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[Narrative Flash Remake]

Not bad.

* Side Note - This is the fucking second time I wrote this review because the last time I did I accidenlty pushed the back button on my keyboard and my entire review was deleted before I finished it. It actually took me quite awhile to write it too. >:( Also, I do not enjoy poetry, but I don't review flashes on whether I like the subject or not, since I don't find that fair. Rather, I will review the flash on it's quality.

Animation/Graphics - While there wasn't any animation in your flash I'm sure I can still find some stuff to review about. The menu itself wasn't very organized and the background was boring. If this was improved on then my rating for the flash would probably go up another point or even two. I think they need to be put into columns and you need to look for a background like you had in the poems themselves.

Story - I only read the entirety of one poem because like I said before poetry really isn't my favorite thing in the world. The text was fine and the words were easy to read. The file size was huge also, did you compress the audio? If you didn't then compressing the audio might cut the file size in half maybe even more.

Audio - While the music went perfectly with the poems, I really didn't enjoy the button to shut the music off for one reason. While you could shut it off there was no button to turn them back on. I looked around for one and read your directions and there didn't seem to be one. I think that would be a good contribution to this flash also.

Overall, pretty much work on the menu and maybe add that button for the audio that I suggested. Good job.

C52

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SprintT responds:

Thank you for the advise, and please stay tunned. The menu will be revamped and so in the control pannel. Also there will be compressed audio so I can have more content.

[The Very Best of Bahamut]

I liked it.

Animation/Graphics - Just like almost all of your other work (Well since it is all of your other work in this case) the animation itself is very simple, but at the same time it's all that is needed and you find a way to make it work for you.

Story - I really like the idea of mixing up some of your best flashes all in one flash. Some of the transitions in between scenes actually made sense like that was how they were suppose to be. I thought that there was going to be a bit more explanation before the real things started, but there really wasn't. Too bad.

Audio - Well, all the voices are fine. We all know the one voice is annoying as hell, but it's suppose to be that way. Everything with the audio seemed perfectly fine.

Overall, a good flash with a good idea. If I had some more flash movies (not counting my games and quizzes) then I would love to make something similiar to this, but since I don't then that probably won't happen for a long time if ever.

C52

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kinggila responds:

If you ever decide to make a flash similar to this one, go right ahead with the idea. I'd be glad to influence someone with mixing most or all of their previous flashes together in one.

[ÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆW]

Nice.

Animation/Graphics - Great animation for a clock day submission if I may say so myself. The sprites were perfectly fine and I actually really enjoy watching sprites. There was nothing wrong with the animation or drawing and everything ran smoothly.

Story - I won't get to watching the other ones, but just by watching this one I'm sure I can imagine what they are about. :) A great clock day submission and too bad this one is the grand finale. You sure you won't get up to making another one for next year?

Audio - The audio you chose for the flash was perfect. When the battle started and the song picked up at the same time was really timed well and gave the movie a great effect. Good job.

Overall, a good Clock Day submission. Too bad we won't be seeing more of the series. Have more plans for next clock day?

C52

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kinggila responds:

Well, I didn't do much drawing here. XP

I don't know about next Clock Day. Maybe Clock Day 2010 I'll have something. XD

[The Last Hour: Chapter 5]

There we go.

This is the highest score that you have received from me to this point. :) I'm sorry that I called your first couple of submissions spam. You have improved greatly and if you keep improving like this then you will be pretty good at flash. Keep up the good work.

Animation/Graphics - The animation was actually there this time! It was just more then peoples mouth moving. People walked, their arms moved when they talked, etc.. Your drawing and animation skills have greatly improved also. By the time this series is done your last couple of episodes might be awesome.

Story - I loved the skip button and the intro wasn't too long this time. Good job on improving on those things. The length of your flash is getting better, but they just need to be a bit longer. That would get more people interested. I'm also still waiting for all of the action scenes. Hopefully some good action stuff will be coming up.

Audio - MUCH MUCH MUCH better. It didn't sound like you were verbally molesting the mic this time around and your voice was much clearer. Different voice actors, or at least a much different voice would help improve your flashes though.

Overall, you are getting a lot better at animating. Keep up the good work.

C52

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Jaiba responds:

thanks i think this was 2nd to chapter 10 in terms of quality

[The Last Hour: Chapter 4]

You may be getting better...

But I still personally am not enjoying the series yet. I hope as you get better at animating that you think about coming back and redoing most if not all of these submissions.

Animation/Graphics - The same as usual on your flashes. What I would recommend is some more actual animation. Most of it is just too simple. It's more like a picture with the mouth moving. I want to see actual animation like people walking around and def. more exciting things like fights and battles.

Story - Like I said before this just lacks in animation to make the story any good. It's a great story, but you can't tell just by watching it. The introduction is still too long though and the flashes them selfs needs to be longer. Not the introduction. You are going to lose a lot of people in the intro itself.

Audio - THIS IS THE NEWGROUNDS POLICE BACK AWAY FROM THE MIC. Lol sorry I had to say that, but it almost sounds like you are spitting in the mic. Back away from it and just talk loud and clear. It should pick it up find. I hate every time it sounds like your blowing into the mic on purpose. Back up and this should be fixed.

Overall, not something that I enjoy personally, but if you think you are getting better then keep working.

C52

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Jaiba responds:

thanks for the good review

[Do I eat the...? STWPT]

Nice.

Animation/Graphics - A great style that I love to see when watching flash submissions on newgrounds. The animation was smooth and the drawings were well done. The colors and backgrounds were also fine.

Story - I won't review on how short it was because after a quick read over the author comments that you have made I realize that this was a part for a collab that wasn't continued for some reason. To bad it wasn't continued. What exactly was the collab about? Overall the flash its self was sort of funny. Well done.

Audio - I thought the audio was fine. The voice was fine and the background music was also fine.

Overall, this would of made a great addition to a collab. Too bad it died out though.

C52

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Lazyfeet responds:

Ah-ha! The first person who didn't judge it on the length. The collab was the '10 second collab' where all authors had to make an animation which is 10 seconds long. I really wish it hadn't died too, it would have been ace, the first one certainly was!

<3 for the review.

[like a duck (colour)]

Pretty decent.

Animation/Graphics - The animation and graphics were pretty good. They were fun too watch and ran pretty smoothly. I didn't really see too much wrong here if anything. Good job.

Story - Pretty decent. Again, it was a fun submission too watch. Not a story maybe, but not ever flash needs a story. It had pretty good length and everything else was alright.

Audio - The audio didn't always sync up with the flash too well, but it wasn't too bad either. This could of probably been worked on just a bit to make the flash better.

Overall, not too bad, but the timing with the audio could of been a bit better.

C52

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TheBoogley responds:

I'm working on figuring out how to better sync long streaming audio with the images in my work... Hopefully I've got a solution which works soon.

[A Moonlight Sonata]

WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT!

Lmao.

Animation/Graphics - Pretty well animated. You do have a pretty good talent at drawing and I liked the style of the drawing. Animation was pretty smooth, but the movement of the mouth didn't always line up good with the talking or.... singing? I guess it did line up well with other things though. >.<

Story - Well it def. started off like it was going to be something kind of sad. It then turned into something that looked like it was going to be scary. It then... got gay, but I knew something was up when he started singing like that. I just didn't expect the whole dick in the mouth thing. So you get bonus points for the random twist in the story.

Audio - The audio was good except for the times that it seemed to lag and not be timed right with the animation. That's honestly the only place that you lost points from me.

Overall, a surprising story that doesn't turn out the way you thought it was going too.

C52

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Markface responds:

Thanks!

[Frankenstein Trailer]

Really good.

I know that this was a Trailer for your English Class, but do you plan on making an actual movie or series out of it at all?

Animation/Graphics - Very simple most of the time. I could really tell that most of it was rushed like in parts where Frankenstein would turn around, but it was like he was a flat image instead of an actual person if you know what I mean. The backgrounds and drawings were all pretty decent, but again I could tell towards the end of the flash that you were in a hurry because the drawing and backgrounds were really lacking.

Story - A nice little flash, which was of pretty good length. I have to say that the letter was very very funny and that bits and parts of the actual animation made the flash pretty funny. If you were going for humor in this submission then you sure hit it on the nose.

Audio - The voice acting was very good don't get me wrong, but the quality of the sound wasn't always very good. Especially in the part were the voice was reading the letter out loud and there was some static. Not too bad though.

Overall a nice little animation that you made here.

C52

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Rammer responds:

no, i don't plan on making an actual movie based on Frankenstein. \:

regarding the monster being flat - yeah, that scene gave me all sorts of trouble. i couldn't decide which angle to animate it at, and then there was the issue of me putting forth effort to keep whatever suspension of disbelief you might have at this point. :P
the last scene, where Frankenstein runs away from the monster, was done at 1 am, on the day that the project was due. i was very, very rushed, lawl.

thanks for the compliment on the humor. my class seemed to think so, too (: oddly enough, i initially wanted this to be a serious endeavor. i knew the rest of my class would make things funny, so i wanted to try something different. i made the intro with that very intention, but as i started to do the animation, i realized how little time i had. serious animations generally require better art, because the focus is more on the atmosphere rather than than what is actually happening. so i changed direction and kept the intro to serve as a funny contrast to the rest of the trailer.

we were using my shitty webcam's mic when we were recording lines. it sounds better full-quality, what with the lack of pops and staticy bursts, but it would have made the file size a bit too big. i've had a lot of trouble uploading things online for a long time, and this 1 mb file was pushing it. \: i've started using my Rock Band mic for these things, now, which is a HUGE step above in quality. any future flashes with voice-acting in them will have much better voice quality. (:

thanks for the review!

[The Last Hour: Chapter 1]

Meh.

I accidentally reviewed the other two chapters before I reviewed this one. My bad.

Animation/Graphics - Believe it or not the animation in my opinion was twice as good as part two and three. The other ones looked a lot like spam, but this one actually looked like there was some sort of effort put into them. The drawing and animation of the ship wasn't great, but it wasn't too bad either.

Story - Again, just like the other flashes of yours you make this nice descriptive story and in your flash it's nothing great at all. I mean it's only a ship flying from one side of the screen to the other. And then some sort of fade effect that almost made look like the ship was evaporating or something.

Audio - THANK YOU FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. I'm so happy that I didn't have to listen to those annoying voices again. I think there should be voices on the menu like that, but the ones that you include in your other flashes are so annoying that I preferred it without them. Music was fine like usual.

Overall, this one makes me think that the series isn't spam, but the other ones make me think that it is. I don't really know what to think.

C52

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Jaiba responds:

i'd like you to check out my newest movie, chapter 5. i think you'll really enjoy it. you'll see the great process from chapter 1 to 5. and you'll see this series definitely isn't spam. i hope you enjoy it, and thank you kind sir for reviewing.