KobatoGames's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[It's a Shore Thing]

If anyone is wondering, yes vinegar is actually recommended by experts then and currently (2024). WebMD, below, explains what to do with a jellyfish sting. (Side note, rinsing with water actually makes the sting worse surprisingly.)

https://www.webmd.com/first-aid/jellyfish-stings-treatment

['Lair of the Missing Sock']

Game looks great and I am enjoying it, though I am struggling slightly with the controls. J to jump makes sense, but I don't always think to press it and hit Space by instinct and pause the game. Might get better with practice.

Butzbo responds:

Great to hear! Controls have always been a bit tricky for keyboard, as it comes to preference sometimes, but I'll keep this in mind as I keep updating to have more versatile options, thank you for playing! (:

[DuckJump]

Fun. I got to 98, hit the top of a rock and the game froze. Is that how it ends or a glitch? If it's not a glitch, I would suggest adding a Restart button or at least automatically restarting the game.

Oh yes, it looks like you accidently set the genre to Visual Novel, which is kinda the opposite of an infinite runner.

[ZS Dead Detective - Walls can bleed]

Ruffle's not letting me leave the office. It goes to the map, but the only icon visible is the office :(

Hope this gets resolved as Ruffle continues to get tweaked. They've come so far from only being able to play Flash 2 games.

[Escape the "Outside"]

Neat escape game. It was fun fiddling around this odd room trying to figure out what worked or at least did something interesting. Thanks for including a walkthrough on YouTube. I had the hardest time thinking to combine two specific items and can't believe I never tried it by chance if nothing else.

[University Quest]

I did not have an issue with only one level working, though it might be clearer to players what order play the levels if you put a number over each building. I did notice a glitch by the third level that the music seemed to be looping back over itself constantly, so that it was playing many times at once.

[Pico Skate]

Fun game. I've played this many times now. Cool to see a GDevelop project that can connect with NewGrounds Leaderboards. If you add tap buttons for jump and duck, you could make this game work on mobile too.

Edit: @tydaze. Oh yeah, I forgot you could have the mobile controls hidden depending on the detected device. Very polished game.

tydaze responds:

The touch controls should appear automatically when playing on mobile

[2-Bit Explorer]

I got this error (edit: had intended to paste the error but forgot) when I tried to use save for the first time. I was outside Antoine's house.

Edit: It was a aways into the game. I had arrived, talked to Antoine, explored the areas outside the maze, slashed all the bushes, entered the maze, slashed the bush over some stairs, retrieved a small key and gone back to the area outside Antoine's house to save. I also picked up the poem and examined every item in the inventory while in the house.

I am on Chrome, not incognito. I also just restarted the game to and tried saving inside the house after finishing the dialog and save worked. No idea how the error could have triggered last time.

Fiddleling responds:

Hello there, how are you? I am sorry for that bug! I am trying to replicate it, so could you specify a bit on what happens? Is it an error message? Does the game simply freeze or does it just not save? If you could tell which browser you are using and if you are on Incognito Mode it would help out too! Thank you very much!

[Detective Mock]

Yeah. The resolution needs to be smaller. This might be fine for people with large desktops, but when I zoom out far enough to see the whole window on my laptop, the text becomes to blurry to read :(

[Snowy Night Escape]

Edit: The 2016-18 games appear to be working in Ruffle again as of this December.

As of November 2023, this game and many others in the 2016?-18? range are going to a white screen after clicking Play in the current version of Ruffle. Hopefully they will be playable again in future versions of Ruffle. I remember how exciting it was when Ruffle was FINALLY running these Flash3 games.

selfdefiant responds:

Some games only work in the Newgrounds player. I do hope Ruffle will allow them to work soon too!