Aardwolf's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[GRAV]

Nice pixel art, atmosphere and game engine, but a bit short and could use some actual gameplay

[Road Of Heroes]

Unlike others I like it better than band of heroes! :)

It has more levels, has a steeper difficulty (band of heroes felt too easy) and the meta-game of training up multiple parties is very nice! That is what makes this game replayable, while band of heroes is over much faster.

The best party imho has a thief leader (for the fast shooting ability, the arrows part of the power ability does not even matter compared to that awesome fast shooting!) with two ninjas on the side, all with 5 shooting of course.

A few things that could be improved are:
*) add NG medals
*) obtain items as drops in levels rather than chests and "premium currencies"
*) it's annoying that there is a mission to upgrade weapons because that makes you want to wait with upgrading weapons til there are such missions
*) scrolling of your heroes in items panel is supper slow
*) the missions "no equipment" are annoying because removing/adding equipment is so tedious
*) the quests could be taken further, requiring you to raise more parties to level 15
*) the wizard classes are very bad compared to the other classes. Their lightning should not have a distance limit, make wizards useful in parties with other classes by giving them the same range (infinite). Not only is it limited range but it shoots at such low rate that whenever you're close to someone the wizard happens to not shoot anyway, and by then the monster is long dead by a much more awesome ninja. The wizard special abilities suck. Just look at their ability, and the much more awesome abilities of the thief (faster shooting for everyone) and druids (5 of those wolves/snakes is amazing, and permaheal for everyone). Wizards ability? a lame shot, move a bit faster or heal only self not even whole party...

[EBF5 NPC Maker]

2,12,3,2,4,3,40,2,2,2,2,2

[Explore, Expand, Exploit!]

It seemed fun at first sight, but I give up because I don't understand why farms/ranch/pasture is not working. I built them all over the place, on tiles with the correct animal, yet no grey ON buttons appear, nor any income of this resource. The tutorial was extremely overly long, yet none of the animal things was explained, and doesn't work as I would expect from what was explained in tutorial (building logging camp on forest gives me wood, so why does building hunting camp on deer not give me deer???). Stuff is too expensive and slow to experiment myself to find out the answer to that.

[TestSnake]

I liked this game a lot, but then I tried slither.io. Slither.io has actual multiplayer instead of fake multiplayer, and the score in slither.io actually works while in this game it's bugged, starting to behave strange with steps at 54k, 59k, 65k, 74k and capping at 89k. Slither.io also does not have the annoying loud MLG sounds. Plus point of Snake.is MLG however is that you get notified if a snake hits you. I prefer the real multiplayer and working score though.

devizgl responds:

Scores is fixed now

[Cube Escape: The Cave]

Already played on the rusty lake site. But yes it's great, a pretty long one, and the in depth story continues :)

FIguring out the underwater craft controls, and what had to be done to complete the part with the weighed fishes, were the most challenging parts for me.

I had to replay because I entered the underwater part before looking at the 4th lighted up drawing on the wall and it was impossible to go back (I just wanted to see what it contained)

A minor bug: at the last part of the underwater craft puzzles when its controls get broken, it's possible to move the craft up. But the story still does as if you're at the bottom of the lake.

[Evil Glitch - Arcade Edition]

Llove the CRT graphics! Excellent rendering.

My only gripes:

You cannot play again until you typed your name. There should be an always present "play again" button, not only sometimes present. I did not realize that, and was not bothering with sending highscores. So I thought the "replay" button was to play again, but it was not, I was very confused why it did not respond to my controls but used the old ones in black and white, and thought this was related to some overarching "evil glitch" plot that also involved right click to go back in time but that did nothing, I didn't get it and was on the verge of stopping playing.

Second, when I figured out that you needed to type name, I pressed backspace, but it instead went back to the previous newgrounds page.

agar3s responds:

Thanks for taking the time to review it, I'm going to check the issues you mention.

[Sins Of Daisy Episode 2 & Episode 3]

This entire series is amazing! The atmosphere, the depth, the audio, I enjoyed your games for multiple evenings exploring every corner of them. Thanks!

ZeroDigitZ responds:

Thanks for the review, and I'm glad you liked it.

[Midnight Cinema]

Great one! I enjoy all your games, but this one is more complex than usual, which is awesome!