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[Interactive Buddy 2]

Hey Buddy.

You're supposed to smile when I shoot massive rockets at you.

5/5. So entertaining!!! :D

[Infectonator 2]

My thoughts before playing once:

"This game will suck balls until pigs can fly to the moon, and I will never play it more than once per year."

My thoughts after my first playthrough:

"I... I swear i'll stop playing this... just not yet..."

[windows]

Wrong category.

It's not even really a movie; it's a loop.

[Windows 7 Flash Edition]

Wow. What I get from this Windows 7 flash edition is that:

1: Windows 7 only has 1 application in the "Start: button. More importantly, the "Start" button pops up a menu that ONLY has the one application.

2: The background of the "Start" menu is completely bland.

3: There is no such thing was background wallpaper in Windows 7.

4: There is no such thing as a taskbar that holds applications in Windows 7.

5: There is no such thing as "useful tools" or "clickable items" on the taskbar in Windows 7.

6: The "Notepad" application in Windows 7 only has 1 file.

7: The "File" button in "Notepad" can be hovered over, but is only a tease and does not actually do anything.

8: "Notepad" and "Usable scroll bars" in Windows 7 don't exist.

[Fantasy Online]

It's difficult to get good if you die at level 5 constantly. Also, this game is yet another game created by blatant capitalism as the majority of the objects in the game require real life money for getting them.

[City Escape]

Extremely loud sounds. - 2 stars.

No options menu. - 0.5 stars.

Unoriginal Idea (This is the Helicopter game) - 0.5 stars.

Unclear instructions in comments (it's mouse CLICK, mouse down indicated the area in which the pointer remains) -2 stars.

0.

[Yoru Kuuten]

First Impressions:

This game isn't in English...

During Gameplay / Reviewing as I play through:

(Title Screen) No options really. Either play, click on a link to on eof the people credited, or turn the sound off. Not much in the way of options, which isn't the best idea. Graphically, the car looks like it was rushed heavily. More detail on the car would be great. The wheels of the car show the most lack in detail. It doesn't appear as though either wheel that is shown to the player has any sense of shadows.

(Instructions screen) It's good to have your instructions right before you play. Smart.

(In game) It's Crazy Taxi or Crazy Cabby remade... except worse. The game feels slower; the controls, no matter how simple it is, is hard to use. Trying to jump over a car was atrocious. The fact that you can just ram into cars to destroy them is an interesting change, but getting hit by a car anyways will lower your speed drastically and kill atleast 2 seconds.

Overall:

Bad. The only difference between this and Crazy Cabby is the name, the cars, and the way you destroy other cars.

0.5 / 5. Un-original.

JoUBG responds:

tl;dr :P

[Kastle]

First Impression:

Interesting name for a game. Might be a little interesting to actually play around with.

During Gameplay / Reviewing as I play through:

(At the first/title screen) The music chosen for this screen sounds really awesome. It's a simplistic screen where it tells you to just "PRESS SPACE" to start playing. It also has some links to the people who should be credited which is always nice to have on the title screen.

(In game) It should be more defined that you can double jump. Not only in the description, but also in game. A full list of "how to play" commands in game would be nice to have. Saying "Jump/airjump" isn't a clear enough description of a double jump for me anyways.

Overall:

Not bad, but it's hard to control. Getting hit once kills you (from the 10 or so times that I've died) which isn't all too great. Being able to have a last-second save is always nice to have, or even 3 tries, re-dos, or continues would have been better than just dying. I give it 4/5.

[Alpaca Motion Dress Up]

First impression:

ALPACA!!!! :D

During Gameplay:

(At the Main Menu) The Main Menu, or title screen as some classify it, is fairly simplistic. That's not a bad thing, considering it's just a dress-up game and not some massive freeroam game series like Grand Theft Auto. Both the Credits and the Tips button work well and smoothly. After clicking the buttons, a smooth gliding box came out with the information.

(At the Dress-up part)
Mute button. I love it. Fairly wide variety of different options

After "gameplay":

5/5. Alpacas rock. There isn't much to review for a dress-up game, but as far as dress-up games go, this one is definitely solid. It allows the player to have, for the most part, full control of his/her alpaca.

[Meteor Escape]

First Impressions:

Intro was simple and didn't have loud music. The title seems simplistic enough and shouldn't require a great deal of time to figure out how to play and beat the game.

(Live-ish) During Gameplay:

I like how you have the game mechanic set so that if the mouse clicks off the screen, the game paused. (Seen during intro sequence).

Reading the intro seems to be vital as that's where you explain the controls. Hopefully there is in-game instructions as well just in case people ignored what was on the screen, although it's not much text to read.

I don't like that if you die, you don't instantly restart. Instead, you have to go back all the way to the intro sequence before playing again. The controls, also, are fairly difficult to grasp. Personally, I think that using the Spacebar for firing would have been fine.

The sound is very droning, and you have no in-game options menu to disable sound effects and/or music. Also, why are their asteroids you can't hit?

After Gameplay:

Overall, it's a good concept. It needs a lot of polishing though.

I would have to give this game 3.5 / 5. The concept is definitely there, but again, polish it well.