VicariousE's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Rocket Board Evolution]

It's very attractive looking, but with so many elements streaming by, it's sure to give even seasoned gamers plenty of horizontal vertigo! Also, the flying rocks look so diffuse against the background, it's hard to take it into account, while negotiating the other things, like the falling rocks.

[Pentoons BOOM Control]

Really fun game, glad my limited brain figured out how to trip all the medals, very clever programming!

DeuxLab responds:

hahaha Thanks for your feedback and for playing~! Also, Congrats for Unlocking all Medals! I'm holding a small contest at my Facebook page where I'll mention the players who have unlocked all Medals, and you're one of them! :)

[Moles Attack]

The 5K and 10K Endless mode medals don't work :\

[Shrunken Survival 7]

The directional letters would've been easier to decipher, if there had been a bit of color at the bottom of each letter, to distinguish which way it was facing. Secondly, there should be some text on screen saying "The waterfall blew out the candle!", anytime you entered that room with a lit candle...

Sorry, but the previously mentioned letter issue, is enough for me to rage quit this game. I'm done looking for walkthroughs, when it comes to errors like this. In the future, please take more time to make sure the riddles are cut and clear before submitting.

[Abandoned]

It's an especially good game, but I'm kinda hung up in the metal maze! If you don't know the color scheme going in, you'll get stuck in there with no way to recover (I'm stuck in a 4 room loop)! Also I felt there were too many color choices to cycle through and remember/or able to write down to solve it.

The artistry, background music and gameplay are all top notch, a very attractive effort. Had I known the maze was a dead end, I might've looked up the walkthrough sooner... should've known that otherworldly tech was creating some big gremlins.

krutovig responds:

Hi.
What do you mean "stuck"?
Cant solve it or you cant go out those rooms?

[FH Christmas Party 2014]

I don't think all the Forkheads made it to the party, but it's still a good turnout. I'm really quite toasted just now, so that's my review, it's a toasted turnout, over and out....

[Newgrounds' Illuminatimas]

This turned out really great! I even found some unclickable symbolism in the backgrounds of some of these. Not everyone who participated, is listed on the Credits & Info part of this page, but their contributions to this collab, have not gone unnoticed or unappreciated ;)

Thanks to everyone who made a piece for this thing, it's fantastic!

TurkeyOnAStick responds:

Fixed the credits stuff, I was heading out immediately after I published the game!
Yeah, there's a few references I left out. I didn't realise how much stuff could be related to the Illuminati! I did some tweaking on a few pics to avoid confusion, so I hope I didn't offend some of the contributors.

Hope you get some vicarious joy for Christmas!

[Dice Hero]

Backgrounds were nice, but the dice style (fading in and out) seemed boring, not hinting at 3D at all, but it was a nice transition between the dice rolls, quite soothing. It's a good representation of the real game, though I never played it myself before today, however...

I had seen this game played by an old woman in a nursing home, in the 1970's. She spoke of the game in mathmatical, spiritual tomes, as well as strategy to get the perfect score, to 'shut the box', as it were... I believe she had done it once as a child, but had miscounted and left a crucial card, on her third to last roll. She spent her off hours throughout her life trying to legitimately get another perfect. Finally she gave up, and died not long after (the staff were reluctant to say so at the time). I guess the moral of the story is: never to retire the things you do every day to stay busy/happy in life.

[Tightrope Theatre]

Just hard enough to keep slugging at it! Controls were what you'd expect from a unicycle, from movement, to the slightly bouncy, roundness of the tire. Excellent submission, from a competent, longtime author :)

[Slimey's Quest (LD31)]

Nice! A very clever game, which doesn't take more than 5 minutes or so! Kinda glad the enemy isn't deathly to touch. No problems or bugs :)