jonthomson's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Queens Finest Pacman]

Good Pacman clone

It's Pacman. Eat the dots, have a laugh. When it was released this would have looked good. Now it just looks unoriginal. Still a good clone of Pacman though, fast and with decent controls.

[In the Garden]

No point to this

It's just a series of improving drawings. The drawings weren't bad but this is nothing more than a slideshow, and not an entertaining one at that. NG isn't the place for this.

[lll_Spasmbot Dressup_lll]

Not a bad dress-up

As far as dressup games go, this isn't too bad. A wide range of things to choose from and different people to dress up. Music choice is alright as well. I just don't think dressup games can get much good, period.

alexsmolik responds:

Thanks for the nice review, just like you said, I also don't think that dress-up games can get much good, but you should also take a look at synj's dress-up game ! It's way better, and it has nice animations that moves !
But hey ... It's synj !! ^^
Thanks for the nice review !

Alex

[Smash OP Demo]

Above average Smash TV remake

As a remake, this isn't bad, but it just doesn't have the feel of the original - it's nowhere near as frantic. It's fun to play and as a demo it's good, shame given the submission date there won't be any more of it. It was too easy as well.

[Swarm]

Very good Asteroids remake

Well made, I like the way you've added new weapons to make improvements over the original. Tough to beat as well, requires some skill. Music wasn't great but the sound effects were fine. Once I'd died once it was unclear where I was starting from and lost the other two lives quickly but that's probably me playing crap. If you like classic arcade games you can't go wrong with this.

MikeLawrence responds:

I found this site after an NG user emailed me and pointed out that my game AirFox had been stolen from Flashkit and posted here under someone else's name. I elected to put Swarm here after reading the reviews to the guy who claimed to have written AirFox. I wanted to share something with NG inspite of the kind of people that will take credit for someone elses work. Thanks for having integrity and helpful reviews.

[Brewery Defender!!]

Great game

Great stuff this - requires a lot of skill and it's quite hard. There seemed to be a glitch whereby the factory's health doesn't reset when you start a new game after dying, but apart from that it's very good. Nice simple graphics, good sound effects, fun to play.

[Throw stuff@David Blaine!]

Not bad for a quick laugh

I saw this while it was under judgement and thought it was borderline blam material... looking again it probably deserves to stay (which it has). It's not bad for a quick laugh, though it could have done with Blaine going psycho if you get him annoyed a lot or some sort of cool finale. Somewhat original but nothing special.

[Baby Battle]

Great game!

An excellent two player game, seemed to be glitch free and great fun. Really does need two players (try to work on some AI for a 1 player sequel if you can), though playing yourself can be OK for a laugh. Another game in the "excellent small filesize" category - great job!

[RadioActiveMonkeyGame]

OK, but hugely glitchy

This would be a fine shooter if there weren't so many glitches. Well, it's one big glitch really, you can shoot the same target more than once, which makes all of the games very pointless. Other than that, everything is fine, except the clock was slow.

[Clock Slots]

It's a clock slots game. Woo hoo!

Fun for a laugh, although the cash amount seems rather glitchy. Good music, and it's got Strawberry Clock, a B and what looks like a goat. It's all good!