LDeins's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Tunnels of Doom]

Simply no stars !

- Half the room are solvable (try 'n' error, no hints but at least something to click).
- The other half has no hints at all (do you really thing i will translate the Arabic numbers ? Wouldn't even find it without walkthough).

I've played through the game, but no need of another one of this.

[Ball Rolling 2]

Very poor made.
"... you can draw anything ..."
NO YOU CAN'T !!
Your shapes get redefined after you finished them.
Complex shapes are not possible.

Compared to "Wake up the Box 5" ... niche try, try again.

[10 second onslaught]

What the f***.

Either i didn't get the thing,
or this is just bad.

No tutorial, no indication what amount of enemies will aper from what direction.
One of the statues stands right at the edge of the screen and the first enemy wave is just a bit to big. What about an slow start ?

I give you 1 star for the idea and 1 star for the try.

wilbefast responds:

Yeah, a tutorial and better feedback are definitely things I'm going to be putting in the post-compo version. Also need to zoom the view depending on the resolution as at the moment depending on the screen size you get more or less play-field to place your units in.

Unfortunately I have to keep this version "feature-frozen" for 2 weeks until the Ludum Dare voting is over. Do you think I should upload a separate version or update this one?

[The cave of heroes]

OK, lets start

+ Good graphics.
+ Well made gameplay.
+ I couldn't find any big bugs.
+ Nice puzzles.
(4 stars)

(Bugs: a little one. Room with the 8 stones to collect: If you click the pot next to the shelf on the left of the path, it always says " It's empty. I need more ingredients". But this pot is never used. So it's confusing)

BUT
The delay if you get a new item SUCKS.
You should enable the player to interrupt it by clicking or a "continue"-button.
(Only thing to complain about, but one star off)

[Lost Dream - Episode 1]

I just can agree with the first reviewer:
No storyline in the first episode. Just some pieces of information with no relationship so far. Maybe this comes in the other episodes. (yes, i found the secret room)

The animation is a bit slow. I think you could let him walk twice the speed.
Or skip the animation by clicking again. Like it is now it's allot of waiting till he reaches the end of the screen.

Last point to complain about is the ending. I hope you upload the other parts to Newgrounds too, cause getting told that you need to visit another gamepage to continue is disappointing.

Artestyle and leveldesign are pretty well made. So just work over the little details an the game will be allot of fun.

[Defend The Priest]

Ok, I'm just guessing:
- The levels are random
- levels are used multiple times

Like the other reviewers: stone-time is too long. Amount is ok, just let them down faster.
After playing the same map the third time it gets boring (why did you used them multiple times ?).
If you use maps multiple times, you should at least significantly change the physical situation (much more stones, stronger impact, less objects for building, etc.)

Like it is now it just gets boring after 10 levels. No increasing difficulty.

[Gato Johnson]

Boooring.
What else should i say ?
Collect coins but no upgrades available ?
=> Double boring.

Just "peace of crap", so blam it.

[Rise]

It was really fun. Tried it as a ranger but got stuck at floor 300.

The problem: I had no potions left and my attacks just caused 6 damage per turn. How should i beat the endboss ?

I thing the problem was that i got the merchant girl half the floors, so at this floors i was unable to collect gold to improve my stats. The last few floor -where i definitively had needed the girl- she doesn't appear any more. As i reached the top, all portions were used. The restart option is useless at this situation, because you just start the last battle over and over again, but no way to buy new drinks.

This broke the game a bit, thats because you just get 3 stars.

ps: the ranger-attacks don't have any hint on what king of stat they relay. I guess dexterity but improving dexterity doesn't had any effect on the damage, the same with strength. So, how to improve damage ?

[SuperStrawberryClockRPG]

I'm pretty sure most guys just click it to see where to find the picture seen on the "games"-site.

fullmetalchaz responds:

Well it worked last year, got me over 10,000 views on the first day :D