Haggard's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Newgrounds Intro Collab]

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A great idea for a collab and it's also a great idea to make the .fla downloadable. I really would like to see some of those intros in future flashes as most of them where done pretty good.

The animations where very smooth on all of those intros and graphics where good too (except for that madness-style prealoader. The graphics there seemed a bit too sloppy).

Some of the intros (the "OMG Newgrounds" and the "AWESOME" one) had a very low sound quality and a lot of static noises could be heard there. You should try to fix that.

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Insanimation responds:

Thanks. I'm not sure what you mean by Madness preloader, since I don't watch Madness, but anyways...

[Ode to Elevator Music]

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Well, the story in your author comments is actually more intersting than the flash itself.

The flash just offers some of that "nice" elevator music that annoys you after three seconds and the sentence "Regret is the greatest burden a man can experience".

So there's not much to review here, I'm afraid. You should have animated the story you described in the comments. Would have been much better... and you also could have used that "Regret" sentence in the flash, as some sort of "final thought" for the main character.

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SprintT responds:

Missed the point :(
Cheers

[The Dropping Egg Collab]

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It's a nice idea for a collab, but it wasn't that greatly executed.

First of all, the graphics are a bit bland (well ok, there isn't that much to look at anyways). And I also noticed that the shading was spinning, too rather than stay on one side (ie when the light comes from the left, the opposite side of the egg would be darker, but here it seemed as if the lightsource was spinning together with the egg, so that the same side of the egg was darker all the time... I hope I explained that well enough. :/ ).

The song was nicely chosen, but it got a little bit repititve after a while. I also noticed that you didn't put any other sounds in here. A "splash"-sound when the egg finally hit the ground would have been nice, for example.

The minigame was a nice touch to the collab.

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[A new clock!]

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It made me smile. Nothing more, but nothing less. The animations looked quite fluent and I liked that you put in some sounds here.

I also liked the "Monty Python"-ish weight that dropped on the Clock.

However, you should put in a bit more effort into your drawings. It's not that your drawings look bad, it's just that everything seems to be so "sterile".
There's nothing in the backgrounds. Just a plain wall or a bright blue sky. You can easily improve the backgrounds, if you add some graffiti to the wall or a few clouds to the sky. This can easily be done but improves your flash quite a lot.

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sistem69 responds:

ok thanks for the tips.

[Wegra Adventure 4]

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You're right, the graphics are indeed fucked up pretty much. We could see some white spaces here and there and sometimes John123456 was surrounded by a white frame, which looked quite bad.

The text went by a bit too fast to read it all, but that what I could read was pretty funny.

The music was very nice and fitting, also the sounds where funny, too.

All in all, even though it looks quite bad, the movie did make me smile, because of the sheer randomness and the funny things (like hitting John with a broom) you put in here.

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[The Last Hour: Chapter 10]

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Wow. A major improvement from you last few movies. This had all I wished for in my last reviews.

First of all, this flash has a decent length. Not only do we have something we can review, but the length also helps to get into the flash and the atmosphere better.

Then, the music was very good and this time it was quite fitting that the music continued playing while there where some dialogues going on.

Also, the animations are much better now. The running/walking still looks a bit strange, but I think those are two of the hardest things to animate properly.

The graphics look a bit better than on your previous flashes. Not so rough and sloppy, but in fact pretty decent.
The effects of the shots (especially when the ships where shooting) are pretty good.

All in all, this is by far the best chapter of the series.

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[The Last Hour: Chapter 9]

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"What? That's all?"

This is what I thought when the words "to be continued" appeared on the screen.
A flying space ship, some nice music. Some legs walking... end?

There isn't hardly anything to review here... ah well.

Graphics: Nice, especially the ship was drawn very well.
Audio: The music was nice and fitting.
Animations: Well, not much animations in here. Some tracing and that's about it.
Story: Can't say much about it, as there where no story elements present here.

Conclusion: Seriously, pack all the chapters into one flash and then re-submit it. If you do so, you should make sure to pack a few scenes in between the various chapters, to interconnect the scenes with each other.

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[The Last Hour: Chapter 8]

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Graphics are pretty good in this one. Even though everything is painted in very dark colours, there are still some nice details, like the lightening in the background.

Again, this chapter lacks some serious animations. That creature on top of the hill is the only thing that moves a little, everything else stands there stock-still.

The sound is a bit weird this time. While the background noises fit the scenery pretty well, we can here some big static noises when that thing on the hill is beginning to speak.

Overall, the major problems with this series continue. First of all, the chapters are too short and second, the voice acting needs some major improvements.

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[The Last Hour: Chapter 7]

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Still getting better...

Ok, this time there wasn't any animation in here. The person in front of the screen could have at least moved his head or arms once in a while.

Your voice acting sure is getting better. It doesn't sound as much "unintentionally comical" like in the last episode.
But it was very hard to follow the conversation as it was really hard to tell when one person stopped speaking and when the other person started speaking.

Subtitles may help with this. You could then add the name in front of a new line and the viewer will know instantly who is saying what.
Or you could work with different camera angles. Use the camera angle from behind the chair when the person sitting in the chair is speaking and use a different one (maybe from the side, so you don't have to show the faces of the characters yet) when the one on the screen is speaking.

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[The Last Hour: Chapter 6]

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Well, the story continues. I have to say, I am really interested in the story, it's just a bit annoying that the chapters are so awfully short. You should try to find other ways to decrease the file size, like compressing the intro melody a bit more, etc. .

The voice acting still is a bit strange and it seems more like I'm watching a B-movie here. There's nothing wrong with B-movies, I like a lot of them, but this seems to be the "unintentionally comical"-type of B-movie.

I'm glad that you decided to let the music stop once the dialog started. That way it's a lot easier to listen to the words.
I also was glad that the voices didn't have so much static sound this time like in some of your previous chapters.

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