Listen2Reason's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Avalanche - Nitrome]

Way too hard

First you realize that the little map shows upcoming gaps you need to jump, but THEN you realize that rocks don't show up on the map, so you have to watch the screen AND the minimap, but THEN you realize that you can't just jump everything because then you'll miss rockets and if you miss rockets you die...so, 10/10 for presentation, but -5 for ragequit.

[Infinivaders]

Unplayable

What are the controls? I clicked but nothing happened. There are no instructions. Too bad, I was kinda looking forward to it.

[Gyossait]

An okay platformer

It's all right...Kinda creepy atmosphere, so that's cool. One problem is that the controls are floaty, it makes it hard to be precise. Another issue is that I missed the instruction to do the shield on my first time playing, so I was having to do very careful jumps...as you can probably guess, that's even harder! Finally, the really big problem is that every time I play, I have to start over from the very beginning! Why can't I just play for 10 minutes or so at a time?

[Two Princes]

All right

So, your basic Lost Vikings kind of game; the problem is that moving around and jumping just seems sloooooow. Every time I miss I jump I find myself thinking "Oh no, am I going to have to go through that AGAIN?". Also, I was disappointed by the lack of Spin Doctors music.

[Dwarven Miner]

Too time-consuming

It got really boring trying to find new pockets of rock to mine out in the maze of stuff that was too hard to dig through...going back, buying wood, mining some more, earning enough to buy slightly cheaper wood, eventually hoping to work my way up to buying a pickaxe...it got so boring I didn't even realize I had run out of wood and I suddenly died. Very unsatisfying.

[Sketch Quest]

Pretty cool

Pretty cool. I like how the entire setting looks like doodles. There's definitely room for more Drawn to Life-type games.

[15 Puzzles]

All right

Sure, sliding puzzles have been around for a while...I don't often see the variants, though. They were all easy...EXCEPT the Quad Corner. That required one or two more insights. Pretty neat. ;)

Zanzlanz responds:

Haha thanks! You sound like you were/are obsessed with slide puzzles for a while like I was - it takes practice to call some of those easy :)

Thanks ;)

[Vision by Proxy 2nd Ed.]

Okay

It's well done...I'm just a little concerned about the "vision" thing. If you move near the Gardener, you can't help but think--Did I actually REMOVE her EYEBALL?

But given that the same characters appear in other levels, that's probably not the case. Still, it's kind of disturbing...

[The Outsider]

Well done!

The Outsider is probably one of my favorite stories ever, and you did a good job. Can't really think of anything that would improve it, really. ;)

[Psychosomnium]

Still impossible

I see you faithfully reproduced the fact that this game is completely unplayable; you get to a certain point and you can't get by the spikes without dying, so there's nothing to do except restart the game. Of course, the original version was much easier, because it didn't make you watch an advertisement every time you have to restart the game.