NitrogenousBeing's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Adrellia Village #7]

Why?

I feel like this movie was made to bore everyone to death... What happens: 2 or 3 minutes of pointless bad narration where they mispronounce talismans. 30 seconds of random recap. A stick figure like guy runs around in circles... and before anything happens a school flashback then pointless feeling running and guards scene. Finaly about 15 seconds of something actually happening?

All the voice acting sounds like they are reading the script for the first time and mistakes are left in.

[S.W.A.T Shadows Episode 1]

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You should speed up your animation it felt slow. Also an insertion point is the place the troops land not the place of infiltration so you cant land away from the insertion point unless your landing at a different insertion point. A couple voices were a little flat. You had some good humorous moments, music choices and your storyline is entertaining. Overall a pretty good flash. I hope to see the rest of this.

LKLostKID responds:

Can you please PM the error you had occured?
"404 Error! Subject "Review Title" cannot be found"

THIS is the first episode.. and not very action based, unfortunetly it IS all talk and no bang bang. The story needed to be layed on before a sense of fighting was worth it.

They were landing outside of the warehouse which their mission was to infilitrate.. their insertion zone was located away from the warehouse.. Sorry that you got confused.

Voices will be worked on for part 2.. for the voice actors and myself it had been quite a learning experience and we hope to do better.

Many thanks for your thoughtful review :)

[The Beast Snacks 1]

A Very Long Review for a Worthwhile Flash

The first time I watched this the sound was out of sink... not sure why that was but it made the animation seem weird. The second time I watched this the sound was in sink and it looked much better. I wonder if other people were experiencing this problem and lowering your score. But this flash is way under rated. Sure the sound could be improved but it is decent enough.

This animation reminded me of the following: Dragon Ball Z, Avatar the Last Airbender, Gurren Lagann, Magic the gathering.

I think the tournament should have had more audience... just like silhouettes and stuff. I was puzzled by how there seemed to be only a couple people there. I don't understand why the bucket was heavy or why they reacted to the moose beast the way they did. If I saw a giant monster I probably wouldn't immediately call it a bum and say it couldn't have snacks...

The story line could have used more compelling reasons for their study of martial arts and aided in develop their characters better that it did. The two main characters seemed a little flat to me. The girl showed up right as it ended I think maybe eluding to her chasing that monster earlier might be a fun thing to do.

Some of your walking sequences were a bit funky.... running from the robot, and walking to the well. Frame by frame is good but if your going to back and forth between the same frames you guys might want to add a little more variety to the poses so you don't get the skipping record effect I felt in a couple places.

You two could probably use a replay button btw.

Now for what I liked the village elder like character worked out very well he looked awesome. I really liked the girls looking at the village weakling and he reminded me of of avatar so it was a little satisfying to see him so beat up. I like where the episode is leading the sequel seems like it will be great. The animation in general was pretty good.

If you look at how long I spent on this review is you can tell your animation was worth it.

Overall the work on this flash combined into one fla file is probably big enough to crash my computer... I could tell a lot of effort was put into this flash and I'm disappointed in newgrounds for the score you have received so far but hey Front page! I look forward to a sequel cause you both probably know how good this flash despite what people who have never even put 1% of the effort you guys put into this flash in their own work. Ill say 9.5/10.

tacobuttfish responds:

Thanks a bunch for #1 taking time to give us good constructive criticism that we can put to use for our second episode, and #2 for watching and giving the animation another go since the first time the syncing was off for some odd reason. It's good reviews like yours that makes all the effort we put into these animations worth it, so thank you and great advice that I will take into consideration and push for better in episode 2

-Taco Buttfish.

[Medix - Episode 2]

Sound goes buzz =)

I am reminded of Naruto. A decent flash. I think more things need to happen in the episode because after I watched it I felt like nothing really happened. I'm about 70% sure the language is Portuguese... Am I right?

Animachado responds:

Thanks for commenting, yes, the sound of Brazil and Portuguese

[Fun Stuff]

lol funny animals

Pretty good stuff I hope to see more some day

[Link Misses His Target]

ah fanbase bumping rage I have that too sometimes.

I like to see these sorts of talk about another flash flashes. However, I find Explosm's scores due to their large fan-base appalling while Darkar's fan-base makes me think "well maybe he deserves it. His flashes aren't not knocking out excellent, much more deserving flashes from the top spots like Explosm's near-stick-figure flashes." Blind Zombie-like fans always vote 5 and some people have a lot of them.

Darkar also has his own polished style and I think he deserves a slight bump for sticking with his series... maybe not quite as high as he gets but hey I don't know how he gets his fan base.

Your flash style is needs a little polishing but it looks like you put more time into the backgrounds and things. I must say tho that I find seeing the same loop so many times boring maybe sped up faster and faster or skipping parts would help if you don't want to make new loops.911 scene is a bit tasteless but I wont hold it against you. 7/10

DannyP responds:

Yeah, Explosm's scores bother me, too. However, I do think those are very well made. Even if they are stick people, the animation, backgrounds, and everything else is extremely smooth and good looking. That's a hell of a lot more than I can say about the actual Cyanide & Happiness webcomics, though, and I guess that's to be expected since the guys who make the comics don't even make the animations. I think those shorts are good, but still way overrated. I don't think such short movies deserve to be in the top 50, really. They totally aren't in the same league as nice, detailed 2-5 minute animations.

I did skip parts on the loop as the movie went along (skipped half of the intro on the final loop), but I should've skipped a lot more since lots of people are annoyed by this. RiftBetween had a much better alternative idea a few reviews back, actually.
Agreed about 9/11, and thanks for not taking it too seriously. Thanks for sharing your opinions.

[How Viruses Affect You!]

lolz RBC=no GJ tho

Umm... you depicted red blood cells....
Opps Red blood cells are not affected by viruses. On maturity the RBC exocytoses the nucleus and cytoplasmic machinery required by virus replication. (That is why they have a lifespan of 100 days) Also some viruses actually enter the cell by fusing with the cell membrane but that's cool.

Bet ya didn't know newgrounds visitors know science. or maybe you did...

I think good for a school project tho unlike most things I did back in school.

[Life In a Tank]

lol treasure?

lol poor goldfish. Yeah the 3 sec memory thing is a myth goldfish can be trained to avoid certain conditions and navigate mazes and will retain that memory for at least a couple months perhaps even longer. Rather than using a hypothalamus to form memories like mammals and are instead proposed to use a section of their brain called the telencephalic pallia.

Good animation but could have used a bit more variety.

Skeenee responds:

Tx for the educational minute:)

I knew it was probly a myth. It´s a bit sad though, they must be so friggin bored turning around endlessly in their tank:P

[XIN Session 18 (Finale)]

Inspirational

It is hard to express how great the plot of this episode is. The plot gets my rare 11/10. This series in my opinion one of the greatest examples of the power of storytelling through flash animation... really it stirred my emotions.

[SpaceLove]

for some reason I found this hilarious

"In outerspace, everything belongs to Toonboom. Everything. It all does."

After reading your description I can't help but laugh every time a toonboom watermark appears, claiming ownership of everything in space. For me it made your animation even better. I love that toonboom comet going by...

Blue-Cheese responds:

dude! Toonboom comet is priceless!!! I wish the deathstar got the toonboom watermark, blowing up planets and calling dibs on the crumbles haha!