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[AnTz Tetris]

Oh dear

Make your own games. ANYBODY can get the basic Tetris .fla file and add a couple of things to the background.

[Finger Twister!]

Interesting idea

It's a damn sight better than that crappy Pacman clone you submitted - at least this one is slightly original (in flash terms) and is fun for a while. Not the sort of thing you'd expect to be converted to flash really, but it sort of works for about four spins then you get bored.

grandmabacon responds:

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[Ghost Motel 5]

Takes a step back from the previous episode

I didn't find this anywhere near as good as the fourth episode. To work backwards, it ends at a bad spot, the whole "epileptic" sequence looked pretty poor, and it seemed rather buggy soundwise, with frequent cases of part of a sound playing, then pressing a button to hear that sound again with the rest of the clip. The voice acting also seemed worse this time around. The tunnels let for some good interaction, but overall I found this to be a duller, slower, less interesting episode. Hopefully when this is continued it will return to the high spots of episode 4.

Violet-AIM responds:

I was trying a different kind of interactivity and obviously, a lot of ppl didn't take to it too well.... but in the next one, I will return back to the other type of interactivity.

[Another Pac-Man Clone]

Stop making 20 year old games!

Christ! I have no idea why this was protected! The exact same game, only better, is on NG already in *preloaders*, and about 100 other times as actual games! It's movies like this which makes me wish that there was an originality rating so I could give you more zeroes! Don't take anything else of Flashkit ever again!

grandmabacon responds:

go screw a donkey..oh..and while you're at it, MAKE A FLASH MOVIE URSELF RETARD

[War On Terrorism]

Great classic shooting game

I'd played this a few times before but never got round to reviewing it. In any case, this is a classic. Three different levels, with multiple guns and lots of terrorists to kill, not counting the beating up of bin Laden. It's fairly tricky too, especially the cave level, haven't managed to win that one yet. The graphics are very detailed and look great, the sounds are nice and it's all smooth and well made. This was great at the time and is still very good now.

[Pumpkin Simulator 2003]

Good for a laugh

It's a great little toy, love the way it's been made and the graphics are very nice. Great effects with the candle and good sounds at the end. A brilliant submission for under 50K, but to be ranked up in the 4's? It's a good submission but it's not that good, I personally wouldn't play this more than two or three times, or maybe send the link to a friend. A nice seasonal treat but nothing to hold the front page for.

[Galactic Wars]

Above average shooter

I liked this a fair bit - it's a better than average Gradius-style shooter, with a good range of enemies and weapons upgrades, the one level is fairly long and has a (pretty easy) boss at the end. It's all solid, although it suffered from slowdown at times. I didn't particularly like the weapon upgrade system - you can have the best weapon and then "upgrade" to a worse weapon - it would have been better to hold it in reserve until the good weapon runs out. It's too easy as well - there's no landscape to navigate and you can just stay to the left centre for the most part and shoot away, with the boss being the only real challenge. Good but room for improvement to make it a killer.

[deduction]

Simple game

I've played this before IRL and it's fairly enjoyable. I beat this on my first go - pretty tough but doable. Is good for a few goes then it will become tiresome.

[Zero runs]

Incredibly boring

It's not a good concept for a game to begin with and it gets dull after about two seconds. There's not much more to say. Move your mouse, don't hit the walls. No fun in that at all.