GallowJolt's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Pengu Saves Christmas]

The game itself is pretty solid and from what I've seen on the frontpage promo, there's still a lot of potential in terms of mechanics.

I'm a bit confused as to why the levels are unlocked in an advent calendar format though, it leaves the first day lacking and the final day a full game. Unless there's another layer to this we haven't seen yet, I don't know why it couldn't have just been released as a normal christmas themed game

Stepford responds:

One of the main reasons are the highscores. The levels can be speedran and your scores are automatically submitted to Newgrounds, so you can check the scoreboard to see where you placed. Every day there will be a new level, which means a new level to speedrun!

[Bricklayer for Newgrounds v1.5]

Pretty nice variation on the game, got a line towards the end and it didn't count tho, I'll send a screenshot to ya

[Synapsis]

It's actually mad how good this looked for a flash game in 2008, still holds up well after all that time, insane imagery too

[Pixoul's Tower]

Nice concept, feels a bit weird to control but I like the whole holding space thing, can add a whole layer of timing to the thing. Was pretty short though, probably my biggest complaint

Also noticed during the last bit before the end screen, after dying a couple times the first shooter thing just disappeared, don't think it's intentional so it might be a bug

8bitJackie responds:

hmmm the first shooter disapper after getting hit multiple times? got it, a new bug. thanks for let us know

[CHICKENSHIT]

there's something magical about this

[Pandora's Egg]

The art and music are nothing short of great, but I've noticed there's a lot of problems regarding the attack, if you tap J twice the character seems to remain unresponsive unless you refresh, same goes for attacking while moving

Playing it again, it seems like attacking will sometimes just leave your character unresponsive until you die, or is there a mechanic I'm missing?

Edit: Thanks for the fix!

JJGamez64 responds:

There have been many reports of this being a prevalent bug on the Firefox version, please try it on Edge or Chrome and DM me of any other issues.
Edit: No Problem! Thanks for helping me squash this bug!

[Pico Clicker]

game on B^)

[Friday Night Funkin' Simulator]

all medals any%

Little-Rena responds:

Gonna need to see the video to make sure it wasn't tool assisted.

[SELF]

Great stuff, love the mechanics. Kinda reminds me of that old game called Focus, should check it out if you like this game!

[Drop Cannon]

Love the style of the game, and I like how steadily the difficulty progression is handled

Is it intentional that some of the medals don't have points though? I'm assuming it's not intentional

TomFulp responds:

Do you mean points on the NG-side, where they are showing up as zero points here on this page? I'm seeing points for each of them on my end, not sure what's up there.