Haggard's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[The Dot of Excellence 2]

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Ok, now you used pictures instead of spirtes. Now we are left alone with the music, as there is no action at all on the screen.

As I've said in my previous review, the audio portal is a much better place for music than the flash forum.
This movie is just pointless and a waste of time.

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[The Dot of Excellence]

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To be honest, I really don't know what the point of this movie is. The song is somewhat entertaining, but the audio portal sure is the best place if you want to have your music on NG. There's no need to add that to the flash portal with minimalistic graphics.

The spirtes where too big so they looked very blurry and pixelated. Also, only one of the sprites moved. If they had danced to the song you could have created a very funny flash, but right now it seems as if you put no more that 5 minutes of work into this movie and submitted it right away...

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[Dragonball Z Episode 2]

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The story of this is bit wired. I didn't know what was going on there. Ok, this is Epdisode 2, maybe I should have watched episode one before this.

The music was very nice and fit well to the flash. Also the sounds you chose were very good.

The graphics could need a clean up, as they looked somewhat blurry from time to time. The sprites could look a bit better, too. None of the sprites had a real face.

I liked that you had a different text colour for each character, so it was easy to see which character said what sentence.
But I think you should use subtitles here. A black background and white text works best. You can then use a small picture of each character to show which line is said by which person.

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[Jim and Pals Shorts: Ep 6]

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Funny and short. Very nice flash.

The characters look a bit odd, but at least you have your own style for the characters. Not overused stick figures or some sort of locks/clocks/whatever.

The voice acting is done great. The voices are easy to understand, even without subtitles.
The story was short and funny and the ending gave me a good laugh! :)

I found one flaw in your flash: The "Play" button was only clickable on the text, not on the spaces in between the letters. Maybe you can change that to a "real" button to make your flash even better. ;)

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Jimtopia responds:

Thank you, and I'll be sure to fix the Play button for the next one!

[LL - Wir sind Legion I]

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This was a very nice flash. You made good use of Speakonia here and the subtitles are very helpful for understanding what was said, too.

I liked the story. That "flash within a flash" idea is very interesting. That little advertisement during the middle of the flash was funny, too.

However, you should change the title to "Wir sind Legionen", as "wir sind legion" isn't correct. "wir sind" needs the plural of "Legion" which is "Legionen".
So yeah, change the title. ;)

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Rn86 responds:

but in english it's "we are legion" too, I don't see the problem.
thx for the review anyway

[Wegra Adventure 3]

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Well, the speakonia voice is slower, but also a lot deeper, makeing it as hard to understand as before... speakonia really isn't the tool to use if you want to have decent sounding voices.

The graphics in here are quite bad. And I'm not talking about the stick figures, as those kind of figures can look pretty funny - and they do look funny in your flash, because you also work with facial expressions here. I'm talking about the images that moved across the screen. That always looks very bad and as if you didn't put any effort whatsoever into your flah.
You should try and draw these things yourself, even if they may look crappy. It's better than some images moving around the screen.

I like the random storylines you come up with. Randomness tends to be very funny and I can get a good laugh or two out of things that are randomly thrown together.

I'm interested in part 4, as you've said that you will stop using speakonia and start using subtitles. Lets see how that works out!

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[Tywo At Large Ep. #2]

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Very great graphics and superb animations here again.
I think the black and white really fits the theme very well.

The voice acting is good again, but you should try to get all the voices to one volume level. The voice of Tywo was much louder than the one of the professor. Yes, Tywo was screaming most of the time, but those screams got a bit annoying, because they were so loud.
Also, sometimes the background music was louder than the professor, so you may have to work on that a bit, yet.

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