SeizureDog's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Making A Decent FPS]

An elaberation on a part of the last tut...

And a damn good one at that. :) Make more please! I'd like to learn how to make even more simple games.

Note: You might want to make a dress up tutorial next. While I know already how to do it, I learned from a really crappy one, and I'm sure you could do much better. Plus, its easy ;)

ActionScripts responds:

Thanks for the sugestion,
I am going to make one for all the populer genres, and a dress up would be very easy to make.

[Leggo My Ego]

Above average shooting game...

But this REALLY needed music. If you had that, I could have easily bumped your score up a couple of notches. The game is far more dull without it.

[Bush Invaders]

You liar...

You EDITED it yourself, put you didn't make it. I've seen this exact same flash without Bush for the spaceships. Even without that, the game sucked. The pics were way too small. Make a real game next time.

Geodesic-Dragon responds:

Hmmmm, no, no. I DID make this myself. Just because you saw a similar game on flashkit doesn't mean I got it from there, does it?

[Ghost Motel 7]

This was pretty much just retelling everything...

I found this episode to basically be a big summary of the storyline of the previous episodes, without much new information. Therefor, I have to consider this one of the worst of the episodes. However, if someone just wants to watch your later episodes, this is a fine place to start.

Also, it was quite obvious that the reason for the unusually large file size in this one was because of long audio sequences with the lessons. I think that could have been axed, therefor bringing it down to a much smaller file size.

Violet-AIM responds:

Often when people to watch ghost motel, they're not as dedicated as you are, I mean they don't go back to watch previous episodes, so without the lectures, some people would be clueless and then complain that they have no idea how to know the answers. It is also to show that it is a school, where Joseph is actually having to learn certain things, regardless if he's heard of them before or not. Of course it would be easier to have the lectures silent to save file space, but I thought it would be better if people could listen to the lecture rather than just read the text. Anyways, thanks for the review Seizure_Dog, and for watching all the episodes. :)

[Memory Test Game]

A 18.9 Kb game pass?

Ah, amazing. Simply amazing. Quite good for its size too. I give you a thumbs up! :)

[Mario Gear DEMO]

No...

Please don't waste your time finishing it....

[Ghost Motel 6]

A bit tedious now...

all this clue searching and everything takes so much time. Perhaps if there was a way to speed everything up...but anyways, that low pitch demon voice is really starting to get overdone. If it's possible, it'd be nice to see that changed, but I doubt that will happen. Also, Tabitha didn't really seem that excited when they found her, it was just like "Oh, hey guys" If I was to get captured by demons I'd certainly show a bit more joy when my rescuers showed up. Oh, and I enjoyed some of the things in the bathroom, they were pretty funny.

Violet-AIM responds:

I just wanted the puzzles to be hard, and not too easy to solve. Also, that the viewer has to explore the different rooms and piece together the information. Funny how you notice these little things. I guess for me, those little things aren't so obvious or don't really bother me. I think I'm more concerned with making the story flow logically and with making the interactivity/puzzle solving work. Thanks again for all your reviews on ghost motel, Seizure_Dog.

[Ghost Motel 5]

As always, better than the last.

First of all, I have to say that the graphics are MUCH improved in this one. That was about the first thought I had on this piece. The sound also posed little to no trouble in this one, altough sounds sound effects in the fight scene would have been nice. The tunnel sequence got a bit teditous seeing how I choose the right path as the very last thing. But the addition of a sepererate death scene each time was a nice touch instead of using just one or two generic scenes every time.

Violet-AIM responds:

Thanks Seizure_Dog. I didn't really think about sound effects in the fight scene at the time, but you're right, that would be helpful. There's also a map there somewhere, which might've helped with how to find the right exit.

[Ghost Motel 4]

The first one to really play like a game

The others were more like movies, but this one you had to interact a lot and made it play more like a game. It was a bit frustrating to find the umbrella, since you have to go back to the scene selection to even find the scene that has it. Also, at this point, the altered voices are starting to get a bit on my nerves. Perhaps you could find some more willing voice actors? (I would be willing to volunteer, I rather like this series) Also another thing that bugged me was that the main character's (I don't remember his name...) expression doesn't change at all when he finds out that Tabitha has been kidnapped. Its the little things about this series that get on my nerves I guess. But, its still only the 4th one, you've still have plenty of room to get better.

Violet-AIM responds:

We tried to get other voice actors before to do episodes, but they were not reliable. Now, we do have a few reliable people who can help out with some voice parts here and there. But we prefer to keep the most of the main characters the same, so that we have more control over things. It's not good to have to wait months for someone to do voices, and delay a flash just because you're waiting on voices. Anyways, if we need voices later, we'll keep you in mind, or we can email you later or something.

[Ghost Motel 1]

Hmmm...

Well, the first episode doesn't start off too great. The drawings were decent but there was definiately a real lacking of animation. The voices were a bit staticy (get a better mic ~X~) and sounded too monotone. Need to give more personality to the voice. The ending of just using a picture was very ameuterish. All that aside, NG needs more adventure type games/movies, and I understand that this is the first episode so I'll cut it some lack, but I really hope the others are an improvment.

Violet-AIM responds:

Thanks for reviewing Seizure_Dog. Later, we fixed the voices so they're not staticy anymore. It does gradually improve as you watch more episodes.