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Score: 2
The NG Rules

"Tisk Tisk"

submission: The NG Rules
date: March 6, 2008

Nomader, what am I going to do with you? ;P Here is your review, you review whore.

First, you had good taste in music. It is probably what aloud me to keep the window open for as long as I did.

Second, your copy and paste skills are most supreme, when forgetting the very end of the movie where the text starts overlapping and it is impossible to read.

Implementation was poor, to say the least. Perhaps, I might have found it amusing with Star Wars in the background, but scrolling rules made it difficult to read and the lack of organization makes it difficult to find the rules you are looking for.

How to improve:
1) Navigational buttons and menus to go deeper and deeper into the rules.
2) Mute options for sound, or alternate music selections
3) Spiffy menu graphics to give the flash some flare

The movie was ok, Nomader, but you need to put more effort into your future flash and consider the way you present your material.

March 6, 2008

Author's Response:

Wow. I just realized I didn't mean to submit this version because of that glitch in perticular. :D

I meant to submit a shorter, glitched version, which ended mid-way through the rules. Still, this version's pretty awful too. :D

I'm glad you enjoyed the music. It's by MaestroRage, one of my favorite artists on Newgrounds -- he tons of great music, and if you ever get the chance, I'd recommend you get the chance. This is "Newgrounds Spectrum", one of my more recent favorites of his.

I know that this was junk, gOS -- I made it in a day on my thirty day flash trial. Still, this did come up better than I expected. I'll probably add in some buttons, but I'll actually have to learn how to make a flash instead of a slideshow. :D

Thanks for the review!

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Score: 3
Lonely Days End Strangely

"A Valant Attempt, Falls Short"

date: January 15, 2008

When I watched this movie, I took note of what was going on. Let us disect it only for a moment to identify what is going on here. Still shots, like from google (but thats fine), a crudely drawn figure, and a decent song. Lets call this part 1.

Now lets look at part 2. Guy walks down the street into a bear trap, screams loudly as his foot bleeds.

This is exactly what your movie is in short. I have to say I enjoyed the first part. You were able to convey a lot of expression in the character, even with the lack of realalistic body proportions. So long as you can convey that emotion, it won't matter how you display your character. Remember that because this was a strength and you should continue to use it.

The images in the back, while nice at times lost quality and importance. They had a grany feel to them and in some cases this worked and others it didn't. My favorites, which exemplified the "lonely" were the first and the subway. I think you may want to look at these scenes more closely and see what they had that your others didn't. Again, these two scenes were good, and I think if you had some how carried the mood of them into your other scenes it would have been fine.

The song, well, it motivated the entire first part of the song, which is why it seemed to fit at first, but it is also the reason that the last part did not work for me. I felt that the schism created between the song "aka Part 1" and the bear trap "aka Part 2" was too large. I could not find the motivation for it and could not reason why it was that way.

I think Part 2 is the weakest part of your animation because it doesn't fit, it lacks the emotion of the other two good scenes I mentioned. The emotion in part came from the character's silence. In the second part, however, he talks, in a poor quality sound clip that does not really seem to fit the mood of the rest of the movie or the song.

As for the bear trap, I just didn't get it. I might ask you why you put it in there? What was the reason? Was it to show utter hopelessness? Perhaps freezing just as his foot were about to step on it and ending it would have been more powerful. Ending on a note of suspense. Perhaps shortening the length of the scene in which it seems to me to take a long time to move down. He doesn't need to move quicker, but perhaps less time of him moving would be better. A shorter clip, or multiple angles which you aren't able to achieve with still shots unless you take them.

The lip sinking was a nice touch, I would encourage you to practice it more, it wasn't quite on, but it is clear you put effort into it.

In the end this last scene left me upset... at the movie. I felt the need to close it before it had finished. I don't think this is what you want your viewers to do. Ending a piece is really just as important as the beginning. I would encourage you in the future to take into account how the whole thing fits togeather: What your point is, What the mood is, and What your motifs are.

Perhaps after doing this you'll find a way to make your next movie or this one better. Like I said, valant, but in the end disjointed. Hope to see better work from you in the future.

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Score: 10
There she is!!!

"An excellent piece of FBF"

submission: There she is!!!
date: January 12, 2007

I've watched this movie for 2 years and never grown tired or it. The drawing, while simplistic is the perfect style. The song is upbeat and great to listen to. Whats more it always makes me smile.

The best movie for a rainy day. Plus it helped me get my girlfriend, and how many flashes can you say that about.

Keep up the work, I can't wait to see step 3.

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Score: 10
RapeMuffin's Story.

"Ha! Awesome story of course. ;)"

date: January 22, 2009

And sexy reading. Loved the passion and everything else.

January 23, 2009

Author's Response:

mmm baby, I'll show you my...passion. ;)

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Score: 6
candy

"not as it should be"

submission: candy
date: September 4, 2006

The spice of music is deversity and change, especially in dance music. Now I like what you have, but it just doesn't quite "do anything." Tapping it out, i found the beet and predicted every new addition three measures before it happened. I was waiting for something to actually change, some new theme, a counter to the stuff that was there.

Great start, but you should really think about working on this more and flipping it around. Dynamics rythm, you name it you need it. Toss in another real instrument to mix things up and give it a harmony or something.

Author's Response:

Yeah, that's pretty much everyone's complaint. Even I agree that it gets boring after a while. I did mention that it was predictable and repetitive, however. So nothing new there.

Thanks for the review!

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Score: 8
X'Digital - Tetris Reloaded

"It wasn't perfect as much as people may say..."

date: February 2, 2006

I don't know that I like your style. Its alright, but it lacks any life that I find in many songs that I enjoy. Its just sort of there. I here a familiar tune with some stuff in the background, but nothing about it holds me to the song. There is no sudden diverge from what it is, no sudden swelling of volume, its devoid of any diversity whatsoever. That is your flaw. No thematic changes, no rythmic changes, no real dynamic changes. So, I'm not saying I hate your stuff just in the future try and spice it up a bit. Shift on the listner and make them think about what the music is actually doing. If you can do that I think you may have won me to your side.

Keep up the work. You do have a lot of skill.

Author's Response:

Hey i agree, though i didn't when i was making it or submitting, the bass/beat had me all hyped.

Check out my Mayhem if you havn't already, its got lots of the spice yah wanting :)

I guess we all have different styles - thx for reviewing mate!

\m/ (^_^) \m/
~ X-Digital

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