MacsterStudios's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Skincraft]

Just what I needed!

About a week ago I buyed Minecraft and totally got addicted to it. And now, I come back on Newgrounds, and what do I see on the front page? Wow... just wow... its just what I needed!

The flash is very complete. A simple, quick and easy-to-use yet complete interface design that lets you understand quickly how to use it, and still covers pretty much everything you'd want to have. There are very little or no glitches (I have found none for now), and it works much better than all those complex skin-editing apps or softwares, not to mention most of them ain't free.

You managed to nail it all in a free, easy to use and understand, flash game that even supports the game's 3D graphics. Amazing job! All my Five are belong to this!

The-Swain responds:

Now all you need is to upload your skins for all to share :D

[No Time to Explain]

Disapointed

- Graphics 8/10: The graphics are simple, yet realy adequate to the game. Those aren't especialy impressive graphics, but I see that it was the idea to give it a simple look, and the effects are great.
- Concept and gameplay: 7/10: While this is not the concept of the year, it is still a very orignal concept. Its a new, refresing kind of platformer. However, the gameplay might seem pretty «spasmic» and hard to get used to at first. Also, the infinite amount of lifes cuts off the difficulty level harshly.
- Voices: 9/10: the voices are well made, and they are nicely recorded, and add a pinch of humor. Of course its gore humor, «MY RIBS ARE IN MY EYES! THEY'RE IN MY EYES», but it is appropriate to the game and add a little more of enjoyment to it.
- Lifespan: 0/10: I know it might hard to make a good game, and even harder to make it long, but when a game can be finished in less than one minute, there's bound to be a LOT of improvement. I unfortunately can't see much efforts on this point, so I find myself unable to give you any points for this.

Overall rating: 6/10 (okay game): I am very disapointed to give a not-so-good rating to this game. The game itself as alot of potential, with good graphics, a new concept, good gameplay and a nice voice cast, but like I said before, its WAY too short. This game would have deserved a much better score, but with a lifespan inferior to one minute, I cannot give you a great rating.

I-smel responds:

I've ignored some big reviews to my games recently, but I'm in a really talky mood right now, so I wanna respond to this one.

-Thanks on the graphics, I tried to make it look like a basic Kirby/Mario platformer, and didn't go super complex cos I just wanted to get it finished without spending too long on it.
-A lot of people hate the controls, an that's fair enough because sometimes they just don't work, but I think you missed the point on the difficulty. There's never a game-over in this, and I don't want there to be. Rubik's Cubes are hard, Monopoly is hard, and Trials is hard even though you can play it all day without running out of lives. I put a game-over in Robot Dinosaurs That Shoot Beams When They Roar, and it just kinda spoiled the game. Nobody wanted to try again, and it killed the joke-- I'll come back to this in a sec..
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-LIFESPAN; this is the main reason I'm replying. The game was designed to be short. It was designed around the joke that this guy is stuck in a horrible time-loop. If it was any longer the joke would stop being funny, or it'd be too easy to predict the ending, or the basic mechanic of the beam cannon'd get boring. The bigger the gap between the setup and the punchline, the worse off the game would be- that's the way I see it.
Same with Robot Dinosaurs, like I said, that game's built around a similar joke. The dinosaurs roar; it's funny in the first cutscene, then it's funny for about a minute of gameplay, then the cutscene comes back n it's done. The game really loses steam if you're stuck hearing the same joke for like 5 minutes.
Also- in both games- there's not much you can do with that mechanic before it starts to get boring or weird.

By the way; there are two secret routes in the game that lead to slightly different endings. I didn't mention them anywhere, they just got out through word of mouth-- you'll see a lot of it if you flick through the reviews.
So if you want a bit more gameplay from this or if you want something harder, play it again and go in the wrong directions. Try to get to places you shouldn't be allowed to get to, and you'll find some stuff.
That's another advantage of it being really short: it's really easy to hunt for secrets.

Thanks for playing, and takin the time to write a fuckin huge review.

[Gravit-Eye]

Great

This game have a realy good and unique concept. The gameplay is quite good. One of the few puzzle games that I realy liked. But I gave 8/10 becauxe the graphics where not that good. And you should add some sound effects to the game, it would make it more attractive because usualy a game that have no sound effect will usualy get boring quite fast.

There's no glitches in that game by the way.

ryanclewis responds:

Thanks! In the future, I'll probably hire an artist and get real music/sfx, I know mine aren't too great.

[The Deltizmo Soundboard]

Nice ones

LoL funniest ass jokes evah. I do agreed that some things that the peoples says on Xbox Live may be funny, but THIS is just SOOOOOOOOOOO funny. BTW what is your Xbox Live account? please answer me (I got L4D too)

LittleLuckyLink responds:

My account is "LittleLuckyLink"
and Delta's account is "Deltizmo"

[Madness Deathwish 2]

errors

great games, but theres a few error

- even with the swift learner perk, it is NOT possible to reach the last tier perks before the end of the game

- in the descriptions of the tank hunter, you speeled oragarns instead of organs

- you CANNOT score a critical hit unless you've got perk that is just supposed to increase the chances of scoring one, wich is kinda stupid in my opinion

- in the deatwishes videos, you can see that the guy wears the same armor that you equiped, wich is freaking nice, however, you can notice that the weapon he wears is always fully upgraded even if you still aven't upgraded it.

- unlike in the deatwishes videos and in the game over video, you do not wear the same armor that you've equiped in the ending video

- you cannot grab the weapons of your enemies, but I kind of agree that beeing able to do that would totaly alternate the gameplay and the game itself by the same way, so I wont blame you too much for that.

- according to is power, the tank hunter is too slow and kind of unvaliable unless you upgraded it, a level 1 tank hunter take so much time to kill 1 enemy that you get totaly swarmed before you kill your victim

Other than that it was freaking awesome. Kinda long, wich is good and bad at the same time cuz it realy sucks when you die like at the last level and you got to restart the WHOLE game. The deatwishes where nice, the 2nd deatwishes video (the one with the shotgun) was realy funny, the last ones where not that good if you compare them to the first ones.

8/10 4/5 Great work!

Arkuni responds:

Thank you so much for the nice feedback.

I'll look into some of the things you mentioned and address them in a minor patch.

Wanna beta-test future projects? :-)