Zyphonee's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[A Sabtastic Sketchbook]

A fantastic, sabtastic sketchbook.

This is really good, the interface is friendly, and the artwork shows some great talent, effort and (some of them) sense of humor.
The overall display and presentation is beautiful, the background image goes well with the theme, and the subtle music is enjoyable too. The fact that you have to manually loop the music and lack of links are a bit of an annoyance, but then again, those are technical issues that I don't think you're to blame for, as programming obviously isn't what you're focusing on.

Most of the art is great, and I must say you have a truly pretty style for both digital and traditional art. None of the pictures displayed show any signs of rushing, and they all seem to have good amount of effort, even the ones that are clearly just quickies, although some pieces really standed out more than others, but all of them are eye catchy.

Rorschach (you misspelled it, Herrmann would be sad): I like the dark shading that matches the vibe of the comic, and it has a good range of gray. The background seems kinda confusing though, it is hard to tell what it is, although it sort of looks like a dock. Either way, it looks like the railing should be facing the other way

Dr. Manhattan: Now this one looks really nice! I like the secondary light source, and the whole 3/4 pose is well done.

Right Hand: Sketching your very own hand is an infinitely awesome technique for drawing hands later on, and this one looks great. The size of the fingers is anatomically correct and everything feels just right.

Monsters Versus Aliens: Nice as a sketch, and that's pretty much it. The motion and foreshortening is ok, but just that, specially on his legs, which look a bit weird.

Crimson Viper: I like this one, the pose and anatomy are nice, and the folds in her clothing are cool too!

Link: This is definitely one of my favorite ones. His expression just YELLS "I'll kick your ass seven times before you even realize what's going on", and the shading is awesome, specially on his hair.

Francis: I don't know if this is on purpose, but his eyes CREEP ME OUT, I think it's like the same expression I get when I realize I startled a which I hadn't seen before.

Trinit... I mean Zoey: For whatever reason, this one happens to be the one I like the least. The whole thing seems almost unrealistic, mostly because of the leg crossing going on. I don't know absolutely nothing about gun, but they look wrong, like some sort of antique pistol.

Sheva: Great foreshortening and perspective. The shading is really cool and the attention to details in her clothing is great (A friend once told me to draw tribal Sheva. Lost 46% of my hair that day. The only thing that could be impove is her face. While the nose, eyes and mouth look pretty cool, her forehead is way bigger than it should be.

Chris: Now this is just GREAT, the musculature is perfect, and so are the folds in his clothing.

Mom: Another one of my favorites, the posing is awesome, and the lighting is realistic and just beautiful. Sad dad is funny too.

Srs Dragon: Interesting, I wonder what this is abou...

Lol Dragon: LMFAO, this one is just awesome. No words to describe it.

OCs: (I wish I could be more in depth, but I'm running out of characters remaining) Frankly, they all seem a bit cliché, however, in a sort of interesting way, specially Mia and Rouge Riujo. Graphically, they are all outstanding though.

Magikarp: Funny, just that. Not amazingly good, but not even remotely bad either.

Gengar: Same as above, but the nails look a bit weirdie.

Samus; Although rough, looks really good, has a tough yet feminine vibe to it!

Quick poses: Good motion and good anatomy, also has that cartoony sort of vibe to some of them

Sabatage: Really cool, probably my favorite one. The anatomy and shading is perfect, and has a challenging look, like, "touch me and you'll be dead"

At this point, I have almost ran out of characters, so I'll just be brief:

Great job putting this together, the quality of the artwork is remarkably good, and you sure don't lack sense of humor, keep working, your stuff is awesome!

Sabtastic responds:

Hoollllyyy cowwww! D: lol

First off, thanks for taking the time and effort to actually review almost everything! It really means a lot! I'm glad that my work is decent enough to look at for more than a couple of seconds, and that it inspired you to analyze it in such minute detail! c:

Second, I really appreciate that you have pretty much nothing but good things to say about all of it, even if you were just being polite! ;D

I wish I could repay you with an equally lengthy responce, but it's almost 3am, and i've gotta be up n' adam early tomorrow morning. D:>

Thanks for such a great review!! <3
~Sab

P.S: Also, epic fail at me spelling Rorschach incorrectly. D,:
I make a terrible Watchmen fan! lol

[Dog Soundboard 0.1]

Oh wow, this is cool!

Really nice high quality audio, and cute animation style, the intro was also neat, it's nice to see you're defining your art and animation style so much, your FBF is getting better, my favourite one, in terms of animation is probably "Kitty/Mjau", although in terms of annoyance, it is by far "Squack", which makes me chuckle every time I listen to it.

HolyKonni responds:

Cool! Thank's Zyph! I like "howl" the most. :)

[Escape the fucking Room!]

Nice game, mmm

Man, I wish this was remade, it's great how much you've improved since back then.

BUT EXACTLY WHAT THE FUCK DID I DO IN THE PRODUCTION OF THIS TWO LEVEL GAME? I don't get it...

HolyKonni responds:

you didn't do nothing, but i like you.

[Notepad Drawing Collab 2009]

Turned out 100% awesome

Only one doubt, were my parts lost inside the endless void of time or what happened?

Great collab anyways, sucho, oh sucho, his parts were just awesome, I loved them.

JKAmovies responds:

yeah, sorry Zyphone. Things just got lost after my computer died, so I'm very sorry about that. But I'm glad you liked the collab :)

[Pico II : The Awakening]

lol

Tom is a shiny star in the dance floor, isn't he?

psychicpebbles responds:

Damn straight

[Sneaky Snake's Adventure]

Oh shit!

That was hardcore!

DAIRYDOG responds:

hardcore adventure

[FagGrounds Protectors]

Made me laugh

I admit it...

PowerRangerYELLOW responds:

Thanks dude, glad you liked it.

-PowerRangerYELLOW

[Newgrounds Poster Collab]

Good job!

Some great art there, and I liked the bits of info. I like strawberry clock the most!

JKAmovies responds:

Awesome, I drew StrawberryClock :D

It's great to here you enjoyed it :)

Thanks~JKAmovies

[The Years of Luis]

What the hell is this?

The whole flash is just an iPod... nothing else, no animation would mean no stars, just an iPod lying there means... also no stars, but at least you took your time to do this instead of doing something productive, just like Im doing with this review, so you get a 2 out of 10, and a 0 out of 5

Fawx responds:

look buddy, let it load.

[Griswold the Goblin 2 CH1]

Very nice job

Well yeah, I liked it, it's maybe a bit of a "generic adventure game", yes, but it's fun to play if you have some spare time, or you just feel like it.
The game, as long as I could see, didn't have any bugs or glitches, which is very good, congrats, the characters were cartoony and attractive (as attractive as a goblin can be) the walking cicles, as happens on lots of Point n' Click, are kind of annoying, specially if you have a background in which you can not only move left and right, but up and down, were slow and annoying, but besides from that, the game was epic and funny, and somebody please give a medal to thatcomposerguy and Phantasmagor for the awesome loops.

Oh, and by the way, did you take the name from Griswold, from Diablo and Diablo II?

Phantasmagor responds:

In the menu you can select to walk fast or slow. When it's on the fastest speed setting you don't wave to wait much for Griswold to reach his destination. Thanks for playing the game and particularly enjoying the music from thatcomposerguy and I. No Griswold wasn't taken from Diablo. It just seemed like a kind of different and interesting name to give a Goblin, plus it means it has alliteration in the title Griswold the Goblin :)