Neat and I truly enjoyed it exept for the voice.It got me confused and I pressed the wrong button at the 3-4 sequence.
Reviews for "Blind Man's Simon"
Kwing responds:
3-4 sequence?
i like this game cos its intresting and unique and the man voice over is my brother
Kwing responds:
o.o What?
The first thing that I thought of was that it was a very strange idea for a flash game but to be honest it kinda works. I mean, I would have liked to have seen some kind of visual aspect. I know it's called BLIND Man's Simon but that doesn't mean the screen has to be completely black, just that you are blind from the game. A visual could have made it more distracting that there for harder, I personally would have animated a small number of looping scenes e.g. a busy restaurant or a park. Just for something to be there.
It was a good choice tou use two different voices though I gather from previous reviews that this was not always the case. The Microsoft Women is hard to understand at the best of times let alone when you're on a double figures streak at Simon.
All in all not a bad game it's just I can't see it standing out of winning awards anytime soon.
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Kwing responds:
Thanks, glad you liked it. There are actually three voices, though. :P
Of course, if I put in visuals it would defeat the purpose.
I get it, but I also don't like it. I think that the concept is of course pretty great, very innovative in its way. However, I just found it too confusing and unwieldy. In a game without graphics, you should have put a lot more into the audio. Very easily could have scripted out the lines and posted in the NG BBS asking for a voice talent...they're all over NG, could use the exposure, are %99 highly-talented volunteers, and would have made this a much more enjoyable experience.
The Microsoft SAM voice sucks, I could barely understand it, and didn't want to keep trying to get into the game as a result. Again, great concept, poorly executed (in my opinion).
out of 10...
gfx - N/A
sfx - 2 (irritating voice, low-quality sfx)
design - 5 (fantastic concept, poor execution)
gameplay - 6 (difficulting, frustrating, but different)
overall, this was a really great idea that I wish you could have waited for an actual voice talent to submit...because if you do that now, the exposure of being at the top of the portal under judgement will have worn off, and a very slim % of your audience will ever even notice, ergo making this a waste of your time.
I don't know if this needs an update, or if we should just look forward to the next rad thing you do!
Kwing responds:
I don't really do this for fame, so if I submit this with an awful voice, then change it and nobody sees it, I don't mind. Thanks for the kind words, though.
I love the concept of a blind man's simon. I have never seen a game for blind people before on Newgrounds. This is probably because blind people would never visit a games site, but I won't subtract points because the game is kind of useless :P. After all, it's still entertaining for me.
Why I didn't give you a 5/5 is because the main point of the game, the sound, doesn't feel finished. It's not bad, but you could've included much higher quality sound.
It's most noticable in the tutorial, where the girl's voice changes halfway through the tutorial. The man's voice and the automated voice are way softer there as well. It'd be nice if the voice was the same volume throughout the entire game.
What does seem finished is the highscore. It's nice that you included a "ten" for every ten buttons you pressed correctly.
There is a bug there though. The highscore will always sound in the sound you got it in. It could work as a way to have different high scores for different people, but then you should have a different high score for every voice.
I am not at all disappointed by the fact that this game is completely black, but for an all-sound game the sound should be of higher quality. Everything works though, and for the original idea I give you bonus points.
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Kwing responds:
You've definitely got a point with the voice volume. Can't tell if that's your only complaint, or what you mean by the voices needing 'higher' quality.
I see you've also noticed the highscore glitch. I only discovered that after uploading the patch with the female voice. Oh well...