Dankdadd's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Taipan 3000]

Wow! Good job with this, it was probably pretty hard to set up, you worked for these 5 stars.

This is very similar to a submission in 2000 called dealer, which was also based on an old trading style game, but with drugs. The problem with that one, was it was a little too easy once you figured it out. This really fixes that issue. The difficulty is intimidating to someone new to this game, even with the instructions you have to play a few times to figure it out. After you do figure it out though, it's just like real life, you have to get rich by mixing both preparation and opportunity. It requires a bit of luck to get anywhere, but hey that's life.

Throughout the game, you're desperately trying to find a balance while the pressure of debt catches up with you (from the 450 fine after a while from the tyrant.) The first part of the game is more about staying alive than getting anywhere. You're basically forced to sacrifice ship health in order to start off your money. While searching the galaxy you have to look for trade routes that work, and don't endanger you to pirates. You also have to find the balance between carrying items and having available guns.

As you progress the game starts to lighten up on you. It becomes less about survival and more about how much money you can make efficiently without going broke. After establishing a good pattern you can upgrade your ships, and start raking in cash. However if you're too greedy and don't give yourself enough to fall back on, you can very easily lose everything dropping cargo to pirates. After hard work and good strategy you finally get enough money to avenge your father, what a nice ending.

However, with all the positives there are some negatives. The save function didn't seem to work at all, I tried a few times before really getting into the game, and it seemed like I was getting no response from hitting the button. There are also a few other bugs stated in other comments that I feel don't affect the game that drastically, but are there none the less.

I think the more important flaw was how empty things felt, now for old flash, this is understandable with the limited space you have. If this were uploaded today though I'd take off half a star for lack of any interesting characters, and all the pirate ships being the same besides the final boss. I also felt that the pirate encounter system could use a little work and give a penalty for running and a higher accuracy rate. Or maybe make it a mini game so it takes skill into account rather than just luck.

Overall, it's a pretty great game on investments and risk taking. I enjoyed my time only after I got used to it (there should really be a tutorial of some kind), but still had fun despite that. The feeling of beating this game gave me quite the sense of accomplishment.

Great job Psycho! Hope your future games I play are as high quality as this one.

[MAFIA!]

The stick fandom is dying smile if you're a true Stickhead!

Nice Godfather reference, however this is just another poorly drawn stick animation, that technically isn't even stick men for most of it. I enjoyed it for proper use of meta commentary. And for breaking the 4th wall with the stick guy killing you if you think the game is lame.

[Death Inc. Demo 2.0]

I liked the art, but everything else was rather limited, the voice was super robotic. The movement wasn't demonstrated the best, and the demo was as short as 10 clicks. Nothing impressive, but maybe it got some hype at the time.

[Atlantis (fixed)]

Couldn't you have just re-uploaded the file on the old post? I don't see the point of a whole repost just to fix one bug, and if you had to at the time, at least get rid of the old one?

[Atlantis]

Simple puzzle adventure game, but a little too easy. Maybe if the answers were a little more obscure to obtain or there was an in game purpose to why you had to know, it'd be a little better. But I appreciate the effort that went into this, though it seems like you have a rather unfinished world.

There was a bug early on, where if you clicked the first tribe looking guy it would take you back to the start for no reason. Also the story was a little bland.

[Crazy Faces]

Another dress up game of sorts, not a lot of options and has the usual "clutter" flaw that many of the time possess. The faces were in fact crazy though. Very glad that I could turn the music off.

[hangnun]

Really nice game of Hangman, with more than decent animations, and the topics really do scale the difficulty well. Nice to see a good puzzle game amidst all the gore of the time.

[Arnold's Smooth Lines]

This was done before rather recent to this one. Nothing that new about it besides a UI touch up, so you get the same review.

Fun sound board, but nothing super creative here. Has a lot of background noise from the movies they're from. Only good because Arnold is an immortal meme.

[Simpsons Trivia]

Just another trivia game, that is way too short, has some pretty obscure questions, and criticizes you for getting something wrong that anyone could. These kinda games always just end up being a try again till the end type of thing, especially since you didn't randomize the question order.

I do enjoy the Simpsons though, however I haven't even come close to watching many of the episodes.

[Random Excuse Machine]

"Sorry I'd really love to go out, but I have to wrestle my upset sausage."

This was really cute, kinda reminds me of insult generator from 2000. Would be better if it stopped one at a time and had a list of things that narrowed down the possibilities in the code so you'd always get something that made sense.