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[lord of the rings- killer]

Okay

--The Good--

Well, I guess some of the levels were pretty interesting. The design was kind of unique. I especially liked level 4; I thought that that was pretty interesting and unique. There was quite a bit of interactivity in this movie; the cursor was pretty, well, 'unique', and interesting. Also, I quite liked the music for this game. I thought that it fit well with the whole game, and was interesting and not annoying.

--The Needs-Improving--

Well, first of all, what does this have to do with Lord of the Rings? I mean, it wasn't abad game or anything, but a lot of people are (probably) going to be disappointed and give this submission a lower score than they would have given if you;d called it something else (your probably hearing that a lot, but I just thoguht I'd mention it :). There was no humour in this game at all, which might not be a bad thing, but, once again, I just tought I'd mention that. Also, there was pretty much no violence in this game, which, once again, might not be a bad thing. Also, I found that it was almost impossible to pass the 5'th level (at least for me). I kept either hitting the walls, or running out of time. You might want to consider (or actually do) making it just A LITTLE bit easier for players of your game.

--Overall--

Overall, I gave you a 5 (in the review :). This game definately needs improving, but it is an okay submission. This isn't an absolutely spectacular submission or anything like that, but it is fine, and I guess it is what it is. I enjoyed the music; it fit the game. You should proabbly change the name from, 'lord of the rings- killer', to something else, that fits the game better (you're probably hearing that all the time, but anyway).

[EVERY BLACK MAN IS OLSKOO]

Not Bad

--The Good--

The graphics in this flash were pretty good, I liked the stlye of them too. The graphics had a unique style to them; they characters had kind of a chunky look to them (I don't mean fat), and the characters were pretty well-drawn, especially that main black guy. The sound was also pretty clear and crisp in this movie, you could hear pretty much every word that every character in the movie said. Also, I, for some reason, liked the clocks voices and how they were drawn. I found it... interesting.

--The Improvement-Needed--

Well, first of all, it's a loop, so that kind of takes away from the whole experience. It was basically the same thing over and over again, too, so that could use some improving. It wasn't very funny, either; I gave humour a 2 becasue of the clocks voices (so high-pitched). The graphics were good, but, once again, it was basically the same thing over and over again. Ther was no interactivity at all, because there was no 'PLAY' button, or 'REPLAY' button, because it is a loop. Loop-flashes generally aren't as good as flashes with a pre-loader.

--Overall--

Overall I gave you a 6. It definately needs improving, but, for what it was, it was kind of entertaining. It could be considered as racist, even though it wasn't really. I liked your graphics and your style, too. Of course, like with most flashes, it needs some improvement. But that's just normal!

[Daily Short]

Not that great

This wasn't that great of a movie. It was far to short, it didn't have enough of a, well, plot, and it didn't even really mkae any sense. You call it 'Daily Short' and yet you have no other submissions in the portal? Very odd. Anyway, this definately needs some improving, and I'll tell you what to improve on (as well as other things) in this review.

The grpahics for this movie were actually pretty good. I like the way that you drew them; it made the flash look sharp and sophisticated. The text wasn't bad, although it was kind of shaky and a little bit hard to read. You could have made the whole flash about at least 25 to 30 seconds longer, to show off some more of your good drawing skills. The length was probably the biggest problen of this whole movie, actually. Luckily, the graphics were pretty good, which is kind of why I'm giving you the score I gave you.

The style of this movie was pretty good, too. I liked the way you drew the characters (as I said above). The graphics were probably what saved this whole movie (I also said that above). Nice job with the style. You could have added more too it, though. Maybe some credits... a menu... extras...? Just a few thoughts. Maybe this cartoon should be called 'Random Short', since it isn't really 'Daily.' That might make more sense. Anyway, nice job with the style.

I actually really liked the sound in this movie. I thought that the soundeffects went really well with the rest of the movie, the music was very good, and kind of set the theme of the movie. You could have added audio for the vioces, maybe (if you have a microphone, that is). Once again, if you had made the movie longer, you could have showcased some more of that great sound. Anyway, it was pretty good, and probably (as well as the style) the high point of this particular movie.

There was some violence in this movie. The rabbit getting shot in the head was violence, and also the guy getting shot in the head was violence. Since that was basically the whole movie, you didn't have nough time to pack any more shots of people getting shot in the head. This isn't a bad thing, probably. But, once again, the length of this movie kind of, well, wrecks, for lack of a better word, the movie. Just make it a bit longer!

There was a little bit of interactivity in this movie. The 'PLAY' button was some interactivity, and the 'REPLAY' button was some more interactivity. It doesn't really matter that this doesn't have that much interactivity, since it is a movie, not a game.

And, finally, humour, whcich there a little bit of. I can't really explain why, but it was kind of sick humour. Well, anyway, as with interactivity, it isn't a big deal that this didn't have that much humour.

I wrote this review in kind of 2 parts, because in the middle of writing this, I had to go out. Just thought I'd mention that. Well, believe me or not, this movie does need some improving. I thought that it was far too short, it kind of needs a plot, and it needs to make sense. I had no idea what was going on. Anyway, nice try, but if you make another one of these, you should, and could, improve.

Frostbreath responds:

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Yes?

[Cigaro]

This was an okay movie

I thought that this was an okay movie. A lot of things needed some improving, like the graphics (the over-sized sprites and the overall animation in total). The song, while slightly sick, is still a pretty good song; I kind of like System of a Down, but I might have chosen a different song to animate... but that's really just my personal opinion.

The graphics, as I said above, could definately use some work. I mean, the sprites were definately way to large, as two of them basically took up the whole screen. Also, I might not have used sprites, but I might have used actual animtion (not saying that you didn't use animation, but...) And another thing is that it was sort of the same thing over and over again. You should try and do different animations. The background wasn't bad, but it could, as with many other things about this movie, use some improving (I'm not saying that this a bad movie or anything).

The style of this movie wasn't bad either. The sprites kind of gave it some style, as some people like sprites. The movie wasn't especially 'stylish'; what I mean by that is this: the sprite were too pixelated, the pre-loader wasn't especially great or anything, and adding the BBS emotican was kind of a nice touch, but what was its point? I'm not saying that everytinhg in movie's need to have a point, but, just... what was the point?

As I said before, I like System of a Down. This is an okay song by them (I'd never heard it before until this movie, although Id heard of it), but I might have picked a different song by them to animate (also mentioned above). The timing of the subtitles with the soong was great; everything was basically right when it should have been.

There was virtually no violence in this movie; I gave violence a 1 because there, well... there just seemed to be something kind of vioent about the movie itself, it's hard to explain... (this isn't a bad thing). Anyway, I'm not saying that this movie needed violence or anything, i just thoguht I'd mention that.

Interactivity, once again, was practically non-existent. I gave it a 1 (again) because of the 'PLAY' button at the beginning. There was no 'REPLAY' button, which would have been nice, but it isn't a necessity. Another thing you could have done was make maybe a menu; with different sections for each part of the movie. Maybe even an extras menu, or a scene selection. Just a thought.

And, finally, humour. There was none of this. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, as this flash wasn't really trying to be funny. Once again, if you added a menu, maybe you could include some humorous stuff into one of the sections... maybe a 'deleted scenes' part of the movie, or something... once again, just a thought.

Overall, I thought this was a pretty good movie, but it could use some improving. There was nothing wrong with the length of this movie, and, if there was anything wrong with it, it would have been that it was too long! (It wasn't though.) So, jsut make some improvments to it, like the oversized sprites were kind of a problem, and you shouldn't have doing (basically) the same thing over and over again. But, overall, pretty nice job!

kinggila responds:

Wow, this is one hell of a review. I will be responding to each paragraph.

First paragraph, I do agree with the movie needing to be improved, although when I made the movie, I didn't really care about the flaws of this flash. All I cared about was having a good go at flash and getting it to pass judgment zone and have my very own flash. To be honest, I thought there was a chance of this flash getting blammed, but luckily, there were people giving the flash a good score then. :)

Second paragraph, graphics, well, yes, not too pixelated sprites, although back then, I wanted to fill up the empty space there was on the flash and to try and use lip sync on the characters.

Third paragraph, yeah, I remember liking sprites a lot. I said I would be sticking to sprites for all the flashes I would make, but looking at my flash named ":", I don't think I would survive very long by making sprite flashes all the time. It might turn out like illwillpress' flashes with those flashes going downhill. Besides, I would like to try and make non-sprite flashes like my flash tomorrow which I have drawn on the flash. :O I would like to try and be part of the Clock Crew sometime and make some clock flashes.

Fourth paragraph, this is a newer song of SOAD. It was very new when I heard it and got too addicted to this song (seriously, I was listening to that song for over 100 times on one day, or it felt like I was listening to the song that much on one day). The subtitles, I did my best to try and keep the timing with the song right. BTW, did you read the secret messages? ;)

Fifth paragraph, I didn't aim for violence in this flash. Not all flashes do need violence in them, although I guess people would prefer flashes with violence than flashes with no violence.

Sixth paragraph, the replay button. Well, I couldn't be arsed with the actionscript for Flash. I do know that there's actionscript placed on Flash, but I didn't want to get the flash messed up if I tried to make a replay button or anything. However, the flash I will be submitting tomorrow WILL contain a replay button.

A menu button, hmm, I don't think that's necessary for this flash. If a flash I make isn't a long flash, then I don't think it's necessary to add a menu on this flash. Besides, if I did, it would make it a lot harder to try and get everything right in this flash, lol. Extras, hmm, I could've had some extras in this flash, but I just wanted to complete the flash and then submit it to the portal. Deleted scenes, well, there were no scenes deleted. :P

Seventh paragraph, I'm happy to read this. You understand that I didn't aim for humour in this flash, although it did give some people a good laugh. I am also happy to hear that it did make some people laugh since that's something I think I keep failing at. Being funny and making people laugh.

Last paragraph, yes, improving was needed for this flash. Thanks for that excellent review Frenzy_Explosion. Heh, when I was reading this review, I thought you were a 16 year old, but your profile said you're 13, which really surprised me with a very long review like this. O__O

-Bahamut

[That girl]

Nice job!

I enjoyed this flash. I thought it was unique, interesting, and well-done.

Graphically this is pretty good. I like your style of drawing. And, on that note, style-wise, this was pretty good as well! Sound I thought was well-done; it was well voice-acted and the sound-quality wasn't scratchy or muffled or anything like that. Violenece there was none of (which doesn't really matter). Interactivity I'llg ive you a one in (for the 'Play' button at the beginning). And humour there was a tiny bit of.

Nice job!, and continue working on more flash!

RedHotPoker responds:

More is on the way soon.

[Im Just A Kid]

Pretty good

This was actually pretty good, I dunno why its score is so low. The graphics could use some improving, but other than that it was actually pretty good.

As I mentioned above, the graphics do need some improving; but, in something like this, when the graphics aren't the main highlight of the movie, it doesn't matter that much. Style-wise this was pretty good, too... the drawings of the guitars and drums were drawn well. Sound was good; the song is a pretty cool song. Violence there wasn't really any of (that doesn't really matter in something like this though). Interactivity, once again, was pretty much non-existent, except for the play button at the beginning (however, once again, it doesn't really matter in something like this). Humour wasn't there really at all either... it doesn't really matter though in something like this.

This was pretty good; I think the score should be higher. But, anyway, I enjoyed it. Nice job!

[Hasbro Armageddon]

Pretty good, but not great

This was actually pretty good. I enjoyed it. It was kind of funny, and it wasn't perfectly aniamted, but it was still cool.

Graphically, it wasn't the best, as I mentioned above. But, that's not really what matters (in this case). Style-wise it was pretty cool. Sound was cool, but there wasn't a lot of it. Violence there was some of, because of the whole shooting thing. Interactivity there was hardly any, but this is a movie, not a game, so it doesn't really matter. And humour there was only a little bit of.

Good job on this... although I think you could improve, this is a good start.

MegaJohnny responds:

Thanks for reviewing and I totally agree with you. The lack of detail was mostly due to laziness. I got the sound from FK, as it's a great source of free sounds etc. I made the rain quieter in Audacity, but that made it inaudible when all the other sounds were playing...

[Apple Crew Fails]

Umm... okay

This was okay. I guess the graphics were pretty good, the sound was pretty good.

The graphics were pretty good, although there weren't a lot of them. Style-wise this was okay, I guess. Sound was pretty good. Violence there wasn't a lot of, but there was a little. Interactivity there hardly was any, but, once again, there was a little. And humour there was none of.

Good job, I guess. But work on making your movies longer, and make them have more of a point, I guess.

vBulletinClock responds:

It's only fun for us, so yeah... Glad you voted fair, instead of all the fags saying "OMG GLOKS SUXURS!11!1! BLAMK!!111!1!1!1

[I scream for Icescream]

Umm...

This one sort of startled me. I was expecting a music video of the song (I gave sound a 7 because of that song ;), but it ended up being a 'shock flash'. From what was actually animation it was pretty good... and then it went all, "AAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!" on me. Anyway, I guess good job... but put more 'effort' into your flashes, and actually try and make something! (Not that this isn't something, but still.)

smoothtoons responds:

LOL Thanx!

[the most random fbf ever]

Weird... and random!

That was very, very random, true to the name... I enjoyed it actually. It was well done, I thought. The graphics were pretty good, and... I dunno. It was just good, I guess. It could have been better in areas, like: sometimes I didn't know what was going on on the screen. Anyway, it could be better, but nice job anyway!

bluechipmunk responds:

thank you for your kind reveiw, have a nice day =]