FattyWhale's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Kill Smile!]

K

^^Good Points^^
Ok, the music was pretty good, and the ending "finish him" sound was pretty nice addition. The game is pretty fun to play and the drawings aren't half bad either.

^^Needs Improving^^
This game is really short...seems like more of a demo. You should add some more levels or difficulties or something, because as it is right now, this game doesn't have much replay value.

AngryFaic responds:

Yeah, this was really only for people who are bored, who have a webcam, a minute and a face to kill.

[SF3 Scene Creator]

K

^^Good Points^^
Ok, this isn't bad. You have five different backgrounds for people to use, which is nice, and all of the images you used were both big and high quality. The music wasn't bad either.

^^Needs Improving^^
First off, I don't understand this "Please wait...." thing you added for five seconds. I just waited for the thing to load and now you want me to wait again? That's not right. Anyway I don't really like how the items are all scattered throughout the stage, it's just harder to get everything off of the stage. You should start them all off above in the black area. There weren't too many items either.

threeD responds:

5 secs.. just wanted ythe music to end :P lol

this is a mere try to see if this idea is gonna work or not and i have got avg. of 7.5/10 which is cool so i am definitely making a next one with more stuff and also trying to get the person to select the sprites from a drop down menu..
next one might have a lot more or ALL of the characters and new stuff like different fireballs, hyper combo lightning stuff, and more..

[Newground$ Tutorial 2]

K

^^Good Points^^
This has improved a little bit from the first tutorial you did. I liked how you had the music on/off buttons, which should be in every tutorial. I am also a fan of how you linked each of the portal awards to the listing page on NG. This is very helpful, I think. The buttons all seemed to work too.

^^Needs Improving^^
The graphics are still pretty lame. Also, the music on/off buttons seem to be in the way sometimes.

HomerDough responds:

Yea I know about the music buttons. I need to fix that. Thanks

[Newground$ Tutorial]

K

^^Good Points^^
Much better than you NG quiz. I liked the music, it was a neat tune, and wasn't annoying or low quality. There is a quite a bit of good information in this tutorial for the people that are less exprienced on NG, and I think that you did a good job with explaining most things. I could see this being useful.

^^Needs Improving^^
Most of this info is taken right from the Help section of NG, so I can't say you had a lot of original work on this. Also, I didn't really like how when you went back to the menu the music restarted.

HomerDough responds:

Thanks and I know about the music

[Newground Quiz]

K

^^Good Points^^
The music is very characteristic of NG, that is for sure. I guess you couldn't have music any more NG themed than an old classic paragonx9 song.

^^Needs Improving^^
Well, There is a lot wrong with this. First off, after question seven, you go right back to question five, so you can't really get to the end of the quiz without doing some right clicking. The graphics aren't that great, they are really quite bland and boring. I felt that a lot of the questions weren't very good either. Most of them were about Tom and not so much about NG itself. Who cares how tall Tom is?

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HomerDough responds:

Again, they are checkpoints. If you get one wrong, you go to the nearest checkpoint. Number 7's answer is 5'11 so you don't have to right click.

[First Flash Tut]

K

^^Good Points^^
Usually when a persons first flash submission is a tutorial, it usually sucks, however this one was actually pretty well done! I liked the many different sound clips and the graphical layout was pretty nice looking. I especially liked how easy this was to follow. You even put some //comments into your AS, which is something I don't see in many tuts, but is very useful.

^^Needs Improving^^
As Frenzy said, this isn't a plethora of information. Next time, you should definitely put a few more components of Flash into the tut.

Storm responds:

Thanks for the thumbs up, and yes - now I look at it, my tut is a bit too small.

[Type It]

K

^^Good Points^^
Game works pretty well. I have few complaints about the actual gameplay. The game is midly addicting too. I like how it gets progressively harder as you go on and the health system works well.

^^Needs Improving^^
Not really an interesting game, nor is it very original or innovative. The game is super easy too. I played for a few minutes and found I was not challenged at all and I don't feel like sticking around until it gets harder. You should definitely make the game harder.

Afro-Ninja responds:

Trust me, if you keep playing, it gets hard enough

[Jim Raynor Soundboard]

K

^^Good Points^^
WOW, there are a ton of sound clips in this one. I was really surprised with how many sounds you crammed into this. I liked how you color coded all the sounds in category as well, that makes it very easy to make a prank call, which I think is very possible with this sounboard. The sound quality was good, and most of the clips were the same volume.

^^Needs Improving^^
The only thing I don't like are the buttons. Gradents look really ugly, especially when it's any color with black.

wizardman responds:

Yay, another person who hates the buttons. Yeah, I'm never usign gradients again. It seemed like a good idea at the time though. Thanks for the review, glad you enjoyed it otherwise.

[Beat the System]

K

^^Good Points^^
Some of the levels have good designs that were a little intimidating at first and were pretty challenging.

^^Needs Improving^^
From the instructions, when you say "some levels there is no fair way to beat" I was really expecting this to be better. The levels were all pretty straightforward and all of them had a "fair" way to beat them. There weren't enough levels, and most of these just looked like practice levels to a much bigger game. Make bigger levels that contain more components.

El-Moo responds:

I'm gonna start working on Beat the System 2.0 as soon as I finish a flash movie I'm working on. BtS 2.0 will have more levels, better looking layouts, and a password system so people don't have to do the game over when they lose.

[Invader ZIM scene creator]

K

^^Good Points^^
One thing is that you had many different backgrounds that could be used which is always a fun thing in scene creators. There are lots of different characters, and the stage is not very cluttered.

^^Needs Improving^^
The music is really quite annoying, so a music off button would be nice. There also aren't many images other than ones with the characters just standing up and looking forward. There wasn't any images of characters moving around or doing any interesting actions. You definitey need some more of these.

IZSBHR responds:

You see that grey arrow on a stick? That's a mute button.

Some characters do move. But if you need more...