Optimos's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Simon's Food and Such Drive-Through]

The game crashes every time a medal pop-up shows up.

[Download RAM Idle 2]

I usually don't like idle games, but this and the first part I have enjoyed playing them, although at some points the progress slowed down too much and I was confused as to what to do to speed it up again.

@Anonymous-Frog for that star you have to press = after pressing the numbers in the specific order.

[Help Phil Find His Dildo]

I know that two secret medals have to do with Salad Fingers and Boyfriend from FNF but no matter what I type in the secret code box I can't unlock them. In fact, seeing the dates of the last unlocks makes me think that they might be broken...

KALane2013 responds:

Nah those medals you just unlock by Phil randomly turning into them in normal mode

The codes can be solved through the background randomly changing sometimes to a hint at the code

[Escape from the Cones]

The NG api is super buggy in this game. Medals unlock randomly and scores are submitted randomly. After like 10 runs I got a 452 score (which luckily got submitted) but I'm still missing the medals for 250, 300, 350 and 400 points.

raphaelcarrard responds:

Look Optimos, I'm sorry, but I'm not going to fix this game anymore, because I've tried to fix it many times (I even had to change the API versions to see if it worked) and I can't understand why the game unlocks medals for some users (who use Chrome/Chromium) and doesn't unlock them for others (Firefox)

The most I can do is provide you with a manual unlock, but later i do it, because i'm working in the moment

[60s Santa Run]

There must be something I'm missing, because I did the absolutely literally fastest run possible with all shortcuts after many many tries and all I could get was 24800. 25000 is simply not possible. Maybe it's about the fps at which the game is running? I'm playing it on NG Player which means there's 0 lag, so maybe you need the game to lag a bit so that the time runs slower and it becomes possible to reach 25000? I don't know, and I'm not going to bother trying to find out. Screw that medal.

[Qoosh]

After reading @JME10135 review below me I did the test by launching the game with NG Player via Opera and I can confirm that the game works fine! I had tried with Chrome and Firefox some time ago with no success, so the issue must be browser-related.

Regarding the game, it is an excellent puzzle platformer. Great level design, great voice acting. Just the kind of game I love the most, so this was super fun to play from start to finish. Speaking of which, the game indeed freezes after completing the last level, but the medals for completion are still awarded with no problem. All medals work fine.

I just checked the author's profile and saw that they're making a metroidvania with this teleport mechanic, it would be amazing to see it finished. I'd probably even buy it if needed. That's just how awesome this game was.

[Iromeku]

The first 19 levels were doable and I didn't have much trouble solving them, but that final level was insane, it took me many hours and thousands of combinations to solve it.
In case anyone else is losing their mind with it too, here's the solution (the red square on the top is the green one).
https://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/f91849fa3d0f61e88854ccffbb9fda81

[Void Call]

Nothing works, it's just stuck in the menu. I've tried 3 different browsers and all with the same result.

TheDiamondfinder responds:

I'm sorry to hear that, would it be possible to check the console on your end? I might be able to troubleshoot the bug from there
My PMs are open

[Beat the Zombie!]

I'm not usually the kind of guy to do the math but I've made an exception here just because of that crazy 10 million of money medal:

- The best level to go for that insane medal is the girl zombie one, cause it's the timer-based zombie with the most health (599). Remember that you earn 1 coin per health point damaged, and that if you kill the zombie you advance to the next level, which resets your money.
- The timer lasts for 10 seconds, but there's also a 2 seconds stop at "Time's up", so every 'reset' lasts for 12 seconds total.
- Of course I could click the zombie myself 10 million fucking times, but yeah I think I'll pass. So the most optimal way to make the most out of every 'reset' without moving a finger is buying and upgrading team members to deal the most damage per 'reset' without killing the zombie.
- The giant robot (the one that costs 5k coins) attacks only once per 'reset' and deals 300 damage, but if you buy it 3 times (first buy and 2 upgrades) it deals 500 damage.
- Now for the rest of the health (99 hp) you would buy the shotgun guy a total of 7 times. The shotgun guy deals 2 damage every second the first time you buy it, and it deals +1 each time you upgrade it. So it would do a total of 80 damage per 'reset', making it a total of 580 damage and leaving the zombie with 19 hp before time's up. I wouldn't recommend upgrading it more than that, just in case it did some extra hit due to lag or whatever, accidentally killing the zombie. Oh btw, the shotgun guy takes one second to attack after "Time's up" is gone, so make that 13 seconds per 'reset' instead of 12.
- So, doing all the above mentioned, which is buying the shotgun guy 7 times and the giant robot 3 times, you'd earn 580 coins every 13 seconds. Now for the math part:

10,000,000 coins ÷ 580 coins per 'reset' = 17,241 'resets'
17,241 'resets' x 13 seconds per 'reset' = 224,137 seconds
224,137 seconds ÷ 60 = 3,735 minutes ÷ 60 = 62 hours

Yep, that's a whole 62 fucking HOURS of doing nothing but stare at your screen just to get a 25 pts medal (well, and the 10 pts medal for reaching 1 million of money). Of course you can leave the computer on and go do something else, like going outside and being productive (LOL). But it's still 62 hours, with no margin of error (an accidental click, a sudden lag, etc could kill the zombie and there goes all that precious time down the toilet). So yeah, unless I'm missing something I think I'll pass.

[Road of the Dead]

Fuck Brighton Square man