TharosTheDragon's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Broken Dreams]

I can see that everyone noticed the similarity to The Company of Myself. I thought they were exaggerating and calling just any old art game a ripoff of The Company of Myself, but then I played it and was amazed by just how much was taken the other game. Still, it's not plagiarism since it has all new art and level designs. And the switch synchronization was a new thing, I think. And the invisible levels, though that's kind of an old platforming trope.

[Yepi's Journey]

Another launch game, but with the addition of guns to fight enemy ships with.

It's really annoying how the descriptions of shop items are animated so you have to wait a second and can't just see the descriptions immediately as you scroll around.

[Wilt: Last Blossom]

It should autosave. I mean, the save stations kind of give the impression that the game is autosaving. I think I just lost all my progress because I didn't realize I had to save manually.

Asvegren responds:

It should yeah. It's a bit unclear that it doesn't. Lesson learned for future games. If you let me know roughly where you were I could generate a file there for you?

[Dash'n Knights]

An alternate title of this game could be Battle Billiards.

To give you an idea of how much I like this game, I just beat it now and I've been playing it since it came out. That was over a year ago. Holy crap. The final gear core boss was destroyed by wild bees. :P

Here's the ending screen: http://imageshack.us/a/img109/9817/qf jw.jpg

Notice how it says contraception instead of contraption. :P

[Circus]

It's actually pretty good. Weird how there's no achievement for score, though.

It's funny how the audience looks like they're more qualified to be circus performers than the pickle-clown.

[Pleiades]

What kind of maniac can beat this with all seven?

[INVAZIA]

Doesn't look like the picture inspired the gameplay at all. You took some of the visuals from the picture, sure, but then you just made a tired old defense game that would work the same way whether or not you were a gardener on a floating island. This has nothing to do with gardening.

Guy-Unger responds:

Ah yea but that wasn't the point of the jam. just take it as inspiration in whatever way you want :)
i think it came pretty close

[Buccaneer!]

The cutscene said I killed the Celestial Horror with a cannon volley, when really I just let it's health drain away, presumably from the chainshots.

[The Ruins of Machi Itcza]

I thought it was like Redder even before the glitching started.

Is there any way to get the last key? Or the hearts?

[Batysphera]

You call this a puzzle platformer and yet it's neither platformer nor puzzle. It's a skill-based navigation and collection game.

Seriously, why does everyone keep calling their games puzzle platformers when they're not?