Haggard's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[NG BBS Awards 2022]

Awesome, as always! Thanks very much, even though once again I didn't get nominated for a single award. Boooh!

Little-Rena responds:

Sorry, maybe this year!

[NG BBS Awards 2021]

For the next year there should be some new categories. "Best Fro", "Froest Fro" and maybe "Biggest Fro". All won by Fro, of course.

Happy Fro!

Little-Rena responds:

Fro Fro

[NG BBS Awards 2020]

All medals got. Yay for medals! Also, I nominated the "People who Hate Shit" thread for worst thread of the year, and it won. @GoryBlizzard should thank me for recieving a shitty award!

Little-Rena responds:

He'd love that!

[#Escape: The Waiting Room]

I am going through some of the games I played and did achieve some but not all medals. This was one of it. Since it was such a long time ago I played this game, this was a whole new experience for me.

The setting is simple, but still so enjoyable: You are trapped in a room and need to get out. Everything you need to escape can be found in this room. It's a bit like those old detective stories where a murder happens in a locked room and the detective has to figure out how the murder was done and how the murderer could escape.

I like the voice overs, they certainly add a little extra to the game and the voice also offers some hints, like "I can't read this without my glasses".

The medals also add some enjoyment to the game, but I too have to admit that I used the link to achieve most of them...

Anyway, nice little game. Not too hard but it does offer a bit of a challenge. After one has beaten the game for the first time the replay value is pretty high because of the medals.

Aprime responds:

Excellent! Glad you feel that way. Was enjoyable reading this review of yours. I'm happy you liked the voice over hints too! Interesting what you said about a murder scene, if you come up with a cool idea, I might make it :D

[Craig the guesser V1]

Picked the #1, computer guessed 2. I said "lower", computer guessed 2 again. I guess ( ;) ) you have a typical "off by one error" in the implementation. Or maybe it's a simple case of "guess_number <= upper_boundary" instead of "guess_number < upper_boundary".

jcmaxq111 responds:

That's odd, I was just able to get the computer to guess #1. I might have to sort some things out but thanks for the feedback!

[Frantic Planes 2]

Nice game with a steep difficulty curve. The first few levels are a breeze, but level 10+ become very challenging. Haven't been able to beat the last boss, because there's so much going on on the screen and the final special seems to be pretty useless (even though Iron Man appearing on the screen IS funny), especially since it blocks my view of the screen, so I cannot avoid the bullets anymore. :(

Just like CollectiveSin I encountered the "coin bug" where the coin counter wouldn't stop rising. Didn't affect my game too much, though, as I only had two upgrades left to buy.

Thoughts on how to improve this game:
- Change the specials, so they clear the screen from all enemies (except bosses). I found that the last special was pretty much useless, it didn't even kill the tanks on level 14 (and they are tough to get rid of otherwise!). Maybe even have the special remove all the coins from the screen, so the player has to decide if the tradoff "no coins - no enemies" is worth it or not.
- Introduce some graphic options. Would be nice to be able to turn off the "snow" effects, as they cause the game to lag a bit and there's already so much going on on the screen, it really is distracting the player
- Different music? I know there's the option to turn it off, but I think different kinds of music would be a nice little extra.

Overall, it's a good game. The medals are a good mix of easy to get and hard to get, which always offers a nice challenge.
The gameplay is simple enough, the controls are very responsive, the upgrade system is a nice little bonus.

Overall, I rate this 3,5 out of 5.

Frozennnn responds:

Hi thanks for the feedback hehe yes the money buy its a preformance bug that im trying to fix soon. Thanks for the feedback

[Neon Hell]

Ok, this turned from "Boring as hell" to "Wow, this stuff is challenging!" in a very short amount of time.

The overall layout good be a bit better. The colouring in the menu looks awful and the buttons look too simple. But on the other hand: I don't have any experience with HTML5 yet, so I don't know, if you are limited by that in any way with your layouts.

The gameplay is really simple: Just dodge long enough to advance the levels. Can be really easy sometimes, but it becomes more difficult the further you progress.

I liked the idea of the "outrage", but it would be nice if we had some sort of basic attack, other than that special attack.

Overall, this can be a very addictive game, if you spice it up a little bit.

Oh, and that music? I made use of the 'm' button... :P

{ Review Request Club }

Knuckstrike responds:

Thank you very much for the review Haggard.

You're right about everything :D. The menu is indeed pretty bland. I could've changed both the background and the buttons. If I would've changed the buttons I wouldn't have been able to let them change if you click on them though. But better looking buttons would've been better than a click animation.

I should've probably made the levels a bit shorter, both so people can actually reach the last one and so it's a bit faster.

[Treasure Sweeper]

This is a nice game. The graphics are decent and the sound effects are nice as well. The gameplay is definitely was inspired by Minesweeper (a game at which I was pretty good once), but you added your own ideas (digging up treasures, instead of flagging mines). So Minesweeper only acts as an inspiration to this game.

The gameplay itself is pretty simple. Click to walk, press Space to dig. But a good game doesn't need to be overly complex (just think about Tetris, for example). Often it's the more simple games that are the most enjoyable. Treasure Sweeper is an enjoyable game and it's simple controls make it a good game to waste some time with it, like during the lunch break or when you have nothing else to do at the moment.

{ Review Request Club }

funstorm responds:

Glad you got some fun out of it. Thanks for the review!