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[Hewitt]

Best graphical adventure I've seen on NG

Just one little question: is there some sort of easter egg with the ice cream or is it just a red herring?

Graphics & Style - just great, reminding me of the Larry series
Sound - good background music, not to going on my nerves but also not to decent. Very clear & good voicing.
Violence - well, it had some minor violence in it; but still much less violence than it is usual in primary schools today :-(
Interactivity - Great. Perhaps you could have add some more descriptions to non interactive objects, plus I'd like to turn have an option to turn off the "scroll through all icons in my inventory with the mouse wheel"; when I had a lot of items, this was more distracting than a help.

LiLg responds:

Thanks for those suggestions I think well definately incorporate them into griswold 2 and possibly hewitt 2 if we ever get that far :)

[Seven Deadly Sins]

I really like this one

It would have been nice to have several ways of comitting a sin. The only thing i really disliked was the DDR: It was neither original nor very good programmed.

[Super Idiot]

Nice Tetrisclone

A nice tetris clone. Good graphics, decent sound, acceptable controls, nothing really innovative.

Additionally I don't see the point to interfere with Darwin's law. It's just so beautiful and usefull in our world...

[Scuba Hunter]

Great game

Finally some sort of light shine in all this irwin-stingray histery; a flash that is at least worth to play it for more than 10 seconds. Not because it makes fun of Irwin, but because someone actually put real effort in it. In my sense this is much more effort than a lot of Irwin-fans have put in their submissions. Therefore I gave an overall 9.
However there could be still some improvements: Some background or at least title-songs, a lit bit more innovation in gameplay (a secound attack or real enemies) and graphics (the existing graphics are nice, but those few sprites get really boring after some repetitions).

[Terri Irwin's REVENGE]

A really poor try

This is one of the poorest games I've seen her for a long time. By using a popular topic of time it tries to get a users attention. This must not necessarily mean, that such a product must be bad, but this game is indead nothing of interest. It has poor controls, poor graphics, no innovative gameplay and the graphics could have been made a lot better; even photo bitmaps would IMHO have surpassed those drawings of stingrays.
There's even no real story or any explanations, e.g. why are stingrays suddenly able to shoot anything on their *victims*...
I have really no problem e.g. of making fun of Irwin and his family or anything similar...I just think that this submission is an excellent example of a poor quality game...

[Tattoo Artist]

It's ok.

It's ok. The graphics are good, the sound is a bit repetitive and I'm not personally a fan of those types of game. It reminds me of those mouse craze games. I think it could be a bit funnier if you would add the pain in the faces of the clients while the are getting their tattoo.

BTW: There's really no need to rant about people, that haven't Flash Player 8 yet. Since Adobe has taken over Macromedia, unfortunately they have drastically reduced their palette of players for various plattforms and Browsers (e.g. there's no Flash Player 8 for Linux).

[Zorro Team]

Nice. It could have been a little bit more complex

Lol. I finished the game but I made 0 points because I didn't realise that I should click on the points in the first place ;-D

It could have been a little bit more complex in the later levels.
Some ideas:
* Make several pictures and sounds for a call (but still with the same border color)
* Make separate districts, each with a station. If you put a call not in the corresponding district it can't be reached (or just after some time or with additional costs)