johnsoma's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[DEAD PETALS]

Favorite randomly generated boss name so far is "Tortured Tormented Tormentor"

[Cross Strike]

This might be the best one yet. It's a lot of fun, especially that dash ability! Kind of easy to get lost toward the end, but I blame that on my consistent difficulty navigating metroidvanias.

Yword responds:

Thank you so much for playing! :)

[Portaboy+]

Well that's certainly a twist! It gets really intense!

(best score: 60)

[MemMento]

I wasn't expecting much, but this turned out to be quite a twisting tale.

[RCOT: Relentless City Of Thoughts]

Honestly, I thought the story in the description was more fun than the game. (then again, that could be the point)

[EMBER SKULL]

Incredibly addicting, though I have yet to get past the third loop. Just one note with your tags, since you don't keep upgrades between runs, this is a roguelike, not a roguelite.

CheeseBaron responds:

Thought rogueLIKE was for the turn based stuff and rogueLITE was for everything else, but aight

[Terato Tamer]

Naturally, bad luck can make things frustrating fast. Lowering enemy health to make seduction more effective is also not intuitive at all. With that said, I still love this game's style.

[[BTNverse] The void rolls back]

Another really cool game concept from you!

EDIT: Now that I've had time to reflect on the game, I wanted to give a more serious review. The premise is really cool, and the vibe really reminds me of Loop Hero. With that said, there are definitely problems with this one.

First note about the game is that it is very snowball-y. If you're a master of spatial reasoning, you can fly through areas before enemies can catch up for you, gathering hearts and exp along the way. If you're not, or you just don't understand what to do, you can trap yourself, then get stuck fighting enemies, which makes you reload dice more, which makes more enemies spawn, and so on.

Second is that the goal is pretty obscure. The intro tells you to travel the six regions and destroy the boss, but if you blitz to the end of each area, you'll just end up looping over and over until you die. The boss is actually hidden somewhere in one of the regions, and you have to find and kill it, then find the exit portal, which is also hidden somewhere. It's easy to find them if you know what to look for, but it's not obvious how it actually works.

Basically, this game kinda falls apart if you don't understand how it works, and there isn't really anything to help you figure it out. It's a fun puzzler if you figure it out, though.

[GIMMIKO CLASSIC]

Somehow I didn't see the tip about using the right click to draw in the nearest dice. I still made it to wave 20, though. I'd say that just shows how much fun this game is.