SFaPiL2's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Toys Vs Nightmares]

I like it more than PvZ

This game makes, first of all, sense!! The concept of making the kid fend off his nightmarish fears with the use of his imagination is a great touch.

The "tower"-units available are creative and require some degree of tactics. However, I find that being able to speed up the book recharge (although a nice way to make players "grind" when the enemy is too close) makes it too easy to build an army: I started off making another book, flipping pages of both books and then build many units while constantly flipping pages on both books. I could've had the chance to place another book if I wanted to, but this method was good enough.

Anyway, this is a pretty addictive game and the artwork/animations are great! The story is fitting and the general concept (although unoriginal in the basics) is still fresh.

Thank you for making this great game.

Xplored responds:

Thank you for appreciating our work.
It's always a pleasure to read comments like your :-)

[Tower of Heaven]

"unresponsive" is an understatement...

When you keep one directional key pressed and then press another one (example: performing a jump while moving) the character would either move or jump... not both. Already impossible from level 3 on.

By writing the following:

"If controls are unresponsive, it may be because your computer is not fast enough"

what exactly is "fast enough" to play your flash game? A dual core with 4 GB of RAM?!

I've played many other flash games with this computer before, and no other platformer gave me such problems so, unfortunately, I blame your game.

Overall, the retro look and music are good, but the main concept isn't original and the controls are simply frustrating. My two cents.

flashygoodness responds:

I'm sorry to hear the controls did not work for you. I have a $400 laptop with very low specs by today's standards, yet it runs the game perfectly. It's not just the RAM or processor of your computer that affects the performance of Flash games, because they are being run within a web browser. Do you have a lot of extensions in your web browser? Did you close other browser tabs, programs, and services you might have been running?

[Sketchbook]

Agreed...

...Algebra, Trigonometry and Calculus were THE most draw-inspiring moments of my life and, judging from some of your drawings, I guess the homework was a pain to finish ^__^.

Anyway, nice drawings. Obvious metal slug influence in the beginning (which I like). Many funny and original variations: I especially liked the "standing" four-legged tank.

Some of the manga, however, has facial disproportions. Cloud, on the other hand, is awesome. (funny how they were done in the same year, though: 2006)

There's also one with a masked guy with long hair covering half of his face... looks sweet.

The mushroom ones are kickass.

Nice cityscape drawing (second-to-last picture in your sketchbook). It would be an awesome platformer city-map (with dozens of levels to beat).

Last... but not least... I love the sketchbook page-turning effect. Very clean, very smooth, very immersive.

Nice one!
10/10
5/5

matt-likes-swords responds:

Thank ye.