FattyWhale's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Random Encounter]

K

^^Good Points^^
I like the graphics in this movie. The drawings were good; pretty detailed and well-shaped. Also, the spell drawings and the effect drawings were good as well. I liked how you had the camera follow the ice balls and whatever, and moving from character to character was a good idea. The ending was funny as well with the guy doing the happy dance with that bug still on his face.

^^Needs Improving^^
First thing I noticed was the lack of sounds. You had a music loop in there, which I didn't really like, seeing how it was looped very poorly. Other than that there were no sound effects, and for a RPG style battle scene, you definitely could have added some sound effects. This felt like one of those random encounters that just makes you turn off the PS2 and say screw it.

[My First Snowman]

K

^^Good Points^^
The drawings were half decent. Not bad drawings for people, they are rather hard to draw. Some good detail in the drawings too.

^^Needs Improving^^
Really a boring movie. The storyline was rather lame and uninspired, it seems. The animations were rather crude. Shape tweens look really bad in most situations, especially when they are on a large object like the snowman. Ending was kind of lame. An unclear message, and overall just a very uncreative storyline.

[The Lesson]

K

^^Good Points^^
It's nice to see how much you are progressing here in Flash from your earlier movies. Your graphics are much better. Great drawings with lots of details in this movie. The voice acting was very good as you credited Leek for. Clear voice acting and pretty powerful stuff. Did you come up with the rhymes yourself? They were very clever!

^^Needs Improving^^
I think you could have done a little better with the violence. The song led to a lot of detail, but your animations and drawings weren't as such.

[Exploding Fungus 2 silent]

K

^^Good Points^^
This was much improved over the first episode, that is for sure. The storyline in this episode actually made some sense, and I could follow what was happening. I was even kind of amused by the storyline, which turned out to be pretty unique and fun to watch. My favorite scene had to be when the bacteria started destroying the mushrooms. It's such a random event! The graphics, though kind of elementary were pretty unique, and actually looked pretty cool. Much better!

^^Needs Improving^^
One thing that really annoyed me about this movie was that you kept changing the text between clickable and not, without warning. Towards the middle, I was looking at a screen of text waiting for it to disappear, but it did not for a while. Only after a minute did I realize that I was supposed to click the text to go on. Also, this could be so enriched with a ton of sound effects. There is so much going on, so much interesting stuff!

Bezman responds:

Glad you liked the plot!

The text was indeed probably my worst design choice ever.

Thanks for the reviews!

[Exploding Fungus (silent)]

K

^^Good Points^^
Well, this was kind of funny in its own special way. I had no idea what was going on in this movie, which was kind of amusing, and the moral of the story seemed kind of humorous as well.

^^Needs Improving^^
The graphics are pretty crude. I'm not sure how they stacked up against stuff of the time, since I wasn't into Flash at that time, but I couldn't see this being that great. Everything was really sloppily animated, which made this hard to follow. There was no sound, and surely some funky tune could have made this funnier.

Bezman responds:

You're right - it was bad even then, though worse things were passed.

It's not meant to be confusing - spraycan sprays on mushroom, which explodes. Purple mist moves about.

Maybe I'll do a remake of this one day.

[Block]

K

^^Good Points^^
I thought the neatest part about this is that you were able to create a storyline as you did and develope it quite nicely without the use of any voice overs and sound effects. It's really a quite unique technique. The graphics were pretty well done. You changed the camera a lot and had lots of god animations. I liked the music too, it set a good bar mood.

^^Needs Improving^^
I don't really like how you had to use such lame character drawings in this. I don't really buy the whole square for a head thing in this.

[The Adventure(s) of Snarf]

K

^^Good Points^^
When watched all the way through, this was a very good movie. After the crappy flash scene, this started to get much better and your humor became more creative and a little bit more mature. The graphics were pretty well done, good animations and good drawings too. A very funny storyline in this movie, I am liking these Dock people! Mission accomplished.

^^Needs Improving^^
First impressions are very important. This movie made a terrible one. For some reason in the beginning the animations were much cruder. Also, the bad flash scene was FAR too long. It shouldn't have been more than a few seconds long, as to not bore the audience.

xthesnarfx responds:

I have answers to your needs improving thing. Yeah I know that the finale countdown scene was waaaaay to long. At first I was planning on makeing a skip butten, but it wouldn't work for some odd ressone (im guessing because it was gana skip to something in the same scene). And the ressone that the begging part was really bad was because I started this when I was first getting into flash so I wasn't that good. I picked it back up about 3 weeks later at the line "Was that really nessisary?". I hope you have found your answers.

[ExciteDike]

K

^^Good Points^^
The graphics weren't too bad. I don't see excitebike sprites on NG much, so this was neat. Good animations too with the sprites. Good quality music as well.

^^Needs Improving^^
I was expecting much more. You had a creative title for this, but it was just a guy who landed on his head then slid along. You definitely needed some sound effects in this, like a skidding effect towards the end would be obvious. You really need to have some more storyline in your next movie. This looks more like practice!

Nimii responds:

Well I appreciate the upbeat tone of your message. Thanks for taking the time to review the Flash. Yeah, I wouldn't say more practice... More time would be a little better. However, always improving. Always. The sound effects are probably going to be added to the final version which I will put on here as well. Adding the sound effects is the easy part anyway.