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[Moovlin PC]

Wow!

GOOD:
Gameplay is smooth and the controls work great. Each has its purpose, and the controls are simple and none of them are worthless like some games with pointless blocks or weak attacks. The graphics have a unique cartoony style to them, but with gradients. The animation for the game and a some cutscenes are good too. My favorite cutscene was going into Sunshine Plains; there's combat at the beginning, and then the hilarious dialog with the trees. The menu is easy to navigate and understand, and I like how it supports keyboard and mouse control, although I would have liked keyboard control for the pause menu. The music is expansive, fitting in most levels, and dramatic. The choices in making the selection were great! One of the best soundtracks ever! The pictures and hats provided a fun distraction, and it was fun to fight Safuma Poll with an afro. Some of the levels are really fun, too, and it's also convenient how your scores are automatically submitted. My favorite levels were the second Sun Station level, Missile Madness, the first two Lavarious levels, both of the ice levels, the Robot Factory, and Parliament. The Parliament especially was an unspeakably fun level to play. It had tons of traps, and beating it without taking damage was a huge challenge. I loved every minute of it.

BAD:
The graphics aren't that good. The two biggest things I noticed were that you used the same ground Movie Clip over and over. For the glass you broke, for the platforms that electrocuted you, for Cheeseworld, Sun Station, and a few other ones, too. Even circular platforms had the same Movie Clip as a support beam. The second one is that you use too many filters. Sunshine Plains uses a not-too-subtle bevel effect on the ground. Bevels like that are scattered all over the game. Another thing is the cutscene animation. Some of it was good (like the scene where Moovlin enters Sunshine Plains), but some (like the scene before the Truff battle and before Lavarious) had poor easing and movements. For Sun Station, you can ground pound on a little platform and fall through it. For Selia Desert, the three 2-sided platforms are almost hard to clear without taking damage, especially while rotating. I've done it, but it's stupid-hard, not fun-hard. Doodleworld has a glitch where you can fall through the floor if you have enough momentum. Mooviball doesn't even roll or support loops, and has a bad principle of momentum. Sunshine Plains is annoying during the flights, and the level goes by so fast you have to memorize it. Gears are worthless. You move slowly in the water level and can't dive. The gears work pretty badly in the Robot Factory, and Midnight Carnival isn't randomized, so if you memorize it you can get an infinite score. Lava Survival is both easy and luck-based. The Truff battle is so methodical that you get bored, and the Safuma Battle isn't long or hard enough. For the multiplayer modes, you roll in the same direction regardless of which direction you're rolling in, and the camera for the collecting game screws up. There's also no confirmation button on the Erase File button. Another gripe is the cutscenes for the game have some really bad jokes (although some good ones as well). The storyline was bad, despite the good dialog. Not much happens throughout all of the levels; most of the levels are excuses for gameplay. Some scenes could be skipped and others couldn't be. Some of the voices are pretty bad, too. Truff and Polypiscis (who also had terrible dialog) were bad, and Bobby's voice was mediocre. When Pamela is introduced, the sheet Moovlin sleeps under is starched. It moves like a solid object and not like fabric. On the topic of Pamela, the boobs are bad. The sound effects were bad too. I liked some of them (especially the bridge in Cheeseworld and the breaking glass) but some, like taking damage, were annoying. On a last note, the menu buttons are very bland and could have used a makeover. Some of them don't even change when you roll over them!

Overall, this game was really fun to play and make, but it's not perfect.

Psychofig responds:

Hah, that's Kwing for you. Of course, no game is perfect. Except Mario Galaxy 2 and Battletoads. But that's beside the point. I'm glad you liked it, and I had a real great time making it with you!

I'll keep all those things in mind if we ever get together again and make a sequel!

[Color Catcher!]

Alright

It needs tweaking though. The gameplay is tedious and too simple. The square is extremely slidy; too much so. I recognize you made it for momentum purposes, but make the deceleration a little quicker. Also, it's strange that there are different colors falling. I would have preferred that you had to collect, say... A certain number of a certain color without touching any other colors. Something like that would have been a bit more fun. On top of that, the mines were just annoying, and I didn't get the point of the different colors. An even better idea would have been implementing a timer, and then at the end, giving you a score based on your longest streak of hitting the same color in a row. Two elements that would have spiced up the gameplay a lot.

And of course the graphics have to be worked on. Maybe you're more of a programmer than an artist, as am I, but you need to practice becoming a jack of all trades, at least to some degree. Give the circles some texturing, make a SIMPLE background, etc.

[Last Egg Alive]

Very Fun!

The game got confusing, what with all of the egg collecting while dodging and peripheral vision. However, I thought it was strange that eggs stayed there until you collected them. You could ignore the eggs for a long time and then do a suicide jump that would allow you to collect a dozen eggs that had just been places in positions by chance. The graphics were good, especially the animation... But the original concept eluded me for a while. I started off avoiding blocks entirely until I saw the spikes, at which point I started jumping on the blocks and I finally got the hang of it. The game doesn't let you in on a whole lot. Maybe an animated tutorial would have helped.

[Battle Egg]

Fun

The graphics were only okay, and the layout definitely needed some work. Some alpha gradients and glazing would have been a really nice addition to the interface, which was otherwise very plain. The graphics were otherwise pretty good, but the lighting seemed a little off... Or maybe the art was too precise. It could have used some kind of blurring or lighting effects to make it look more realistic. At some points it looked almost pixelly. The music was so plain I forgot it as soon as I closed out of the game, but the sound effects were very nice and almost satisfying in a way.

The gameplay was fun, but it needed more. It was near impossible to dodge attacks, even with jumping, and there should have been more upgrades. Another thing I noted is you can intentionally fail an early level over and over to get tons of money and get a huge advantage. The levels were also very short, but fun. I liked the change in how short levels were.

One last criticism is that the game seemed to end at a certain point, with no "you win" or anything. It just didn't go to the upgrade screen.

EggysGames responds:

Thanks Kwing :)

[Xiao Xiao 9]

Okay

The animation is good and the gameplay is the best yet, but I had some serious issues with the gameplay. Let me first say, though, that although the sounds and movements were repetitive, they were good and the animation was smooth.

That being said, the game is an annoying button masher and it's luck-based. You basically want to run to the far end of the wall so everyone else has to approach you, and then you push them into the corner and they're helpless. If you get surrounded, just use Protect. If you only can sustain one more hit, spam Protect and you can keep using it forever. It's just so damn repetitive I couldn't stand it. It would have been nice if there were some switches or levers only activated by certain attacks, or certain enemies weaker to certain attacks.

My only other gripe is the final boss. While hard, it's so repetitive and obnoxious I couldn't stand it. All you do is fly kick to win on and on for ages before he goes down and if you screw up, you can't do anything to evade an attack... You just lose like 1/4 of your life. I couldn't stand the final boss... So repetitive, unforgiving, and un-fun.

[Xiao Xiao No. 6]

Cool

I liked the intro but it would have been nice if you could skip it. For instance, if you accidentally close out of it you have to sit through it again. The gameplay was kind of bland as well. The animation and movements were nice, but there was no competition until the prison cell one and the last one with the spamming... And I think the second to last one was luck-based. It was kind of boring and not worth the loading time.

[Xiao Xiao No. 4]

Good Effort

The game was pretty fun. It would have been nice if there were different endings depending on how much health you had left, though, or how many times you reloaded. As it was I was able to clear Hard mode pretty easily (although I took some damage) by spamming the gun and reloading at the same time. The background was very simple but I loved the 3D effects, and the ending boss fight was a nice reward.

[Xiao Xiao No. 2]

Fun

The game itself was alright... Could have had English subtitles, the background was kind of plain, but overall it was a good interface. The gameplay could have used some work, and definitely some guidance on what you were supposed to do. All you had to do was hit the spacebar at the right spot, but that's not exactly obvious. The animation was definitely the most prestigious part of the game, but the stick figures were oddly lanky and had a tendency to resize during the animation. Some of the moves were unrealistic too, but that was only in the final level. Overall good effort, but could use some more presentation.

[Platformer (same One)]

Good

The graphics were nice. I liked the platforms and background, and the animation had nice easing, except for the player and the coins, which were animated rather sloppily and didn't fit the style of the rest of it. The spikes looked too similar to the ground and I tried jumping on them once only to lose a ton of health, and the font and overlay didn't fit the style of the rest of the game. Also, Coins should have been replaced with Points, or else each coin should only be worth one "coin". It could have used some sound, too.

The gameplay wasn't too good, I'm afraid. There was no momentum or acceleration, the gravity seemed almost wobbly, and there wasn't much work put into the hitTest. I do like the ingenuity of making the VCam follow the player slowly, and then resetting the player if he touches the VCam. That was interesting... But fallible. I noticed falling infinitely several times. I think you were overdoing the hitTests, and you might have gotten away with something like if(player._y>soandso){ or similar.

Overall the graphics are nice but that's about all that you have going for it.

FlashChickBoom responds:

Thanks for the review kwing :). sorry for late reply but i agree with everything said here, like i said barely any work was put into this so its not very good, i can do better graphics, animation and so on but this was just a start, like a test. Ill be sure to make my next game more awesome.... I am making it with you after all :D

[Territory WAR]

Fun

I will say though... The game could be more expansive. The graphics are nice, but obnoxiously simple, especially the sticks. I like how you tried to add customization with the heads, but it didn't cut it. The animation had nice proportions but weren't very smooth. However, I will say the menu screens, buttons, and overlay were simple and easy to maneuver, and there were a lot of little things that made a big difference.

The audio was good and I especially liked the sound effects, but a few songs were repetitive. It would have been nice if there was a default song for a level, but it was interchangeable with other songs from the game, etc. I do like the expansive selection of music, though.

The gameplay was fun, but lacked a few things. It would have been nice if the shortcuts were shorter, such as using ASDF instead of 1, 2, 3, and 4 for weapons and such. Another thing is that if you have 1 player against 6 players, the 6 players are much more vulnerable because after one player moves, he can't move for another 5 turns and can be killed easily. Some point system allowing you to choose to a degree which player you moved might have been nice. Also, the computer AI was buggy. Some enemies shot each other, or threw grenades straight down, or shot straight into the ground. I also would have liked if the game was fully navigational using the mouse.

As for the levels, they were fun. Campaign was pretty easy, although multiplayer mode would be cool. The level designs were different and fun, and the Custom Battle button was a very nice addition. It took me some time getting gold in all of the challenges (although you can hold down the spacebar for rapid fire with the rifle), but there was no problem: No rewards. The customizable hats would have been nice, or maybe a super challenge mode where you didn't have to create your own challenge. The hardest battle I ever beat was 1 vs. 6 on the Graveyard, which I won by standing on a tombstone while the enemies shot each other. Needs a bit of work, and maybe an option for more players... Like taking on up to 10 people at once.