There's absolutely no excuse for this level of game, especially if they have television studio money to burn through. To think of all the great games on Newgrounds made by lone programmers or small teams; it is a very poor even for a poor game.
Reviews for "Arrow"
0, it's not a game, it's an ad =( sorry
well i see that my recent review has been deleted (again -_-) i dont see any reason why newgrouds should promote this and protect it from blams but as much as i love newgrounds my ill feelings for this game can not be lifted so ill give you another blam and please dont ask why if its the gameplay graphics etc. well ill tell it to you now its because of everything that is all.
I guess since my first review was deleted, I'll review it again, and give it another blam.
This game is bad. the gameplay is bad. A commercial flash game can be done right; Prince of Persia did one a while back that was great. This? Horrible in every way that could be conceived.
There are no redeeming qualities to this game, as it could easily have been made by anyone with 10 minutes and a 'make your first flash game' tutorial book in hand.
That is my REVIEW of this game and it's actual content.
The times when a zero is well and truly deserved are few and far between, but this...
As tempting as it is to point out the A-Z of things missing in this "game", I'm not going to do that. Partly because it's all been said before, but mostly because reviews are supposed to be based on how well the submission achieved what it set out to do. And this submission's only purpose was not to create a game, but to advertise a TV show on Newgrounds. I'm thinking of it as more a kind of "shoot the monkey 5 times to win an iPod!" thing you find plastered all down the side of generic popular websites. You know, that kind of almost-but-not-really-a-game advert.
And based on that... it's STILL getting a zero.
Not only did you fail completely at making a game, you failed completely at making an advert too. After playing this game, I have no clue about any of the details regarding the show you're apparently making. Hell, I had to read the other reviews just to confirm that it was in fact an ad for a TV show and not something else. A generic copy-pasting of a backstory in the author comments does not equal info on how the show will be directed, produced or animated (if it even will be animated; how do I know?).
Better yet, there aren't even any clickable links to outside web pages that would've likely held hints as to what kind of show this is supposed to be, or some clue as to if it's actually worth watching. There's a big CW logo right there, and I can't click it. And, on my screen, the website text is too small to read, even if I did want to type it out myself. Which I don't, seeing as the total lack of references to the show it's supposed to be advertising makes it look like there aren't any positive things you can say about it. 9 times out of 10, vague adverts are vague because the product advertised is of no merit whatsoever.
So, congratulations, your "promotional material" has succeeded in confusing and alienating the majority of people who viewed it, be it from the blatant laziness of the game itself or the counter-productive advertising method. Going back to my preferred way of judging NG submissions (Read: "How well did this do what it tried to do?"), the zero is for the fact that it does the exact opposite of what it was supposed to, simply because you couldn't have done a much worse job of it if you tried.