Listen2Reason's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Sabermania]

Too hard.

It's obvious you put a lot of work into it, so I kinda hate to put you down, but it was too hard. I got to the end of the tutorial--yes, I read everything along the way--and I couldn't get anywhere against the tutorial opponent. Every time he attacked he hit me--I held down Z and waved the lightsaber around, but it just didn't block. And since I couldn't block, I couldn't hit him either, except like once. Oh well. Guess I'll never see that story mode...

[Captain FooBar]

Weird...

Kinda fun, but kinda pointless. The graphics and sound were okay (no real animation though). You've got potential.

Incidentally, programmers use the terms "Foo" and "Bar" for unknown quantities. Like, "So if the value of the counter is foo, then we set it to foo+1"...probably from the old "Fubar" slang, but evolved into separate words. so I think "Foobar" is an acceptable spelling.

[Life of a fish]

Buggy and frustrating.

It was okay in concept, but the execution left much to be desired. I tried eating fish the same size as me, and I kept dying. The instructions mention bigger and smaller, but not the same size, so I figure this is a bug that should be fixed. Eventually I lasted long enough to start eating the smallest two sizes of fish...then I started dying when eating the "white" fish AGAIN. That's when I noticed my fish had shrunk-that's definitely a bug. Finally, I got up to some boss lizard guy...I was staying above him so his tongue wouldn't get me, but he jumped up all the way to the TOP of the screen. There was no way to avoid him. Boss fights that aren't fair aren't fun. I gave this a 2.

[Space thing 2025]

Not bad, though simplistic.

Good for what it was. I think I found a couple of bugs, though; whenever you hit one of those things that kills everything on the screen, it takes away one of your lives. Also, the score doesn't reset when you get Game Over. And finally, what's up with that miniboss? He didn't do anything at all?

Underworlder responds:

the bugs are being fixed right now lol
umm the pods explosion is hitting you
i warned everyone about that
DO NOT GET HIT BY EXPLOSIONS!!!
the miniboss cant shoot yet
do you read comments at all?!

[Ball Revamped: Metaphysik]

Fun!

I really like games like this, very simple and elegant. The one problem I had was that the controls were way too sensitive, especially the up arrow; you hold down the up arrow and the thing just goes flying up. Or maybe it was that the force of gravity was too weak? You should tweak that a little.

[Super Balloon Man]

Surprisingly fun!

It looks fairly primitive, but for some reason I really liked it. I especially liked the things that happen when you go too high or low, that was just funny. Note: This wasn't really clear in the instructions, but you can actually pass through birds without being hurt, as long as they don't hit your *balloon*...

[StarfighterDuel-Gold]

Okay.

It's a two-player Asteroids duel...well, that's okay. But I couldn't find anything about the Last Starfighter movie. Did you hide it somewhere?

RohanDX responds:

You bastard! Why must you make random references to hardly known (yet awesome) movies?
Seriously, though the movie was awesome...There is no secret about it in the game other than the name. I just didn't want to use "Star Wars".

[RPG Platformer Tutorial]

Not bad.

I thought it was a bit slow, though. Watching that little guy slowly move around made me want a "just get it over with" button to go to the next thing.

About the first movement ActionScript: You have a "jumping" variable that sets whether the character is jumping or not. So "if (jumping == true) { vel_y -= 2;" means "If we're jumping, decrease y velocity (make us fall faster". And "if (Key.isDown(Key.SPACE) && !jumping)" means "If space is pressed AND we're NOT jumping". See, the "&&" means "and" and the "!" means "not". Simple, right?

[Great Teacher Onizuka SE]

Good, but incomplete.

It seemed kind of bland and boring. Whatever subject you teach, Calculus or Sex Ed or the (quite cleverly named) Make Shit Up, it always results in the same animation of the teacher blathering on to invisible students. After a while it seemed kind of pointless, just teaching day in and day out. Unfortunately there wasn't any way to recover HP, so I died the third time the vice principal attacked me. I thought skipping class would recover HP, but it didn't; is this a bug?

DAIRYDOG responds:

You must go to the store and eat fish. If you want to restore HP in combat, you must buy fish.

[Bob's Adventure (final)]

Not bad, but...

I didn't see anything about Marathon. What was up with THAT?

Ah, well...I always enjoy this kind of game. The cavern backgrounds were a little boring, and there wasn't really any sound to speak of, but other than that it was quite well done. Of course, there wasn't much *to* it...