it was ok
i just have two complaints
1: the fact that your tail would hit the enemies and make you lose lives
while this wasnt much of a problem at first, it became nearly impossible later on to make a tail longer than 3-4 links, and the fun of this game it to make the longest tail possible, otherwise its just another run of the mill avoidance game
2: for some reason, whenever you pick up a shield, the lives seemed to stop spawning; like i said above, the fun of the game is aquiring the longer tail, but it gets harder later on to get a long tail, so you'd think the shield would make it easier to grab lives without worrying about enemies, but when you get the shield, the lives stop appearing...kinda defeats the purpous of the shield if you cant get lives
at least thats all i was aiming for, i couldn't care less about the points :]
i just wanted the cool tail
other than that, this is pretty sweet
make a sequal maybe, and fix these things, but try to keep the same mechanics n physics going
add a few more pickups and enemies and powerups, and you've got 5/5, 10/10, and favorited :]