MichaelJ's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Goblins at the Gates]

Cool game! I love the way you pick up loot. Thanks for using my music in the blacksmith shop. It sounds great there. Keep up the great work!

Frederik77 responds:

Thanks a lot MichaelJ. I think your music loop creates a great atmosphere for the shop!

[Grand Banda]

I couldn't figure out what to do, but I thoroughly enjoyed that brilliant cover of Little Boxes!

[Elf Story]

This is a cool game with amazing art and animation, but the gameplay is terrible. You basically have to click everywhere until you find some tiny useless hitbox to advance to the next tiny hitbox. Plus, you can't go back! I got killed by this falling guy from a tree where you lift up the rock and get ore. So I went to kill him first before I got the ore, then I realized that I wasn't allowed to go back and get the ore after I killed him......

[Relic]

I really love the artwork and style of this game, however, there are a few things you could improve on (dragonace555 left a great review that you should definitely read).

The music is nothing special. It sometimes got a little annoying. It also seemed to be low quality, perhaps it had something to do with the compression? The sound effects were just "ok" too. I think you could find a much better music/sfx guy. I also think that there should be some voice acting! Maybe you should check out the Voice Acting Club or Voice Acting Alliance?

[Scale of the Universe 2]

This is really cool! Too bad some of the electrons weren't drawn to scale.

[Help the Hero!]

Cool game!

It was a fun little game, and a good way to pass some time. The only thing it really lacks is replay value. But that's okay!

[Gyossait]

Interesting!

Though the gameplay is not great, the mood this game created was intense. I jumped when falling into "hell". Very strange!

[Aurora 2]

Not as good as the first one...

It was good, but it was kind of short. I think the first one was better, no real reason why. The old/young man freaked me out! Maybe you should use some new music for the next one?

[The Last Stand Union City]

Fun, addictive, minimal glitches!

This is a huge improvement compared to the last 2 games. The game play has obviously changed drastically. It is very fun to play, and even though I haven't finished it, I have a feeling that it might have some replay value. I didn't encounter any major glitches (mostly just some slight visual ones, like layer problems, which is common in these types of games).
The art seemed a bit rushed. Some of it you can tell is custom, but some of it looks like it was just cropped right out of real images. Most of the sound effects were good, but the zombie sounds got really repetitive. I recognized a lot of the sounds from other games, which is annoying. Why not get custom ones? The music was probably the worst part for me, it was mostly dull and didn't create much of an atmosphere. These things can be overlooked because the game was fantastic, but it could be better!

[A Snail Story]

Graphics are great.. but..

The controls are way too confusing. It took me a while to learn how to get everything to work, and by that time I didn't really want to play anymore. I think you should definitely have beta testers before releasing a game like this. I'm positive they would have told you how to improve before releasing it. The graphics that you spent so much time on went to waste, for me anyways.