Haggard's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Tomffrey 2: Gangland]

Not so good

Well, the music is chosen very well. Reminds me of some old TV series like CHiPs.
However, the grainy effect on the screen was really annyoing and should've been left out.

Also, on the top of the screen there was a thin white stripe visible, as if you didn't center the movie correctly.

The voices where quite bad here. Most of the time they where too muffled, and there where also some static noises as if the mic of the voice actor was too bad or the mouth was too close to it.

The adding of subtitles was nice, but they where hard to read. You should have put some white background behind the text to make it more visible. Also the subtitles for SarezJay where constantly wider than the screen, so it wasn't even everything visible.

All those things mentioned overshadow the fact that the flash was decent and the story pretty nice. Even the (lame) punchline at the end made me laugh. But all those flaws I mentioned before weigh more in my opinion. So that's why I can't give you a higher score.

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[Marlin Talks To A Girl]

Nice

A nice little joke that is delivered quite well. However, the animations are again lacking here. It looked a bit weird when MarlinClock was moving across the screen from left to right when there was a sidewalk visible that began in the upper left corner and ended on the bottom near the middle of the screen. Makes me wonder where MarlinClock walks if not on the sidewalk?

The voices where again a bit hard to understand. Maybe you can add subtitles to make it easier to follow the conversation.

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PatriotClock responds:

thanks for the review

[Vince The Voodoo doll]

Great flash!

I never had an XBox so I don't know about Voodoo Vince. But now that I've seen this flash movie I really wish I had played this game.

I really like how you synced up your animations with the music. Especially in the intro, where the buildings pop up in tact and also the lights are syncronized with the melodies. It shows that you put a lot of effort into this flash movie and it also is a very nice experience to watch a flash where animations and music are synced in such a nice way.

The graphics are a bit comic like, but I think that's how the graphics in the game looked like as well.

I thought long and hard if I can find something to nitpick on in this fflash movie, but luckily (or sadly? lol) I didn't find anything. ^^

Great work man, keep it up!

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Emanhattan responds:

thanks!

[CoolJaw: P.S. IIII-V]

Suspense

Now the series definitely comes to an end. I know I said that before, but you have a great way of story telling. You take the pace out of the story just at the right places (some chapters earlier), but it never feels as if the story wouldn't advance or if you wouldn't know how to continue.
The flashbacks for example are vital to understand the storyline, yet they don't advance the story any further. They make certain things more clear, yet they tell nothing about how the series will continue (and this is what I mean by saying "taking the pace out of the story without making it boring").

Anyway, this part really creates suspense and I can't wait till the hopefully action packed final chapter is released.

I like the way how you put more narration in this part, it helps to understand what is going in the story on a lot.
Also I am yet again amazed how you always manage to find songs that fit your story perfectly, really good work on the musical selection in all the chapters so far. :)

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Celx-Requin responds:

This review made my heart melt...

I think everyone following the series from the beginning is gonna be blown away by the end...

Thanks a million for all the reviews,
and I hope you'll comment on the last one!

Sincerely,
- Celx

[Bahamut's Bday Card]

Happy Birthday!

A very nice flash for our favorite blue dragon. Bahamut turns himself into human form to go dancing in a discoteque. I never knew until know dragons had this ability.

The idea with the personal messages from various users is very nice. Too bad I'm not very creative, or else I would've come up with something better. Sorry Bahamut. ;)

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ThePigeonMaster responds:

Thanks man. Bahamut really loved this flash :)

[Spring: Part II]

Funny

This is actually a very funny flash and it shows that artists in the Clock Crew are actually able to produce more than silly spam flashes. That's what makes them stand out from all of the other crews (or "Krews" or "Legions") on Newgrounds and that's why the CC is still my favorite crew on NG. ^^

Enough with this brown-nosing already!
What makes this flash so good is the way it is presented. The little filter effect over the images fits pretty good to the song, in my opinion. I think it's because the song is so old already it would look kind of "out of place" if the images where all clear and of top quality.

The idea of the different clocks performing this song is also a good idea, you also found the right background images for the clocks to perform this song. The setting is very joyful and it's a nice and sunny day, so it seems the clocks just had the idea to sing this song to express their joy.

Too bad garden gnome didn't approve of the song and he banned the singing clocks (a pretty funny scene). But it was a good sing they continued to sing the song anyway.

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[Phalanx]

Nice

Wow, this flash actually is some pretty good stuff. The animations and the song go along really well together. The music is kind of experimental as well and I think you did a good job with the objects at the beginning and the tetris blocks during the middle part.

Too bad the ending is kind of a let down, though but I understand that you ran out of ideas there. Maybe you could've used a better transition, though. I liked the first transition with "ERROR" being written all over the place, I think you could've used that for the second transition as well.

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[CoolJaw: P.S. III-V]

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Very short part again, but this time the story is advacned further (even though not that much happens here). I had some doubt regarding how you want to tie up all the loose ends in the story line, but somehow after reading this chapter I have a feeling that you will indeed answer all (or almost all) the questions that are left open now with the remaining chapters.

You build up a very good cliff hanger here. "Do you know what the 'Sculptor' does with the organs? No? Good, believe me, you don't WANT to know!" <- Maybe Simon is right about that, but as a reader of this comic I OF COURSE want to know what this is all about and I'm sure we get to know this in the remainging chapters.

One idea I had when reading this chapter: Maybe you could add some sound effects. Sure, it's a comic and comics usually don't have sound effects. But a little "click" sound and a "BANG" sound would fit in really well in those two panels where Simon kills himself, I think.

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Celx-Requin responds:

I can promise you this much, when you find out you'll be like wow damn...
The next chapter is really long but I should hopefully be done in a couple of days,
(I'm working on it right now)...

Thanks,
- Celx

[Frame By Frame Flash]

Starts slow, gets better towards the end

The submission starts of really slow. The first guy with the sword we can see doesn't look that well drawn, but things start to get better when he suddendly starts to cut himself into pieces and other stick guys suddendly get "born" from his limbs.

I think you should've tried to find a different song for this animation, a song that syncs up better with the things we can see. Sometimes the music and animations where synchronized which looks pretty good, but at other times (mainly at the start of the flash) I had the impression you just put the song in there just to have a song in the flash.

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