Bleak-Creep's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Shadow Gauntlets]

Got stuck on the 11th level with the swinging tires, but this is a nice game! The controls take a bit of time to get acquainted with, and admittedly, I'm not quite fully acquainted myself just yet, but they get the job done.

I love the simplicity of the art, and you clearly had a lot of fun coming up with a theme to each of the levels; each one feels fresh and it keeps things interesting when you're always trying to guess what might pop up next.

One of the best Flash Forward entries I've played so far! :D

VicBiss responds:

Thank you! It was all worth it for people to see my stir fry animation.

Getting stuck on level 11 seems to be a common theme, those orange levels are supposed to transition from the more aesthetic and chill levels to the more challenging levels but it's obviously a steeper curve than intended

I made a couple of changes, level 11 as well as a few later levels should be easier and grapples should be more 'magnetic' where you don't need to be as accurate with your clicks. Pushing the update may have wiped your save data, sorry about that!

[Skeleton Day]

Feels like a promising start to SOMETHING, but I don't really know what that might be yet...
Visually, it looks great though, and the goofy vibe is pretty charming.

TeamTamago responds:

Thanks, all I can say is Bone Santa

[Dwarf Planet One]

Will need to play more of this later on, but really impressed with the bit I did so far. Like your entry from last year's Flash Forward, this is a similarly otherworldly experience, and I still can't get enough out of all these surreal geometric patterns and textures you've got going on here. Overall, there's a fantastic aesthetic and atmosphere and the intro does a really nice job at setting the stage.

I can potentially see this being a bit tedious and frustrating depending on just how big this level gets as it opens up, but the mechanics themselves are really interesting and inspired. Gonna have to circle back around to this one after I play some more of the other entries, but I think this is my favorite so far.

Emrox responds:

Hey thanks! I just played your entry, and thought it was really good as well! (And an ambitious length - that is a lot of drawings for something so manicured-looking!)

[Hex Character Maker (Mini-game)]

A really cute little character creator, although I feel like the controls are a little complex for what it is. I really wanted to just be able to click on the tabs and colors, but the mouse controls only work for a few of the menu buttons, which struck me as a little odd.

Still, I had a lot of fun playing around with this, and I miss seeing stuff like this here!

Snow-Hex responds:

thanks a lot for the feedback, I thought about the mouse but I decided that it would be more entertaining by keys (you can also use a controller), as if it were a real game where you create your character before playing. :)

[Bride]

This is so darn cute. I love all the bride sprites so much; you emulated that Game and Watch style perfectly!

KittyhawkMontrose responds:

Thanks so much! I studied so much G&W, but it wasn't hard because I love that early 80s Nintendo aesthetic. I also had to make it accurate for MAME!

[TrashKitty]

OMG, Danny Devito, LOVE

MadNukin responds:

haha first one to notice it ;D

[Unprofessional Mischief]

Still gotta get to the boss yet, maybe when I plug in a controller or something, but I really only have two main complaints at the moment.

First is simple enough, the movement speed might be a touch too sensitive for this type of game, and the second is that having obstacles that require you to shoot through when your gun can overheat feels kind of unfair, especially with how long it takes for the gun to cool down. There aren't too many instances of this type of issue, since there's usually multiple routes you can take, but it does happen a couple times per level it seems.

Overall, it's a fun game with solid mechanics though! Looking forward to trying it with a controller sometime! :)

Peti responds:

hi bleak-creep

[Kawaii-Chan: The Girlboss!]

Gotta try out this game from some of my old collaborators!

Sprites are pretty darn cute and the menu music after you get a game over sounds lovely. Gameplay works well enough for what it is, though it could definitely use some kind of scoring system or better feedback once you kill an enemy.

I'm giving it a 3 since I think that's the goal of the game jam? But I'll up it/subtract it later if it helps balance you out :)

GetterRocka responds:

Thank you for the feedback, working on this project definitely gave me a bit more confidence in my ability to make pixel art.

[Faces Of 2022 Collab]

Yay, it's out! And apparently I need to do some studying caus I think I flunked out with a 42% :O

Intrapath responds:

If it helps any, I'm rocking a 30% here x.x

[Dream Medicine]

A neat little game. I still don't exactly know what the cane icon is supposed to represent, but I like to imagine that they used it to do a little jig and danced their troubles away.

Dungeonation responds:

Could’ve been clearer, yeah. It represents disability