NekoMika's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Super Mario 63]

Probably one of the most amazing and well made Mario fan games known. I can really tell you put a lot of time, thought, and effort into making sure this game would be as fun as possible. :)

[Trial And Terror]

Fast paced and a little bit of luck

The gameplay is simple with using arrow keys to move and try reaching the end while hitting as little as possible on the way. No death count or time trial mode so it was not all bad.

The music fits and does not distract from the game itself.

Overall, not bad, kind of reminds me of Fracuum a bit, which was also a fun minimal style game on here. :)

stargazerstudio responds:

I'm glad you liked the game :) I wanted to make it simple as possible so it works on mobile too :)

Thanks for commenting !

[Ultra Trivia - Sega]

Fun and interesting quiz that takes the player on a trip through learning about stuff about SEGA via a quiz.

[Super Bunny World]

This game felt like a mixed-bag.

Pros:
- Simple and fun time waster
- Could probably get used to the controls
- Decent music

Cons:
- The controls feel like they have a delayed input
- The gameplay is rather slow even before you pick up the Speed Down power-ups

Overall, not great; but not bad either.

[Pokemon Rescue]

Not bad but not good, I did notice a few errors that need to be fixed or corrected:

Level 3 - Dragonite is NOT a Fire-type Pokémon

Level 6 - It's the Steel-type, not Magnetic type, that type does not exist. On that note, kind of a shame you didn't add in more than just the Magnemite, Beldum evolution lines and Registeel; could have added Mawile, Bisharp, and other Steel-types.

Level 7 - I notice this is one of the quicker levels with Pokémon spawning constantly, why are all the other levels slow-paced yet this one is faster?

Level 8 - This level has two bugs, the medal does NOT unlock and also, there is a chance that there will NOT be 7 Pokémon in the crates, on top of that, seems incredibly unfair to give the player a "game over" for one mess-up. Even after I finally did complete the level, the medal does not unlock.

Fight against Team Rocket - no issues here but makes no sense that this is the only level to lack an unlockable medal.

I also noticed that the music does STOP looping after about 20 minutes and does not restart.

The game itself is not entirely bad but given it is buggy and does not always play correctly, this one has a lot of room for improvement.

[The Maze 2]

You can get a soft-lock in level 2 where the ball just vanishes and you have to close the game and restart it. Also, level 2 amps up the difficulty way too far and too quickly after level 1.

Silva-Thornbrig responds:

thank you, everyone, for your advice, I'm still learning but I got a new pc and my old one broke so I can't really fix this game I'm learning a new game dev software and hope to make the best game I can in the future. I'm currently working on an rpg in rpg maker and learning unity to try for better games.

[RoStack]

Not too bad, add a bit of music and sound effects and this would be a pretty decent yet simple game.

[Give Up]

Fantastic and difficult game, gets funner the farther into the game you can go. :D

[Monstrous House Escape]

Not a bad game, started at 500 seconds then got it down to 100 seconds and kept trying to shave off more and more time and got all the down to 40 seconds which is 6 seconds shy of the current record as of this review.

The walkthrough was very, very helpful, I found writing down in a notepad the answers for the slider box and the piano puzzle helped immensely in trimming down the time. I feel I could have done a little better than 40 seconds if I was not shaking my hand so much and focused less on the time and more on just rolling with the flow of completing the game.

Seems kind of odd that this entry has no music though.

[Lucario Dating Sim 3 Episode 1]

Going to have to rate this one lower, even as it is a demo piece, it seems really strange to see a concept paper looking level for the first level then seeing fully fleshed out looking levels for the next two levels. I understand you want to draw in more people to play these but making the games shorter and incomplete just will not be working for this.

Hopefully the next episode is longer than three levels and at least adds in music and sound effects. I also noticed the kick button does NOT work, I just kind of turned my back on Psyduck and that defeated them for some reason?

Here's hoping the second episode is more fleshed out and less rushed for attention.

2Mickennxtre68 responds:

Thank you so much for the kind words of advice! I really appreciate it and I don't find your ratings harsh at all! I think it's a perfectly fair rating and you're trying to help me improve! I just have to hope that I can improve and put all I've got into it so that rating goes up ;)
You are much nicer than some people who just vote 1 star because they think the idea of a Lucario Dating Sim is dumb, and I appreciate that! You're actually giving me good advice. To respond to some of your complaints, this game actually originally had way more levels, music and a more intricate story. Newgrounds has a limit of only 100 mb for flash files. It's ridiculous but as you can see all of the cutsenes are hand drawn and scanned into my computer, and they take up about 1mb of space each. There was originally way more of them. Not to mention the game used to have a 2 player mode, that's why the button on the title screen doesn't work, there was another level and a boss too! If Newgrounds gives more space to people who pay for a subscription I understand that is my excuse haha! I really did put all I had into the game and I had just worked on it for so long I finally wanted to release it even if I did have to cut a ton of content! If you want proof I'll legit post it to Itchio (a different games site that doesn't have a size limit) and send you a link. As for the first level being a sketch, I meant it to be a tutorial level (that's why there are instructions on sticky notes, and I based the idea of a tutorial being a sketch like in the game Sonic Ages, so it did have a purpose. But I still understand the complaint. I hope I can find a way to get more space or to condense things down better next time and make a truly long, fun game. Thanks again for the critique and I hope to see you back for Ep2!