Haggard's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Sonic: The Crybaby]

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You made good use of the sprites, manupilating them in a very good and funny way.
The story was a bit short and quite random, but it was really funny. Never knew that sonic was such a crybaby :D .

The sounds you used in this flash are quite good, but you should try to bring them all to the same volume, as some sounds were much louder than other sounds in this flash.

Adding subtitles is a good idea, but I think some voice acting would be great, too (along with the subtitles). Also, some lip syncing to indicate which one of the characters is speaking is a good thing. This way you won't have to bother to indicate via small pictures who's speaking.

It's a great first flash, so keep up the good work!

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The-Red-Jack responds:

Another positive review! Thanks :D

[Christmas In Jimtopia]

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Heh, the plot was very original and the ending really unexpected. It gave me a good laugh ;) .

I think the graphics are good, even though the characters may need a little bit more work, though. I liked how detailed you backgrounds are, everything looks very clear and it really fit into the setting.

The music was ok, too. I don't like that kind of music, but it fit good into your flash.

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Jimtopia responds:

I'm glad you enjoyed it, and thank you for the review.

[SAATANA]

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Wow, that's what I call "random" :D . A random setting, a random plot, random characters...
But somehow this turns out to be pretty good. I think a lot of meanings could be interpreted into this flash and all were right and wrong at the same time.

The graphics are really outstanding, as you cared a lot about the details. All the backgrounds look very nice and the colouring and outlining you choose for the background objects add to the weirdness of this flash.

The animatios are awesome, too. Very fluent and very smooth.

Also, the music fits very well into this flash.

All in all this flash is great, but it's just TOO random for me. That's why you only get 9 out of 10 from me ;).

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Catoblepas responds:

Thanks for the review, boi.

[Death Eagle Pt. 2]

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Definetly better than the first one. The animations are a bit better and the screen didn't "flicker" (in the first one the screen sometimes moved a bit without any reason).

It still needs a lot of work, but I think you are on the right track ;) .

Just work harder on you drawings and a bit more on your animations.

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Phantox responds:

I'm working on the animation ATM. Thanks for the review. =)

[Death Eagle]

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The graphics are pretty crappy, but I can see that you at least put some effort into this, as your animations are decent.
It's also a good thing that you used some backgrounds. Ok, those backgrounds don't look that great, but at least you cared about it ;) .

The sound and music are another good thing, as most of those "first flashes" don't have any of these.

You definetly have to work a lot on drawing and animating blood and explosions, as those were basically just some red lines in front of the stick figures.
I think there are some "blood drawing"-tutorials out there, just look through the tutorials collection ;) .

Two points for the effort, 1 point for the flash itself. Makes up for 3 out of 10.
Just keep working on you drawing and animation skills and I am sure you will create much better flashes than this soon.

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Phantox responds:

Alright thanks for the review. I'll look into the blood tutorials in a bit.

[Chaos Sonic Chapter 1]

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You sure put a lot of work into this. The graphics/sprites are well used and your choice of music fits in very well with the flash.
The story is quite good and interesting and I'm looking forward to see the next chapters of this.

However, you had a few things in there that I didn't like.
First of all: The preloader. There was some black text on a dark blue background. I could hardly read the text, so I think it would be better if you used white text instead. Also the red text on the blue background doesn't look that good, either. It's again very hard to read, because the eye isn't able to focus both colours at the same time.

The introduction at the beginning was gone too fast. The text scrolled by in a few seconds, so that I gave up on reading it after the first few sentences. You should either make the text scroll a bit slower or add some voice that's reading the text.

That I had to press the spacebar to pass the text during the flash was good and bad at the same time. On the one hand it's quite annoying to press the spacebar all the time, on the other hand I can read the text at any speed I want.
But it would be a good idea here too, to simply add some voice acting.

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knuxrouge responds:

Thanks for you well thought out and thorough review.
I did put much work into the flash, but I couldn't have done this alone, my crew members contributed just as much as I did. I am going to try my hardest to make the next chapters even better.

I get your point with the preloader, but you must understand, not alot of colors can work well with that background and match. I can't speak for your eyesight, but the black was half decent and the Red was much more visible. The blend of Red and Blue was always obviously apparent form each other, simply because they're opposite colors.

I definitely understand your point with the intro prologue. But by the time I came to grips that it was too fast, I was too far in the production to make any changes that wouldn't compromise the animation in the future. I have no mic so voice acting is out of the question.

The spacebar exist for those who are not fast readers, it lets them read at their own pace and fully understand the story. There was alot of dialogue and little action, these don't match too well in this kind of audience (NGers). But I assure you, the following chapters will have more action. I will be keeping the spacebar function, because I have a 6 year old nephew who likes to watch this and for all those who also cannot read as fast as others.
Again, no mic = no VOs.