATA 2012 entry.

Column 3
His zipper is down
from Discretion, by Osmino and voiced by Mick Lauer (RicePirate) and Chris Zambelis (SeiyruRenaih)
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/599685

Column 4
We really really miss him:
Edd from Eddsworld. Edd died in March 2012 to cancer, with 'Space Face (Part 1) being the last eddisode he worked on.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/596857

Column 5
Edd Egg
by Eddache. Conveniently placed next to the other Edd.
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/587132

Column 6
Gary from Bedfellows
Only two Bedfellows episodes were posted to Newgrounds, but the furry oriented series is better known on other platforms such as YouTube, where some episodes have millions of views..
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/600192

Column 7
Fernando
From Sexual-Lobster's Manwhore series
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/603529

Column 8
Kagemono
The fox from 'Kagemono: The Shadow Folk'
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/597690

Column 9
Matt from Eddsworld
Aka Matt Hargreaves, who would later take over the series from TomSka after he took over after Edd's death, making him the last original member of Eddsworld to still work on the show.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/602834

Column 10
She just wants to hydrate
The little girl from Jacob Streilein's short film Swelter (2012), where 'severe heat' resulted in water being in short supply and she's wearing a rubber suit covering her entire body
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/596056

Column 11
Her daughter works in the mines
From Blordow's 'Job Care'
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/595680

Column 12
The Guardian
The human protagonist depicted illuminated by light. He later becomes a Guardian following an attack by a man in a top hat.
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/587026

Column 13
Starred in NG's first iPhone game
Groundcats was released in 2012 for iOS, but is no longer available anymore and yet to be rereleased on Android or other platforms.
Here is a trailer made by Michael Swain and Jeff "JohnnyUtah"
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/588153

Column 14
Hamilton from New Eden.
The other character is Murray.
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/599336

Column 15
Hank from Madness:
Main character of Madness Combat and appears in Madness: Project Nexus (Classic) and MADNESS: Project Nexus (2)
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/592473

= ROW 3

Column 1
Harry Quantum
from Harry Quantum PI
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/546321

Column 2
Abo
From a series of cartoons by Armenian animator Sykohyko
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/586997

Column 3
Birthday Boy
The kid from VieRickend's NATA 2012 Novice Round entry 'GROWIN' UP, where him getting older is the primary focus
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/596922

Column 4
Cinderello
'Cinderello' is funymony's retelling of Cinderella with a male counterpart
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/595694

Column 5
KONY Fan
A nerd who obsesses over KONY2012 and buys all the related merchandise. From PsychicPebbles, with voices from Oney, Egoraptor, RicePirate, and TomaMoto
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/592595

Column 6
Voiced by Cheech
from Lard Ass by Zeurel.
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/597197
A variation of this character called Shrike has a lead role in the 27 minute sci-fi film 'Monkey Wrench' (2022)

Column 7
Liam
Reemus's purple bear sidekick from the Reemus series of point and click games by Zeebarf. See Row 4 Column 3 for Reemus.
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/588962

Column 8
Prole 514
from the film Lucky Day Forever by Sarkazm
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/596083

Column 9
Been around Miami, Syndney and NYC.
'Sydney' is typo'd here. Miami Shark, Sydney Shark, and New York Shark are very popular Flash games by Wiesi
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/590705

Column 10
Hitler
ToonHole's cartoon 'The Mustache' depicts him as a man proud of his award-winning mustache, which he loses in a shaving accident and becomes the Jew hating Fuhrer we all know and hate today.
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/594194

Column 11
Noir Detective
From Maybellopf Clearvibrance, animated entirely in black and white except a woman's red hair
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/597919

Column 12
Pahgawk
Creator of Splice of Life, for NATA 2012's opening round
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/594660

Column 13
Prosnorkulus
The dwarf king from his eponymous series with 2 episodes, which debuted in 2012.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/588075

Column 14
Pico
You should know who he is if you use Newgrounds. Created by Tom Fulp in 1999 and used in annual Pico Day events since 2006
He appears in Nogfish's 'Pico and the Uberhaircut' for Pico Day 2012
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/594622

Column 15
Jaxxy
AKA Jaxamoto, an artist and animator on Newgrounds and married to popular voice actor TomaMoto. This face is based on her depiction in her movie 50MG
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/591034

= ROW 4

Column 1
Gooseman
Also from Sexual-Lobster's 'Pleasure Island'
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/597798

Column 2
Walks in a LoopdeLoop by TheBoogley
From the surreal movie 'Walking the Walk'
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/587959

Column 3
Reemus
An exterminator and main character from Zeebarf's Journeys of Reemus series.
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/588962

Column 4
Moisture Care Lady
from 'Moisture Care' by coughing-dog and high5toons, where she moistures people's hands and one falls in love
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/589297

Column 5
Creator of B.
StrawberryClock created B on August 15th 2001. He appears in various Clock Crew movies, including this Clock Day 2012 entry by Foxcato
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/601060

Column 6
Fantasia
from Yotam and Fantasia, animated by Yotam (see row 4 column 8)
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/600003

Column 7
Ricky, victim of Succubutts
from the NG Movie Jam 2 entry 'Too Scared to Poop!' by Sam Green (also known for Epic Minequest)
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/603763

Column 8
Yotam
Yotam Perel, aka LazyMuffin, a prolific animator on Newgrounds and AlbinoBlackSheep, who also animates Yotam and Fantasia.
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/593923

Column 9
His checks are made out to Bear
Bear from Sergio and Bear. Sergio is in Row 1 Column 4
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/591924

Column 10
Captain of the Eidolon
From Wolfenheim's 'The Eidolon'
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/597370

Column 11
Killgar
from Starbarians by Harry Partridge
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/593843

Column 12
Taco Man
from 'Taco-Man Safety Tips'
(Deleted in 2021)

Column 13
The Moleman
from his movie of the same name, by SvenStoffels. This movie was derived from audio from the radio show 'Wreckless Media Radio'.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/594245

Column 14
Time Travelling Scientist
From VieRickend's NATA 2012 entry 'TIMELESS'
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/595335

Column 15
Doggy
from 'Toons These Days' by Doodley
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/587662

= ROW 5

Column 1
Ishmael
From the Unbelievably Messed-Up Bible Stories
(submission deleted in 2021)

Column 2
Wentworth
From 'Wentworth' from the creators of Reemus.
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/596758

Column 3
Hank (Not from Madness)
Hank Hanky from The Hank Hanky Show, created by Ross Bollinger, who also created Pencilmation
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/597775

Column 4
Lolita
from "Summer Rec" by Pixmintro
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/592630

Column 5
Senry (voiced by Aramsamsam)
Protagonist of the movie Out of Order 1 by kmau
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/603084

Column 6
He's insecure about his weiner
from 'Too Scared to Piss', which was removed,
Last seen 2021.

Column 7
Shoots lasers from his hands.
From Devastis.
Also removed

Column 8
He needs a muse
From 'Mabel the Muse' by UberCream
Also removed

Column 9
Goober
from the game 'Goober's Arena' by mexipino
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/590473

Column 10
She has a cluttered attic
She's from the movie Paraphernalia from arythusa
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/597861

Column 11
One of three men without skin
from 'Three Skins Without Men', the 5th installment of David Firth's 'Sock series'.
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/601777

Column 12
Sells soul eating demons from the nightmare dimension.
from the short "Tainted Goods" by Felix Colgrave (then known as MasterAardvark), which is now removed from NG. He's better known as the creator of the short films "DOUBLE KING" and "The Elephant's Garden". The short can still be found on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adi9Ijhvn1Y

Column 13
He's Willie D, what more can I say?
from 'The Adventures of WillieD by WillieD891, a crappy Flash movie series. The 2nd episode linked to this game won Underdog of the Week
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/588738

Column 14
There's a bounty on his head
LenZ from Bounty + Hunter. LenZ is best known as the creator of EgoCity
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/595110

Column 15
His nightlight goes out and chaos ensues
JoelOnToast's 'Night Light'
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/603640

Thank me later!