epheph's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[escape from someplace]

Is the game impossible?

I cannot get past the buzz-saw... Programming and artwork are important elements, and judging from this could have promise, but difficulty & gameplay elements are extremely important as well... This game has about 25 seconds worth of gameplay... I want to know how this game got a score over 2?!?

[BIG BUDDA]

Nice, solid game...

I really liked the game, but i must say, you should include some instructions! I read some reviews, and people likened it to bejeweled, but i've never played that game... Figuring out how the game works isn't part of the puzzle, is it? After that, the puzzle was still fairly interesting... The difficulty could increase a little more quickly, but as it is, i was still fairly enticed by the graphics and surprisingly the sound... Could have used some optional music...

[Pac-man Eat'em Up]

Alright, i gotta know

Has some new tutorial come to light or are you/everyone decompiling someone else's flash file and inserting your own graphics? I always check out and review every game that crosses newgrounds, and I have seen MANY MANY of this exact game with the exact same gameplay!!! It would be weird enough if a dozen fishy's came up over the course of a couple days, but this has the exact same physics as everything else recently, including the ability to eat something only slighly larger. I'm glad you learned some actionscript/how to decompile, but i thirst for something even vaguely original.

[Color Eliminator]

Pretty solid submission

Nice simplification of the DDR-genre, down to the basics. What i noticed is that the hit area for 'Failure' is very spotty, and clicking it after you lost can be a little irritating. Also, clicking Failure isn't terribly intuitive, and it brings you back to a screen you've already been to and don't really need to come back to. Anyway, nice game.

[Midnite Snack]

Finished in 45 seconds

I was too overcome by the ease of just pressing tab, you have to fix that! Otherwise a reasonabe game.

[The Adventures of BlobBob]

Well produced game, lots of potential

First of all, its a great game, i love a good side-scroller. The music could have been more suiting/less repetitive. There were a few things that bothered me:

1.) Screen-scrolling when moving to the left. When the character was moving to the left, the character remained maybe 25% from the left side of the screen. The screen view should be adjusted if moving left is a common element, as with this game.
2.) Moving on to the next level. I found myself still holding a button from the previous level when i was thrown into the new level. Quite frustrating when the first thing you do in a level is inadvertantly die.

Otherwise a very enjoyable game!

[BR III: Gemini]

Cool, simple, stylish, addictive game

But the music! I only had time to play though a handful of levels (maybe 10 or so), and perhaps the music changes whenever you go from one level to another (BTW~ definitely a GarageBand tune), but the when you get stuck for a couple minutes on a level, and the music does the same little lick over and over again, it gets sort of frustrating! Otherwise a fantastic, polished game.

[Dress up Cathy]

OK, a dress-up game

I've never been much of a fan of dress-up games, so i'll try not to rate too harshly. It was nice and stylish at times. Loading of music could have gone a lot smoother; I'm on a high-speed connection, with a reasonably fast computer, and while it was loading music (i think that's what it was doing), I didn't see any progress meters? For about 30 seconds before the game started I thought it got stuck or something.

[Overhead 4]

Nice ADD style-WarioWare kind of game

I'm actually working on something slightly similar this. The rules of the game weren't really enforced, and on completion of some of them it wasn't very gratifying to click next, just like you would have done if you lost. Overall, I liked it, and played it to completion!