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Awwwww March 8, 2006

Reviewed by: assspelunker Overall Score: 7

Mommies 300 lb cupcake didn't get the hentai they wanted to... If your confused, I'm talking to all the people that hate this movie. It's no Harry Potter vrs DBZ, but it's funny how gullible hentai-addicted nerds start blamming when they don't get what they want.

Graphics: 1 Sound: 1 Interactivity: 0 Style: 10 Violence: 0 Humor: 10
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I saw this made turd of the week so I investigated, read the reveiws first so I knew what to expect, and quite frankly, I think if you don't have a sense of humor, you shouldn't be looking at flashes on newgrounds - aweso. "assspelunker", hats off to you for identifying the same point I managed to find. The vast majority of Hentai freaks out there are underaged anyway, they had flashes like these coming to them. Graphics are nice by the way.

Another more-or-less pointless flash...

Hmmm... Yes, so... We have a flash animation that starts on its own, showing you a short clip of what looks like the seabed... And is basically a video converted into a flash with some credits at the end and a piece of music in the background. I think that pretty much sums it up. Okay, maybe it is interesting to see the wonders of the sea, but if I wanted to spend my time looking at video clips of the sea, i'd use a Google search, not a flash portal. Graphics were obviously not self created, just imported, and the style was somewhat weak seeing as how it's not even your own. Sound was acceptable because background music is always good... But maybe making it fade out at the end would have helped a little. Violence, Interactivity and Humour, I think we can skip that for obvious reasons and give this piece of work an Overall 3. I'd say the best thing about this flash is the credits. Although I have no idea where that clip came from, yes it is possible that you made that clip yourself, but the chances are somewhat slim and i'm quite happy to assume it has been ripped from somewhere else. So yeah, one is not amused.

It's actually not half bad...

Okay, when I saw that you had said it was about a car crash, the first thing I said to myself was "Oh, way to go and spoil it..." but I obviously had no idea that there was a little more to it than that. I personally love the theme of the undead and zombies, so thumbs up for that part. I noticed there was no "Play" button... Well -I- didn't find one, anyway. I had to right click, then press Play. The style of graphics you have there is simple, yet effective enough. The scene inside the car where you see a profile of (what i'm assuming is) the main character, did look a little shabby without a face, but hey, the following frames made up for it. The fact that you used no color in it other than for red on the med kid and blood was surprising, because it's an uncommon style that does have a nice effect on it. So generally, that was all fairly well done. The sound was well timed and the car noise stood out as pretty good, too. Not the best -quality- of sound, but it was suffient enough to make this flash decent. Obviously, no humour, more than enough violence for a first episode, (loved the part where he hits the zombie with the metal tool) so overall i'll give this a six. The lack of a loading bar and Play button did -really- bring it down however.

Fantastic... but.

This is a truly awesome advance of Governor of Poker, with some really useful gameplay options, features (including customization), and not to mention kick-ass tutorial. I have played GOP1 to death and so it's very easy to see just how much effort you guys have put into this new poker adventure. There's virtually nothing to dislike about this game...

Well, apart from one quite troubling thing.

Sounds. Don't get me wrong, the audio quality and the realistic feel from them are near flawless, but what really bugs me about this game's sounds majorly are twofold:

Firstly, the dealer's voice. Yeah, it's a new voice, so one could argue that we're just so used to the old voice that we immediately dislike the change, but... I don't think so. My beef with this guy is that he's too loud, and tries too hard to sound human. He's too loud because when you're playing the cash games, it's near silent inside the place, which feels nice considering the location, but this dealer is still yelling across the table as if you're in the busy saloon - it sounds way out of place. By trying too hard to sound human, I mean him talking so 'clearly' (loudly) and /slowly/ that instead of the numbers he calls out flowing into each other, you can instead clearly hear the individual parts constructing the number. After a while maybe I'd get used to it, but my first impression from that is that it sounds kinda overdone, and let's face it, first impressions are the difference between wanting to download the full version and not, in many cases.

The other issue, and the biggest by far, is that the environmental sounds inside the saloon are /terrible/! Not because they don't sound like real chatter or whathaveyou, but because the loop is so /short/ and so freakin' obvious, thusly annoying. It's not a constant and smooth background sound, but more of a constant banging of something against my skull as I hear the high and low pitched quirks in the recording repeat themselves every couple of seconds. Once you notice it, it's really hard to ignore. I got to the stage where after only having played through a few minutes in the saloon I just had to turn the Effects off, only to find that it also disables the sounds of the chips and everything else. There was no win, and that was a real turn-off for me. I was relieved to get out of there and join the cash games, only to find the dealer had been beamed into our shed and hadn't quite figured out that we're not in the saloon anymore.

Finally it may also be worth mentioning that when I loaded the game from the normal page, my sounds after the title screen (or maybe it was after travel) weren't even there at all. I got them back after opening the game in a window.

I'm sorry if this comes across as a negative review but I feel as though you could really benefit from this kind of feedback. All in all I /really/ like Governor of Poker and if I were convinced these issues were resolved in the full version I would be very tempted to go ahead and get it. This is the best flash poker game I've stumbled across and I will continue to recommend this game to my friends who're looking for some uncostly poker fun (also to those looking to learn how the card game works!).

I wish you all success Dunja and the team, and I look forward to receiving a response and/OR some nice updates and news on the future!

Thanks for gifting the world a real poker masterpiece :)

History of the portal, here we come.

Well, *there you go.

Definately a winner in my book... er, mag. No wait, book! I really hope Tom and the guys take an interest in this, because I think the people have demand for it.

Excellent work man. Well done; you got my five.

Good concept.

I like this game, though it definately could have done with a bit more fine tuning; quite a few bugs in there, I think. To be honest I can't be bothered to list them because they all seem pretty obvious to me. Fix those up and you'd have a solid structure for future games.

In my opinion, "It" spawning on a line isn't a problem, I actually think that adds to it. Some might argue that the cross just packs a bit too much punch... maybe I'd agree with them, but I don't think negative scores are much of a problem because some people might want to see how low they can score and such.

Difficulty levels are good, music is good in my opinion (as in, it doesn't get annoying too soon). This just looks really promising. I can't wait to see what you bring out in the future, if you decide to build on this. You've probably got a lot to learn about actionscript, but I hope you find the motivation to keep at it.