YoDoubeGabba's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[ADRIFTER]

At the end of the level, it says "Push Any Button To Continue" and I press "R" and it doesn't restart the level. I just wanted to say I appreciate that.

TwoPigs responds:

Grateful that someone noticed that :P. Thanks for playing the game!

[Akacrayon]

Among the critical views here, I think we need at least one that is constructively critical. While I agree with some of the critiques that this doesn't qualify as a 'game' and shouldn't be in the gaming category, it does deserve some warrants. Being more of a dialog honestly, not really even qualifying as a movie or interactive story, the only interaction being the end which offers two options and only take you to one further screen which seems to be more an introspective summary of the preceding rantings of the red crayon.

I agree, it does look like it was done by a small child and I know that it was the creators wanted. But why?

The red crayon is a personification of you. The human race. The child would be the essence of the driving force that propels you. The child expended the crayon because it loved it. It used it because it was it's favorite. The crayon knew this and relished in the idea that it would be so implemented in all of the child's works. But it also knew that this came at a price. That it's life would be cut short due to its utilization.

How does this translate to us? Could the child be the essence of God? Perhaps our desire for success? Or desire for acceptance and to be needed? The red crayon asked if you would fight for your life essentially becoming like the red crayon, or just continue living it and end up some other color crayon.

But the end seems counter intuitive to what the crayon was saying. He said he had accepted his fate, decided that to be used up by the child's love for him was better than to not be used and be any other color crayon. Then when you say that you will just live your life, accept it as it is, he says you will end up another color crayon.

If you say that you will fight for your life he says that you will essentially be a red crayon. But this is after he says that a red crayon must accept his fate to be consumed by the joy that his utilizing entity so pours upon him. So the end is truly contradictory to everything the crayon has said.

I agree that we just continue to be valuable, and that the effort that we put in will consume us. I feel the undertones that you are going for here and they did strike me... to the point of writing this review. I just feel that the target was missed. The bad reviews show that the audience missed the obvious theme by tearing the submission apart as "NOT A GAME"... ok, yeah we get it.. they missed the deeper message.

I appreciate what you guys are going for here and would like to see you rethink the dialog, and change the approach. It is quite an existential submission with much potential as to the message that is being conveyed. The innocence of the child behind the scenes is brilliant. Almost a conundrum like entity that possesses god-like airs yet is merely a force that drives us. Like a dog looks up to its child owner as it is the creator, not knowing any better, the crayon has accepted the favor of the child as fate and destiny.

So that is why the ending is ironic and counter-intuitive. To fight would be deny the child, to NOT accept fate. So it seems odd how you played it out.

Overall I think I over-analyzed this and have had too much to drink. And I have a strange desire to go draw in blood.

GameDanTeam responds:

We are amazed by your review.

This is the second script done by the Writer, he went by bad times in the past and tried to explain the concept of how he felt affected by society and became unable to be his true self and have dreams again.

So he tried to make think the players about that we only have one life and we need to fight for ourselves and live our life to the full.

The result is a strange script that can be understand in so many ways. The writer was really surprised when read your review, he don't even tough about this point of view of the story, and it's totally right.

We think than the script is too ambiguous, even that is the good point of the game because make you think by yourself about what the story is about.

Maybe his experience into writing was not enough to express his ideas into the game and let the players understand his message.

Is a good experience for ourselves, we really appreciate your review, really thanks.

Please, stay tuned to our upcoming releases here in newgrounds. Our games are also available for Android and in our web there are some games that are not yet published here.

Thank you so much.

[Renaine [OLD KS BUILD I]]

Played through with a rock candy PC game controller and it was superb. This is an awesome title with lots of nastalgic feel and fluid movement. I would love to see this become a deep RPG with upgrades and high replay value. I like the randomized and shifting levels. This is but a teaser indeed. I really like it tho. Hope to see a full product soon! 5/5 5 stars. This is the stuff that makes Newgrounds great.

squidly responds:

If you wanna see more, please do consider backing it on Kickstarter!

[Take your money]

Pretty bad... but not the worst thing I have ever seen.

Alestesec responds:

Thankyou.I think this is the worst.

[Mooner]

not quite sure what you are going for here but I guess it has potential. You should wait to put stuff up that has a little more to offer than just jumping around a screen. The jump has no control on the height of the jump so if you fix that it would help immensely, i.e. tapping jump for a short jump and holding it for a long one. Good luck.

Telver responds:

Thank you for your feedback!I will take it as a good advice!Thanks for playing!
Have a nice day!
-Telver

[Cut-it : Flash Version]

It been done many times and the concept isn't new. However, this is a very relaxing take with some pretty music and pretty flawless playability. The water splash and growing flowers add a little something even tho it kind of gets old after a few levels. Would be cool to earn upgrades, or something of that nature to really separate this game from the tons of ones just like it. Worth a play but once you played one of this type of game you've played them all really.

monsterkillu responds:

Thanks for your feedback. Will keep that n mind in my future endeavors (hopefully an android version perhaps).

[Remember The Boobs]

I like it, but the fact it's asking for money to unlock topless kind of seems like not what newgounds stands for. It was a bit laggy at times but the pics where cute and I found myself unable to go fast because I wanted to stare lol. It got mundane rather quickly and I didn't want to finish once at level 11. Perhaps breaking each level into a separate time attacks? I don't know some of this seems like a cheap way to bring in a buck.

bnpla responds:

U_U

[Black Jack Masters 2013]

this shit is whack. I had a Q and a A... and it forced me to 11. Re-right your crap. This is crap.

JackAstral responds:

Fixed!

[Second Wind]

I want to win on hard but it so fugging hard! It get harder so quick... No sensible progresion. Just fast and hard. You the bitch here. You get fukd and you have to like it... you come back for more smacking around and being called stupid. I love to hate this game... and I hate to love it. All your base are belong to it.

squidly responds:

Well, it's hard... I mean, that's what the difficulty says on the box! It's even red!

[Shuffle Puzzles]

wow, lot of ads... would be nice if those weren'tthere.

incredee responds:

Game ads show each time you lose. But as far as i understand many people don't like so much ads, so i reduced it two times.