PowerRangerYELLOW's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Swine Flu: Pork-Pocalypse]

Oh my god how can you make fun of the swine flu

This game is very insensitive to those that have the swine flu and that is why i love it.

Kinda testament to just about everyones hypocrisy here such as it's okay to joke about one tragic thing and not another.

It's almost as if making swine flu games is a safe bet here but seeing all these swine flu games and movies kinda brings newgrounds back to it's roots.

It's all fun at the expense of people that caught the swine flu but to be honest I'm all for it because I've built my own flash career around having fun at the expense of others.

It would make me a hypocrite if i wasn't.

I find it interesting how most people here that normally draw the line at any kind of flash that relates to any kinda human misery is somehow wrong to make are not the least bit shocked by this very game.

Even when the first swine flu game came out.

Noone was shocked and in fact had a good time with it.

This doesn't necessarily mean that the people who enjoy these sorta games or movies don't give a shit about the victims of swine flu or anykinda of tragic event.

It only means they saw something that made them laugh and move on with there daily lives.

The game itself was actually a lot of fun and this sort of thing is very much needed for just about everybody so they can relax and not freak out over the swine flu too much.

There are however things you do to prevent the swine flu such as doing all the normal stuff you do to avoid the regular flu.

wear a germ proof mask whenever necessary and if you do have flu symptoms than for god sakes stay inside your house so that you don't spread your germs.

Killing the pigs that caused the swine flu in the first place also helps.

You can even make it a game so it would be as fun as the submission you just played.

-PowerRangerYELLOW

[Fire Kills]

Pretty cool game you got here.

It's simple graphics look great and i would assume this was produced by someone who makes these kinda things for a living.

The game itself was extremely well optimized.

for being under 1 k it is just amazing in general but despite the gaming engine being original rather than a rip off of other engines it was just an all around average game at the most.

But as i said the fact that is so well optimized brings your score up.

-PowerRangerYELLOW

[Red Moon]

controls took a lot of getting used to but not bad

Pretty cool but the controls take a little getting used to. when you click on the menu buttons and press them they don't make any sound.

This small touch may not seem necessary but people expect the menu buttons to not only light up but to make sounds as well especially in something this polished.

The intro to the game ran a little long but there was also the skip intro button as a key press.

I like this a lot better than having to press a button on the screen.

It held my attention but because this was a game about samurai.

The anime like graphics within that intro was to be expected and when it came up i was not surprised for one second.

That is a little formulaic don't you think?

Graphicwise you will not be standing out above all the other samurai games on newgrounds just because they all use the same animeish graphics.

There is no right or wrong way to drawing samurai but as long as it's not animeish looking than more people will remember the visuals and not get them mixed up with another samurai movie/game they seen that had a similar look.

The game play itself was fun but the controls took a little getting used to but i would not recommend using the z key as a button just because it messes up on German keyboards.

I'm not german myself but i have seen on a fourm somewhere that a german person said not to use the z key a button .

The music was fitting but most people like having different music through different stages because variety even within the sound adds so much to a game.

Other than all this i don't have much things else to complain about just because it was an interesting distraction.

-PowerRangerYELLOW

[Mood Tetris!]

Good tetris rip off but tainted by emoticons

but ironically without those internet memes and usage of the emoticons this engine would be completely unmemorable here.

Most of the time i would usually discourage people from using commonly used internet emoticons because it's not too original but somehow the combo of internet emoticons and a generic gaming engine makes the mundane feel a whole lot more original here.

You show some signs of creative energy that i never see within works of people who make equally dull and generic games such as this.

I can picture you coming up with a whole new gaming engine all together with whatever you know about action script already.

In closing doing a game as your first submission was a very smart idea because there are little to no graphic whores judging you before your ready to take there insults.

People only care about a game being fun and movies just have a whole different set of standards to them.

I will be looking forward to seeing more of your work in the near future. Best of luck.

-PowerRangerYELLOW

Dakaha responds:

Twank you :3

[shape wars 2]

Interesting little game here

It's a decent platformer so far but nothing i consider to be bad nor good. it would be about inbetween.

Just about average and while the visuals were comicals it lacked music and sound effects in general.

This can easily be fixed by inserting music into movie clips symbols and setting the audio to stream and use the time line until the song is over.

This results in a endless loop and optimizes the flash at the same time because you can't create an endless loop without movieclips and if you attempt to do so it causes the filesize to inflate to unreasonable sizes such as making a game that should have been 500kb to a meg end up wasting up megs in size that could have been used for making more sub menus with endless loops too and more features within the game.

I liked how the game was at a reasonable size but extra sounds wouldn't add much more to this games filesize as long as it is optimized well as an MP3.

any sound editing software is great for compressing sounds before importing it into flash.

The title screen can be dressed up a little more even if the drawings are not the greatest and those brief set of instructions were a good touch.

Considering including instructions is common sense but it still shocks me that not everyone adds instructions on how to play games.

I would be interested to see you include a bit more of your sense of humor injected into this game because there was a sense of silliness in your drawings.

a sense of humor in general is a lot more infectious in games and in turn making you laugh and most important of all causes you to have even more fun than your already having.

Hell, game classics like earth worm jim had a sense of humor and people still remember that game to this day.

-PowerRangerYELLOW

[House of Horror]

A point and click horror movie neat idea.

This is a pretty decent start for a game within the survival horror genre. The game play was simple and i was able to play it without any kind of instructions.

the only part i got stuck on was the part where i have to enter a code on the alarm system and i would recommend adding a button for me to backtrack away from that alarm system so i can explore the house some more and come back to that alarm system to try another code.

I would recommend adding hints hidden in the game to what the combination to that lock might be.

and as one of the last reviewers said punish people for getting the code wrong.

The tense music was fitting for this game and gave a generally horrifying atmosphere in general.

Make your drawings more polished and more levels in general because i can picture a game of this type being very successful here.

Best of luck.

-PowerRangerYELLOW

stigolafxcker responds:

Thanks. :)
I have taken all of your ideas into consideration.
In my second one, I hope to include all of this, and also better graphics and less bugs.

[Tom, Procrastinator]

Pretty funny little novelity you got here

The whole point of this game is to test your actual patience and to procrastinate for as long as possible.

Most people would not have the endurance to get a high score in this type of game unless they left there computer alone to go outside or go to bed because than you would have to press the space bar to collect points.

In closing it's a funny novelty game where the most skilled of players play by doing nothing at all.

-PowerRangerYELLOW

[Platformer Tech Demo]

too much of a learning curve

I liked the way the gaming engine was action scripted but the controls had too much of learning curve since you left no instructions on how to work the controls.

Most platformers have the arrow keys for walking instead of letters because people use them first by instinct.

we can't read your mind over the internet and it took me some messing with the keys to figure out that the W, A, S, D keys were what made the monkey movie around.

It was actually my second instinct to use those keys but because you provide no instructions it is unacceptable to expect everyone to be albe to play at all.

since most people when provided with no instructions on how to play go with there first instincts to play the game.

If they are not able to play without instructions and working with there first instincts has likely failed than instructions are necessary.

Picture yourself as a total stranger than has never touched your game before.

They need to know the same stuff you know or they won't accept it as a game.

sorry for being harsh here but a simple changing the W, A, S, D keys for moving to arrow keys for moving would sync your engine better to most peoples first instincts.

and if you can't keep up with most peoples first instincts than provide instructions at the very least or otherwise it takes forever to get things started as a gamer.

-PowerRangerYELLOW

Nihem097 responds:

sorry, but as soon as i posted it, It wouldn't let me change the movie's description to teach you how to play

[roflboredom]

Brillent prank you got here

while a lot of people will be pissed off that your game isn't working but the whole thing is a joke to get a rise out of you.

You think you are getting an epic game because of the ambitious looking title screen and the preloader to give you the impression that something amazing is coming.

You can't start a new game nor can you load up a saved file because there never was a saved file in the first place.

I'am giving you a high score because it's likely noone else will and they might likely pop a blood vessel over being pranked.

In closing smashing hit troll movie/game 100%

-PowerRangerYELLOW

acokecan responds:

haha omg man i read your review and laughed my ass off xD thanks for the review man.

[Classical Tetris]

Good gaming engine but unoriginal to a fault

The tetris gaming engine is really good. It's been made even before the concept of flash existed and people are still making there own verisons of tetris.

Hell, even doctor mario borrowed the tetris engine itself for it's game but none the less it kinda saddens me to see good programmers borrow from already existing engines because i see bad programmers create original engines all the time.

I would take there lead and follow there example by creating my own original engines too.

You work with the knowledge you already have.

not saying the game you made wasn't fun or anything just that I'm taking away points for making a generic game that doesn't stand out from the other tetris tributes.

when bad programmers create original gaming engines with what little things they know about action script than there is no excuse for good programmers to not only follow there example but also lead the bad programmers path to becoming good programmers by setting an even better example.

I hope to see the creative juices flowing because you really are a good programmer from what i seen of this gaming engine.

-PowerRangerYELLOW