It's not a bad game, but it could use some work. I didn't like jumping between screens without knowing where the next platform was, timing the jump was tricky in some spots and there was one screen where the platform above almost keeps you from landing on the one you want. I also thought it was cheap that the clocks could shoot through the landscape, leaving you nothing to hide behind.
Reviews for "When I Was Young"
i liked the music and concept.
i didn't like how far you'd get sent back for dying. especially when dying was made easier by the following:
-jumps that you can just barely make with pixel-perfect accuracy (once you're the kid)
-hitboxes that are way bigger than they should be. i'd dodge arrows like a pro just to die anyway
the game was too short and didn't have much to it. nor a warning that you can't jump on enemies to kill them. (this is a failing of many games)
the concept had potential but wasted it.
therefore, when another game comes along using the same concept, i will not consider it a ripoff. i will consider your title to be a time traveling ripoff.
I died so dang much :D :D! lol
The game is utter meh. The controls are average, the graphics and design are quite shit. The music is too repetitive and dumb. I don't know how you got front page with this, there must be a serious lack of good games now.
Too mediocre...not original at all and levels are too simple, average music and art, and bad background art. Somehow, the summary about going back in time and becoming younger to be faster in order pass levels sucked me in to playing this game...until I realized it's just like getting upgrade, like in Robot Wants Kitty. Also, a mini-map, "dead ends" would make this game better.
For average games, I usually end with "hope for a better version of this game soon", but this game is not unique and I hope for the new games of Newgrounds to be original, no matter how badly programmed...etc.