TharosTheDragon's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Star Splash]

Dang it, guys. Is it really so hard to have a game save your progress?

[King's Ascent]

From the thumbnail and title screen with the king showing off in his tights I thought the game would be more humor-based. Great game anyway.

[Bustermcthundersticks]

The hint for the center top room is in the center bottom room (not the basement). It's a clever one, and the last one I was able to figure out. I don't know why there was an X on the wall, though.

I figured out everything without the walkthrough. I wonder how many other people can do that.

[Eraticator]

Um, ever heard of mousetraps? At one point, the wife suggests bringing in an exterminator. So why doesn't he? I would kind of understand that he wants to do this himself in order to impress his wife and save money, but is that really worth his life? This rats will kill you just by touching them. Seems like too dangerous of a job to want to do yourself.

[Crypt Dash]

When you use a dash, it uses up a green bottle and resets the progress of the one that's currently filling up. Instead, it should just deplete one full green bottle and leave the progress of the one that's filling intact.

[JUGGERNAUT: Awakening]

It's much too slow paced, which is a common problem with RPG's. You should be able to skip past fighting animations and stuff.

TheEnkian responds:

I see your point. That's something to look into for next time along with all of the other improvements we want to make.

[Undead End 2]

What does XP do? And what is the key for?

[Smoking Zombies]

How come some of the medals are worth 0 points?

[DRAGON BEAT]

There are 30 waves and nothing happens at the end. It just says game over and shows you your score.

[Antichromatic]

I don't see why this needed Stage3D. It's a fairly basic pixel game. I think Flixel, FlashPunk, or Stencyl could've handled this sort of thing.

My computer doesn't support hardware acceleration so games like this that use Stage3D while thinking they're helping the game run faster just lag all to hell.

arkeus responds:

By using stage3d I can port this to things such as Ouya in a matter of minutes, and have it run nicely using the GPU. There's a bunch of other reasons, such as liking the library better, and being able to do neat effects not possible with other libraries, but that's the main one. Unfortunately the side effect is that people who lack stage3d supported hardware do suffer, which really does suck, but it's a necessary side effect for the other positive effects.