TharosTheDragon's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Purple Planet]

When they fell through the ground I was reminded of The Dig.

When I saw socks lying around I was reminded of Pajama Sam.

I love the "I want to believe" poster of the human rocket ship.

Had to use the walkthrough. Beat the game without using the book. Weird.

[Anti-Cast II]

The language decryption puzzle is great because you can't quite get it all the way. You can only get it down to 6 possibilities and then use trial and error. It's like the uncertainty involved with real language decryption.

The coding, the sound, and the English were all pretty poor though. I got through the part where you rotate the squares without even using the fourth square like you're supposed to. I was confused as to the purpose of a lot of things. The language puzzle was great but the game design as a whole was pretty lacking.

[Explode]

It feels untested. Like it was just assumed that the levels would work with each par score. I'd like to see the author beat level 8.

[HUEBRIX]

I started with level 35 and I beat it without beating any of the other ones. Nice game. It's all about deductive reasoning.

[Collect]

It should say 11th, 12th, and 13th instead of 11st, 12nd, and 13rd.

It wasn't until my 16th generation that I realized I could control where I start each level because you start exactly where you finished the last one. It makes it like a puzzle. Nice level design.

[Tiny Evolution Adventure]

Ever seen a spider eat a lizard?

AdventureIslands responds:

Nope, but what if that spider was damn huge?

[Quietus II]

Wait a minute, how can you die if you're already dead? And why does a spirit float away? Where is it going? And what is it? Aren't you a spirit already? Does your soul have a soul?

[Were You a Nineties Gamer]

So much nostalgia!

Zelda isn't an RPG series. It's an action adventure series. I suppose some of the games have limited RPG elements though. Zelda II is the best example with its experience and leveling up, but it's known as the black sheep of the Zelda family. And I think it's a stretch to say Secret of Mana is in the style of Zelda. And I wouldn't call Mario RPG an action RPG. It has less action than most RPG's. The combat is turn-based.

Hey, you used music and a screenshot from Donkey Kong Country 2. I typed in Diddys Kong Quest and it didn't work. Donkey Kong Country did work, but one of the hints said I needed to type the full name, and the full name is Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest.

It's funny that you call Tetris the most famous game ever. I had a college teacher who said he hadn't heard of Tetris when I was giving a presentation on video game history and assumed everyone knew about it.

Ristar gives away the name in one of the trivia clues.

You say George Clooney played Batman in both of the Schumacher movies, but actually Val Kilmer played Batman in Batman Forever.

In the Pac Attack trivia you spelled Cosmo Gang "Comso Gang" one time.

It would have been nice to see PC games on there too. I'm a big fan of 90's PC games. Warcraft. Worms. Duke Nukem. Major Stryker. Lemmings. Monkey Island. And how come this is all the early 90's? The N64 came out in the 90's as well. And some more great PC games came out in the late 90's. Abe's Oddysee. Sanitarium. And so on. It should be called "Were you a Genesis and SNES Gamer"?

[Viaduct Designer]

For those who are saying you like the bridge-building and think it's original, you should check out the Cargo Bridge series. It's even better since you don't have to restrict your bridge to a little grid and there are all kinds of cool level setups. The series has three installments I think.

A big problem I have with this game is that you have to build the same exact track every single level. There's no variation in how you make the horizontal bridge pieces that the train goes on. It's always just one two-tile piece after another all the way across. The game should just put those there automatically.

[Gerry's Grueling Garden]

It's way too slow. Maybe you should have the option to make the vine grow faster. Also if you die you should have a choice between restarting from before you grew the vine and restarting from after you grew the vine. Good job for getting the game done in the time limit though.