Anonymous-Frog's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[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.

[My tv show network!]

There is nothing epic here, there's no TV, just a single image of the logo.

EDIT: Yes I read the description, but that doesn't change the fact that the big fat juicy HTML5 file only contains the logo, and a barebones one at that. I'd recommend actually having some shows ready before you post on the Portal.

DemideviDude responds:

Read description

[Kill the Pedophiles]

- You shoot one pedo, the others take damage.
- The game is just one frame where you click to shoot, which is heavily outdated.
- No green flag to restart.
- Unremarkable graphics

UPDATE: I'm pretty sure you can do a whole lot more with Scratch. Just look at what I've done for reference.
Also, HTMLifier has extra options that let you add the green flag.

FoxiesBitCoin responds:

- It’s a metaphor for "you people are all the same"
- You gotta understand I programmed this game on Scratch which is pretty limiting
- Same reason as the 2nd
- I had to rush the assets

UPDATE: Should probably clarify the 3rd issue, After I completed the game for some reason when ever I pressed the green flag again the assets just disappeared and Scratch crashed so that’s why I put the option on HTMLifier to only have it as a green flag.

[3D - Shooting Game Test (DEMO)]

The '3D' part is a little misleading. The gun uses a pseudo-3D effect, which works by layering different segments of the gun and placing them at different points. The world itself has a fixed camera, ie. not 3D

Aside from that, all too basic for a Scratch game. You don't need to publish tests. You are not required to show them to the public, and it's probably not recommended since Newgrounds has a blam/protect system.

KrispyKrunch responds:

ok thanks

[Showman Ultimatum: Be the new Hero]

This game uses Stencyl + Flash (aka AS3), which severely limits its accessibility.
Also, it's a crappy platformer using the Dorkly Mario sprites.
Is it really worth downloading the Newgrounds Player for? No!

[stickman dating sim yandere edition]

Can be beaten in 3 seconds. If you ask me, 40 seconds would be the bare minimum.
And even then, it's pretty barebones. You just hold right, kill the other girl, hold left and hit space to win.