Anonymous-Frog's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[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 :)

[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!

[Tomato Clicker]

This was advertised on NG Direct.

This is a really basic clicker game. For a first try, not too shabby.
Every time you click the tomato, cartoon noises play and it changes to a different skin, each one drawn by several people, with some containing references you might or might not get, such as Veggietales, Pico vs Uberkids, South Park, Dead Estate, and many more! Even a comic spoofing the famous Ctrl Alt Delete comic 'Loss'. Most are drawn using very basic brush tools, although the pixel art one with the eyepatch actually looks very decent, and so does that one slightly more smoother shaded tomato that looks like a closeup scene in Spongebob.

I'm not gonna make a full list of every single tomato ingame, someone on YouTube might've already done that.

NOTES:
- The main menu doesn't work with clicking, even though this IS a clicker game.

- There are two upgrades, +1 tomatoes, which adds 1 tomato per click, and x2, which multiplies by 2.

- Some of the tomatoes aren't even tomatoes! For example, the Stepford 'tomato', is just Stepford. Also Shovel Knight, but that could be fixed by giving him a stalk.

- It is possible to get the same tomato again on two clicks. This could be fixed with a slightly better randomiser.

- When the multiplier goes over 6 digits or more, it can go offscreen.

- This game is unbalanced the more you play it. It requires very few clicks in order to afford a new upgrade.

- UI is extremely large. Fine enough if you have a shitty low-res 240p resolution, but it could be smaller for us HD users in 2022.

- Pressing down on the mouse automatically changes the tomato and gives you points, but releasing makes the sound. Moving the mouse away before releasing won't play the sound.

Could use some minor fixes and I'm sure it'll be even better!
~frog~

Graphics: 7 | Style: 8 | Sound: 8 | Violence: 2 | Interactivity: 5 | Humor: 10
Overall Score: 8

Fish125 responds:

Thanks for the feedback, this is definitely one of the most helpful reviews we've gotten and we'll be taking all of this into consideration for the next update

[Mac El Oliver's Dollal Simulator 2018 (2022 Edition)]

SHITCOIN!

OK, so this is one of those low effort 'joke games' where the main schtick is the ironic humor, which includes:

- JPEGs of some olives
- TTS voice (text to speech)
- Images googled from the internet slapped on without a consistent style
- MS Paint Mexican skeleton guy with the roulette wheel.

In terms of humor, your mileage may vary, but it's also incredibly easy to make and requires very little skill, from what I've found.

If all you do is make these ironic joke games or movies, you're not going to get anywhere. Even if somehow this gets thousands of plays and becomes viral, it doesn't change the fact it is low quality and that's what you'll be remembered for.

However, one thing that does irritate me is I have to click constantly to buy/sell dollals in larger quantities, so good luck getting to $1 million! Also this would really need a save system if I'm playing for that long.

TIPS:
- You can reset the stock counter by clicking "Continue", which is useful in the early stages when you can only afford up to or less than 10 dollals at a time

- Wait until dollal price drops some point above 300 before selling.
Wait until dollal price drops some point below 300 before buying. You can even buy for a negative amount if you're lucky!

- The 'Buy dollal' and 'Sell dollal' icons is conveniently placed in the same position as the left and middle doors at the end of the sequence (when there is one), so if you mass click it, you will click the door by accident.

Don't bother buying the mystery box. You will get a chance of getting 1 dollal, but also a 'shitcoin' which is worthless. You can buy dollals for cheaper and more consistently at Wall Street.
The roulette tickets also aren't worth it either. For $1,000 you can either win a useless SHITCOIN, DIE and lose your tickets (this can be circumvented by buying one ticket at a time), or go BANKRUPT and all your money. Only three of the 8 sections of the wheel actually reward more than you paid, one being at least 200 dollals, or $100k if you can sell them well. Just avoid the wheel unless you store all your money in dollals.

Graphics: 2 | Style: 4 | Sound: 8 | Violence: 0 | Interactivity: 4 | Humor: 5
Overall Rating: 4

[Rabbit's Ascent]

These aren't comments. These are reviews. I'd recommend setting up an official scoreboard system in the Newgrounds API. Otherwise you'd get a ton of reviews spamming completely fabricated scores, which could violate the Review Guidelines and get removed. It's a mess.

Also this is very difficult and there's no checkpoints, nor do the controls work as well as Celeste. The campfire mechanic is a decent idea, but it's being put in a very barebones presentation.

FizzyLemon responds:

Ah ok, thanks for letting me know about the review thing, I'd definitely like to work on that scoreboard system. I feel like I could do with just having another go with this concept, maybe make it into a larger game in the future. If I do I'll definitely include a proper scoreboard system, thanks for the feedback!

[Breakfast in Britain]

Go play a real game!

The whole game is that a crudely drawn British man makes another crudely drawn British man eat beans even though the latter doesn't like it. But fuck that guy. Click the screen until they're all gone.

Not too bad for a game made in 4 hours as a response to a Twitter comment. I got all 12 medals in 20 seconds. Talk about medal spam.

RE to @LeviRamirez:
What were you expecting?

Graphics: 7
Style: 0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7wUeiKuw9s)
Sound: 6
Violence: 0
Interactivity: 2
Humor: 7
Overall Rating: 6

LeviRamirez responds:

Boo!

[Bad Monday Simulator]

Great game, captures the Undertale style very well (in battle at least, although the title screen's good too), with plenty of Garfield references sprinkled in. Only problem is that it's really hard, even on Normal. I kept succumbing to each attack and restarting over and over. Now understanding how each attack works, I still can't dodge them well.