Soapbubble's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Infiltrating the Airship]

So simple, so funny. Absolutely love it, just like I love every single game in this series. Moar!

PuffballsUnited responds:

I'm glad!

[chain reaction smiley]

This game might have some of the most annoying SFX I've ever heard. The mute button doesn't even mute them, which annoys me. It takes a looong time before the game actually gets going, and it's not exactly visually appealing or very original, similar games are quite easy to find.

[Rubberband Racing]

Not too bad. The graphics are all right, and I like that there's some element of depth to the maps with how you can go behind certain objects. It gets real boring real fast though, and it doesn't feel like a competition or anything like it, it all feels a bit pointless. Music is all right, but I don't like the sound effects used.

[Mario&Luigi Rpg WARIANCE]

Storywise this is a pretty good game. I quite enjoyed it, and it seems you've put more time into it than most people care for. Newgrounds is a sucker for gameplay.

Graphically speaking there's not that much to say, the animations are all right and smooth, and the sprites are all good. The SFX sometimes feel a bit out of place or a bit too loud, not very in-tune with the 8-bit tunes and the sprites.

The fighting system was quite nice too, turn-based combined with quicktime is nice and adds a bit more to it. The fact that you control both Mario and Luigi while in "open" world is also quite nice. In general there seems to be quite a bit of fun gameplay mechanics that I am not too used to.

The keyboard layout is a bit odd, I'm not quite sure why you'd choose Z and X.

Uhhh, another thing I'm not too big of a fan of is the backdrops. For instance in the start, after leaving the house, the backdrop is Peach's castle. It looks very out of place. Hard to explain, but it doesn't really look like it's in the background, but rather just a cardboard cut-out or something like that.

To sum it up, I like some of the gameplay mechanics, and I like the idea. The story is well thought through and generally quite good. Graphics could do with some work, and the game is a bit slow-paced IMO.

Muja responds:

Thank you, man, for taking a bit of your time to answer me here!
And it's a quite detailed review, too, that's great. Especially since I appreciate constructive criticism!
I'll remember your suggestions for my next version!

Thanx again!

[Ultimate Gamer Quiz]

A decent little quiz. Nice that you have different categories, but I don't feel like the difficulty increased and the only one I had some issues on was the Consoles part, blew right through the others.

Interface is boring and bland, could do with something more fancy. THere's very little sfx, which might be a good thing, but some sort of background music would be nice. Just make sure it's pauseable and that there are multiple tracks to pick from.

[Infectonator 2]

Really an amazingly entertaining game. Got me completely addicted within the first ten minutes. It's got a nice little learning curve and the game can keep it fresh and entertaining for a long long time. Personally I love games where you canupgrade your stuff, so this is just perfect. Definitely something I'll bet getting for my Android too.

[Johnny Upgrade]

Not bad. Thoroughly entertaining and a nice progression rate. Not exactly a game that demands skill from the player, rather it demands some trial and error and is somewhat timeconsuming if you're going for all the medals. It could be a bit longer, adding on another boss or other features, but I get that this is supposed to be a rather simplistic game.

[Utopian Mining]

Absolutely amazing game! It's not often I play a game start to finish and want even more. The music is absolutely awesome, the general feel of the game is great, and it's really entertaining. I myself love seeing some sort of progress made when playing games, I can safely say this game fulfills my wishes. Only thing I could wish for is probably a bit more customization. Once you get to the Lab jobs, the game quickly gets a bit too simple, and I feel it could have been just a bit longer.

[dys4ia]

That's a pretty touching story. I just love the way you decided to go about sharing it. In a way that probably will reach more people than just a simple blog entry.

I wish you all the best in th efuture.

[Zombies, Inc.]

This game really reminds me of Pandemic to some extent, in the way that you're trying to take over the world by building the perfect zombie army instead of a perfect virus.

I've always liked games like these, where you can choose exactly what you want to do and how you want to go about your problem, and it's all about trial and error. I admit I was a bit bummed out when I found that you could actually lose, I was taking my time. Would love to have a version where you can't actually lose, where you can stroll along at your own pace.

So yes, the gameplay is really amazing. Variation in the gameplay is not something anyone can complain about, with not only different types of zombies, but even upgrades to them, with varied upgrades, controlling the economy and so forth. Makes you feel pretty big. The difficulty curve is good, you start out with the simplest of things, taking over the north and south pole, before moving along into more developed and populated areas. I giggled when Canada was one of the weakest parts of the world to take over :>

The audio is all right, got a bit dull so I ended up muting it, but it's a nice loop that doesn't really bother me much as I completely forget about it.