Boss's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Marelza's Cauldron]

This is gorgeous and has a ton of style

[goodbye, doggy]

This game is really incredible. It almost makes you want to cry. Its sort of zen. and it looks and sounds great

[BBYS]

this game is totally fucking sick and the music reminds me of the music in the game quest 64 in a good way. also the cutesy aesthetic is just magnificent

[Detective GUI]

really unique and inventive idea

[Flanet]

This game is really awesome and addictive. I skipped the tutorial at first (lol) and wasnt sure how to buy the towers because im on mobile. I thought i was selecting different kinds of seeds and the flowers themselves were temporary towers or something? This is why we should just play the tutorial lol. I found the game really interesting and fun and the graphics were really cool and interesting too. As i got closer to level 100 i found it really rewarding to realize you could jump to stack towers by dropping them . I sort of wanted to be able to make a 2nd layer of the shield tower by bouncing above it and then using the buy tower command and have another layer of the shield appear like layers of a stratosphere. i think that could be amazing if it was easiee to bounce and get air off enemies so its like a platform climb game that leads to you flying around orbit or even going to other planets. That might just be really chaotic and ridiculous though. When i hit level 100 i dont know if i overclocked the game or if my build made this happen but i had tons of gun towers out and they all died at once. Then the enemies came in and i couldnt jump into them all. I went back and did a mostly health build and that basically gives you a god mode where eventually you can tap to plant seeds endlessly and you wont die, maybe a hidden metaphor about what towers are the best for our own planet? Lol. I think if you ran this on a Computer and do a heavy health tower build you could let it idle forever. I hit level 145 and was like ok this is going too far. It got a little more fun to hit jumps into orbit at that point because the game was starting to lag/overclock so my air direction inputs were more precise. All in all i think its an amazing game and you could turn it into a really engaging story oriented tower defense game or really do anything with the mechanics here. In a way it was like a puzzle and like an action game too already. This can definitely give you carpet tunnel if youre playing on mobile. I think it could be sick if somehow the game doesnt overclock when a million objects are on the screen and you instruct the player to do a god mode style build and then crazy bosses came in that you had to fight that did enough damage to make the health build fail. I think all the action on the screen makes you want it to be a japanese shootemup in a way, this mechanism or gameplay dynamic is the perfect blend of tower defense and attacking things to defend but the style doesnt feel jaded or industrial at all, it still feels really artistic. Maybe some of that is because pico 8 is just a great platform too, idk. I also felt that at a certain point this game became like a meditation and was relaxing and made me re-realize the purpose of video games. So theres that i guess. I better stop typing i hope this review doesnt break the web page for being too long

Elastiskalinjen responds:

Thanks! Impressive review and for hitting such highscores :O

[Hanukkah Runner]

This is really awesome. I played it on easy mode because im watching tv and due to the nature of that specific multitask, I don’t know if I could commit to beating it on harder difficulties but aside from obviously how great the pixel style of this is and the firm and simple goal and physics something I really love is that the theme is cultural in a cute way and there are some hebrew words that pop up and I think anytime a game has these it gives it more objective value for exposing the players to other cultural concepts and vocabulary (even if it’s brief)

[Ranata the Frog and the Broken Forest]

This is really fun. Playing on mobile is so fucking annoying because you will accidentally press down! I had a glitch similar to others, got to level 13 and i had one purple fruit, a few levels before this the witch stops saying what fruits she needs until you bring her one fruit, I figured that lined up with 4 fruits being present instead of 3, level 13 i know i need a purple because the bottom right get fruit icon, so I bring her the purple fruit, it disappears, them she says she needs purple and green, theres no purple left so either there was not enough purples or this is a glitch where she eats a fruit and doesnt register it at first, also like others have said the scoreboard thing which I think is still glitched maybe and its out of judgement for sure now but idk if any of this would be worth the time to fix, or if the glitch i got was super rare or somehow there was user error on my end altho i flew across the whole canopy atleast twice to double check. this game is dope and under rated

[Le Chat Foncé: Petite Adventure 3]

Loved it, really cool aesthetics and sound was relaxing, the way you only jump half a block was cute and the game was really clever. a few times the text box had text that disappeared because it didn't fit and i usually tap talk buttons like twice to see if i can get the text to just auto fill but that makes me miss text here, which isn't that bad and I'm not sure if many other people care about that but thought i'd mention that, really fun and cool to explore the kind of maze and try to remember where all the key pieces are, i love the way youre forced to do that because your key meter fills up, overall would like to see you make more

[Brink Of Alienation III]

really awesome heydey flash era contra style game

[The Hell Out]

I swore this game was going to be by someone who made something that looks like this where you warp through dimensions, but maybe the game design platform has these 8 bit templates? I was excited to see something like this regardless. it was tricky for a few minutes then fun to put all the pieces together. fun game and the dialogue really makes it worth it