TheEmeraldBlockTEB's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Ballies]

I remember king dot com before it refocused into a new market of mobile games. I played tons of sponsored games there and this was one of them. It's great, it's use of cool flashy special effects whenever you move your lil' fella around or when balls explode into millions of pieces are one of the notable ones. The swirling background is interesting, not that you see often in games like this one. Gives me a feel like I'm exploring something deep yet mysterious new world. Nevertheless, this arcade game deserves five stars.

For those who don't wanna read a long review (despite it's purpose):
Great game, expressive and flashy display that lag the more you have balls in screen or whatnot.

Additional note: My score's 046000, I was at level seven.

[Mario's Bizarre Adventure]

I like this game. However due to bugs and odd controls, it's kinda hard to play it normally.

JoJo references are cool and all but mind taking care of those more functional side of things than just visuals alone. Unfortunately I did not finish 2nd level being that Magician's Red shoots from one source (It can't shoot in any other direction other than typical Mario fashion of sorts.) as it wouldn't able to hit those Goombas where there are cloud platforms. They could be springs even if you weren't standing atop of them.

In short, this is adequate but barely functional in regards to controls and whatnot (Being that it's buggy as well). I give this game three stars.

[Petty kingdoms]

Man, that was quite good! I got to enjoy dominating every other kingdom as I want to. Although not sure where did I got that much gold (81 gold each round, completed it under 7 rounds) when there's just 10 regions when I played. Though 36 region looks cool and so does 16.
Graphically, it looks somewhat basic. Although nice borders, nothing much else other than it may come from somewhere around 2010 to about 2014-ish...

Other than that, looks sweet. However, there are quirks, like that you should not disable all teammates otherwise, it's stuck. Or that I get 81 gold even if I'm not on 36 region size (Economy boom perhaps…).

A nice simple strategic game not much bugs. But otherwise a fine game.
Four stars.

[Home Alone v2]

While I love that Home Alone movie. This game does a fairly nice spin on it, traps are put onto a conveyor belt, but I think it could be better by having options to put it with what you want or need (Then again, it's game design leans into timer-based game).

It could've have modes to have one player do the traps, just to see a thief by itself go through traps and get the treasure (Or with a role of a thief, generate a random trap that you either must avoid or go through).

Somewhat flawed being that you could put those traps around where a bandit could spawn. And that it's goal is to find the treasure when you're the thief, which can be placed outside of the map for all we know. Though another issue being that you immediately get a treasure to place even if you're holding a trap. Maybe place a warning or a reminder that time's up.
I should add music's a bit unrelated to the game, techno in a middle of a Christmas night seems unfitting.

Anyways... It's negatives are apparent and are flawed in their way, but it has a nice interface, niche game design, varied traps. Map's complex and has enough hallways and rooms that you could place traps into. And it has nice art, simplistic in a niche way.

Briefly: Web-game adaption on a 1990 Home Alone movie (Only with a generic criminal instead), alas biased but it has that unique game design, interface and a nice look.
Two and a half.

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A new patch has been released with notable improvements

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[Minefield]

Finally! I can finally play minesweeper on Windows 11 (Bill Gates surely thinks you don't need minesweeper)! Otherwise, a nice spin on this game touched with some configurations usually not included (Just Light/Dark theme). Nice graphics, despite it's restrictions.
Overall, nothing much else to say about it.

Other than I could play this game online anytime. Though it could be more original by adding some new elements while keeping it simple enough to enjoy.
Three and a half stars.

[Disconnect]

Fine and a well made game, although gets some time to get used to it.
I like that it's using both a command interface and GUI at the same place.

Could see this game be developed further, although I had a bit of difficulties trying to solve most of the missions. I like that last mission being that you have to input a key. Downside about this game as it requires to type full words as compared to actual commands being truncated words formed in least space possible.

Fortunately, it wasn't much of a hassle to type that much anyhow...

Oh and I got that suicide malware or virus, ain't nice and this primitive operating environment or system has no anti-virus program *AHEM* if I weren't to note to some achievement that can be done by having a PonziPal doing the work.

While simple at best via icons and other, albeit commands as I mentioned before, being somewhat too long to type. Then again, assuming by that BIOS shown or computer starting up, makes sense to have command-line interpreter to have longer commands by being from, assuming being in 2000 or later.
Missions, itself are put together modestly, not much to overwhelm with every new feature.
I have this feeling I just could terminate the connection between those suspicious peers, yet I either mess up or not succeed.

There are quirks but it's mostly fine, just that as long you focus on what are you terminating before you decrypt another connection.

In the nutshell: Short bittersweet game, while nerds can enjoy the hell out of this somewhat boring game, it does give some intense feel to it. Commands are somewhat long but as long you're up to speed, it's all fine and might as well be dandy if lucky on few of the missions available on the game.

Four stars.

[Energy Quest]

This game with that art-style and music-wise reminds me of Nitrome if they were consistently developing games for years beyond flash's announcement, and that's saying something! However I came to into some of the quirks during gameplay. I once managed to get levels somehow messed up and even being consisting of nothing but flying hover-cars, while trying to replay to get full amount of energy balls. But I like this game though, however there are some glitches or inconveniences I came through while playing.

Those glitches and quirks (As I mentioned before..) consist of walking through obstacles while being hit, level loading shenanigan (Said above.) by perhaps not letting character finish it's dialogue by clicking prematurely on the said level by player (I'm not sure if it's possible to replicate, but that's what happened while playing.). The quirks mainly consist of smaller things I've noticed, such as pressing enter again initiates last button clicked; Although it could be by default, or perhaps as intended or as an error. The other quirks being that physics might be somewhat off and imprecise, making it a somewhat challenging game since I have to time my jumps somewhat perfectly, otherwise I'd fall off, bash into or worse, not able to collect those flying spheres enough despite it's relatively short distance.

While it's sort of a flawed game, I like the pixel-art look with variety and simplicity. It gives it some old charm but retains this modern appeal (I may not be a huge fan on modern things though). It has good music but I hear the exact accompany I heard in previous levels (As of writing this, I'm on Sky Adventure section.), but it's fine, at least there's variety. About the story, it's cool that this has it's own cutscene at the beginning, alas though there's no start menu or such (I boldly guess it's the standard.).
Oh and I forgot that you missed that star decorate on women's hat when she's talking.
Anyways...

Overall: Nice game with great graphics, good music and a nice story. It's somewhat Nitrome-esque on some aspect of this game despite it's flawed merits. I'm giving it 4 stars out of five.

[Into the Deep Web]

Interesting game concept, I like how you have to guess where the tile like minesweeper and the use of dice to represent different types. However.. the opponent are little bit difficult but fair. Although start menu could have some purpose like having settings for older computers or some references. But a great game concept, I'd like to see this game in full game, 4 stars.

[Riddle School]

This game is really awesome.
Not only it's from older eras where flash games and animation were at their peak, it also reminded me of other flash games and animations from that specific era. I love this series as fun, hard ( there are some hard puzzles ), amazing and cool! Not only this was the first game to have 6 next sequels and has a nice ending after every ending of every game after Riddle School but also that art-style was changing over the years after every release after the 1st game. Riddle School also may have influenced my imagination and how i make puzzles and riddles. This series uses puzzle elements in a way that is unexpected! I'd rate this 5 stars out of 5 stars.