+1 for eeriness
+3 for challenges that you cant rage quit on
+1 the title and the beginning of the game are the only story line but its easy to picture, a disfigured man falls into a chasm, and cant get out... it only adds to the horror feeling...
final review: 5 stars, simple, creepy, and wonderful. but can i request you put the music on the audio portal to download, its calming in a way and its quite catchy, any rating below 5 can kiss my @$$
Reviews for "Hollow."
It's an immensely fun game, but there are some definite things that could be improved upon. Firstly, I think the reason people are complaining saying that the jump only works half the time is because there's no leeway letting you jump past the edge, which in a game like this is pretty important. Secondly, the collision with those mouth enemies is so annoying, I was eaten so many times when I was pretty sure I shouldn't have been.
But the worst thing, by far, was the random avalanche system. On what I think was the last level (I'm not sure, my browser crashed and I didn't realise it didn't autosave), the amount of times I ended up getting screwed over because it decided to randomly drop giant boulders on the platform I was standing on or jumping to was insane. The one time I almost made it to the end was because an avalanche decided to only drop 3 small rocks that I easily avoided. On a game that's so based upon memorising a routine to make it through the levels, the randomness of that really kills the flow of it.
But aside from those, it was a very fun game, challenging and a little frustrating, but not too frustrating to make me rage quit. Almost. That avalanche stuff really is a bitch.
Why does the jump button only work when it wants to?
THE GAME CRASHES whenever I get hit just after I make a dive. I have to start all over again from level 1 after reloading the game.
That scenario often happens. A lot of things annoy me but this takes the cake.
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I have yet to finish this game (stuck on a level) but I like what I see so far. While the controls are perhaps a bit iffy (diving is a bit too loose), the atmosphere is way beyond most of the games on Newgrounds.
I actually felt anxiety and a bit of fear that a monster would drop from the ceiling and kill me. The avalanches of rocks, I'd say, are completely unfair and cheap. And yet, in a way, it kind of helped the mood that you're a lone boy in an unforgiving world.
This game has managed to create an atmosphere that you just don't see in recent flash games.