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[Tankmen: Battle 2]

Good, but needs work

I was pleasantly surprised when I saw this come through.
-Pros: Fun leveling up tbs game, with medals to boot.
-Cons: Repetitive game play, battle animations don't change, small variety of options, based on someone else's work, and a few bugs.
-Suggestions: If you want to make a great tbs, you need to have a ton of content. For the file size, you did great on that. Like other people said though, there needs to be some sort of effects other than looks in your weapons and armor. I was half expecting to damage my enemy when he hit me at one point, but was sadly mistaken when I remembered there was no such thing as a thorn aura or counter attack in this game. I'm not asking you to put it in right away, just keep it in mind for Battle 3. As I said, people get bored of repetitive play, and adding in that sort of spice can make the difference between a boring game and something people are going to want to replay. The same rule can apply to the combat animations. They got pretty dry after a while. Mixing up the moves once in a while, or even adding a miss percentage/dodge ability would be great. It would help by snapping the player's attention back to the action before their eyes glaze over. Don't be afraid to make player's frustrated, games can be challenging too. Add some random things like that. Players relish that sort of uncertainty. I felt like I was assured a win every time due to the absence of dodging and the fixed damage. All I had to do was crunch the numbers and compare the health bars to determine if I was going to win. Adding that element of random events where the player actually has to strategize to win instead of barrier, attack eight times, and heal. The lack of combat options was a bit disappointing as well. Only attack, defend (completely useless), rocket, heal, and barrier? Combat is much more than that. I realize this is simply a tankman, but he can do more than that I'm sure...which brings me to my next suggestion: why don't you make your own tbs game? From what I've seen, you have the ability to make something based on your own imagination, instead of something overdone like Tankmen or Madness. It would definitely free up your creative license to add more things into your combat strategy (as mentioned above).
*Overall, it needs some work. It's a great Tankman/Madness based game, but that's all it will be. Make something completely independent, fill it with strategy and glitter, and you'll have a great game.
<Bugs>
-On changing front weapon to gun, and back weapon to melee, he does a triple attack, which doesn't look like something that's supposed to happen.
-Upon reaching level 7 skill boost, my SP taken tripled instead of decreased. (lvl 6 took 10, lvl 7 takes 30?)

C01 responds:

I'm not sure about your bugs. First one is not a bug, it is meant to happen, and second one I am not sure about, as I don't see the problem in the code? Thank you for your review, I appreciate the time you put into it.

[Quick Sand]

Great game

This was a great game for the most part.
-Pros: Very simple and performs smoothly. The cut scenes were done well too.
-Cons: Controls can be annoying at times. The medal is non-functional.
-Suggestions: Please fix the medal problem. I beat the game and didn't get anything. The controls are probably negligible as it's an older game. If you wanted to make this game even more challenging, make the sand an instant kill if you touch it. On some of those levels, I just basically rode it up to the door like an elevator.
*Overall this was a fun little time killer.

I-smel responds:

I'm tryina fix the medals.
The controls are not really because of anything; they're just as good as I could make em. Everyone says they're kind of bad, but I don't know how to make em better.

An extra mode where the sand kills you (where the sand is lava) is actually a really good idea and would be really easy to do. I think I'll add that as soon as I work out how that option'd fit on the title screen. So thanks!

[Narcolyxii]

Pretty good

I really liked this game.
-Pros: It was fun. I like the mildly repetitive play. The increasing difficulty coupled with upgrades is an old concept, but well recycled here.
-Cons: The graphics don't seem to be up to par with latest flash standards. I would think the graphics would be a little better than this.
*There's a bug in-game where you can't purchase the magma core for the VX laser. This makes getting the VX Specialist medal nearly impossible.
-Suggestions: Fix that bug please. It was my biggest issue with this game. Other than that, I enjoyed it. I look forward to earning the rest of the medals.

ScottProductions2002 responds:

Just fixed the Magma Core bug. The price was set as $7000 when it is really $12000. As for the graphics, I'm a one man team and I'm not the best artist. I should probably hire an artist lol.

[Florist Soundboard]

Cool soundboard

This is pretty funny. He reminds me of Bruce from Family Guy...
-Pros: It worked well. All the buttons functioned correctly. The spacebar command worked as well. The interface was easy to use as well.
-Cons: You got the sounds from a website. You didn't mention the guys name. The pranked dude didn't swear or anything. The link to the RealmofDarkness site didn't work.
-Suggestions: It would've been way more intuitive if you obtained these voice samples through your own prank calling (not that I'm saying you should) or a friends. It might have been more interesting if he'd gotten REALLY mad and started cursing up a storm. I guess that really wasn't in this guys nature. Make sure if you were trying to make a link to the RoD site that it works. If you weren't, make sure that you don't make it a button.
*It was a funny submission. I'll have to check out your other soundboards.

realmofdarkness responds:

thanks for the advice, I fixed the glitch with the links, they all work now. NG only allows new window links. As for credit for the call, it came from Realm of Darkness.net so the link is credit. Also I wish he had some swearing lines, but the soundboard has all the quotes he ever spoke.

[GoGreen]

It's a good concept

I like the concept of this game, it sends a good message. It's also kinda fun, with a smooth interface. You might want to make it so that you don't have to click again to drop the object into the hole, which would make the game go a lot faster (higher scores too).
The only problem I have with it is that after I submitted my first score and played again, the clock went down almost three times faster. Don't know if that's a glitch, but it kind of ruined the re-playability for me. Other than those few things, you have a good 'green' game here.

Mindem responds:

Thanks for review. About timer...i have faced the same poblem and i don't know how to fix it :(

[The White Dot v2]

Awesome

This game is really fun, if you're really bored, or feel like being triumphant over others. Just try to beat my high score!

stronglink07 responds:

Look at my score (NoChance-116,237 points!)