KobatoGames's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Cat Burglar & The Magic Museum]

This game is really fun! I have played it so many times. I hope Mr. Buckles won't go into heist withdrawal after Cat Burglar loots the diamond :)

I don't know if the creator has already noticed, but I think the images are one off from most the medals. For example, looting a statue has an image of a pile of cash and looting a pile of cash has a picture of a totem.

[Battle For Sanity 0.0.2]

Hi. I enjoyed this game. I really liked Harold's struggle with pointlessly memorizing passages of text for the knight's code, and while he may not remember the exact fancy words, he understands the spirit of them far better than some actual graduated knights. The story and characters so far were really well done and I hope you finish the game someday.

P.S. Clever (easter egg?) of Harold noting the two maps that looked suspiciously like MV default maps looked "familiar."

Edit: I think the game works fine as is. It probably just got lost in the mix on Newgrounds over time. If you want additional plays/feedback, I would suggest checking out itch.io. Their main calling is its hundreds of game jams which I have found to be a great way to get positive feedback. Most require you to make a game from scratch within a certain time period, but others are specifically for finishing and getting feedback on already started/published games. They even have a pretty prominent RPG Maker community. Here are a couple jams you might like:

https://itch.io/jam/img27
https://itch.io/jam/30-day-rpg-maker-themed-game-jam-11

DepressedHarold responds:

Hey KobatoGames :)

I'm glad you like the game. Unfortunately most people don't seem to be too into it so for now I have put it on hold, since it is a bit hard for me to keep my motivation up. I am not sure what I could do to make people more interested. Maybe the story starts off too dull or maybe people get lost since I did not include a quest log? I have been thinking about adding some stronger character traits or other struggles to Harold to make him seem more interesting, but I am not too sure about it. There is a lot of stories I would like to tell but I am not sure if they actually fit in the game.

Yeah you are right, the two maps are edited versions of the tutorial maps. This game actually started off as me going through the tutorial adding some random jokes, but eventually it turned into a more serious game but I decided to leave most of the jokes in it (and continued adding more jokes). Cute Girl/Lea originally started of as a really shallow joke character but eventually I grew to really like her and now i see her as quite the opposite of shallow.

Maybe I will eventually continue the game, but right now I don't really feel like pushing myself to do it, I hope I regain the motivation eventually.

[Coronavirus: A Text Adventure]

Neat. This reminds me a little of an old flash game called Memoir Text Adventure where the premise is that you are dared to stay in the basement of an abandoned house and find an old computer that inexplicably is still working and has a program called life.exe. Story is quite different, though the premise of finding a mysterious computer with a text game did remind me of it.

[Escape THE GAME]

Edit: Game now works in Ruffle!

I love this game, but I also can't get past Play Game in Ruffle :(

Hope it will work in later versions. We've come such a long way from only being able to use it for Flash 2 games.

[sinesurf]

Fun game I that made me want to play through several times. For anyone who is stuck like I was at the beginning, the controls are up/down or w/s. My problem was I was pressing the keys repeatedly instead of holding them...

[Kidnapped by Ghosts]

I enjoyed the puzzles and atmosphere of the game. Glad ruffle is finally handling dragging well enough for the ghost picture puzzle to work again.

[Zombie Society - Dead Detective]

A good game. I remember playing this when it first came out. Miss this series.

Note to Ruffle users. As of my playing today, the game works in the current version of Ruffle even if you get the warning screen saying it might not. The only part that did not work is the medals, though I have no idea if that is a Ruffle issue or something external.

[Monkey Teaches Typing]

Cool game, but I got stuck at the monkey discussing how to write a good newgrounds post. It will not let me type the apostrophe in "'You know that's an excellent question to bring up," (It cuts off after "'You know that". The sentence before is "Go for it monkey, write something brilliant!"

CmFluffles responds:

This bug has been fixed, please refresh your page and you should be able to progress without issue.

[Shadee Rpg: The Missing Weapons (Facelifted)]

This was a fun game. I hope you finish the next chapter :)

SpeedWaveX responds:

Thank you for checking out the game!! Also yeah, it's been quite some time since I had tried working on the additional chapter of this game. I had planned a few different story ideas, but it did get a bit tricky to try and see what worked.

[Christmas Tree Maker]

Yes, this game is still getting played in 2022. Seems simple, but there really is a lot of features to it. Definitely worth playing.