6th-sage's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[StarCraft: Alliance]

Constructive Review -

All right, let's hit the pros and cons.

Pros.

1. Graphics - You've improved immensely since your first one - the Reconnoiter, and it shows that you've worked hard. The 3d effects are implausible, and I must say, it's incredible. You show a lot of talent in these drawings, and as for Starcraft Flashes, yours remain unparalleled in the world of flash.

2. Story - I LOVE your story, where you keep twisting, and turning and turning, from once enemies to alliances. The plot was well made and kept an organized line of suspense. It definetely aroused my curiosity, and I'd have enjoyed it even if you made it into a novel and not a flash. Great work.

3. Style - Excellent, excellent, and MORE excellent. Unique, unrivaled, and exquisite. I was amazed by how you chose to make the story and drawings to what you thought they were though acquainted with starcraft in a sense, and you used the sounds from the Starcraft like the way they were.

4. Grammar and Spelling - You are, sadly, the best speller and most grammatically correct author on this portal. You'd be amazed how little grammar errors you have compared to many even top-notched authors. I salute you general.

Cons -

Unfortunately, nothing is perfect, and I must point out your weaknesses (little as they are), in hopes of your improvement next time. Do not let it disintegrate your confidence, but be modest as to accept them, for no man is perfect, and you're no exception.

1. Voice-Acting - I appreciate how you tried to act out nearly every character and that you tried your best, but seriously, all voices sound nearly the same, except you sort of made the protoss a bit more distinguished. Find more voice actors. I'd be happy to help if need be, since I have done lip-sync and acting in real life. I'm a versatile voice-actor, too, and if you have any need of me, contact me at my email.

2. Characters - Oh come on, you only imployed characters from starcraft original. What the hell happened to brood wars? No Dark Templars? Not even medics? You need a female character, too, since your audience isn't all male. Female heroes are required in all good shows, and it would be greatly appreciated by the female audience if you do. Valkaries, Medics, etc. Don't be a sexist, (not that think you are ^_^). More additions and units are expected. Oh, and lurkers. If the zergs really ARE making a beast, they'd have to defned it, too. lurkers are a MUST, and I am really curious to how you are going to portray lurkers, one of my favorite zerg units. What happened to goliaths, too? And VULTURES? Add them all, and I'll be a happy man, though I'm happy enough already. :P

3. You're making the protagonists overly dominant. In other words, the good guys are too strong. You only make the bad guys suffer deaths, but I haven't seen the good guys lose ANY soldiers. I hate stories where the good guys always whips the bad guy's asses without any real struggle. I suppose you do have struggles, since the units are injured in the battle, but keep it balanced.

4. Humor - No offense, seriously. I mean no insult, but... your humor's corny. "Humor's just not thing Jones," as said by a marine. (sound familiar)? I gave you a 6 for trying, but seriously, work on that.

5. The framing has PROBLEMS. DAMN IT. I HATE THIS. Every time I "jump" from one scene to another, it would pause for about 3 seconds before moving on to the next scene, and my computer is FAST. Over 3 gigahertz, actually, and my internet connection is the fastest of my friends. And sometimes, it loads up to like... 40%, and stops loading. I dunno, maybe it's not your problem, and if it isn't, I'm sorry. I'm just pointing it out.

Overall, a satisfactory episode, and I wish to see more of this series. Also, as I said, if you need more voice actors, I'd be glad to suffice for your needs. i enjoyed all your episodes, and this is by far my favorite one. Good work, and keep it up. I await your next production.

LogFish responds:

What kind of git would I be if I didn't reply ASAP to such a good review! Thanks about all the good points, that's cool :) I'm a bit pissed about the grammatical errors, but since I'm on dialup it takes forever to upload the movies. Hard to notice your own typos! I fixed a couple before it got to NG.

The voicing - I didn't intend to do everything myself this time - my friend came over on friday to do voice acting, and we ended up watching tv and drinking instead! I couldn't be bothered sitting on it for any longer, I'd already sat on it for half a week. Thanks for the offer of voicing - I may take you up on it :)

Characters - the next episode'll satisfy that - if I put everything in straight away it would be kinda boring in later episodes. The lack of females is largely due to the lack of voice talent - but my girlfriend wants to show some interest so said she'd do one so I might put one in the next episode if it's plot-relevant. I've got plenty of ideas for the other units, and they've all got their places to be in the grand scheme, so they'll be around at some point heh.

Likewise about the terrans kicking arse all the time - that may change too, I don't want to give that away but it's done now heh.

The scene thing is funky isn't it? That's kindof my fault for trying to keep the file so small I suppose, heh. Since it came out less than 5meg maybe I should've redone it - but it took forever to do it like that. The scene select is within the 'widescreen' symbol I used in every scene. The buttons in there didn't want to skip to scenes for some reason though, so I had to add up the frames from all the scenes to get them to go to the right place (went up to 10200 or something). I think the movie plays itself before deciding where that frame number is, or something stupid. Funny though yours runs so slow - my computer is a dead pig and after one slow click it's all quick as a 'flash' again. I assumed faster computers would be sweet with it, else I would've done something! I don't think the loading thing has anything to do with me though - I just use the NG preloader, maybe NG was having issues or something.

Thanks for that really impressive review - the best I've ever got probably! I wonder how my response measures up length-wise heh.

[Dendyn Dynasties]

Constructive Review - I hope you read it

All right - I'll list everything I thought about it below. First, I'll say I gave it a 4/5 since this is only an experiment. I'll save the 5 for the real thing.

Graphics - all right, so I know that you'll patch it up in the real series, so I won't pester you too much about it. Since every scene was quick and fast paced, it seemed overall incredible, but if you slow down and watch, some of the drawings seem "sketchy" if you know what I mean.

Framing - All right, I think this is the BEST part of the movie. The sequence and movements were INCREDIBLY smooth, and that impressed me the most. It wasn't rough or "twingly", and the movement of the characters were nicely done, especially the moves.

Story - I know that you'll develop the story further afterwards, but from what I've seen so far, you might have to take the story a bit more in-depth, since I digest stories like this everyday. The storyline isn't anything new, since I've seen lots of stuff like this on anime TV shows or flash stuff, but if you were to make something "unique", I'd be more amazed.

Music - All right, the music wasn't THAT bad, but it wasn't exactly the best thing in the world, and sounds as if it were ripped off a video game. That's the only bad part, and if you made it yourself, then it's pretty good.

Characters - I'd like to say that I HATE movies or stories that make the protagonists - the good guys - overly dominant. For instance, like the Redwall series by Brian Jacques. I mean, if mice and small animals would whoop the asses of bigger animals like weasels and stoats in every fucking story, I'd puke every last organ out of my body. So, strike a balance, and from what I've seen, antagonists and good guys seem equally matched. As for the drawings of the characters, you make the facial expressions really well, and each character unique, but much too confusing. I'm already confused about who's who. Every personality is too "alike" so far, but I think you will expand on that, right?

Suspense - VERY suspenseful, fast paced, and aroused my curiousity. I'm pretty much interested in what you have to offer next in your real series.

Violence - Mild violence? Oh come on... there's no bloodshed. No blood = no violence. Puh - lease.

Humor - it didn't make me laugh much, except when I saw a couple of stupidly funny scenes. I gave it a 2 for trying. It's better than a 0, trust me.

[XIN Session 18 (Finale)]

Okay - let's talk

First of all, I wish the bastards, who keep voting Xin 18 low just because they didn't like it, go screw themselves. Damn it, they should at least give them a few points for their hard work, I mean, 30 fucking minutes! Think how much time it took them to draw, to make the story, to have people voice act, and so on and so forth. And also, Can YOU do any better? Anyone who can't should shut the fuck up. God damn it.

As for the review - all right, the graphics have way improved since the first chapter, but unlike most mainstream anime, it needs a bit of patching up.

As for the style, it was very unique. I've never seen much anime go so strong against corporal punishment. The fighting scenes were also unique, but you may have copied a bit or too.

Sound - the voice acting was near perfect, I don't have much to say about that.

Violence - I do have to agree that you guys didn't live up to the expectations of excessive violence. You should've made it mild violence and 13+. It didn't have THAT much violence, just a bit of blood. Trust me, I've seen a lot of flash that has more violence than this.

Interactivity - Kept me in suspense and curiosity, and you peeled the scenes one by one.

Humor - I agree with many people. You suck at humor, no offense guys. Your humor was extremely lame, but at least you tried and I'll give you points.

Sigh, do you guys really have to stop at 18? I kinda wanted more. oh well, good luck with the rest.

[Sonic X CC Trailer]

I'll give you good review for a hard working guy

I. Review

Pros.

1. The implausible graphics were intense, and I liked the way you put the laser scroll on the blue words. It created an atmosphere of pure suspense. Your pixels and framing dramatically improved from your last one and if you made it a movie, it would've sold out. However, you'd interfere with the copyright of Sega, tough luck :P.

2. Suspenseful and fast paced. That's your second strength. You never revealed too little nor too much, and it was just enough to rouse our thirst and curiosity.

3. I liked the way you used the original sonic style instead of improvising it into a "weird" kind of sonic. I've also seen you employ most of the characters, too.

4. Unique style, and you have better grammer than most people on newgrounds, that's saying something!

Cons - unfortunately, nothing is perfect, and try not to scream your head off if you don't disagree with my points. This is most "opinion" than fact.

1. The music... was it originally "squeaky" or was it supposed to be like that? I'm not too sure, but I'm sure a lot of people have already told you that it was... uh... how should I say it without hurting your feelings... I think you know what I mean...

2. Fast paced and everything, but your sense of distance is a tad bit inaccurate. For instant, in your outer space scene, if you're riding in a car, the dense poles close to your car would be a blur, while a fence no more than 100 feet away, wouldn't move "THAT" slow... the distance might need a bit of adjustment. Then again... I'm not sure...

3. If you adjusted the camera angle into sonic's first perspective and made it into a sort of "roller coaster" thing like in polar express, we would've "felt" the speed that sonic did more than you made it seem.

4. I can't seem to find a story in this... any decent flash would need a plot! You also need to imploy conversation and dialogue, not just endless fighting between two characters. Yes that would work for a while, but not in the long run. You need a beginning, climax, and a decent ending. You have the basis, but you might need to add a bit of spice and flavoring to that.

Anyway - that's for the pros and cons.

II Questions.

1. What happened to Knuckles and a lot of the characters you left out? Or do you not want to spoil anything? :P

2. How long exactly did it take? Are you going to make this into a series, or is it just going to be a long ass flash?

3. Are you going to put in usages of the Chaos Emerald?

4. Can you translate that into Japanese or other languages? That would be awesome!

[Mecha Duel]

Not bad at all

Red and Blue must've been millionaires to be able to afford those mecha robots and live in a house of their own! (They're rich right...? I hope they won't go homeless or something :P, that'll be terrible... over a silly game ^_^) Are you going to make a sequel? (Green vs Yellow)

StephenRedmond responds:

Y'know, I never really thought about how they could afford the mechs... I guess you're right, they must be rich! :P

Err, it doesn't look like I'll be making a sequel, no. I'll definately be doing more animation, but in future it'll probably be more story-based. I just had to get this out of my system first. :P

[Beyond Gaming RPG edition]

LONG review

Some authors had great graphics whilst some lack the practice, but overall the collaboration was quite a success...

Xionic_Deamon - You have never ceased to fail me yet , but I have one question - your characters in "beyond gaming" and "the last match" as well as Xionic Revolution were a bit different, and I always thought that Xion and Katsu were a team... and now... in here Xion with Anya I'm also pretty confused... Is Xion a boy or a girl? I know Katsu's a male... the storyline and characters get really confusing. Perhaps you should try and organize them into one series or something and get a story.

23450 - Awesome game! People who can make games are my idols! Though... can you reset the controlls... cuz it's always getting a bit annoying when my Windows setting suddenly just pops out with a warning sign that it'll lock all keys if we press shift 3x in a row... ? Maybe make attack A or S like in "Dad n Me". More moves would be nice, instead of just swords... and maybe more characters - I would like to use Katsu and his guns.

Greedom - I'm not saying the graphics are bad, they're really good, but sometimes just a bit shaky... and perhaps a tad bit paper-cut, and something I'm accustomed to... but I gave the humor a higher rank. Thanks for the bit of laugh.

Joem - mostly the same with Greedom, but I liked the graphics better, and nice display of moves, too! Though the graphics may use a bit of improvement. I'm not complaining, it's good enough already!

Sikes - please don't take this as an offense, but you need to work on the graphics above else and the frames were extremely shaky. Clean those up a bit and I'm sure you'll do well :)

Dr. Beast - nice drawings, but could do with a bit of shading to improve the graphics. I liked the rpg moving style, though. SPELLING ERRORS!

Darx - like most artists, graphics need polishing, sometimes I feel like the arms are going to fall off, and looks a tad bit papercut. But like most artists, nice humor :)

OutlawStud - Intense graphics, humorous and ironic ending, I liked this a lot, especially the "Golden Sun" fighting styles and "Final Fantasy" movements, they were pretty cool! But overall, the characters' expressions change very little, and it looked a bit boring. You should change the facial expressions a bit - like surprise, anger, joy, DETERMINATION :)

SaintSuhan - good graphics, but it looks like you drew the arms and legs and attached them separately, making the moves look oftentimes too mechanical - but pretty cool. The frameworks might need a bit of time adjustments, though.

True_Darkness - nicely done, but the graphics also needed a bit of adjustments and polish. Yet, overall a creative idea, well done.

Buzzwerd - uh... AWESOME, it was unique, and the scoring and health systems were definetely a nice catch. Unparalleled styles, you rock my world dude!

Thanks for this collab, you guys rule!

[Super Mario Land III]

YES YES YES IT'S FINALLY !@#$ OUT!

YAHOOOOOOOOOOO!!! (as a matter of speaking, yahoo sucks :/)

Pros

1. Graphics - sprite... yeah, that's good enough for me.

2. Style - OH YEAH BABY, YOU ARE THE BEST AT THESE MARIO PARODIES!

3. Sound - lip syncing, and stuff - oh yeah, that's great!

4. Humor - the one and only that got a 10 from me, and that's something cuz I rarely give 10s away.

Cons -

hardly any, but I'll list some stuff

1. the preloader is getting annoying... can you turn off the jumping sound please please PLEASE?

2. and YES I KNOW IT'S NOT AN EASTER EGG :P

Basically it means... none I can think of, but graphics can be improved, and after a while, maybe you can move on to bigger stuff. I hope for Marioland IV... V.. and all the way to MX... lol

Hope to see more from one of my favorite authors - check my profile if you don't believe me :P

[AURORA - episode 6 voice]

As always Aurora shows rock newgrounds

Can't say much... but it's awesome, cool graphics, nice fighting styles... dude... I seriously think this should be broadcasted live to the TV stations... the voice acting was blurred a bit though.

[Negative 001 - The Call]

How can I vote fairly? It deserves more than a 10

however... there are several things that should be noticed.

The characters looked absolute 2-d, and papercut... shading should do the trick. The sounds were okay... and I guess considering that you've gotten awards that you should know this would probably make the front page. But anyway, good job. Are you going to make this into a series?

Gear-Zero responds:

Yes

[Just Childs Play]

a constructive review, if you bother to read it

Incredible 1st attempt at newgrounds - added you to favorite artists, anyway, pros and cons - GO

Pros

1. Graphics and Arts are implausible, combined with your talents at adding visuals and motion arts. I applaud you upon your prodigious efforts... Ma-am.

2. Whoa - incredibly imaginative, nearly unparalleled and unmatched. The storyline was a random nightmare/dream, but you carried it out in an incredible style, rendering me breathless.

3. The music was clear, and I LOVED how you matched the music with this. AWESOME.

Seriously, we need more female prodigies like you on newgrounds.

Cons - unfortunately, for every strengths, there are weaknesses.

1. When the girl was walking, it looked as if you did the motions separate from the backgrounds, making it a bit unmatched. So perhaps, you need to improve upon the scales. There are

2. Perspective art - uh... it was pretty good, but you need to make it a bit more "perspective", as in, images in the back should look smaller than those in the front, and you need SHADING.

Anyway, don't let it disintegrate it, but allow it be to accepted humbly. I kiss thy hem of your greastness, unworthy of being near the distance of 5 km. I bow down upon your style... I hope to see more.