For some reason, all these amazing indie animators across Newgrounds and YouTube decided to release all of their best animations of the year in the final weeks of 2024, and I'm all here for the quality overload!

This was completely worth the long wait!

...But I hope you remember to THINK next time before you set off to make a massive, potentially-soul-destroying solo animation, bakka! This was fantastic, but you shouldn't have to hurt yourself just to put out these longer animations! At least hire one other person to do the inks for you and share the workload next time!

Also, Clyde was always my favorite of the ghosts, you did him justice, here!

These kids are proof that evolution and "natural selection" might be a hoax. They're probably going to survive all this and grow up to spread their weak, brain-dead genes to the next generation of humanity, regardless of whatever Charles Darwin had to say about it.

I am genuinely impressed that this seems to be a 3D game! Didn't even know GDevelop was capable of 3D games. The gameplay is...fine, for a game jam-type game, just obviously gets repetitive after a few minutes without a genuine "end-game" to shoot for.

This is such a cute and cool game, and yet another reminder of the type of indie magic that can happen with only 3 people working on a game they're passionate about (a programmer, an artist and a musician)! Waha's sprites are too cute for words, especially the funny little dance she makes when she clears one of the Tetris puzzle-like levels! I love the music, too, reminds me of the catchy arcade-style music I would regularly hear in the Dreamcast and GameCube era of gaming. The game itself is fun and well above what I would expect from a typical Newgrounds Game Portal submission, although it is certainly a work-in-progress in parts--in the description, it should mention that if you manage to get yourself stuck in a sort of "soft-lock" situation, the simple solution is to press "Esc" to bring up the pause menu and press Retry.

Once the kinks are all worked out and the second half comes out, though, I would love for this to get a proper Steam release--and I say Steam specifically because I recently got a Steam Deck and I would love to play ALL my indie favorites on that excellent handheld device!

This is so much less frustrating than the real MineSweeper.

I have so little understanding about how music theory works that I didn't hate this song as much as the current review average (about 2 out of 5 stars) would suggest. Very Y2K, I would imagine hearing this in a RebelTaxi/Pan Pizza video.

I’m not even remotely an expert on anything music-related, but I’ve always liked this type of music for boss fights. Question, though: is this related to the PSOne classic (well, good for its era) Croc: Legend of the Gobbos? Or the Croc games on Switch? Or something else entirely?

Yeah, yeah, I heard the story a million times before...

Excellent stylization of these iconic characters, especially Frodo and Sam!

The Phantom Menace was my first exposure to Star Wars and thus the movie and specifically Jar Jar Binks has always been a guilty pleasure of mine. Jar Jar fans like myself can take comfort in knowing he's hardly the most disliked Star Wars character any more, especially after what Disney did to the franchise since then...