I think he got lots of plays but few ratings from the Norwegian referral. The comments are unfortunate, especially the negative ones on other game comment pages. It's not actually cheating unless he asked them to do that, which would surprise me.
This is one of my favorite games in the contest. It's also clearly shoot-based, not that that's a requirement of the contest. The explanation for the high number of gameplays can be seen on his profile shouts--a large site linked to it. IF you check out his blog, you will see that he's a game reviewer, so it's not surprising he might know people who would want to link to his game or that he woudl know someone good with graphics. He's also been a member since August and has badges, so I don't see why someone would say that his account was created the day he posted his comments? Please don't go flagging this game for no good reason.
When you get to a certain point it's nearly impossible to die, but after awhile you realize there is no reason to go on living and stop filling the screen with your ridiculously high-stacked eyebeams. Maybe have the eyebeam multiples wear off at some point?
Wait, you did the music, too, or did you just do sound effects. I love the music, and it's very much in harmony with the graphics--one thing I look for in these games is whether the aspects suit one another.
I'm confused about whether you are supposed to be able to shoot the asteroid/meteorites or not. It seems like I shot one once but the other shots passed through. There's a problem with your collision detection if you are supposed to be able to shoot them.
I really like the artwork, too. You may want to consider collaborating with a programmer in the future. You may also find it less frustrating if you go away for a bit and then come back to it.
It got very laggy for me from about level 4 and up, getting more and more lag as I went (well, for all 2 of the next levels I got to, but I started chatting out of boredom--lag boredom, not your game). So post about how you made levels on the labs forum, pretty please :)
Some of your animations were quite nice, especially the explosions. Obviously, more needs to happen, especially if you don't die, lol. Good start though.
The intro was really cute, so I uprated you for that, but the gameplay was awkward and confusing. Also, with 2 players, one player would just fly the helicopter out of the path and then do nothing the rest of the game, right?