TharosTheDragon's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Island Of Mine]

I haven't played Forager but I looked up the gameplay because of the other reviews here, and I don't think this game is enough of a ripoff to dismiss it on those grounds. It's the same kind of game but that doesn't make it theft. Games are allowed to fit into genres. There are tons of games that more closely clone other games and aren't trashed for it. (Of course, if the cover art does turn out to be AI then it deserves to be trashed on those grounds.)

Island-Of-Mine responds:

Thank you for your positive feedback! :)

[PSYCHExFUSE]

I could go out of bounds near the security camera graffiti.

Also I can go out of bounds in the place where there's a giant mushroom out of reach, and I can reach it while out of bounds and the dialogue is missing and it can be activated multiple times to skip the other mushrooms.

SewingwithDaydream responds:

Thank you for letting us know :)

[ZIMA - Temple of Souls]

Found treasure 3 (the middle one), punched the wall on the left, got a bizarre error message at the bottom of the screen about the program ending on line 1707.

protomation responds:

Hey, thanks for the bug report. I will fix that soon! :)

[Slasher Click 2: The Tale of Magawa]

You can find a boss and just leave the room without interacting and the story will progress like you killed it

Kwing responds:

This bug has been fixed, thanks for bringing it up!

[There's just something about u]

It's like Gregory Weir's Silent Conversations. About time we got another game like that

GooseStranger responds:

I've never heard of that, I'll have to check it out! Thanks for the suggestion!

[Swordius]

Tips for the Swordian of Earth:

Keep dashing and using fire slash and ice blades. There are a lot of times when it will hurt you to attack, so that's why it's good to be charging your fire slash during those times

Yword responds:

Great tips! Thank you so much for playing! :D

[The Children Under the Bed]

As soon as I took control of the dog at the midway point, the controls stopped working. The game was frozen apart from the message at the bottom changing. I wish it saved my progress

Chris responds:

Ah shit that shouldn’t have happened. I’ll see if I can somehow replicate it and fix.

I could add some kind of progress saving in an update

[FIDEOS]

95.05

I gotta say, I never thought I'd ever play a game about a baboon harpooning the exposed brains of giant eels

Culoextremo responds:

while surfing

[Hatsune Miku Bomb Squad!]

Wait so you know about level 21 having multiple solutions and you still don't want to fix it because you think the correct solution "doesn't require guesses"? Of course it requires guesses. If there are multiple solutions then you have to guess which solution is correct.

I think you should either add more hints to rule out the wrong solutions or code it to accept any solution that fits. There are plenty of levels with superfluous hints, so it doesn't seem like having too many hints would be a problem for you.

Great game otherwise. I used to have a plastic puzzle kit that worked like this

mksfbirdup responds:

The decision not to update level 21 was tied to version control since the distributed ROM cannot be patched remotely.

It's sort of a bummer, but it is what it is.

Should I decide to revisit the concept for an expanded sequel in the future I'll be sure check more thoroughly for cases where a hint could be interpreted more than one way.

[Pixel Paintdown]

I can see that it's not feasible for you to implement NPC artists and art judges (even though Jackbox does it), but it would still be worthwhile to address the problem of waiting for other players to join the lobby by providing some kind of single player minigame (like old Flash preloaders sometimes had)

larrynachos responds:

I was considering it, because it's what I've done in the past. But I was at a loss as to what sort of minigame to offer