Kwing's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Ridiculous Text Adventures]

This was okay. I liked the writing and the scenarios were funny, but the control scheme annoyed the hell out of me. I found myself constantly mashing X because of how slow the text displayed, and more than once I accidentally picked the wrong option because the highlighted option looped around back to the top.

Other than that, the main weakness here was that the game is short and there are so few options to explore here. It feels very obviously like reading branches of a story rather than actively participating in an adventure, as is the case in games like YFYIAR.

[Manhattan Project]

I have no idea how I beat this before, this game is ridiculously hard. I'm not sure I understand how you can destroy everything and get a x2 multiplier or a x1 multiplier - seems like you're supposed to cause a big ruckus all at once but then keep minor explosions going on afterward? Weird mechanic.

The game is pretty and the sound is well-done but it lags pretty badly as the game progresses, making me think you might be keeping data allocated for things that have spawned.

FrozenFire responds:

Yeah this game was poorly optimize sry

[New Downloadable Suicide]

Really outstanding by 2005 standards. Stylistically this is such a trademark of its time, but the quality here is significantly higher than other things of the era. The variety of deaths is good and the later ones are mad creative. The art is good, the animation is decent, and the edgy counter culture is at its finest. The horror elements also make this really damn cool.

[Fleeing the Complex]

Kind of an interesting choice for the #1 game in the portal right now, though I suppose the lack of difficulty is probably what's responsible for the lack of 0-bombers. The art, animation, and sound design are all pretty good, although there are a few animators out there (Stone, Oxob, Terkoiz, Hyun, etc.) that could have done it better. Most of all I liked that the voice acting was fairly realistic and didn't sound cartoony as tends to be par for the course with this type of game (especially with female characters.) I think the amount of content that remains available after viewing all of the animation is quite impressive, too. And of course the references are bound to draw some attention.

Anyway this is a pretty solid game. I think I would have enjoyed something a little more involved but there's little to complain about.

PuffballsUnited responds:

I agree with everything you said!

[Tactics Core Demo]

This game is a massive headache. The unit congestion, lack of angles, and inability to see what team someone is on makes this virtually unplayable. It's impressive for 2003 but simply not fun.