RonaldRaven's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Go Squirrel Go!!!]

it took me 8 tries...

...but I finally got 'A' rank. heh, that "prize" was kind of fun. I'd have to say, good game. it's a simple concept, and more of an endurance test than anything else, but it was surprisingly fun, especially with the ranking system. I really felt like I accomplished something when I got 'A,' haha. the only thing I'd say to improve would be to make the instructions a little more clear at the beginning because yeah sure you can figure out pretty quickly that you use the mouse to control and click to jump, but it's always good to explicitly say things like that in the instructions. other than that, nice work!

TheGameHomepage responds:

Thx for the review! I'll bear in mind what you said about instructions.

They beat my Tangerine Panic instructions though!

[RaidenX]

great game...I mean...wow

Probably the most fun I've had playing an online game in a very long time. Stays true to the original, with excellent presentation and controls. And the save game feature was a nice touch. Great work.

[Ninja Air Combat]

Great concept

Haha, the gameplay itself wasn't that original, but take your everyday Gradius-style gameplay, put ninjas in it, and it's a whole new game. I had no idea what was happening half the time. It was good fun. The style of your games is always great.

[Punk-o-matic]

Wow...

This is friggin' awesome! I didn't think I would say that when I saw the premise of this game because, well, let's be honest, most flash "music-maker" games suck. But this one is really good! It's very professional and well thought out. I gave it a 4 for humor because it's kind of funny that even a randomly generated song can sound pretty good in some places. Great job and keep it up.

Evil-Dog responds:

Hey thanks man I really appreciate your comment, I'm glad people like my music-maker idea.
I made the guitar riffs so they would all fit together so it's really easy to make music with it. that's why any music will approx. sound the same :)
Have fun dude

[Dress Missy]

:<>:

The intro movie was good. Animation was silky smooth, it was funny, and the voice acting was great. The dress-up part was ok. No, wait, actually it was hardly worth doing. I don't really like dress-up games at all, but when other reviewers said that it was great that you would be rewarded when you dressed her up in certain outfits, I thought I'd give it a shot. Not having seen your comic before, I went to the cheat sheet on your site and did up a couple of those costumes. However, I quickly found that several minutes of searching for the right kind of necklace and shoes and what not that was needed for each costume was hardly worth the mildly amusing quips that the character dished out in less than two seconds. That said, I think that you should have rewarded outfit matches with some more animation or something, instead of single sentences worth of audio that really weren't funny. It's good way to advertise your comic and clearly some people liked the dress-up part of the game, but I think you should come up with better game ideas or stick to making excellent flash movies based on these characters. You have a lot of talent and original ideas. Keep it up.

[Assault Part-5]

Hey, get's better every time.

This series has been around a while, and it really does get better after each successive episode. The graphics, animation, story, sound, music, spelling...everything has improved since the last one. I'll be looking forward to part 6.

[Secret Agent v.2.01]

You got a good thing going, here

It may not be the flashiest game out there, but I believe that by making this, you are doing a great service to this country. It is important to help people learn a thing or two about current events and the world outside of their back yard, and this fulfills that task quite well.
The presentation is somewhat lack-luster, but is well put together and professional. The sound and the slowness of transitions got a little annoying after while. Maybe, you should leave the transitions the way they are in the beginning, but speed them up slightly during each successive round? The questions were good and the hints were creative. They were the type of hints I would make up for myself if I wanted to remember a fact for a test or something. Overall, a good effort and a great idea. Oh, and you can't beat the filesize. Keep it up!

[Pocket Soccer]

Great game

This is a really innovative game. I really like the controls, and the computer AI is practically perfect. Good work.

[Pimp's Quest]

Good game, but...

Well, from a technical standpoint, this is a great game. In fact, probably one of the best programmed and well thought out Flash games on Newgrounds.
However, as good as the gameplay might have been, I really did not like the overall style of the movie, at all. For one thing, characters were not very good, in my opinion. In games that have well-concieved characters players can "connect" with them, or at leat feel like the characters are interesting enough to capture their attention for more than 5 minutes. I found most of the characters in this game to be rather dry and uninteresting. I found the main character, especially, to be very annoying. I don't know if his voice, look, and dialogue were supposed to be "funny" or what, but he really seemed out of place in the game. With his mullet and suburban accent, the main character looked like he would have been much more at home coaching highschool football in a small country town than dealing drugs in the middle of a big city. I didn't check who did his voice, but the character's voice acting seems very forced and out of place for the dialogue he's saying. The dialogue, too, was not that creative. I cringed every time the guy said "Man, that's beaucoup bucks too many." Maybe all of the irony in the characters was supposed to be funny, but I didn't see it that way. It seemed to me like you were trying to make this character a real badass. If this was the case, it didn't really work out that well.
Well, anyway that's all I got. The game managed to hold my interest until I beat it, but mostly because of the gameplay, not the characters or story. I'll look forward to your next game or movie.

[GunBlaze: Video Shooter]

It's good to see something new

This was a unique concept. You should make more games like this. If you really wanted to get into it, there are a lot of possibilites (for example: costumes, plot, increasing level of difficulty as game progresses, etc.). Overall, very professional work.