Fro's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Ghost Motel 3]

A lot better!

Comments before actual review - A great improvement from the last two. Great job guys.

Animation/Graphics - Wow, much better than the last two episodes. The quality of the animation was much better and the drawings were much cleaner. Great job on improving these things in such a short amount of time between episodes.

Story/Content - A little less interactivity in these ones, but still a great job making sure there was something involved there. The story just keeps getting better and better. You guys did a really good job getting me involved in this series.

Audio - The voices were much better and much clearer. They weren't the same robotic dry voices that you used in the first two.

Overall - An amazing improvement from the first two to this one. I hope there is even more improvement to the next ones.

~ Review Request Club ~

Violet-AIM responds:

Thanks yeah we have always read reviews from each movie/game and try to improve on those points as much as we can, we also before each episode sit down and go over each script and see how we can improve the writing portion of it all.

[Ghost Motel 2]

Alright..

Comments before actual review - I can see this is an improvement from the last episode, but it still isn't enough to improve my rating from 7 to 9.

Animation/Graphics - Just about the same as last time, but it does look like perhaps the animation is just a bit smoother than before. Sometimes the animation of the mouth didn't always sync up with the voices though.

Story/Content - I like where the story is going. This is actually one of the first flash series that I have watched in a long time that had a fun story line to it and kept me involved. I'm going to have to start watching more series like this. :D Anyway, I like the interactivity and everything else.

Audio - The voices were still very poor. There aren't any emotion put into them. It's almost like a robot is making them. I know they are ghosts and everything, but it's just a little too much I think.

Overall - A better story line and it's getting me involved in the story, but the voices need a lot of work.

~ Review Request Club ~

Violet-AIM responds:

Yeah like i said before it was a learning experience for both of us but they do get better, Thank you for the review.

[Halloween night intro.]

Nice man.

Comments before actual review - Ha, I was just sitting here relaxing and I clicked some links open from the RRC. I didn't read the flashes names and I just opened up this one first. I was like, "Damnnn this introduction is good, I hope the flash is good too!" And then it repeated.. and I was confused.. then I looked at the title and noticed it was just a introduction. >.<

Animation/Graphics - The animation was very smooth and the drawings were done very well. Great background and color choice. There really isn't much more to talk about in the terms of animation and graphics because it was done very nicely.

Story/Content - Of course there isn't a story behind an introduction, but I can comment on the content of the flash. This would be great for many Halloween flashes. It's a great introduction all around.

Audio - A very nice choice here. It runs very good with the animation itself and everything. I do recommend compressing the audio though because it seems like the audio is bringing the file size of this way up. If you need to learn how to do this take a look at this tutorial here.

http://www.newgrounds.com/flash/audio .html

Of course remember to remove any spaces which may be caused when I entered this in.

Overall - A very good introduction and the only thing that I can find wrong with it is that the file size is way too big. Hopefully the link that I sent to you can help you out.

~ Review Request Club ~

[Permaneo Unus]

Not bad.

I've seen a lot of these on Newgrounds lately or at least a lot of them have been coming in through the review request club. I saw a couple of errors every now and then where it looked like one of the black boxes were out of place or it looked like something wasn't lined up the right way. Those could have been cleaned up a little bit to make it better. Also, the length of the submission is what really got me I guess. It should have been much longer and you should have drawn out different patterns with the blocks. Any pictures that you could have made would have probably been a great thing to do. At the end, THE END didn't really show up as great as it should have been. Perhaps the use of smaller squares would have given you enough room to space it out properly. Maybe you could have added a couple of other backgrounds and colors, without overdoing it and making it one of those flashing color/light submissions, which will put someone into a seizure. Anyway, probably deserves around a 6 or a 7, but since I just gave you an 8 on two spam submissions, which I found humorous, I will instead give you a 9 for effort. You should come back and try this again sometime.

Sidorio responds:

Ouch, I nearly hit my head on that wall of text.

[I'd Like To Apologise]

Ha.

Well I obvioulsy knew what was going to happen right from the start of the flash and just by looking at the title. So pretty much predictable, boring, unoriginal, etc.. At least that was my thought until I read, "When people point this out to me, I often insult them or make an irrelevant comment about raping their children." Ha, that got me to laugh man. That made this flash right here. While the rest of it was predictable, you still managed to slip in humor with that comment right there. Also, the randomness towards the end was much needed in a flash submission like this. Props for making it funny.

Sidorio responds:

Fuck you, I'm going to rape your kids for this.

[Congratulations, John!]

Lol

Oh boy. I love these submissions because the make people so upset for some reason. Ha, what is there to get offended by on a flash like this? The ones that were like, OMG HE DIDN'T WIN MAN. That's what makes submissions like this worth it every now and then. Of course I'm required to make a real review and everything so... It wasn't really much in terms of graphics. Perhaps something more than just a picture flipping back and forth and a little message at the bottom. There we go, done with that. Anyway, did you make one for Obama too? So if Obama lost you could submit it and get the same reaction from people?

Sidorio responds:

No, I knew John would loose. He's just too shit.

[Xaos: Breaking News]

Lol

I love when people take things from the forums and make flashes about it. Even though this flash is kind of hypocritical since it had no more animation more than a couple of different movements and wasn't any different than me taking a thread and making my flashes, which for some reason you didn't understand and you come back and do the same thing. Oh well, what you really need to do is get the audience animated. That's what would have made it good. I thought it was quite commical that the main speaker looked like a penis with a cock. Did you do that on purpose? Such as restating that the person who started this whole thing was a cock or did it just end up turning out like that? I guess it could be translated either way, but it's funny either way. The only reason that I recommend adding some animation in more than the random hand movings that you had was because it was boring to watch. Yes fun to listen to, but barely any animation here. It's pretty much the piece of audio getting your score to the point where it was. And since that audio is so long it just makes the flash boring without these extra things added to them. Anyway, hopefully some people don't come along and find this flash serious and give you low scores because of that. Also, 600 flash reviews with this review. ^^

Little-Rena responds:

There was more I planned on doing but I had a moment of memory lapse and totally forgot what it was, such as the eyebrows I was going to add.

As for the guy looking like a cock, yes that was intended, I wanted to imply that the guy was a total cock.

[AIC: I Stay Away Lyrics]

I'm blind ^^

Ow my eyes. Man even now that I'm done watching this submission my eyes still hurt a little. The colors together are a bad choice. I rather see a black background and perhaps white letters or something like a light blue backgrounds, which more compares to the color of the sky instead of the color that you used here. Red and blue, while still awesome colors, just don't work together that well. Now orange and blue work awesome. (The Denver Broncos fan talking in me =P) Perhaps some of this flash wasn't your fault, but it's still things to think about for future references.

I also recommend instead of using any text at all that you use animations to represent something from the song. Whether it be you looking up the real music video to this and making a remix of it in your own style or just making up the stuff by yourself. While alright to listen to this submission wasn't really anything fun to watch at all. Not only because of the colors, but watching text just isn't that exciting. Anyway, it just needs some work and you're on the right path. Keep up the work.

[Chickenscratch: Episode 1]

Not to bad.

Not that bad at all. I like the simple animations like this. Sometimes they are just as fun to watch as the really highly rated submissions. So I thought your animation and graphics, while just a little rough, weren't that bad. Not to say they don't need just a little work, but not too much. Sometimes the mouth didn't really sync up with the voice acting and everything. The bomb exploding needed to be animated just a tad bit better and the sound that followed the explosion could have been timed just a bit better. What really needs to be worked on is the voice acting. What I recommend is moving away from the mic so you aren't catching that nasty breathing noise that you almost managed to get in every single line. Also, when yelling don't lower your voice. It sounded like you were doing a fake yell. The one that people do when they want to represent yelling and they actually make their voice more quiet by doing this. So the biggest thing to improve on about this submission was by far the voice acting. I think that I would have rated it much better if it wasn't for the poor voices.

malestro responds:

We're getting real voice actors.

[.::3::.]

Not bad.

Nice interactive loading bar you had here. It gets away from the normal loading bar and adds some originality to your submission. Perhaps something like a little mini game with the loading bar would be pretty cool. =P

Perhaps add some background music to the rejected scenes so they aren't as plain as they were.

You had a nice black and white theme to this flash and you timed the colors coming in pretty good. As soon as I thought it was just going to be black and white you threw colors in to mix it up. I liked the gif style buttons. It gave them a nice effect and they looked pretty cool.

Like a lot of your submissions the audio was nicely selected and you did a great job syncing the audio up to look good with the animation.

Pretty good all around.