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[Pandemic II]

A great follow-up

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Score: 9 / 10
Summary: A great follow-up
Review: I loved Pandemic. I also loved The Cult of Homokaasu's Kill Everyone Project, so I guess that makes me mentally unstable.
This is a great follow-up to the first game, Pandemic. Not only does it keep theg reatest features from the previous release, but there are so many more, and there are so many new ways that you can end your game. The game acts the same way I'd think the real world would act in such a case, where a completely new virus was released.

You get so many options that, during your first playthrough, you might be confused about what to do. Go for the deadly, but very visible effects, or the weaker, but invisible effects? Take the planet by storm, or move slowly? You can improve your virus/bacteria/bug's resistance to different climates, and even to medicine. You can spread it in many different ways, and best of all, you can end up infecting everything. Or just one country, depending on how much you suck. Me? I never managed to get all of the world wiped out.

I like how there are two game-modes, one easier, and one harder. I also like the option between three different types f diseases. This makes sure that you'll never play the same game twice. Which is awesome.

The graphics are really simple, but well-made. You get statistics showing how things are going, which is awesome, but I could've wished for somewhat more animation to it. I'm talking minor things like a cutscene when a country is infected, people are dying, or when a whole country has been eradicated. That could spice it up a little.

Either way, this is an entertaining game, keeping me occupied for over an hour. Which is awesome.
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[Portal Defenders]

Well-made

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Score: 8 / 10
Summary: Well-made
Review: This is absolutely a well-made and thorough piece of flash. A great and entertaining game, if you like these kinds of games. Which, unfortunately, I don't.

First off, this game has great graphics. The drawings are typical for your style and easily recognizable, featuring a wide variety of NG celebrities.The animations featured in the game are also really good.

The scripting is very well done, with great and functional enemies that do what they're supposed to do, which is trying to kill the player. There is a learning curve that will allow people to learn while they play, and ready them for the next level. Which also means that the difficulty curve is very well balanced.

Music fits to the game, and sfx sounds great, well-timed and not fake or shabby.

The best thing is possibly how easy this game is when you first get sucked in, and how easily it is to get sucked in. Even I, who don't really care for fighting games like these, easily spent quite some time playing this game.

I like the diversity of the game. You can play it over and over multiple times, and it wont be the same. I'm saying this because I never got through the whole game, and had to start over a couple of times.
Many times.
But I still enjoyed it!
I really did!
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[Mastermind: World Conqueror]

Highly entertaining

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Score: 9 / 10
Summary: Highly entertaining
Review: To be honest, I'm slightly surprised this game is this highly rated. Don't get me wrong, it's an incredible game, but I didn't think it'd be something the NG userbase would like. Thought it'd be too strategical for them.

Anyways, that's what's makes this game awesome. Making a strategical game is incredibly hard and time-consuming, I suppose. There are multiple factors you need to take into account, and on top of that, there's all the animation and all the different outcomes. And to top it all of, this is a flash game, not a game made for Xbox 360 or as a PC game, a simple flash game.

This is magic put in a game. There are so many things to do, you have to grow stronger, and it really feels like a game based on the Mastermind series. And that's not just because of the colors. I love the different hide-outs, the weapons, the henchmen, everything about it. But at times, I was bored, because things took too much time and things moved on too slow. That might just be me being impatient.

So it seems like my impatient nature will suck that one point from the review. But hey, reviews are supposed to contain personal views, rite?
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[Super Karoshi]

Original

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Score: 8 / 10
Summary: Original
Review: I just reviewed Seed of Destruction, and said "It's not every day I can play a game where the point is to destroy things with a spermcell." It seems like I'll have to repeat myself, at least partly. It's not every day you get to play a game where you're supposed to kill yourself, and where you actually have to think thoroughly through how you'll manage to do it.

This game did that to me. It had me thinking more than once. "How the hell am I supposed to do me off!?" Here's to hoping I don't ever have to think that again. That is, unless there's another Karoshi-game.

The pixelgraphics look great, and fit perfectly to the game. The blood isn't pixelated, which creates some sort of contrast. I guess it wouldn't have looked bloody enough if you had used pixelblood. The blood is half the game.

You've squeezed incredibly much entertainment into this little game. Can absolutely keep me occupied for quite some time! Great stuff!
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[Seed of Destruction]

Addictive

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Score: 9 / 10
Summary: Addictive
Review: I didn't really like the game, but it got me hooked, so I can't really pull it down for not liking it. At least not much.

I never thought that I'd be playing a game, where the concept was to ride a spermcell and kill people and soldiers, while blowing up tanks, helis, jets and more, all the while deflecting rockets and bombs shot at you to take you down. Well, if anyone could pull it off, it had to be you. The drawings just fit this surreal game so well. The game controls are simple enough, maybe a little tricky for those of us that aren't really... good... at games.... at all, but I got the hang of it. Eventually.

Loads of points for originality. Even though you're not the only sperm-related game with medals. I guess you couldn't exactly foresee that coming.

I also liked the cutscenes, and the diversity in the main storyline of the game. It never felt repetitive, as something new happened often enough to make you keep playing, if only to find out what would come up next.

A great, entertaining and addictive game, with only one minus point for... personal reasons, I s'pose. I could blame it on tough controls, but that's still just me being sucky. Besides, the tutorials for each "chapter" helps with that part.
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[Little Wheel]

Artwork

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Score: 9 / 10
Summary: Artwork
Review: This is simply stunning. It's such a simple game, it's more like an interactive movie, but for some reason, it's beautiful and touching. The graphics, or arts, is simple, but it doesn't need to be any more detailed. There are few colors, but it'd just be wrong to have any more. This game was made just as it should be, and the only thing I could wish for was a little longer gameplay.
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[Super Mario 63]

As good as the originals

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Score: 9 / 10
Summary: As good as the originals
Review: I can't really say that this makes me nostalgic, but that's only because I barely touched Mario games back when I was a kid, but I have played them, and I must say that this game brought at least as much joy to me as any of those games did. It's good enough to pass as an original, with only minor bugs or glitches that pulls it down 1 point.
It's entertaining, and it's well-made. One thing you could fix is that, when Mario stops walking/running, he stops in the exact same position he was while running, meaning he doesn't look like he's standing, but like he froze in the middle of running.
Anyways, that's a minor annoyance and I'm being picky. A great, fun game that had me captivated for a long time. Awesome!
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[The Arrow Of Time]

Highly entertaining

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Score: 9 / 10
Summary: Highly entertaining
Review: This is a treat! A really entertaining and fun game, that can keep one occupied for quite some time. That's my case, even though I didn't play it very long through. It simply got quite repetetive after a while. Either way, it was great, with a fun little story, original concept, great animations and graphics.
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[Spider Blaster]

Great concept

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Score: 7 / 10
Summary: Great concept
Review: Now this was something new, I rather liked it. Made me feel like I was playing Atari. The idea is good and well executed. It's a simple yet slightly entertaining game that some will play until they finally finish it.
Improve on:
- Difficulty levels, I'm aware that the levels get harder as you get along, but possibly three levels of difficulty that can for example give you more time the easier the difficulty.
- More diverse music. It gets pretty annoying after a while.
- More "enemies"?
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[SHIFT 4]

Finally!

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Score: 10 / 10
Summary: Finally!
Review: This, sirs, is an instant classic. I've been waiting for another SHIFT since I finished the last one. And I must say, even though I have yet to play through all the games, this is incredibly cool! I'll be playing this from now on.
Of course, the game is just as original as the other SHIFT episodes, continuing the great trend. With such a crew, how can the game be bad? It can't. This will be absolutely awesome. Simple graphics, smooth animations, but the interactivity and the originality and how entertaining this game is, absolutely earns it ten stars. Great stuff!
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