DumbassDude's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Ching Chong Beautiful]

Tough but very good.

Good Points:
Loving the art, its so smooth and very arcade like, Jeff and Stamper are so good at pulling off this sort of thing and I am very impressed with The-Swains programming abilities, never thought he had it in him. The introduction was very good and the music is top quality and fits in very well. Speaking of sound, Stampers voice acting with the voice actor made me think "Wow, thats professional, I feel like I'm playing on the SNES." Except the art was so good, the SNES couldn't top it.

Bad Points:
The difficulty however, really puts you off after awhile rather than going for it, I feel like I'm not working towards anything, like an unlockable or something. The introduction menu is pretty confusing at first as the colours are so similar and jam packed on the screen it makes you navigate 5 times around the same area before realising what to do.

Overall:
Very good game. Original stuff, it's nice to see we are developing for shitty little basic platformers.

[NG Level Icon Maker V2]

Pretty fun tool

Good Points:
I like the wide range of tools you can use this time around and what you can do with them. The ability to perfectly scale things this time round is very useful when trying to cram alot of materials into one area. The ability to unlock things makes the game almost replayable, because you can back to see what you didn't unlock and try different methods to do so.

Bad Points:
How I see it, it's the same old thing just with extra things, normally this would be fine but I figured the first one could have simply been updated. The amount of different things added does not really create much EXCITEMENT and is more or less the same old thing.

Overall:
Good game and concept, but I don't think you added enough new content to actually release it as a new game.

smokinjoeevil responds:

I didn't realease it as a new game. I clearly titled it "V2", or version 2. That basically implies that it is the same sort of thing, but upgraded or changed in some way. Which it IS, certainly. There are actually a ton more options that you probably didn't even see. Even some of the old parts got new styles applied to them, and I added more new parts, paints, new styles on old part, plus bonuses to this one than there were even regular parts in the first one.

I certainly was NOT going to do all this work, and simply update the old submission with this one. This one is nearly completely different in the scope of things you can do. From saving your in-progress work, to sharing your icon to a place that others can view it. It is far more than just an "update".

Besides... after a certain number of views are reached, updating a Flash submission requires administrative review before it goes into effect. I should know... I tried updating the last one with a spelling correction when it got to around 50,000 views, and it wouldn't let me without going through that process... which wasn't worth it for a spelling change. I'm not sure they would have even let me update that old Flash submission with something completely different (which this one obviously is - different look, new tools, updated content, new method of acquiring bonuses, different songs, ability to share, etc. etc. etc.)

[Seed of Destruction]

Great game, very original.

Good Points:
Very good art, whats even better is the fact that you incorparated paper art and created a flick book. Not many artists have the skill or the patience to do so and thats what makes this game so good. Original idea and has lots of replay value with included mini games and amount of stages in the story.

Bad Points:
Can get abit repetitive playing through the story, considering to get to the last stages it requires quite alot of points. Another thing that actually irritated me was the fact that you couldn't change the quality. My browser couldn't take it.

Overall:
Fantastic game, great gamplay, plenty of shit to do but I do reccomend adding quality control to the rest of your games.

[It's a Nice Day Today]

Funny flash, not great.

Good Points:
The art is good and clean and definitly suits the overall theme of the animation. The music is good and matches the mood the flash is trying to display, which is always good. It definitly made me feel happy, even during the masturbation and killing of innocents. That leads me to the game at the end, so simple and funny ,very smooth animation.

Bad Points:
Too short which I believe tells me straight away that this flash does not deserve the score it recieved, I remember seeing this at 4.5, way too high for such a simple animation. At some points the animation on the sun seemed to slow down when the guy closed the window, It looked pretty unprofessional.

Overall:
Short and sweet, but perhaps too short.

[Sniper Assassin 3]

Great game, very enjoyable.

Good Points:
Lot's levels, which is always good especially when it comes to objective games. The animation is smooth when moving the reticule around and it's never hard to shoot anyone. The de-briefing is always good, it establishes the story as in-depth as it can, but this necessarily isnt good.

Bad Points:
The opening scene where he is punching the guy, the art isn't as good as it should be, considering how good the gameplay. It seem's you didn't put as much effort into the movies as you did the gameplay. The art for the scene needs to be improved greatly and perhaps more added to it. When you shoot certain civilians, it just skips straight to 'mission failure' and this seems like you just lazed out on the killing sequences.

Overall:
Very good game, lots of varied levels and different things offered since the second installment, many things to consider though until it is perfect. Good job.

annlucaswinters responds:

Thanks Dude!

I really tried my best on the movie sequences, on the 4th sniper assassin I'll try to make it even better.

[Crop Circles 2]

Decent game, though repetitive.

Good Points:
The graphics and details are good, assuming you didn't use textures elsewhere. It was very simple, and is easy to get to grips and easy user interface.
There are a fair amount of levels and decent gameplay.

Bad Points:
The graphics can be argued as too simple with no enough effort put into the appearance and the lack of a more extensive tutorial can confuse some at the beginning. The game gets very repetitive very quickly, I got to the 3rd level before I got bored.

Overall:
Good simple game, though I suggest adding more things to do and improving the appearance with maybe more colour or more extensive weaponry.

[Thing-Thing 3]

Great game indeed

Good Points:
I like this game, played like 15 times. I enjoy trying to make the high scores and how this has a story. The graphics were great and never lagged for me, which I was rather surprised with, the sound was went well and the violence, mostly the blood effects, was excellent. I also liked the variety of weapons you could have, it was rather enjoyable trying them all, or have I?

Bad points:
There are things to improve on, regarding all the stuff you have, it seems it lacks length, this game would have still in the top 50 if the story had more length, maybe cutscenes? Keep that in mind.

Overall:
Great game, most likely play it again. ^___^

[Ragdoll Avalanche]

I liked this game

Good Points:
I thought this game would be just another rip off of ragdoll, so I played it and guess what? I liked it, played it quite a few times actually. The graphics were quite good in this game, and your style and idea was great. the violence suited just right.

Bad points:
Too basic, could use a background and able to toggle quality. Also levels? If there were i didnt see but you could have levels and level selector, that would have boosted this flash into the 4.00 scores.

Overall:
Good game, thouroughly enjoyed it. (forgive my Grammer)

[Friday the 24th]

Nice Game

Good Points:
The concept is good, little boy thats 'looks' like jason, killing elves a night before Christmas, then killing Santa afterwards. Priceless. The graphics were great, the reason I liked becuase it was simple and not immense so it wouldnt lag on high quality. I liked the music aswell, never got tired of it.

Bad points:
Too simple, there needs to be levels, that would have been ace, also maybe fighting santa instead of just a cutscene killing him.
Improvements:
- Toggle sound
- Fighting Santa
- different types of elves
- Elves retaliate
- levels
Those Improvements would be great.

Overall:
Great Game, I will most certainly play it in the future.

[-Elf attack-]

Ok game

Good Points:
it was a good game, it had good scripting and it had a good idea, and the background was pretty good. We have ourselves a battering ram or something, squashing elves, and there is actually a goal in this game aswell. Good.

Bad Points:
Maybe there is a goal in this game, but there are not many features, like levels, difficulty etc. There should be more stuff like that, also the sound should have been more exiciting, people would have more fun playing it. I suggest you improve it.

Overall:
Good game, Needs improvement.