GeoKureli's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Trust Issues]

Cant play on trackpad, also, right click to aim is kinda weird. can you make it space or just make me start aiming when standing still

MoeAnguish responds:

I think your problems would be easily solved if you got a mouse. But other than that, fair enough.

[Half Hour Hexagon]

I love the visual style, but it's just not very fun at all, every enemy takes like 5 hits and theres dozens which just makes the game super tedious. Of all the upgrades I've seen, none are helpful to me at all:
- bullet speed: Im not shooting far away enemies so this is useless
- ship speed: i have no trouble outrunning enemies
- enemy speed down: same as above but makes the game feel even less fun
- attract range: even with a couple upgrades I still need to be right on top of them
- fire: they still mostly take 5 bullets, and this never really shoots in the right direction
- big range: confused, here. I don't even have any range based attacks

The game has no sense of progression to me, would be nice to have damage up, fire rate up, or if Fire auto targeted enemies.

[Diro da Blob]

UwU I weawwy wike the idea, the contwows feew weawwy gewd ^w^, but *touches index fingers nervously* just putting spikes evewywhere makes the pwatforming aww awkwawd

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[twenty, in total]

cool game, I liked 2 of the puzzles, but the box pushing is incredibly unfun

[Pizza Dash]

Astounding art and music, but I really didn't like the game feel, here. It's really floaty, and the grab is very unsatisfying. I tried using the grab in the first room before it was explained and it didn't feel like an ability but a burden, then when i needed to use it to continue it still felt awkward. The main issue I have is that I usually need to shoot the hand, then start running and jump and hope that I launched the hand correctly at the start.

Compare this with other platformer abilities, like the double jump or a glide, you can use these pretty much instantly and without forethought, and sometimes if you mess up you can just use it to recover as a reaction.

I would prefer if you hovered in place until it connected to something, as opposed to needing to account for the time it takes it reach something. this might be overpowered tho so maybe limit the total distance it can travel

[Grave Digger]

Not sure if its my high dpi monitor but i can't for the life of me make out anything in the game except coins, grass and headstones. the player is smaller than my pinky nail. If the whole game was scaled up and the player/enemies were more simplified I could probably understand what they are and what I'm supposed to do with them.

The controls feel pretty bad too, which makes getting the elusive coins feel like a total chore, I don't know if their hitbox is wrong or too small or something. I don't understand why i randomly shoot fireballs or what my objective is.

really small changes could drastically improve this

[The Time I Was Stranded in Some Planet]

charming!

[good: baseball]

I really enjoyed this, a simple execution but I felt driven to get better scores and further runs. I felt myself wanting more feedback though, sometimes dI get 10 pitches, other times 12. I didn't know whether the ball was scored by it's first bounce, it's furthest point or it's end point. little touches in feedback would have done a lot here, I think

[Strange Garden]

really enjoyed this, the plants' properties make for interesting combinations, the art and audio are all really nice, the floating mouth is weird and cool. my favorite LD52 game, yet.

two gripes, I got tripped up by how diagonal tiles counted as "next to" one another, and I often make the winning move on move 0, and it still counts as a loss. Either call it a loss before I make the move, or make it a win.

[Space Harvester]

As soon as I see an enemy I'm pretty much dead. the idea of successfully shooting one seems harder than hitting a fastball in the MLB.

The harvesting part honestly seems like it would be fun, but my experience is always the same, wait for the initial seeds to grow, die as soon as they mature.

I think you could improve the game 10 fold if it was timed, and getting hit cost you some time. hard-restarting every time i touch an enemy is too brutal