Recent reviews by ngoomie

jesus christ this is nothing like the other nounverbing game my friend gifted me at the same time

I'm actually more neutral on this game, but because you have to pick either "do recommend" or "don't recommend", I figured I may as well pick "don't recommend" since I guess I'm more neutral-leaning-negative?

Anyways, I find this game has a really bad difficulty curve. The original Zuma admittedly had kind of a bad difficulty curve too, but here it's even worse. The adventure mode is quite the breeze, to the point that I only lost a life I think once in that section, with there very suddenly being a massive difficulty spike once you hit the Volcano Temple section. The original Zuma had a slightly smoother curve with a less steep difficulty spike right at stage 9.

The art style here is also not as good as the original imo. The level background design in particular is where the problem is, with backgrounds not having as well defined parts to them as the original Zuma did. Their details are muddled, and there were more than a few occasions where I couldn't actually tell where each path leads at a quick glance until I actually had enough balls flowing through the confusing areas. In a puzzle game where you have to move relatively quick, it is, in my opinion, very important for parts of the level to be very readable at just a glance.

That being said though? I like the new level types, like the ones with 2 different spots the frog can sit in, or the ones where the frog is placed on a straight rail you can move along. The boss battles too are pretty neat, though I found all of them to either be too easy or to be kind of annoying, so I think they could've done better there.

Pretty plainly a bundle of microtransactions with a thin layer of game wrapped around it. It's not a fun idle-clicker game because it's pretty clearly designed to be just "let's suck as much money from our players as possible by dangling cute boys in their face!"

The Meet Your Match update ♥♥♥♥♥♥ everything up.

gay ass lil faeries game

also frog fractions 2 i guess but i'm having so much of a blast with glittermitten grove itself that i haven't even attempted to figure out how to get into that yet

i think this is the perfect multiplayer game, because if you're on voice with someone else then the two of you can piss yourself laughing at any jankiness (which, as stupid as this might sound, actually is great fun imo. it's the genuinely entertaining type of jank)

Game's great, perhaps among my favourites of these sort of open world survival sandbox games so far. There's one hell of a lot to do here without being overwhelmingly complex, with gameplay mechanics and systems not being obtuse to figure out. I normally like modding the hell out of games like this but there's enough here that I don't think I yet care to. One complaint is that the online is a bit unstable, I'll pretty often experience disconnects from the host at times when other peer-to-peer games wouldn't have this issue, but the game makes reconnecting quick and painless enough that it actually doesn't bother me that much.

EDIT Jan 13 2024: Seems they've fixed the issues with the online, it's much more stable now! I haven't had a single disconnect in the past couple weeks.

I honestly don't care much for this game as a short story (not that the story it creates is bad, it's just not for me), but MAN do I love those graphics.

finally! a game that lets me relive the experience of using my mom's virus-infected laptop when i was a wee lad

she puzzloop on my ball til i zuma