TCKnight's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Beaver Creek]

For a clone, it isn't bad. Graphics could be a little better and the animation could be improved. But my main critique is that the beavers can withstand a lot more damage than the pigs in Angry Birds do, making them far more difficult to kill that might be reasonable.

[Fantasy Find]

The images are gorgeous and the music is great. The only real drawback is that the game is too easy. For a game like this to be challenging, there needs to be a lot more going on in the image. The chaos creates the challenge. BTW, where do you get all those lovely pictures?

[1 Minute Paragliding]

Overall, it's fine. But the health power-ups are completely useless due to their location. Going for them basically guarantees losing a life, making the attempt pointless. I would also like to see a little bit more control over the flight patterns, which cause you to drop a lot faster than you rise.

Acreonte responds:

When developing the game I managed to 'master' the skill of getting the extra life and, as I'm a bad player, I thought people would find it easy actually. Thanks a lot for your feedback, really helpful insight :)

[cannon bomber]

The art style and music are cute, but the mechanics need work. The monsters seem to vary in how easily they'll die from a bomb and the aiming/launch system is difficult to predict how your shot is going to fire.

[Monster Must Die]

Simple, but pretty nice mechanics and puzzles.

[Effing Worms 2]

This game is pretty damn sweet. Good music, good graphics, decent upgrade. Controlling the worm can be tricky at times, but isn't game breaking. I wish there was a time limit on the landmines because they can be a real pain.

[Knight and Witch]

This is a nice physics-based game with a good twist to the typical catapult launcher. I liked the use of two characters and especially the aspect of moving the knight around. The graphics are a little bit of a let-down, but that can be something you can work on for the future. I would also like something that would make the enemies more interesting. The static placement is standard for this type of game, but giving them a limited amount of movement or making them an actual threat to the player characters might make things more exciting. Good work.

Karg responds:

thanks for the mini-review :)

maybe, one day, with some funds, it will go toward a trine clone...who knows :)

which graphics have you felt were not good? the game characters, the ingame backgrounds, the menu backgrounds, the user-interface?

[Carnival Shark]

Graphics: Okay
Sound: Okay
Mechanics: Poor
Originality: Almost none

I don't want to be that guy, but my grading criteria tends to be a lot more strict when a game is trying to emulate another successful game. Graphics and sound are window dressing for me and don't factor a whole lot if the gameplay is fun, but that isn't happening in this game. You launch the shark, flop around for a few seconds, maybe hit a boat or two, and then die when you hit the water (which makes no sense). If you had wanted to save the game, adding an upgrade system like a lot of catapult games would have been a considerable improvement.

Not trying to knock your efforts, you did put time and energy into this. But if you are riding the coat-tails of someone else, you have to be making a GOOD knock-off.

[A God From The Machine]

The control hurt the game. A lot of the environment sort of "rounds off" causing you to slip and fall when you should have landed safely.

[Click The Lumberjack 3]

It does what was advertised, but it doesn't really have any pay-off unless I'm missing something.