Score: 10

"Great work but I'm disappointed in other NG users"

submission: Exmortis 3

date: September 10, 2009

Firstly, before reviewing this properly, It's disappointing that people are grading this game badly "because it's a demo". Look at the very top of the website: "Newgrounds: Everything, by Everyone". It doesn't say you can't submit a demo. It is still a flash and it plays like a game. Grade it normally as an ordinary flash game, in an unbiased and emotionally detached manner. Put aside the fact that it's a demo, while rating it. It's alright to be disappointed that you need to pay for the full game but stop acting like 5 year olds. Rating how good or bad is it and whether you need to pay are 2 different matters altogether. Now for the review.

Graphics: Great look, a lot of polish went into it. Author does advise users to adjust brightness settings for optimum effect.

Audio: Continually able to channel the eerie and desolate envrionment to the user. The addition of volume control from a menu option is a plus, not many people put that in.

Gameplay: Something old, yet something new. The plot has progressed, it leads users on and makes sense. Puzzles are not too difficult, yet still quite interesting. Same ex mortis feel, more polish all around. It is able to build on the atmosphere of the older games in the series.

Summary: Overall, another great game (I'm grading it just as it is, as a flash game) It makes you want to know more about the story and it gets you attached to your character as you wonder about what is going on in the plot. Do give this game a try.

~End of official review~

Additional comments:
doctormagus: In your review you said he'd lose all of his fans by making it pay to play. If you've read some of the other reviews, there are those who have whipped out their credit cards to purchase it. Do understand that pay to play is an active choice on the part of the consumer. Yes you need to pay for the full version, but NO one is forcing you to buy it. Enjoy this flash game, grade it for its own individual quality, not because you need to pay, because you don't need to if you don't want to.

light0dark: My impression is that the majority of newgrounds users are in the late teens to working adult range. They would generally be able to afford it. Alternatively they could save up some money and ask someone with a credit card (parent, friend etc.) to purchase it for them and pay that person back in cash. Also, as I've said earlier in the review, there's nothing that says you can't submit demos. Newgrounds is for everyone to showcase what their talent in terms of flash. audio and art.

Thanks for reading my review. I just hope that after reading this, you'll grade flash fairly based on its individual merits as a flash game/"video", not based on other emotional factors. A lot of effort went into this, if you think it's not good enough, then spend the next 3 years to make something much better than ex mortis 3(full version) and post it up here for free, and prove it to all of newgrounds.

Score: 8

"Nice work."

submission: Suppressed Emotions 4

date: January 14, 2007

It's nice to come back to newgrounds after a hiatus and see such gems popping out. It's not everyday that we see flash creators emoting to something in society and expressing it in their art. Hope to see more flash from you.

Score: 9

"Great work."

submission: One Ring to Rule ThemAll3

date: November 24, 2004

Although the animation is not as pleasing as the last 2 movies, it still does demonstrate the quality of both the authors' work. Great style and humour shine through in this gem. I hope to see more of such work in the future.

Score: 10

"This is interesting."

submission: -Orr- Piano Sonata in G Minor

date: July 27, 2009

As a leisure student of classical piano and music theory, I agree that the appreciation for classical music on this site is sadly lacking. However, to each their own. Your piece has a pleasent melody, something in the air I can't decribe, definitely good.