R1665's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Ryu Vs Ken (For a Collab)]

Not bad.

The trick to good choreography is creativity. Although your animation is decent, you rely too heavily on cliched sequences. (I.E. redundant mid-battle transformations and that giant energy blast tug-o-war that everybody and their mother does.)

Not everything has to look like Dragonball.

Also, I must commend you on those powered-up Ryu sprites you've got there. They look awesome and I'd like to know where you got them. HOWEVER, from what I could tell from the flash, it looks as though that Ryu sprite set wasn't complete. I noticed a conscious effort on your part to avoid complex sequences with them.

You might also consider increasing the frame rate slightly. I normally don't think that simple frame rate increases can make flashes better as a rule, but there at least must be a minimum that will be dictated by the sprites you use. (I.E. MK animates well at 18-20 FPS. SF3 may require more.)

Lastly, I'll reinterate what everybody else is saying. You need sfx. Claiming that their absence is due to "artistic" reasons is noting but a cover-up for either laziness or impatience. Ryu and Ken aren't up there doing interpretive dance at the State Theatre, they're engaged in battle. Take the time to sound it.

Just my two cents.

R1665

[Street Fighter Revival]

Interesting

The choreography was good and your creative use of custom moves was impressive. I also loved your choice to use Makoto. She doesn't get enough respect.

Even though your moves were impressive, you might want to move away from the Proxicide and DBZ angles and find your own niche. People will respond. I happen to think that the world could use a whole lot fewer things modeled after DBZ. It's no longer revolutionary.

(sorry, fanboys.)

R1665

[Another One?!]

Great!

I loved the movie, but I'd have to say I'm pretty wary about streaming sounds. Unless pigeonmaster has a method I have not yet discovered, streamed sounds require higher bitrates to sound good compared to event sounds, which means more of your 10MB limit flash will be eaten up by audio.

I'm almost done with my own sprite flash, but all of the music in my test flashes experience a MASSIVE loss in quality when I set them to stream. Maybe I'm just doing it wrong, but event sounds seem to be higher quality at lower bitrates.

Now, if you can find a solid way to use stream, then go for it. I, for one, have had no luck in doing that.

R1665

Random-Her03 responds:

thanx man
i cant wait to see your newest movie

[Kupo! the beginning pt1]

Good.

Very good, but I would suggest that you do not compress your audio so much in future installments. The "hissing" in the music was overpowering...

synsacrum responds:

sorry about that, if i compressed anything i did it unknowly, i'll try to find better music for the next one. (didn't sound that bad when it playing off my computer, my bad)

[NV: Nintendovision]

Good times!

Colin Mochrie!!!

I do believe that earns you a nine!

R1665

Random-Her03 responds:

hahahah
finally someone recognizes colin mocherie!
its not striker but its the next best thing lol
thank you :D

[Kirby's mishaps]

Very cool!

I must say that very few flash films will make me literally laugh out loud. Yours did it! Excellent job!

[Phoenix Wright: Tourettes]

Phoenix Wright: Vulgarity

Well, you certainly did provide truth in advertising!

DAIRYDOG responds:

I guess!

[COPS: Video Game Edition]

Nice.

Good movie, but I would suggest using actual voice talent rather than the computerized voices.

Stryker Bonus!

9/10

Random-Her03 responds:

oh i see that u've already watched it
oh well! cool! :D

yeh me and my pals are voiceworking the next one
go Stryker!

[A Long MK Short]

Much Stryker goodness!

MK? Good.
Fighting? Great!
Stryker? AWESOME!!

10/10

Random-Her03 responds:

yeh man
i mean seriously how can you not like stryker?!

he's always been one of my favs

also if u like Stryker u should check out my other flash COPS: VG Edition
he is the co star of it!