Pocru's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Sally's Cats]

The ultimate flaw could of easily been avoided.

This game's graphics are good, the audio is great, and the gameplay is smooth and challenging: but its not the good kind of challenging. Rather, the controls make this game a frustrating experience.

The fact that everything was done with the mouse was convenient, but not very well done. It was far too easy to accidentally make a rope when pausing or trying to rescue a cat. This spontanious unwanted rope spawnings not only reduced my score but also made things harder, especially sense more often then not they got in my way. This also conflicted with movement and drawing the cats up, causing unnecessary time strain and annoyance.

This game is unique and ultimatly a GOOD game, its just these control hang-ups really deter from the experience. I wanted to give you a better score but the annoying controls prevented me from doing that.

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[Revenge Of The Stars]

In a word: dull

The gameplay itself was smooth and generally challenging, and there was a DECENT level of customization, but... really, nothing to write home about. The gameplay was uniquish for a flash game, but that dosn't translate automatically into quality. It got boring quite quickly and frankly, I didn't see much reason to go at it again after my second go.

But it's still a decent game. Don't expect it to get game of the week, thou.

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[Mechanical Commando 2]

You did a LOT of things right with this game.

This, I must confess, is a brilliantly made game. The gameplay is rich, deep, and addictive, the music is perfectly selected, and the story is great for games of this type. Its nicely balanced, its pacing is good, and the challenge level increases appropriately with your level.

There are only a few things I take issue with: the first is that the side-missions are bland, for the most part. The enemies are too weak by the time you usually get to them, so some way to scale their difficulty with your level would of been nice, at least for some of the later ones. Continuing on that, there's a good variety of side-missions but they really don't have the appeal of the main missions, which are very, VERY attractive. Generally, my only motivation for doing them as opposed to simply redoing older levels was the EX gain, and the chance to get new medals... and I must say that the medal system was a little hard to predict: was it on time? Kills? Life? There wasn't much for me to know, so I wasn't sure HOW to achieve the ever-elusive gold star: all I know is its not based on speed.

All in all, this is a testimonial to the glory of the multidirectional vertical shooting games. This game is truly something other designers should aspire to in making a game of this genre. The minor problems hardly derive from the greater experience of it all, although had they been improved this would of been deserving of the title greatest game on the site...

Keep up the good work!

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[Tower Defence War]

Strong in terms of gameplay, but bland.

This game really has nothing to separate it from the average tower defense game. Other than that, it was a fairly solid game with a decent variety of tower types, but much more would be better for the complete game.

The rocket was, as stated before, overpowered at first, but underpowered later. The cost to upgrade was huge and the amount it actually increased was minimal, rendering it as useless as any of the other towers late in the game: as a general rule of thumb, a good tower defense game isn't about HOW many towers you have, which is the case in this one, but what kind of tower and where they're positioned. It really should be more about strategy and less about just spamming really powerful towers everywhere you can.

If you fix some of these problems and add something more unique to the game, this could be an excellent game!

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[Starfire: Retallation]

A solid game, but nothing distinquishes it.

This is your standard top-down shooter. And while there's nothing wrong with that, or this game, there's also nothing that really separates this from the crowd. If this was to earn a perfect ten, it would of needed some underlying creative originality, and this really didn't have any. The upgrade system was well performed, the shooting and controls were smooth, and the enemies were exactly the archetypes I expected from this sort of game. So nothing really caught me off guard, which was a little disappointing.

Keep up the solid work, but in your next submission lets see something new!

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[Kill The Pacman 2]

A few things keep this from getting a ten.

First and foremost, the collision is a bit off. Sometimes I'd run into a Pac-man and nothing would happen, and other times it seems I barely have to scrape them in order for them to blow up. That was irksome and inconsistent.

Secondly, the music loops often, too often, and the times it restarts is obvious and distracting. I'd try to fix that by making the loops a bit longer and the transition a bit smoother. Those kinds of flaws in a soundtrack can really be distracting.

Finally, the game is repetitive. It's like that tank game (for the life of me I cant remember what its called... invinsitank?) except it has less variety and gets boring faster. I got a bored of the game after the third level, not to mention frusterated with the above problems.

Ultimately, the game is smooth and colorful, but other than that it's lacking just enough in the other departments to make it not really worth any effort into completion.

good luck in the future!

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[Icebreaker]

Interesting game

This was original. I was rather fond of the puzzle mechanic, and it was easy to use and catch onto. That, and the music was very relaxing. Good job!

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[Applez]

Interesting Platform game

This was a pretty good game, especially considering its your first. It had a few interesting twists into it, most notably the fatness and the vomiting, and that added a small level of depth. However, I've seen that specific mechanic before, so its not that ground-breaking. Its still well-executed, though, dispite the fact I usually find those kind of puzzles quite frustrating.

Keep up the good work!

[MooBeam]

Good!

The game is good. Not original, as these puzzles have been done to death, but very well executed with a nice unique touches, like rewarding for fast reaction and thinking ahead.

Very well done! I'm addicted!

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[Level Up!]

Glitched...

I tried several times, but every time, my character disappeared during, and after the nightmare.

Invisible. I couldn't see her.

Please fix this...

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