FFR (Flash Flash Revolution)

Canon In WHEE played by MyDreamName

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Hey there guys. MDN here. Today I will be talking about FFR. It is not only a game, but a community. Also, the game can be as easy or as difficult as you want. :D Do not believe me? Just look at me go in that easy song. Yes, the difficulty of that song is 'easy'. There are much harder songs for you gurus out there, and much easier (Yes, still much easier) songs for the beginners out there. One of the features I liked about the game was that one could go and change which keys activate which arrows, because you know, the default arrow keys just don't do it for me. You can also 'speed' up the game, which I found neat. Now, I know you are wondering "WTF why do you want to speed up the game?" but you want to speed up the game because the time range for perfects is longer the more you speed it up, and also the timing for each of the arrows are just the same, it just waits before sending them out and sends them out faster. Follow the beats, doods!


Anyway, let me talk about that community. I haven't really experienced it much, because as I am writing this essay I am only 0.02 years (about a week) old on my FFR account. But, what I have seen so far is welcoming. Along with the forum, the site also has a MySpace kind of thing with the profiles, which I found neat. In the profiles are also chat systems, like those in Kongregate. I say the commmunity is pretty cool.


Two thumbs up to FFR!

For my last trick, I am going to pull a Jayisgames here: You can sign up on www.flashflashrevolution.com but make sure to put me as the guy who referred you. Maybe then I'll get to some stupid super high status like Jayisgames on Kongregate! Ha!

Anyway, see you guys in my next review.

~MDN

Name changes!

There have been a few namechanges:

• Wizky (now MDN) has had his name changed to Wizko
• Steel Walrus will be having a name change - we are not sure yet, but there are many ideas. Suggest yours on the IRC channel!
  

New Console reviewer...

It's-a me-a ShadowFerret...a. Yes, I am probably going to be just reviewing games for consoles. Hopefully (if they do post again (Just a joke ;P) ), the blog should get more reviews.

-ShadowFerret

Email at no-life-here@hotmail.com to suggest a game to be reviewed!

Color Infection 2 Review

Hai, and today I'm going to review the game Color Infection game, which was created by http://www.tapirgames.com/, a site with puzzle and physics game. Color Infection's objective is simple, infect all the yellow balls with brown balls. But, it's not that simple, there are also green balls and these green balls, you don't want to infect. Also, to try and infect the yellow balls, you must go through a punishing maze of obstacles, and you might finally figure out after the first few levels, you want to quit now.

Graphics - The graphics on this isn't great, and are not as good as most games out there on the Internet. 4/10

Audio/Sound - None, which is bad, this game needs music. - 1/10

Gameplay - Very boring, there isn't enough interaction with it to make it a good game. - 3/10

Controls - Quite straightforward, just click some pink objects and your away. - 9/10

Replayability - I would strongly recommend this game when there is no other game to play, but, don't play it if you want a game to play for quite a while. - 3/10

Final Rating - 2/5

-ShadowFerret

Win Review

Hi, and today (for my first review), I'm going to review a recent edition to http://www.kongregate.com/, Win. This game was inspired by the Shootorials that Kongregate put out which you create a simple side scrolling game where you shot ships and collect power ups. This particular one was created by moderator PopUpPirate.

Win's game objective is really simple. Shoot ships to collect power-ups which will eventually lead to the ships destruction. Power-ups include things such as health boosts and ships being exploded. You also have a health meter (bar in green), which will deplete as you get hit, and should have you destroyed when your health reaches 0. But on this game... it's different. You see on this one, you go into negative health, so that means you can stay on with -1,000,000 health and still be able to shoot down the ships.

Graphics - It's good for a flash time, the sense of detail for the background is better than some games that have been created by Shootorial and the detail on everything is good with the graphics. - 8/10

Audio/Sound - Doesn't have any... perfect... - 10/10

Gameplay - The gameplay is generally good, but, as with all side scrolling shooters in planes, it does get very dull and boring after a while. - 6/10

Controls - The controls are really simple and easy to grasp. Great control system! - 10/10

Replayability - You might find this a quick 5 minute game, but not enough to come back and play it loads of times. - 5/10

Final Rating - 4/5

-ShadowFerret

Flash Element TD2 Review

Hello! I'm Wizky and I'm going to be reviewing Flash Element TD 2, a Tower Defence game where your objective is to kill all the "creeps" before they grab your elements at the end of the map and bring them back to the beginning by building towers. Flash Element TD 2 can be found on Kongregate and Casual Collective.

GRAPHICS: (8/10): The text can be easily read on their backgrounds, you can tell whether you can or cannot build somewhere, the towers are the same colour as their element, so you can tell which element you need for certain towers, and the maps have fine detail. There are quality settings also for slower computers. My only criticisms would be for the towers to have more detail than a rectangle with a square, or a circle with a line through it.


SOUND: (9/10): There are different sound effects for each towers firing, death sounds, starting comments for each type of creep (eg. STICK TOGETHER TEAM for grouped creeps), round completion comments for each type of creep (eg. Safety in number my arse! for grouped creeps) and sounds for rolling over some of the buttons (not all of them though, only a minority). The voices can be turned off in the Options menu if you don't like them, or you can turn off all sound by rolling over the speaker icon and using the slider.

GAMEPLAY: (9/10): 50 levels of of fun on three different maps, for Easy, Medium and Hard difficulties. There are several different types of creep with different abilities, different towers available when you own each element, and a box to display information about certain creeps, which activates when you select one of them. There's a token system too, where you win 10 tokens if you complete 7 rounds, with a Boss creep(s) at on each 7th round, which can be spent on some different things in the Store tab after each level. The game can be fast-forwarded, which is also a nice addition.

CONTROLS: (10/10): Mouse controlled completely, although you can use hotkeys to place towers, and some other hotkeys to do various things like open the options, spawn the next wave or mute.

DIFFICULTY: (7/10): The game gets pretty hard fast, pushing you to buy more towers and upgrade your current ones whilst preparing for the boss, done at a good pace on each map type, so this works with their difficulties well.

REPLAYABILITY: (7/10): After you complete each difficulty, you can select another, more difficult one, which each have different path layouts.

OVERALL SUMMARY (8/10): Looks good, sounds good, plays good. Overall fun game, I recommend you give this a play.

World of Goo

I'm MyDreamName, and I'm going to be reviewing World of Goo today, in which websites such as 2Dboy give a lot of info on the game.

World of Goo is a great game with a story. It is based on mostly physics, so it is in the physics genre, you play the goo balls, in a sense, and in every level you want to get as many as possible to the pipe, found somewhere in the level. There are many types of goo balls to be found, and the gameplay possibilities are HUGE. There is also a great demo that gives you the whole first chapter, so you get a lot of time to experience it before deciding whether to purchase it or not. It is also very cheap, 1500 WiiWare points (Yes, you can buy it on the Wii! I have done this too, it is epic) or $20 on the computer. It is also an indie game that met huge success, which to me, is a huge plus after Spore.

GRAPHICS: (10/10): The graphics are at a plus here, since I can actually play this game on my laptop without worrying about lag due to intensive graphics. It is 2D though, although the graphics never make up the whole of the game. The graphics fit the game well and support my laptop, and I am very happy.


AUDIO/SOUND: (10/10): The audio composition was great. No one spoke, but there was no need for someone to speak. The sign painter did all the speaking. And I swear, some of the tunes in the game actually made me cry.

GAMEPLAY: (9/10): Many levels and a metagame in there a plus!

CONTROLS: (10/10): Drag and drop to build. Simple. May be harder on a laptop, though.

REPLAYABILITY: (10/10): Yes! Did all of the levels finally with no skips? Improve on them and send your scores to the Goo Board of Excellence and compare them with people around the world! Also tired of trying to improve on your levels? Never fear, the World of Goo Corporation is the classic fun we are all looking for! In that stage, you can build a tower using your extra goo balls (the limit is 300 because of fire codes) and also compare them with other users. The current record is around 46 meters.

Final rating: 4.9/5 (Highly recommended for you to at least try the demo!)

Call of Duty: World At War review

Ha, second review of the day, this time for the sequel to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, Call of Duty: World At War. Unlike the last instalment, Infinity Ward has stepped off to start working on Modern Warfare 2. So, Activision and Treyarch (developers of Call of Duty 3) have decided to create a game in between that, World At War. World At War is set back in World War II where the Americans and the Japanese are fighting and Germany and Russia are fighting over land of their countries. In the single player campaign, the main part is working as a Marine Raider (except on the first level when you try to fight to become one of Carlson's Raiders) called Pvt. Miller. The other missions that you play are based on a Russian soldier called Pvt. Petrenko who you first meet almost at near death in Stalingrad.

The main controls are really simple and easy to grasp and will be able to use effectively throughout the whole of the campaign and multiplayer (will be talked about later) to pull off really good combo's using your main weapons and your pistol. Although the main part of the campaign is playing as Miller, Petrenko's campaign is as thrilling as his. With many varieties of levels such as Blood and Iron (a vehicle only mission) to Hard Landing (on foot mission using rocket strikes) and back again. The single player campaign is fun and worth doing for the secret mission, the Nazi Zombies when you complete. You are in an abandoned building (part of the Airfield map) and endless waves of zombies come after you. If all of your team die, it's game over.

Multiplayer has been changed as well. With some game types gone uncluding Old School (No-one really liked it) and Cage Match (Meh, good for challenges) and some new game types have come in including War (Fight for control of command points) and Capture the Flag (Does what it says on the tin). The weapons have changed because of it being back to WWII with some weapons ranging from the Springfield (The first blot action rifle you get with a sniper scope) to the machine gun Browning M1919 (The highest leveled Machine Gun). Perks have also changed. Perks are special skills that you are allowed, 3 normal perks and 1 vehicle perk (more about them in a minute). These perks are grouped and there are 28 in all. In Perk 1 group, there are 8 perks and in Perk 2 and 3 group, there are 10. These are grouped this way so that people can't double up on perks such as Satchel Charges, Bazookas and Flamethrower. Some of the perks include some from the last game including Juggernaut (Extra health) and Iron Lungs (Longer time to hold breath while steadying aim) but new perks such as Fireproof (Less fire damage) and the ever favourite with Lvl 65's, the M2 Flamethrower.

All in all, this game is an excellent choice for people who are veteran shooters, or newbies looking for a good game.

Final Rating - 4.9/5

-ShadowFerret

Sonny review

I'm pwnman and I'm going to be reviewing Sonny today, from websites such as kongregate.com and armorgames.com. Now, lets go onto the review.

If I had to rate the graphics I would say it would be about an 8 out of 10.
The sound would probably be about a 9 out of 10. The gameplay is great and thats one reason why its a good game. To control the game you use your mouse and its very easy learn.The difficulty would probally be a 5 out of 10. And if you want to replay it you might get bored after 2-4 times, depending on how much you like to replay stuff. Sonny is probably going to be one of the best turn based strategy games you're ever going to play. Hope you have fun playing it!

Hexiom Connect Review

Hi, I'm ShadowFerret, and today I'm going to review the game Hexiom Connect which was developed by Biclops Games and sponsored by Kongregate .

Hexiom Connect is a game from the original, Hexiom, where you have to move tiles around a board to create a shape. As the levels move on, the game boards get bigger and more challenging shapes need to be created and towards the end, even 3d shapes need to be created! With features such as uploading and creating your own levels, this game could keep you busy for hours.

Graphics - The graphics are mainly good, they aren't as good as some games, but they are mainly good. - 8/10

Audio/Sound - The music when you first play will be very relaxing, but after a while, you might find the need to mute the music. And the special effects. - 7.5/10

Gameplay - The gameplay will keep you busy for hours and will probably have you come back for more! - 10/10

Controls - Some of the most easiest controls a game has ever had, it's just clicking one of the tiles and moving it to another place on the board. - 10/10

Replayability - Unless you don't like puzzle games or are really boring, you would come back to this at least twice. - 9/10

Final Rating - 4.5/5

-ShadowFerret

Achievement Unlocked

I'm MyDreamName, and I'm going to be reviewing Achievement Unlocked today, found on websites such as Armor Games and Kongregate.

Achievement Unlocked, developed by Armor Games, is a metagaming game where you control an elephant and try to complete the achievements listed on the side of the screen. The quicker, the better. Many people then take pride in posting their low scores. For this reviewer, my score wasn't as good, but it gave me time to appreciate the game. I highly recommend this game as a 5-10 minute game. So, go on, give it a try on any of the websites above!

GRAPHICS: (9/10): The graphics in the game are great. They nailed the 2D metagaming theme quite nicely.


AUDIO/SOUND: (10/10): I found it a great tune, as it fit the game quite nicely. And for any who do not like it, there is a mute button in the bottom-right corner. Maybe you would even get an achievement for muting it? Only one way to find out.

GAMEPLAY: (10/10): The gameplay was great! Why wouldn't it be? It's a metagame!

CONTROLS: (10/10): Arrow keys, and 1-4 to switch elephant colours. Other various keys are used to beat achievements. Very simple controls, can't really do much to improve there.

DIFFICULTY: (8/10): Medium, hard first time around. May need a hint. This reviewer feels the difficulty is just right. Not much to improve here.

REPLAYABILITY: (8/10): Yes! The competition factor with getting a low time makes it very addictive.

Final rating: 4.75/5