TharosTheDragon's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Man Who Sold The World]

I really love weird transcendental existential end-of-the-world games like this. It reminds me of Terranigma. So beautiful. The music and visuals are both simultaneously simple and overwhelming. I just want to drown in this game.

I got stuck on the cave level when I jumped through the roof of the plane and so couldn't get to the door: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/
18/manwhosoldtheworld.jpg/

It would've been cool if you could just land in the cave after doing that. But I guess the plane hadn't reached it yet. I'm glad I figured out you can go back to the menu by pressing escape.

I got all 9 pieces of eternity and I don't know what they did. I got all 4 endings after collecting them. How do you get the last medal? I went through all the comments looking for answers and didn't find any.

krangGAMES responds:

OH MY GOD THAT'S THE WEIRDEST BUG I'VE SEEN YET o_O

Thanks for the screencap! I'll look into why that happened. Considering how the collision is detected in the game, what you've done is... theoretically impossible. Theoretically. Heh, nice work ;)

The last medal is achieved after completing the game with all pieces of eternity, you should've gotten it. Hmm, that's a slightly more distressing bug. Thanks for the tip! At any rate I'm glad you enjoyed it insofar as you got, sorry for the bugs.

And thanks for mentioning Terranigma, that game looks mesmerizing! The graphics kinda remind me of Chrono Trigger... which is a good thing.

[Slime's Cake Quest]

If the barfing isn't working for anyone, try refreshing and making sure your browser is at 100% zoom. That worked for me.

Very impressive work for the time constraints. But the level design is lacking to say the least. Puzzle platformers are about more than just pushing buttons to open doors. Too many of the levels are just about going back and forth over and over again while pushing buttons. It's very repetitive. I liked the idea of spitting out food to activate the springs though.

And... why am I still at the surface after I've already been breaking through the ground?

MintPaw responds:

Thanks, the level design would of been expanded if time permitted.

And because of a lack of backgrounds, that's why.

[Moir]

I'm glad I discovered that you can hold space to speed it up. Even with space it's too slow though. There needs to be a way to make it go much faster, and it needs to be clear.

ArcticArcade responds:

You can also speed the game up from the pause menu if you did not find that already :)

[Relive Your Life]

Would be much better if you could skip cutscenes. Or even if the back button took you to the last minigame instead of the last cutscene. And especially if it saved your progress.

Also, some of the rhymes are just painful.

Anyway, I use Chrome and didn't have any problem becoming a boy.

FrozenFire responds:

It.. does save your progress.

As long as you're logged in you will have your endings on any computer you play on, saved.

[Offspring Fling! [DEMO]]

How do I get past this wall? I know! I'll throw my child at it!

Xerus responds:

Yeah!

[Ican'tAffordAwheelchair]

Cool game, but I've tried many times to get the great balance achievement and I can't do it. Getting 6 perfect balances doesn't work. What's the deal?

Emrox responds:

Prolly broken. Will fix ASAP

[Scale of the Universe 2]

Cool

You say the weak force is the weakest force of nature. It's only the weakest nuclear force. I'm pretty sure gravity is weaker. If gravity was stronger than nuclear forces it would be able to pull atoms apart.

Also, a water molecule should only have 10 electrons. You've got 12 there.

You say one quarter of all the cells in your body are red blood cells, but you should say one quarter of all the human cells. Ninety percent of the cells in or on your body are microbes. Yeah, Wikipedia said it wrong. I tried tracing its sources but couldn't find where in the sources that particular bit of info was given.

You say F and M are the 6th and 13th numbers. They are letters, not numbers. You make the same mistake with AM radio.

In the wandering albatross description you say every instead of very.

You say Asia is the largest object that isn't astronomical, but then you have the Minecraft world and the total human height.

Kapteyn's Star is spelled Kapetyn's Star in the description. And La Superba is referred to as Las Superba in the description.

Your silt particle description should say "to the right" instead of "to the left." In the Washingont Monument description, you refer to the Eiffel Tower as being on the left when it's on the right. The Capella description also mixes it up.

The Capella description also says that most stars are binary. This is false. Most of the stars we can see with the naked eye are binary, but two thirds of the stars in our galaxy are single dim red dwarfs.

You say an AU is 150 million kilometers, to be exact. That's not exact, though. And the sun isn't always that distance away. That's just the mean distance.

I'm ignoring most grammatical errors, but look at the light-year description. "A light-year is are one the most common units of length..."

Fotoshop responds:

Thank you for pointing those out! Everything is fixed!

[Pick and Dig 3]

Fatal flaw

Good game, but there's a fatal flaw in the design. If you buy tenacity first then spider-man, you won't be able to complete the game. I've gotten every coin I can in every level available to me, but I only have 4 coins remaining and that's not enough to buy "super hand streng." I don't see any credits anywhere so I don't know how to get in touch with the developer, but if you're reading this could you please fix it so that maybe the levels that you can only reach with spider-man are unlocked? Or myplayyard, could you please pass my message along to the developer?

myplayyard responds:

Hi,
There is a way to finish the game no matter what upgrade you buy first. I checked it with the developer and he verified that.
I hope you enjoyed the game and you'll find that way :)
Thank you,
Saar (MyPlayYard)

[SOPANOID]

Regarding the author comments

Actually you do see comments in support of SOPA. They're from the government and entertainment companies.

Playing the devil's advocate is all good and well when there's a debate going on and you want to get as close to the truth as possible. But in this case, being a contrarian just to spite people would have severe consequences. The only way we managed to beat SOPA was by uniting against it. The sheer overwhelming volume of the voices opposed to SOPA was necessary to get the ball rolling in the right direction. This was definitely not the time to be unfashionable just to make people mad.

I'm sure you think my response is "funny" because I'm siding with the masses and am therefore deluded, but I hope you'll think this through a little more.

I-smel responds:

You don't see comments in support of SOPA, you see a press release and a blog post saying "This company is in support of SOPA, let's boycott them." That's not people talking, that's paperwork.

Here's where I'm coming from: I'm not gonna change anyone's mind about the Stop Online Piracy Act with this game.
Nobody. Not one person.
Nobody's getting informed because of this game, nobody's re-thinking their stance after playing it, the message is a shallow one that's just repeating things that people already know. Censorship is bad? Good job I_smell, you're really pushing the boundaries.
In that sense it's a waste. It's just re-assuring people who've already chosen a side.

Whether or not SOPA passes is a surface issue, someone smarter than me would've asked much scarier questions that actually get people thinking. Like "Are we actually pirating too much?" or "Did any of you READ the act and consider both sides before jumping on-board?" or "Isn't it insane how many people you can get behind you just by being Anti-Government?"
Nobody's TALKING about SOPA in that way, they're all just changing their fuckin avatars for a day and signing the petition, saying "YEAH MAN, FUCK THIS!! #stopSOPA". I know this because I am one of these people: I made the game. If you zoom out for a sec, do you think this 15-yr-old girl is passionate about where to draw the line on safety and liberties? No, fuck no, she's just saying "SOPA is the biggest load of crap ever" cos that's what's for dinner this week, and your only argument against that is "we need the numbers".
Yes we need the numbers, but if all it takes is switching off Wikipedia for a day to get the whole world writing passionate dissertations about something they haven't really looked into, isn't the kind of omnipotent control we're all against already working?
THAT'S THE GAME I SHOULD'VE MADE. Next to that, "Censorship is bad" was a braindead idea.

I agree with the meme guy, this game is a shallow also-ran that doesn't do anything interesting at all.

[Don't Catch the Herp!]

Not particularly amused

I get that it's supposed to be all funny and everything, and offensive Newgrounds content is widely accepted as the norm, but when you say it's based on true events it makes me think you actually were cruel and insensitive to someone just because they had herpes. Herpes is extremely common. I myself get cold sores from time to time, and they're usually barely visible. I just make sure I don't kiss anyone while they're active. Although if I knew they already had herpes then it would be okay.

So yeah. Stuff like racist humor can be seen as making fun of racism or whatever. But this doesn't seem like you're making fun of cruel and insensitive people. It just seems like you are a cruel and insensitive person. I hope I'm wrong though.

ItsTheAshtray responds:

Good review, and fair assumption. ITS NOT REALLY BASED ON ANYTHING REMOTELY CLOSE TO REALITY. So no, I'm not making fun of anyone in particualar or people with the disease in general. She's just a character.