jonthomson's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Aquacubes]

Tough difficulty curve

Pretty fun to play, with simple controls, nice sounds and graphics, only problem is that the difficulty gets ramped up way too quickly and it goes from being a piece of cake to rather tricky in one level.

[SOAP Gameboy Edition]

Hmm, rather lame

Just didn't work well for me, the sound quality is poor, the visuals make for confusing gameplay in places and the actual game isn't anything we haven't already seen a thousand times.

[Defend LL.com!]

Too easy

Not one of the better defence games I've seen, it's far too short, too easy to beat and it's more or less just a case of whether you can mash the mouse button fast enough. The actual game is fine for the most part, could perhaps use some automated weapon upgrades, but there's not enough of it to be worth more than a couple of plays.

[- Heli Invasion II -]

Possibly too frantic

I like the game a lot, there's little sign of slow down despite the large number of enemies that can be on screen at one time, the sound effects and music work well and the graphics are solid if simplistic. It just seems a bit too reliant on frantic mouse clicking and the difficulty increases a bit too rapidly.

[-Red-]

Interesting shooter

Quite a fun game to play, very similar to Missile Command and other classic games of that ilk, soundtrack is cool and the minimalist graphics work well. The game engine seems realistic. It could probably use a little bit more variety and some form of scoring other than just a timer, but those are just minor drawbacks.

[Onslaught 2]

Not bad

An interesting new take on the defense game, with a wide variety of weapons, upgrades and levels. My main gripe is the difficulty curve, it goes from your setup being able to handle everything to handling nothing very quickly with little time to adapt.

[Snipe Justin Timberlake]

Controls too awkward

It's not a bad concept, but the controls aren't good enough, it all appears a bit too random when you're caught. Not bad, but too frustrating.

[V-tech Rampage]

Not funny, but a good game

Obviously the topic of the game is somewhat inappropriate, but it actually plays quite well. The music and sound effects are good, the C64-style graphics work well and the gameplay is clever and it's not too easy or hard. Violence is obv off the scale. Sure it's controversial, but it's Newgrounds, obviously.

[Matrix Rampage]

Excellent stuff

This is almost the ideal game for Newgrounds, it ticks all of the correct boxes and is put together very nicely. The only gripe I'd have is that the difficulty curve is too steep, the first few dozen kills are too easy but the challenge gets jacked up very quickly after that.

[Artillery Live]

Horrendously addictive

This is the best thing I've seen on Newgrounds in ages. The only problems are occasional server glitches, but aside from that it's solid. Small size, decent sounds and functional graphics, this could be played all day.