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[Tomato Clicker]

This was advertised on NG Direct.

This is a really basic clicker game. For a first try, not too shabby.
Every time you click the tomato, cartoon noises play and it changes to a different skin, each one drawn by several people, with some containing references you might or might not get, such as Veggietales, Pico vs Uberkids, South Park, Dead Estate, and many more! Even a comic spoofing the famous Ctrl Alt Delete comic 'Loss'. Most are drawn using very basic brush tools, although the pixel art one with the eyepatch actually looks very decent, and so does that one slightly more smoother shaded tomato that looks like a closeup scene in Spongebob.

I'm not gonna make a full list of every single tomato ingame, someone on YouTube might've already done that.

NOTES:
- The main menu doesn't work with clicking, even though this IS a clicker game.

- There are two upgrades, +1 tomatoes, which adds 1 tomato per click, and x2, which multiplies by 2.

- Some of the tomatoes aren't even tomatoes! For example, the Stepford 'tomato', is just Stepford. Also Shovel Knight, but that could be fixed by giving him a stalk.

- It is possible to get the same tomato again on two clicks. This could be fixed with a slightly better randomiser.

- When the multiplier goes over 6 digits or more, it can go offscreen.

- This game is unbalanced the more you play it. It requires very few clicks in order to afford a new upgrade.

- UI is extremely large. Fine enough if you have a shitty low-res 240p resolution, but it could be smaller for us HD users in 2022.

- Pressing down on the mouse automatically changes the tomato and gives you points, but releasing makes the sound. Moving the mouse away before releasing won't play the sound.

Could use some minor fixes and I'm sure it'll be even better!
~frog~

Graphics: 7 | Style: 8 | Sound: 8 | Violence: 2 | Interactivity: 5 | Humor: 10
Overall Score: 8

Fish125 responds:

Thanks for the feedback, this is definitely one of the most helpful reviews we've gotten and we'll be taking all of this into consideration for the next update

[Rabbit's Ascent]

These aren't comments. These are reviews. I'd recommend setting up an official scoreboard system in the Newgrounds API. Otherwise you'd get a ton of reviews spamming completely fabricated scores, which could violate the Review Guidelines and get removed. It's a mess.

Also this is very difficult and there's no checkpoints, nor do the controls work as well as Celeste. The campfire mechanic is a decent idea, but it's being put in a very barebones presentation.

FizzyLemon responds:

Ah ok, thanks for letting me know about the review thing, I'd definitely like to work on that scoreboard system. I feel like I could do with just having another go with this concept, maybe make it into a larger game in the future. If I do I'll definitely include a proper scoreboard system, thanks for the feedback!

[Breakfast in Britain]

Go play a real game!

The whole game is that a crudely drawn British man makes another crudely drawn British man eat beans even though the latter doesn't like it. But fuck that guy. Click the screen until they're all gone.

Not too bad for a game made in 4 hours as a response to a Twitter comment. I got all 12 medals in 20 seconds. Talk about medal spam.

RE to @LeviRamirez:
What were you expecting?

Graphics: 7
Style: 0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7wUeiKuw9s)
Sound: 6
Violence: 0
Interactivity: 2
Humor: 7
Overall Rating: 6

LeviRamirez responds:

Boo!

[Kill the Pedophiles]

- You shoot one pedo, the others take damage.
- The game is just one frame where you click to shoot, which is heavily outdated.
- No green flag to restart.
- Unremarkable graphics

UPDATE: I'm pretty sure you can do a whole lot more with Scratch. Just look at what I've done for reference.
Also, HTMLifier has extra options that let you add the green flag.

FoxiesBitCoin responds:

- It’s a metaphor for "you people are all the same"
- You gotta understand I programmed this game on Scratch which is pretty limiting
- Same reason as the 2nd
- I had to rush the assets

UPDATE: Should probably clarify the 3rd issue, After I completed the game for some reason when ever I pressed the green flag again the assets just disappeared and Scratch crashed so that’s why I put the option on HTMLifier to only have it as a green flag.

[Windows 96 Emulator (Read Des)]

I've got 3 reasons for this score:
1. The idea was already taken and executed worse than the original, which itself can't be recommended (see reason 3). There's less content overall.
2. BEEAAAANNNNNNNNNS is not a good joke.
3. Windows parodies are a dime and dozen on various game website and this one doesn't really set itself apart from the rest.

See 'Why They Intentionally Get the BSoD' on Crappy Games Wiki. A lot of the points made also apply to this and Michaelsoft Binbows 97, especially points 1, 5, 6 and 10.
https://crappygames.miraheze.org/wiki/Windows%27_Flash_parodies

sn1ck3rs responds:

Thanks for the response I guess. But you got remember this was made by some teenager in like a month so of course it's gonna be shit.

[Phase 3.0]

Identical to 2.0, except with new music, title screen, hazards, and 3 more stages.

Points from the last review:
> Admits that getting stuck in blocks is a problem
> Barebones graphics (now with blue sky and red lasers!)
> Basic platforming without scrolling
> Annoying and repetitive music loop (gone in v2, but now MORE annoying)

Don't post a new version as a new submission. You can update the old one.

Exemo responds:

Dude it's got 3 new levels

[Phase 2.0]

Identical to the last submission, except without music and two extra screens.

Points from the last review:
> Admits that getting stuck in blocks is a problem
> Barebones graphics (the addition of a rock platform that's harder to notice doesn't fix this.
> Basic platforming without scrolling
> Annoying and repetitive music loop (gone now)
> Only three screens (now five)

Exemo responds:

Can you do better?