Troisnyx's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[NG-Duelled]

The shooter-Bejeweled idea was great, and the music was awesome. I like the idea of a duel based on how many pairs you can match up.

That being said, I think the fun ends there:

1) Alien Hominid, the Madness mascot and Snake are pretty much the only aesthetically-pleasing characters.
2) The controls are very finicky, you have to press a particular target twice or three times before the white ring shows it's selected. It's AWFUL when it comes to the battle against Fulp himself, because it is unrealistic to fight with sticky controls and watch the timer at once. And it's equally a chore for the battles before it too. This, I'm afraid, is where I gash the most points.

If I'm finding it difficult to control while playing in Arcade mode, imagine Endless mode!

I'm with the others when they say this game needs a tune-up. It *seriously* does. The finickiness of the controls, especially, needs to be checked -- and once this thing moves smoothly, it'll be a very, very enjoyable game.

3/5.

53xy83457 responds:

I was really hoping to die without ever hearing the words "tune up" again especially considering the last two suggested were, make last boss easier (never tire of that one) and add instructions that are already there. What you're describing however would require a... (sigh)... tune up but I'm having no such problems. Don't suppose this could all be your computer/browser/mouse's fault?

[Jeweltasia]

It's fun until Level 7, which is entirely luck-based but otherwise unplayable. Knowing that you have to get matches of THREE at least to advance the game, you have very little room and you often have combinations of gems that are less than three. To make matters worse, the timer is running and you have very slow gem loading/dropping sequences in this game, which chops away precious time which could be used to finish the level!

2.5/5. I gash away half the score for playability.

grainsalt responds:

Thanks for the feedback. Levels 1-6 are indeed the "learning" levels. Level 7 does ramp up the difficulty although the speed of the drops is intentionally that speed as the levels are generally designed to be right at what is possible as I wanted to give a sense of being "right at the limit".

The physics aspect does mean that sometimes gems do not always land in a way that has 3 items right next to each other but the trick is how you collect items at the bottom to collapse the items above plus the ability to "draw" lines was put in to allow you to match objects that are further away (as per level 2 instructions) to get around the problem of having less than 3 items close together.

It's a problem you get with physics based matchers I guess.

However, I'll go and look at Level 7 and see if it can be re-balanced.

Again, thanks for the feedback, much appreciated.

[8-puzzle]

This reminds me of the trick treasure box puzzles from Onimusha 1, to a degree. Nothing graphically special, but still nice to play.

DasSG responds:

Game was supposed to be simple, I thought heavy graphics would be distracting.

[Duck Catch]

For a game made in two hours, this is impressive. Mechanics work well and the music was fitting enough that it put a smile on my face. : ) But it can really get repetitive.... would I be willing to only catch ducks for two hours, especially with their random movements?

At any rate, great effort.

zephyr6 responds:

I'm glad the game made you smile! :) I added saving functionality, so you can take breaks in between catching ducks and doing whatever it is that we do in between catching ducks. :]

[Soccer Word Search]

Great work. ^_^

It isn't everyday that you see word search games on NG, so there's something different. Great job! It's easy to play, fun to listen to and great to kill time.

My only pickle is that the word 'Football' on Easy Mode' cannot be highlighted (something goes wrong with it).

Brolyweb responds:

Hi TroisNyxEtienne, first of all thanks for the nice words :)
Second, your problem with the "Football" word is strange, I tried to play it and it worked fine...you had problem selecting it / the game didn't give it as "found" or with highlighting only ?