Score: 10

"Excellent as always!"

submission: Arrgh Idol

date: September 19, 2009

Good job, man! You've come a long way from "Say Dammit!"

Score: 10

"True that"

submission: : Zip Codes :

date: September 13, 2009

That's why I always go to Dunkie's for my coffee. "Medium, 2 cream, 1 sugar", pay with cash, no BS questions asked. Kind of like that guy behind the 7-11 who sold me that Rolex.

Score: 4

"Needs more optimization"

submission: Super Mafia Land

date: February 18, 2009

The first level runs okay on my computer (3ghz P4), but once you go through the first door it slows down to an unplayable speed, even on low quality in a pop-up window. Team Fortress 2 runs better than this, and it's much larger and more complex than a Flash applet. I don't know if your engine is designed to keep up with everything in a level at once or not. There are more complicated, graphics-intensive Flash games on Newgrounds that run better than this. Whatever the case may be, this is completely unacceptable.

The graphics were nice and the first level played well, but after that it just doesn't work.

Also, having the same button for run and pick up / throw is annoying if you want to run while carrying an item.

Score: 10

"Gentlemen."

submission: Meet the Spy

date: February 5, 2009

The sniper running to the front lines screaming "MEDIC! MEDIC! MEDIC!" was the best part. Is it bad my brain went "spy-check time"?

Great job splicing the voice clips together.

Score: 5

"Disappointing amount of new stuff for a sequel."

submission: Ragdoll Cannon 2

date: August 17, 2008

It's still a good game, but it's plagued by the same major problems as its predecessors: it has no replay value once you figure the levels out, and it's still pretty easy to miss clicking the 'reset' or 'next level' buttons and accidentally fire another stickman. (This game actually can exasperate that problem because the menu keeps wandering around between levels.) As I said in my reviews for the other games in the Ragdoll Cannon series, it could be greatly improved with a level editor (with a way to share levels), and if the next level button had a hotkey. Since it's a full sequel, there's no excuse for not implementing at least one of these features.

Speaking of new features, this one has almost none to speak of. The main difference is the new graphics set, which isn't much of an improvement in my opinion. At least it has one new feature in the moving obstacles, but it could have been implemented more often. And while it does have 70 levels, the ones I played through (the first 20 or so) were either really easy, far too difficult for that early in the game, or relied on the same tricks over and over.

Don't get me wrong, it's still fun. But overall it's a disappointing, small step forward.

Score: 8

"Good but Demanding"

submission: Orange Runner

date: July 30, 2008

It's a good concept, but on my computer (3 gig P4), I only got about 2 FPS, even in low quality mode. This makes judging when to jump a lot harder. An option to turn off the filters would fix this problem.

Score: 9

"Good, but just more of the same."

submission: Ragdoll Cannon 1.5

date: July 14, 2008

More levels is nice, but this game still lacks replay value. (Once you figure the levels out, the challenge is gone.) I hope Ragdoll Cannon 2 will include a level editor of some kind, as that would dramatically increase the game's staying power. (Even more so if there's a way users can share levels, maybe some kind of encoded block of text that can be put in forums or comments.)

I wouldn't have expected it in this version (gotta leave something to draw people in for the sequel), but you could have at least assigned hotkeys to the mute and reset buttons. Half the time, when I try to click on them, it registers as a launch, and a ragdoll gets blown into oblivion. When you're using a golf scoring system (lower is better), this can be irritating.

Don't get me wrong, it's still a great game. It's just, for lack of a better term, 'disposable'.

Score: 9

"Nice Physics Engine"

submission: RagDoll Cannon

date: June 30, 2008

Great puzzle game, no real complaints about anything. However, I have a couple suggestions for the next one:

1. PLEASE include a level editor! This game is severely lacking in replay value, mainly because it only has 20 (25) levels. Allowing users to make and share their own levels would fix this weakness.

2. Map the Level Reset / Advance button to a keyboard key. Resetting the level with the mouse is infuriating when you only have a fraction of a second to line a shot up. That level with the circle that drops onto the pad took far too many tries to get right, and the first play through I gave up on it.

Other than that, you have a spectacular game here. Keep it up!

Score: 8

"Good but Hard and Unfair."

submission: Castle Crashing the Beard

date: April 6, 2008

It's a good game that reminds me of Metal Slug for some reason, but it's really hard .

It's too easy to get pinned under the platforms (should be able to jump up to them form underneath), and the eye beam kills you almost instantly. I can understand doing a massive amount of damage, especially if there was a way to heal, but half the time you end up bouncing around into and out of the beam. 9 times out of 10 it's an instant kill.

There should be some kind of indication of where Tom is when he's off-screen, maybe an arrow or something. It's not fair when he goes to the other end of the play field and zaps you with a laser while you're chasing him down and you have no idea if it's a high laser or a low laser.

Score: 4

"A little buggy, but not bad."

submission: Nitro Platform

date: March 4, 2008

It's was okay, but nothing memorable. The blue square as the character was dull, you could have made it an actual character of some sort.

One major flaw: When I went to the second level, it superimposed it over one of the menu screens, which made an unplayable mess.

The game engine was good and felt solid, though sometimes the floor blew away enough that collecting a star that happened to materialize in the qrong spot meant committing suicide. And it's possible to jump through the ceiling and walk on top of the level, like the second level in Super Mario Bros.

You can do better. :D