Before I comment about the game, there is the speculation about this recieving a place on the front page due to there being a monetary exchange. There is no definitive way to prove this is true, and even if it is, I don't blame Tom or whever up top decided to make the move. This site can not be cheap to run and if this is from money, then instead of harping on the administration about looking at dollar signs over real merit, I think we should consider that maybe it had to be done to keep Newgrounds independant. Think about how many sites get eaten by large companies these days, That isn't happening. Not saying I am a total fan of it....but if it needs to happen to keep Newgrounds independent and not taken over my Corporate Dotcom Inc then I am all for it.
Now as for this game, this game is not very good at all. I mean it is amazing that it is playable at all at the tiny size it is, but there is really no consistancy to it. Sure there is a tacked on storyline, but if you removed that and said you were a regular Joe at the archery range or a survivor of a zombie apocolypse, it would all be essentially the same game. There is very bad physics, and the bow does not move when you move the cursor around the screen , and somehow still makes the arrow hit. There is no curve to the arrow, and the scoring system seems somewhat odd. The gameplay itself does not match the storyline very well, and I was hoping for more of a direct relation between game itself and the story being told in the text boxes. Also, there is no sound at all, there should have at least been the sound for the arrows firing, them hitting and them missing. All in all, not a good first impression. I do not usually like to give a low score for games or anything, but this one is just incomplete. I would consider this the alpha for a real game.
I am not going to count you out for the future or anything, but there needs to much more in the way of content, asthetics and espescially storyline than there is currently in this game. I hope this review helps, thank you for taking the time to read and consider it.