Reviews for Joe's Minor Adventure

[RogerBK]

Nice!

I liked the game concept, is very nice, the game works so nice, you had a nice idea and made a nice game!!

The graphics are awesome, they're not horrible, like lots and lots of games here in NG... you made a nice animation too, Joe is very well animated and drawed...

I liked the music, it's kind of a groovy bass, it is the perfect backgrounds music for this game.
The game itself is pretty easy, just to avoid some things in the way, watching to be always in the correct trail, this makes the game quite challenging, but is still funny...

I just think that the game could even be frontpaged, it's so nice and cool to play, you guys made a really good game, congratulatons!!

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Roger

ProfessorFlash responds:

Glad you liked the game. You think it's pretty easy? :) I'm still waiting for people to break the 30k score on the highscores. There's a challenge for you, or anyone else reading :).
Thanks for the review.

[Coop]

Good fun and very addictive

A simple game to get the hang of, but rather difficult to master. I think that this piece really does qualify as a game that will burn a lot of time to get a high score. With the reactions and foresight required, there is a great deal of skill involved, beneath the almost childish graphics that this game shows on the outside.

Perhaps there could be other challenges, where some of the bandits are careering down the track at the same time and you can try to put them off into or some such hazards. I would have suggested that other hazards could be a lack of track or falling rocks that appear while you're making your way down the rails.

Some improvements could be made to the graphics, but this would mostly be in the case of putting things in there to stop people from getting bored. A great choice of music and some pleasant feelings are to be made from playing this game. Keep up the good work :)

[Review Request Club]

ProfessorFlash responds:

That's what I hope, that people play this many times trying to get highscore. I've put up my own highscore up there and I'm waiting for someone to beat it. Now who doesn't want to beat the game creator in his own game? :)

I thought about the different enemies showing up in a cart and shooting you and rock slides coming down but that would have changed the whole game. I decided to go with what I got and leave those ideas for the sequel (if I make one).
Thanks for the review.

[TheSongSalad]

~Review Request Club~

I liked the game, and it was well done for the most part. I liked the animated instructions that were given, those were cool. The animation was pretty well done and the design didn't really have any issues. I thought the idea was a little simple to turn into an entire game, I felt like this should be a mini game while I was playing it. Everything was very professionally done though, which impressed me quite a lot.

I liked the game play, but I didn't really end up using the power-ups at all. I thought it could have used more depth. while it's a really simple game in concept, it needed something more in execution to avoid being a game you play once and never go back to. i'm not pretending to know what that is, as i'm just the critic, but i'm just throwing that out there. it is what it is i guess. newgrounds needs games you play once and never go back to just like it needs more complex games, i just know i try to develop the latter, not the former.

The art was very well done. From the menu buttons the the graphics themselves. the only complaint i had in this department was that the words looked a little odd in the instructions to me. that could just be me though, it went by quickly enough that it was pretty hard to notice. it really could just be the way i was looking at it i guess, but might be worth taking a look at.

there were no bugs in the game that i discovered, which is a testament to solid playtesting, and always makes a game better in my book. there's nothing worse than playing a game for 5 to 10 mins. only to discover a game breaking bug, so, major kudos for that.

I loved the sound in the game, it was one of my favorite parts of the submission. I also loved the play on words in the title of 'minor' and 'miner'. great work guys, and i know it's cliche, but keep it up. good luck.

~Review Request Club~

ProfessorFlash responds:

Well aren't flash games meant to be minigames? I personally grin every time I see these big complex games submitted that take you 10 minutes just to learn how to play. I like my games simple to get in to but still a challenge to master, I hope I achieved at least a bit of that with this game.

You're first to mention the word play in the title :). Good that someone noticed it :).
Thanks for your review.

[Haggard]

Simple but solid

When I was a kid there was a TV show where you could play minigames and win lots of money. One of the minigames looked pretty much like this (I'm not saying you copied the idea, just stating similarities here).

The gameplay is very simple, but it makes for a very solid game, that entertains you while you are playing it. The graphics are all pretty good and I liked the little animations in the game (for example that Joe falls out of the mining card when hitting and object). Those small details are what makes the difference between a simple and boring and a simple and funny game. Yours definitely is one of the latter.

The song was funny for a few moments but got boring quickly, so it's nice that you put in an option to mute the music.

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ProfessorFlash responds:

Yeah the animations are great. Thanks for them goes to my buddy Ani-x aka Seoul Snake aka Mos Stef. Joe crashing into a barricade and Joe getting flattened by the train are my two favorite animations :).
Thanks for the review.

[XwaynecoltX]

Fantastic game

~~REVIEW~~
A fantastic game you have here, first off i love the top over view shot, and the "CONTROLLS" were very easy to learn and control, the game play was fun and addictive with some super graphics you made this into a fan fave and fantastic game

~~THINGS TO IMPROVE ON~~
I wouldnt mind seeing more stuff that stop the main guy, like falling rocks of some sort.

~~OVERALL~~
A fun train game watchout for the road block

~X~