turningthekey's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[William and Sly]

So happy to see something of quality on NG

No nudity. No vulgarity. Beautiful art work. This succeeds, and by talent. You should be proud of yourself - you created a legitimately entertaining game. Thanks for letting me play! :D

[3rd World Farmer]

That game was totally intense!

The strategy, the intensity, the unpredictability! That game was totally awsome, and realistic! You get all 10s!

[Murloc RPG]

Everything about this is 10.

You are amazing. This game is amazing. I am speechless. You now have a fan.

un-mediocre responds:

Yay! A fan :) I love fans! :D

[All Hallow's Eve]

#1 On My Favorites :-D

I downloaded this game to my desktop so I could play it fullscreen, and every night all night I have been playing this for the last couple weeks... and you can tell I suck at and hate most shooters because I didn't beat it on hard until just now.

The tricks that helped me are...
-Buy all your guns before you buy any defenses, by far the greatest defense in this game is a great offense.
-Fire bursts from the bbgun whenever it is reloaded - 3 bullet burst, 1 shot from the secondary, 3 bullet burst, etc.
-Buy the colt44, then the shotgun, then the uzi, then the frag. grenade.
-Distribute damage the best you can so you don't overkill anything.
...other than that, I guess it was just a matter of luck even though once I figured out the order to purchase the guns the hardmode was decently easy.. then again, maybe it was just that I cheated by playing fullscreen and thus increased my accuracy 4 fold. :-D

Anyways though, you must make a sequel as there is soooo much you can do with this! If you do not make it, please tell me now as I will go through all the trouble learning flash simply to making it myself!

Things I liked...
1 - The diversity of the zombies and monsters.
2 - The strategy actually required, as you don't just buy every gun in a row or you die.
3 - The levels and the weapon purchasing screen.

Things I didn't like...
1 - That the defenses were increasingly far from the house, and that instead of just adding to the gross defense each stood individually.
2 - The "SAVE" feature didn't work if you were killed, only if you quit before they killed you. Also, if there would be some way to create an actual save outside the game (like on the desktop that you could load), that would be waaaay awsome.
3 - No survival mode?!
4 - The ending was not rewarding at all (why not unlock the grenade launcher and a bonus level where you just slaughter them by the thousands?)
5 - You couldn't buy two of the same gun.

Things I would suggest...
If you make a sequel I will send you an e-mail with them all, but I don't want to post them here regardless incase you don't and I have to do it myself! >:D

Thank you for the dozens and dozens of fun hours of zombie killing fun! Seriously, it was a great escape, and I feel indebted to you!

Seawana responds:

A review like this just begs for a response, so I will do my best to answer everything you bring up.

Firstly, I have no plans to make a sequel. Time to dust off your Flash skills. ;-)

I'm glad you liked the enemy diversity. It was a challenge coming up with enough different enemies ... especially since I did all the voices myself (sans the woman).

As for the stuff you didn't care for:
1. I didn't want a house that magically got tougher. Moving the defenses away from the house was the best way to avoid that. Besides, how else would a bunch of nails and land mines work?
2. Hm. The save feature should work fine. Something must be amiss here. I'll try to cehck into it, but I'm not promising anything.
3. Nope.
4. Honestly, by the time I was done making this I REALLY needed to move on to something else. I like the idea tho ... Hm ...
5. Yep. Tough luck on that one. Allowing the player to have two powerful weapons would be like giving them a free ride to win. Imagine having six grenades? It'd be hard to lose.

Anyhow, thanks for playing and taking the time to review. I'm pleased that you enjoyed the game so much.