hotdogtopus's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Sheep It Up!]

It doesn't run well on mobile. Choppy frames, sound, and movement, but I saw the demo video on Gamasutra and it looks good there. +2 stars because it's available on GameBoy. A cool story. Makes me wonder where my GameBoy is ...

drludos responds:

Hi, sorry you had a bad experience on mobile.

May I ask what device you use? I know that the Javascript-based Game Boy emulator needs quite a lot of CPU power (games are running at 60fps). As the rom is free to download, you can also try a native Game Boy emulator app for your mobile, you should have smooth performance that way.

Anyway, thanks for the kind words, and I hope you'll find your GameBoy!

[DUEL: become # one]

I don't like the controls. Using the arrow keys would help to separate the movement from the attacks. Too confusing the way that it is. Can't get used to it.

popotsesthedragon responds:

Hey! I'm currently working on this issue. It might be available in the future releases. Hopefully, by then you could become number one.

[Valhalla Bound]

Demo has to be completely redone. If you turn it off, eventually you get far enough, but then you don't know what to do because you turned it off because you've already sat through it too many times. For example I kept losing at level 5, turned the demo off, but then I got to the sea king and died because I didn't know what I was supposed to do. The demo could be replaced by arrows that simply say "hit here" and play lose sound effects when you hit the wrong thing. No need to sit through a tutorial for a point and click.

Avizial responds:

This is some great feedback. Let us take a look at the tutorial and see if we can do a few tweaks.

We have gotten some feedback with players saying they had no idea how to play it; however, we understand that the more skilled players might find the tutorial boring or unnecessary. We think a fair middle ground is met with a skip-able tutorial and disabling tutorial outright from the main menu.

We shall look into some possible tweaks :)

Glad to see a player has finally gotten to the sea king god, Aegir! Perhaps we should make his weak-point a little more obvious. Maybe make it sparkle, shine or glow? We will test to see what looks best.

Hint: If you want to defeat the sea king boss, you have to shoot the gem on his crown with a mighty blow!

Thanks for playing the game! We hope to hear from you in our future games.

[The Suicide Cult]

Interesting. Once you realize what's going on, you only have to die once to figure out which position to take in each level.

Namlich responds:

Even in hard mode? Well done!

[Puddle Quest]

I see a green arrow. I click it and nothing else works? Something's wrong.

gludion responds:

@hotdogtopus @Game-Jammer @EDM364
sorry for the trouble :/. The problem is now fixed.

[Omnichronic prototype]

I would like to play more, but currently, the UI is painful to play through. The typewriter text is too slow. Even pressing space bar to skip requires extra keys to get through basic dialogue, isn't that fast, and is frustrating. It's hard to move through the scenes because they keep saying the same thing in 3-4 sentence blocks, even after you've done what they've asked. If they have nothing to say, they should give a short command or not say anything. The game space is so small that sometimes you accidentally click on a person and then they keep talking and talking when really you just want to go around them. I ran out of patience after about 15 minutes.

Mammothtree responds:

Thank you for the feedback! This is my first go around and any and all feedback is very appreciated in order for me to get better at this gamemaking thing, Thank you for giving it a go! :)

[Pound the Puss]

Oh, my. Oh, just -- no.

OrangePylon responds:

Happy to make you uncomfortable!

[Tattle & Tale]

Liked everything about it, but the character left/right walking movement is too slow.

SinclairStrange responds:

I'd suggest downloading the windows version, from itch.io, it runs much much smoother :) (As it wasn't originally designed for flash)

[Zombies Love Cheese]

Hm. Tried level 11 about 20 times, started having framerate issues and just couldn't get the cheese timed quite right to get it to the zombie. Not sure if I was missing something... Curious if others get passed it ...

Crabroid responds:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cYjxk9UsFU

[Rainbow Cube]

Just okay for me. Would like to see additional complexity. Maybe an animated background, etc.

dedaloodak responds:

LoL, pleasing gamers on newgrounds looks like hell :D