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[Hell Runner Part 2]

(grim reaper) click on the link to play hell runner 1
(martin) try to name yourself "martin"
1.STRIP CLUB - talk to nuckelavee
2.CASTLE - talk to vlad
3.MYSTERY ROOM - talk to mystery man
(thy future is bright!) pick card 8
4.AXE THROWING - talk to ivar, play (minigame - ivar's target challenge)
5.JAIL - talk to jailor
(pay your respects) DIVINE STATUE - talk to elder angel, pay respects
6.VAULT - talk to martin
7.MYSTERY ROOM - talk to mystery man
(thy future is bright!) pick card 5
8.FELIX'S HIDEOUT - talk to felix
9.DIVINE STATUE - try to move the statue with 3 people (minigame - hadriel's arrest)
(baphomet) PIRATE SHIP - talk to sam
10.A.P.D - unlock guitar
(sam) PIRATE SHIP - talk to sam, give guitar
11.WAREHOUSE - talk to calavera
12.JAIL - talk to zed
(ivar) AXE THROWING - talk to ivar, hear prayer
13.MYSTERY ROOM - talk to mystery man
(thy future is bright!) pick card 4
(oops!) pick card 3
14.PIRATE SHIP - talk to sam, fight
(elder angel) DIVINE STATUE - talk to elder angel
15.WAREHOUSE - talk to calavera (minigame - five finger fillet)
(tor) cut off tor's finger during the minigame
16.PIRATE SHIP - talk to blackbeard, how to defuse bomb
17.STRIP CLUB - talk to nuckelavee [ 74639 - Red,Yellow,Blue,Green ]
18.DARK WOODS - talk to wolfman
19.DIVINE STATUE - move the statue with 4 people
20. CASTLE - talk to vlad, give cross
21.DARK WOODS - talk to hela
22.VAULT - talk to martin
23.WEAPON SHOP - talk to fubar [ CERBERUS ] (password can be found on PIRATE SHIP)
24.PLASTIC SURGERY - talk to doctor
(dr.death) PLASTIC SURGERY - talk to nurse atsuko
(timepiece) JAIL - talk to jailor, give watch
25.WEAPON SHOP - talk to fubar
26.DARK WOODS - talk to hela
27.MYSTERY ROOM - talk to mystery man
(thy future is bright!) pick card 2
(oops!) pick card 7
28.INFERNAL THRONE - talk to satan :
[hela (BR), quartermaster, bloody body glide, vlad (TL), 129, big pig's adventure, 666-doc-death]
(satan) INFERNAL THRONE - talk to satan
29.GRIM's OFFICE - talk to grim
30.WEAPON SHOP - talk to fubar, try to take rocket launcher
31.VAULT - talk to martin
(satan's dolls) STRIP CLUB - talk to mara, pick yes
32.WEAPON SHOP - talk to fubar, buy the rocket launcher
(skinface) DIVINE STATUE - talk to skin face, say yes
33.GRIM's OFFICE - talk to hadriel

[Yemita]

this feels like it has everything to make a good game but the controls completely kill it.
i'm not sure if you can do something else besides turning and jumping, but honestly it feels like i have absolutely no control over my movement in any capacity.

most of my runs are just me struggling to keep going in a single direction while bashing into walls multiple times in a row, making the camera go all over the place and giving me even less of a clue of where i am.
simply removing the automatic movement would make this a much less frustrating experience and a better game overall

[Statistica]

i like the idea behind it, although these functions specifically don't seem to allow many options.
good effort though.

i managed to get 50 out of 54 stars, can't get any from level 8 and 18.
i'm actually not even sure how to approach them since they appear to be out of bounds.
it seems you can clip through walls if you get pushed by functions but it's somewhat finnicky, otherwise i have no clue

[A Viking's Tale 2]

1.ICE CAVERN - get valkyrie's soul
2.SOULS OF THE FALLEN - talk to sylvi
3.ICE CAVERN - open red chest
4.UTGARD - place gemstone
5.OLDWOOD FOREST - talk to ratatoskr
6.SHADOWLANDS - offer heart
7.UTGARD - place gemstone
(seidr & song) SHADOWLANDS - talk to seer (offering)
8.HODDMIMIS HOLT - stone puzzle
9.THRUDHEIM - talk to orfi
(fly, valkyrie,fly) HODDMIMIS HOLT - talk to lif, read the letter
10.WARRIOR'S FJORD - open gold chest
11.OLDWOOD FOREST - place rune (cave)
(nemesis) ICE CAVERN - activates on entering
12.SOULS OF THE FALLEN - talk to sylvi
13.OLDWOOD FOREST - talk to ratatoskr
14.HODDMIMIS HOLT - open silver chest
(rum of muspelheim) OLDWOOD FOREST - drink rum
15.UTGARD - place gemstone
16.THRUDHEIM - open blue chest
17.DWARVEN FORGE - talk to halvor
18.UTGARD - burn vines
19.SOULS OF THE FALLEN - talk to sylvi
20.ICE CAVERN - stone puzzle
21.SHADOWLANDS - offer bone
22.RIVER OF EITR - touch berries
23.OLDWOOD FOREST - place rune (cave)
24.WARRIOR'S FJORD - talk to vidar
(gullinkambi) THRUDHEIM - talk to gullinkambi
25.SHADOWLANDS - talk to hel
(ottar) SOULS OF THE FALLEN - talk to sylvi, tell tale
26.ICE CAVERN - open purple chest
(it reeks of death!) THRUDHEIM - talk to orfi
27.DWARVEN FORGE - talk to halvor
(eikthyrnir) WARRIOR'S FJORD - talk to eikthyrnir
28.RIVER OF EITR - pick up mjolnir

[Gelli Got Jumps]

ok so, update on hard mode.

i managed to clear hard mode, but game crashed on the third boss, so i had to do it again because it didn't save the medal.
it would have been absolute pain, if i didn't accidentally discover a bug: as long as you don't refresh the page, you can press esc on the main world to return to menu, then play game to resume without losing progress; long story short, you can clear the first two bosses on normal mode, then switch to hard mode only for the last boss. might want to get that fixed somehow.

in regards to bosses, the first boss is considerably harder, between the disleveled floor, increased speed and density of the attacks, which makes them harder to dodge.
though none of these compare to the difficulty that the white orb alone poses by simply existing. it's much faster, you have to constantly dodge it and it lingers for an insane amount of time. honestly that one change alone is what makes the first hard mode boss difficult, everything else simply locks you out of movement options while you're trying to avoid the white orb.

the second boss is probably the hardest of the 3 by a large margin. the missing floor is pretty annoying because you have to watch out your movement just to not get damaged, but the boss itself seems to have 3 different jump speeds and frequency of jumps that sporadically change between attempts, which make its movements wildly unpredictable.
however, phase 2 and 3 are simply unfair. you're already limited in your movement options by the missing floor, so you don't have many opportunities to deal damage, but then when the small window to attack shows up, you still can't do anything because you get damaged by the spawning bullets.
even if you just end up running away, you still get hit because you either jump and get hit by oncoming bullets, or don't move and get hit by the boss. and if you move and don't jump you fall and still take damage.
in the end i was forced to get the double jump upgrade and get to the 3rd phase on full health just to damage boost and get enough hits in, otherwise it's nigh impossible.

i can't really comment on the third boss, since i always cheese it by not moving from the spawn point and just timing my jumps. having double jump due to the previous boss also made it insanely easy, so there is virtually no difference between the easy and hard mode of the third boss, which makes the glitch to clear hard mode that much more appalling.

if i were to grade the difficulty of each boss (relative to each other), it would be:
1st boss (easy) - 3
2nd boss (easy) - 7
3rd boss (easy) - unranked
1st boss (hard) - 12
2nd boss (hard) - 20
3rd boss (hard) - unranked
for real, the second boss is such BS compared to the other ones.

the reason for the 3rd boss being unranked is that you can clear either one without moving, which removes the difficulty caused by spikes and the missing floor entirely. honestly i'm not sure how difficult they would be if i had to jump around while avoiding obstacles, but as they are now they're about as easy as the first boss on easy mode.

still some issues with the sporadic black screens out of nowhere, although it's not as annoying depending on whether the hard mode glitch gets fixed or not. honestly if i didn't discover that i would have never bothered trying to get the medal again, the second hard mode boss is too hard (too many lingering bullets; their slow speed makes it so different layers of bullets stack and form a wall as the boss moves towards you, so you can't really jump past it without getting damaged)

TwistedFW responds:

Wow! I really appreciate this review! Honestly. There are a lot of valid points here. I feel like the third boss is very interesting to find out about. The spikes on the ceiling were supposed to deter the player from standing in one spot. But it seems you have bypassed that, or, I suck at placing spikes lol. The second boss (Hard Mode) actually was doable for me and I thought it was actually too easy tbh. But I will take the time to nerf them. The third boss will most likely be changed to have another form of attack (similar to the white eyeball) to deter you from standing. This will of course also means that the number of spikes will decrease in the stage or they might get removed entirely. The black screen issue I am still not sure of. I've tried everything to fix it. The only thing I could think of, at this moment, is the game is crashing at a certain point. But that can't be true if you can exit back out. At the very least you can do that to solve the issue for now. The white eyeball seems to be the deadlist of all enemies however lol. Everyone so far has said it's been a problem. It seems I fixed it for easy mode but I will see what I can do for hard. Thank you again for reviewing my game again!

[NG Tarot Card Collab]

got fool and empress upright, and upturned chariot. sounds like "missed opportunity" to me

[The Impossible Pixel Challenge]

came back after half a year to try clearing the game, but going off of medals it seems no one has been able to do it yet, so it looks like that's not happening anytime soon lol.
leaving my current progress for future reference: https://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/c57202bf1c8924f056e503075c27fa25

there's still some issues with how some of the medals are awarded:
- i somehow got the medals for guessing 5 and 10 impossible pixels without guessing any;
- i got the "black flame" medal while trying to get the "voices from outside" medal (by hearing all barrier conversations going forward. not sure which is the actual requirement);
- i got the full clear medal from guessing a few of the impossible pixels, while my guessed count was around 150.

edit:
because i managed to get an impossible pixel on my own i somehow found the cheat sheet.
best i could do without it was 134. sorry about that.
P.S. the creator of Lag Train is called Inabakumori, not Inubakumori

[Push Smiley Ball]

level 1: https://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/deea96267599bc988fdb0cdf4a979b44
level 2: https://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/55e9fc1870a903126dc3f951ed70e15f
level 3: https://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/64b230da0dca543094a87e26877735dd
level 4: https://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/f71c1a70c7fcd87ad97b2aa612958b77
level 5: https://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/ca1de6bd4125a36d621f618f641fe64d
level 6: https://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/09bcba235fa50ef494fd34a3a93b6fb7
level 7: https://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/4c07d5124421d0e524c8195a0c386ba6
level 8: https://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/2ba30655bfaf9c2eb33aeb5d03ad1901
level 9: https://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/18d3e645bf2164b5c16e12b9a7aeb29b
level 10: https://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/c1a8283638229d726c1142aab1bc89ce
level 11: https://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/6c3341fa21e9589444c5502e30687a96
level 12: https://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/0315d81b718af3da4a9efc2847a8f456
level 13: https://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/fadc831c4fc8bb50f85ac5c157eb460f
level 14: https://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/373aa5c86ad5ebc027da3c2a49ec6bbe
level 15: https://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/0deb1f1130baa4cfb0e20a62d50305c5
level 16: https://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/30ad44156d9a590531843902084eda1a
level 17: https://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/bc90f240c175c9724312d0b3003e6a05
level 18: https://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/64adac9a5b09e494980922f27a26c879
level 19: https://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/8c53eb938fa780b3162c30bdf0a38737
level 20: https://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/bd1a7ff519e705ebd33fbb8e1b413c3f

[Ms. Leblanc Dress-up]

the premise of having to find the clothes yourself is original, but there's a few bugs here and there:

- if you place the white roses on the dress before completing both sleeves, the roses disappear and you're locked out of getting the sleeves for dress 2 unless you restart the game;

- for dress 3, i had trouble getting it to register as completed although i had all correct pieces already on; for good measure i reset everything after completing each outfit, but that didn't help.

the way i managed to get it to trigger was by completing the outfit, then adding the second necklace, then removing it. after removing the necklace it triggered the completed outfit, but i have no clue why that worked. just putting it out there

Edeshye responds:

Just fixed the bugs. Thanks a lot for pointing out!!

[The Lost Temple 2]

feels like the game's been updated since last i played because levels aren't numbered anymore and the worlds have a different naming convention. seems like the minecarts wall glitchs have also been "fixed" by completely removing walls collision.

nothing much to add except the ice machanic is still atrocious, especially that one level (you know the one), where you need to climb back and forth on slippery ledges, with spikes on the back walls, while being shot down from above. it's so inconsistent.

there's also a mildly annoying thing with world 8 where torches don't respawn on death, so you basically have to clear the level without dying if you want to have a chance to see the level layout at all.

i still cannot unlock the medal for defeating the final boss, and i still have no idea why.
it triggers fine in-game, but on newgrounds it just doesn't show up