etheweirdo's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Bird Tapper: Purple Platoon Panic]

Very fun game, simple mechanics that I think work really well. I have a couple minor issues with the game. One is that if you are still holding a button after hitting an enemy, it will immediately use the next attack. Also I get why it is but it feels a little finicky to do an uppercut because it uses the jump button. While there's a separate uppercut button, it doesn't make the normal punch unable to turn into an uppercut so sometimes if I want to jump fast after punching it just uppercuts instead (especially since you can change it into one even after starting a punch). I also have some issues with the bomb enemies. If you hit them right as they're hitting a bomb they'll sometimes still hit you even though visually it doesn't look like it should.

Two issues that I think actually impact my enjoyment are that the character hitbox feels huge (seems to be the entire sprite) and hitting a wall is a bit jank. It doesn't feel consistent if it'll kill your momentum or not.

This isn't an issue with your game in particular, more just any game with score/time requirements, but there are a lot of times that frustrate me because I just don't know what route I'm expected to take. I think 13 is the one that caused me the most issues because I somehow missed it by 100 points which is such a weird number to miss by that I'm not even sure how that would work. I eventually found a path but it does really feel annoying unfortunately. Again not an issue with this game in particular, just venting my frustration. I don't even have a clue on 16 and just gave up going for gold afterwards.
The funny inverse of this is I got 2700 points on level 15 despite the point total being 1900 and 2500 on level 22.

ProsciuttoMan responds:

Very fair critique! I'll look into making some of these changes in an update...
With controls, the uppercut activation is moreso a result of how mobile controls work. On mobile, there isn't a dedicated uppercut button to avoid cluttering the screen, so it was changed to an up + punch input combo.
Gold is intended to require you to play the level perfectly: it's like the S rank from Super Meat Boy Forever, while silver is intended to be the equivalent of an A+ rank in Super Meat Boy (meaning you played the level well). There's a secret achievement for getting past the intended maximum score to reward especially clever players too.

[Auto Necrochess]

Pretty fun. It hits a good spot between clear to start but takes a lot to do good. All the different skeletons have differences that make it fun to try and test new ones. Cool art as well.
If I had any issue sometimes I don't understand why attacks don't do as much damage to the castle? It seems like a buff won't increase castle damage but I don't really understand why?

Also when playing, I had a run where I beat the castle, but despite the health being zero the enemies kept moving to make me lose. I imagine it does a check at the end but that felt really lame that it didn't count.

Edit: On a replay I understand why the previous thing happens but it does still feel bad.
Played again and got to the king but since his lane was slightly less effecient I lost despite having like 4 skeletons in each other lane. I kinda wish they would look back towards the king but I get why they don't. Bit disappointing but it's whatever.

I also feel like some of the rounds can be basically impossible. I had one where a row was 3 big nights and 3 rams (whatever the thing that holds knights are) I already feel like the buff knights are toeing the lie on what is reasonable but that was too many.

[Lunar Worm]

It's neat, probably could use a little more variety in what you do but it's fine for what it is.
I wish the worm was a little higher up to give more time to react and the controls feel a little loose but it is what it is. Fairly fun overall.

[JelloTetrix]

real neat. I wish there was a way to tell if a line is close or not (NoTetris has a box that fills up on the side that helps a lot).

[Maple's Maid Service]

Cute little game. Fun little time sink full of really nice visuals and fun characters.

[It Was All For The Tuna]

pretty cool. takes a bit of getting used to the controls but for a gamejam this is quite impressive.

[ONE BTN BOSSES]

Really neat and simple game.
My only real issue is it's hard to tell if an attack is "active" sometimes. Most seem to only be active if they are fully opaque, but starting from medium this only seems to sometimes be true? might just be something with my browser though who knows.
Great execution of the game over all though.
Possibly also a browser issue but it didn't actually give me credit for beating triangle, and my data reset so I don't feel like beating the whole game to retry it.

[Figure Fumble!]

Really cool though gets repetitive fast. Other than a really generous timer there isn't really any risk of losing? Not inherently bad but there isn't any real obstacle getting in your way. It's a neat start to something that could be pretty cool.
Art and Music are amazing though. Love the style

[Pico Pizza Frenzy]

Neat for what it is. Solid little game to mess about in for a couple minutes. Not much afterwards to do but it is what it is.

[GansWare]

It's neat. Minigames are kinda thrown together and don't feel cohesive like a "warioware" style thing. It being a game jam makes sense for that though. Very neat for what it is.