Score: 6

"Great game! Now let me play more!"

submission: Glass Fish Rhythm

date: October 14, 2009

So what we have here is another 'impossible but amazingly designed' flash game (read: meatboy). The design, story and gameplay completely hit me with a wave of nostalgia for old pixel games, yet manages to remain original.
As much as I wanted to see more of it by the time I got to half-way through the ghost ship (which looked awesome by the way) I was too frustrated by the immediate difficulty and irritatingly unresponsive controls to go any further. I'm utterly intrigued as to the rest of the game but I can't put myself through the torture of playing one level a few dozen times to see it.

I suspect I'm the wrong demographic for this game, I occasionally play a casual game on the internet but I lack the patience, attention span and gaming ability to put the effort in to truly appreciate this. Presumably this is for the true 'gamers' among us who will teach themselves to be truly brilliant at something like this to get the pure satisfaction of seeing it through to the end. If that is the case then well done, you have the perfect game. If not, and you're making games to entertain the masses of easily-distracted idiots like me on the internet then I suggest you make a game with a larger learning curve (If not just easier) and more responsive controls.

Of course the other possible explanation for my complaint is that in developing the game you became experts at playing it and what felt 'hard' to a first time user felt amazingly easy to you. It seems a bit professionally made to have a slip-up like that though.

Anyway a brilliant game, but I'm off to do something mind-numbingly easy and satisfying (what), laters!

Score: 10

"Why so awesome?"

submission: Facebook Twitter

date: June 4, 2009

Funny, well drawn, amazing voice acting blah blah blah

Also I reckon everyone feels that exact way about facebook etc, doesn't stop this from feeling like it refers to me individually though, I swear to christ if I get one more request to take a quiz to place me in some social profile I'm going to pop vein.

YOU LIKE TOTALLY GET ME MAN, WE SHOULD HANG OUT, I'M LIKE SO INDIVIDUAL AND INTERESTING, LIKE YOU.

Anyhoo good flash and that bro, I am in awe.

Score: 2

"Well I didn't like this."

submission: Madness Aggregation

date: March 19, 2009

This felt such a let down from what I've come to expect from the madness series, theres always been a certain charm and atmosphere to your flashes, an inconsistent charm maybe but a present one nonetheless.

More than anything this was just boring, nothing really special happened in the 'fight scenes' they did'nt seem particularly dramatic considering how 'epic' the last few Madness Combats have been and to top it off a clunky and unsatisfying round of desperately added new characters made this look like the very worst kind of fan-made sprite madness toons.
The musical score too felt very dull and not at all fitting with the intended atmosphere.
The whole thing felt ugly due to some pretty badly made backgrounds and just terrible perspective.
I want to believe in the madness series, its always been a part of my late childhood/early teens and I'd like to encourage you to keep trying to get your act together and make the truly climactic Madness that we've all been waiting for, however, after watching this frankly dismal display I suggest that you try something fresh and quit your iconic series before you let it fall any further, this was just embarrassing.
Now if this had been a free-standing flash I'd have given it like a...6? The only reason for my (possibly spiteful) rating is just because it hurts me to see you do this to your own series.
Sorry dude...

Score: 9

"Just the right length and completely enjoyable."

submission: Don't Look Back

date: March 12, 2009

I loved the Orpheus and Euridice imagery, I'd never had thought to try and implement it into a game. The simple pixel art was used as well as I could have thought, it felt genuinely atmospheric.

Score: 10

"LMAO"

submission: Saturday Morning Watchmen

date: March 5, 2009

Oh god, I cant stop watching it, its so fucking good, perfect animation, perfect music, perfect timing, I cant think of a single way this could have been better. Absolutely hilarious and entertaining, Kudos!

Oh I just thought of something!, maybe optional Subtitles?

Score: 0

"You just dont get it."

submission: How to draw Bart

date: February 25, 2009

This was a 'tutorial' on how to trace an existing image, nothing more. There are enough idiots with no drawing skill doing this without your encouragement thanks.

Score: 5

"Lol."

submission: StagBeetle Finds God

date: February 13, 2009

Well theres not much to say is there?

Short and sweet, nicely done on the voice acting I might add, good comedic timing and all that.

Score: 8

"Haha brilliant"

submission: Dream Hoppin'

date: February 13, 2009

Nice and simple to play, fun physics and an uncomplicated style that compliments the feel of the game totally, certain details were slightly irritating (maybe adding a limit on how far you can 'compress' before you jump might help) but overall this was a joty to play, kudos.

Score: 9

"Brilliantly eerie."

submission: Bars of Black and White

date: February 2, 2009

I kept thinking that this was going to be a screamer, the rare, monotone sounds combined with the simple drawing where subtly terrifying. I loved the message and how you slowly discovered what was going on around you, the flat-cut out 'outside' was particularly effective.

My only criticism is how easy it was to complete the main game, sure there were extra barcodes to discover but I think that more ingenuity could have been asked of the player, maybe a system to combine objects?

Score: 10

"Lol"

submission: $00pah NiN10doh! 3

date: January 31, 2009

I am an intelligent breakaway individual for I mock popular culture that is designed to appeal to idiots.