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Latest Flash Reviews
Well first of all, I have to say something everyone already knows:
This would've been better on Youtube. The menu is a nice touch, but it's completely useless. The extras and photos are really uniteresting, so this would've worked better without them as Youtube-video. 12.1 MB is pretty much for a flash-movie.
The film itself was just plain bad. The whole plot seemed really immature and it was hard to follow it. I'm not even sure if I understood what was going on. It was also waaaay too short. Didn't like it one bit.
I also didn't understand why the quality was so bad. I know it was intentional, but why? If you were trying to get that old sci-fi movie-feeling, you shouldn't have used such modern camera-angles and shot so many short takes. Not really retro, in my opinion.
All the props were pretty simple and looked too cheap. They seemed pretty "household" to me. You didn't really manage to achieve any retro-futuristic atmosphere with them.
You also should've picked a better location to shoot this film. The background seemed out of place and it was a bit too bright for this kind of movie.
The music was really unappealing. It was repetitive and actually sounded quite annoying.
However, the intro was really well made, so I'll give you 3 for that.
Author's Response:
I agree that narratively speaking it wasn't the perfect story, honestly I was just going for a cheesey little story to experiment with the Super 8 camera for the first time and make something retro looking while I'm at it.
If I were to use the traditional camera angels, I would have needed a set. Because these cameras don't pick up light so well, for the Shots they filmed back in those days, sets were built to have controlled light. They also had more than one day to film. I only had one, and was racing against the sun. So I had to shoot quickly and still keep it interesting.
The props were cheap and house hold looking, because they were.
Also, it's a short movie because it's really expensive to buy and develop super 8 film. And there are only 2 places in all of the U.S. that develop super 8.
I appreciate your response, and just decided to give you some feedback on your points.
some personal advice; don't act like you know what you're talking about. you might run into someone who picks up on your bull shit.
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"I'm not really sure if I like this..."
I have kind of mixed feeling about this one...
The overall graphics were really nice. Kids looked funny and they didn't get too realistic at any time. The animation was also smooth and looked very fluent, two thumbs up for that!
And as usual, the voice acting was superb. It didn't really sound like 3rd graders, but that didn't really bother me at all, it was still good.
Music was nice and cathcy, perfect for this kind of animation.
The bad thing was, that I didn't laugh at all. Funny voice acting isn't enough. You need more than wacky screaming and silly-looking characters to make good comedy.
Also, you released this way too late. Revenge of the Fallen is old news already, nobody talk about it anymore. You should've made this when everyone else was making their Transformers-parodies.
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I usually really like these oldstyle pixel-games, but this game was really horrible. There are couple of things that made me dislike this game:
In my opinion, the music was really annoying. If this is supposed to be a music-game, you should've used better music. But then again, that's just my opinion, others might like it.
Music was well synchronized with the game, but that didn't really make the game much more enjoyable.
I know you're supposed to be controlling a glass-fish underwater, but controls were still a bit too clunky. That made the game way too hard!
I really didn't like the save egg-feature. That just added up to the game's difficulty and it would make more sense if the game would determine the save-spots by itself. It was very annoying to try and find some good save spots without knowing what's ahead of you.
Graphics were really nice, but that's not enough to make this game enjoyable.
Overall, I was expceting a lot more. This is not the worst game ever, but it definetly doesn't deserve to be the game of the week on Newgrounds!
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Latest Audio Reviews
That was definetly not good. Not even remotely.
First of all, it's only a boring beat-loop after another. You should have added strings or at least some echoes to make it sound like music. Now it's just repetitive beats. That is boring.
Second, get more samples. It was like you were only using the default set and kept running them over and over again. Not cool, definetly not cool.
Third, check the genre. This is definetly not modern hip hop. It's much closer to drum n' bass or old skool-hip hop. Don't submit stuff in the wrong genre.
Finally, what the hell is up with the name? "HIP HOP YO! 8D"? That has to be the most retarded and unoriginal name for a song I've ever heard. Same goes for the descrpition. "enjoy or GTFO?" That's just plain stupid and doesn't really even make any sense. Try to be more creative.
Luckily, I'm a nice guy, so I'm gonna give 2 stars for the beats.
Author's Response:
it was one of my first audio trys ^^
of course its not perfect
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It would almost be a crime if this wasn't used in a flash. It would be perfect for the ending credits. It's refreshing to hear something so clear and smooth in the audio portal.
The only bad thing is, that the one of the strings seems to be little out of synch. Or maybe it's just my imagination!
Anyway, deserves 9/10 and 5/5.
Author's Response:
Aint you a darling. Glad you liked it, I'm working (lol) on remaking it and having it much less tinny sounding with the main string. Also doing an acoustic version of it which is a lot different. Thanks anyway.
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Nothing special about this track. It's a solid techno song. Pretty nice.
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