Anisomniac's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Toss the Turtle]

I feel horrible that Adobe Flash Player will die within 24 hours of me writing this, but I guess whatever happens happens... (-_-,) 2020 is easily the worst year of my life...

This was an amazing game that was way ahead of its time!

I hope Newgrounds Player will save all flash games on this website from extinction, especially ones as great as this! Long before I was even born, it seems that Newgrounds has cared a lot about its users and still does to this day! Impressive considering that most massive websites and the world in general has become careless, greedy, and corrupt these days, especially social media... Tom Fulp, you are an absolutely amazing person, and I love you for the massive positive impact you've made to my life, our lives, and this world! (^_^)

Sorry about the long rant, but I just couldn't help but act on the urge to say all of this...

[[RESPAWN]]

It was a great and creative game up until level 19. That shit took me THOUSANDS OF ATTEMPTS and 2 HOURS to get past!!! With 12 years of experience in gaming!

This is the perfect game if you're a masochist! >:(

Watch out fellas, Bennett Foddy's got some true competition with this one... (-_-)

[Riddle School 4]

This is the best April Fools joke ever! LOL! 6-year-old me would've never understood this.

[Maze Game: The Revenge!!!]

I didn't know you made a Flash game! This is late 2000s gold! XD

[The Last Flash Game]

*sigh* I grew up on Flash. Sure I didn't discover this site until a few months ago, but 10 or so years ago I played a lot of great flash games on coolmath.com! That's how I was exposed to it. Pretty sad to know this is the last Flash game I'll ever play, but I guess after 20 years it became obsolete. At least we have HTML5 to replace it, but still. It's a part of my childhood that's very hard to give up because of the fond memories it gave me... (-_-,)

Very wholesome game you made, btw. With a nice soundtrack!

[Adventures With Anxiety!]

You should know, I should be completely and shamelessly honest about this for once. I've been personally struggling with anxiety for a VERY... LONG... TIME, possibly my whole life, but especially in the past 5 years. Ever since I moved to middle school, people have become a lot crueler, consequences have become greater, and rewards have become a lot more rare. Especially in high school. 11th grade. That's where I'm at now. The current global climate has driven me a bit crazy, too. I thought I would be so much happier without having to deal with my awful classmates constantly tempting me with dares and drugs and terrible life advice (they're a lot like that one guy from the party part of the game... you know, the one who nearly got the main character killed). It was completely euphoric after I finished 10th grade, but once I started 11th grade my problems have become much... much worse than before. During the summer I tried taking part in a Zuerel reanimated collab (it's called "Joel's Big Jump" in case you wanted to know) to connect with people that have similar interests to me (I'm a MASSIVE animation enthusiast!), and it was great for the first couple of months. Everyone was simply doing their part and being great people (they were surprisingly mature, the first ever mature people I've met aside from my mother). But I was being a stubborn perfectionist to myself, as I always do out of... extreme desperation to impress others and convince them to stay my friend. I never made it visible, but I'm sure they could sense some sort of dark perfectionist aura coming out of me, due to the fact that I only partially finished my submission because I took too long. They didn't react negatively to it though, they just kinda said "ok, well thanks for submitting something, thank you so much for your participation, but please learn to work more efficiently." My... "anxiety guard dog" as you call it, alerted me that I'm not worthy enough of anyone's friendship, and I have to go down ten-fold and become the world's best animator before anyone can respect me. I thought "No, that's insanely irrational. There are real people out there like JaimeR, ThePivotsXXD, and especially Zuerel himself that I can't possibly best in the near future. Plus, there's so much other magnificent animated content and art out there to sift through that by the time I'm even close to done sifting through I'll definitely be dead." Then it was like "Well yeah, okay, maybe that IS irrational, but you're irrational, too! Just listen to yourself complaining and worrying about the smallest of things. And what about your autism/aspergers syndrome? Face it kid, you'll be forever broken. You are too different from others to live up to their expectations..." Once again, I believed it. I then joined another discord server with a 13-year-old animator who seems to do a perfect job without even trying: Estaban Toons. Now, many of the people there seem to be ignorant and selfish (I suppose because most of them are just kids?) I made some art with them there, and that was pretty fun. Eventually I started working on animating a shitpost, one I found particularly funny. I had a lot of fun with it and painted the backgrounds and animated the characters while listening to my favorite podcasts. Then I showed those people what I was working on. Most of the people were just like "haha, nice" or "insert stereotypical dick/sex/misc. inappropriate joke here", but one of the people was completely awestruck by my work. He asked me "how did you get so damn good!? I want to be just like you!" I was initially shocked because I was used to thinking of myself as a mediocre person and artist, but I told him the secret to my success. He loved it so much! Later he even gave me a personal Discord friend request. I accepted. At this point, I finished the animation and was eager and excited to post it on YouTube. I did, but not long after my mother confronted me about it, telling me something along the lines of "YOU CAN'T HAVE CARTOONS SAYING BAD WORDS!!! DELETE THE VIDEO NOW!!!!!!" So, out of extreme shame and frustration, I did. Except that I posted it here on Newgrounds for anyone to see, and that's because my mother doesn't know I go here. I feel guilty about that too, but it's ultimately the lesser of two evils. The video isn't even that bad, it's a joke... People loved it, which was great to see! Acceptance from real people, that's new! Even though they don't know me personally, that moment felt so personally good...

Then I found this game a couple hours ago, and damn is it good! It made me realize things about myself and my anxiety that I've never known before... Imma try reconnecting with old friends like my parents have been obsessively telling me to do, and strengthening current relationships. No promises, but still...

You are truly a good person, remember that... I'm sure this game has been a positive turning point for many people, and you did that with your amazing creative magic! I wish the best for you, and I'll hopefully see you on the other side somewhere. Keep being you!