XwaynecoltX's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Pat Fitzstephens Tribute]

((( NICE EFFECTS )))

~~REVIEW~~
This was neat, and i noticed some really nice effcts, and color use, made the animation more worth while, and there was 4 good clips not crapy ones so very nice on this, hope to see more soon...

~~THINGS TO IMPROVE ON~~
Add another clip or two...

~~OVERALL~~
Good quality colab clips with some funny random scenes and good effects aswell...

~X~

[Final Fantasy Matters]

((( VERY NICE ANIMATION )))

~~REVIEW~~
This was some nice work, great animation, and the "CHARACTERS" were very impressive lots of effort and detail, and the story really stood out, i was impressed from start to finish...

~~THINGS TO IMPROVE ON~~
Nothing as it was perfect...

~~OVERALL~~
Neat story, nice effects and cool characters, nice job...

~X~

[CounterStrike>WarFeaver]

((( NOTBAD )))

~~REVIEW~~
This was cool, i like how it all flowd together, i do think it needs some better effort on the detail and effects side, also most important in any flash is the "COMPRESSION" it needs it badly, but for the most part it was interesting...

~~THINGS TO IMPROVE ON~~
Lower the size, it was just way to big, especialy since i and many others have 56k, its a proven study that 50% of net users still use dial-up so just think about that when making a flash next time...

~~OVERALL~~
Interesting animation but needs some compression...

~X~

[Global Warming Project]

((( NOTBAD )))

~~REVIEW~~
Well notbad, it does have alot of good facts and then some but doesnt give all the sources to date such as other means of things that could happen, but anyways it was neat i like dit...

~~THINGS TO IMPROVE ON~~
Nothing as it was ok...

~~OVERALL~~
Interesting flash could have more true facts aswell...

~X~

[Skater Punk]

((( FUNNY )))

~~REVIEW~~
Well i liked it for the humor portion of it, but as for the "ART" like teh character it could be abit better aswll as backrounds and stuff, but i did laugh with it, lots of funny happenings going on...

~~THINGS TO IMPROVE ON~~
More detail and effort on the characters and backrounds...

~~OVERALL~~
Funny and cute, needs more effort in some areas though...

~X~

[Yoshi's Island X]

((( FUNNY )))

~~REVIEW~~
Haha i liked this, also liked the sharp sprites even backrounds looked really nice, the "CURSUR" was no needed it seemed to get in the way at times, but overall it was a neat sharp looking sprite flash, keep it up...

~~THINGS TO IMPROVE ON~~
Remove the "GLOVE" Cursur as its not needed...

~~OVERALL~~
Sharp sprite animation and yoshi is always funny...

~X~

[game nonsense]

((( NEAT IDEA )))

~~REVIEW~~
This was neat, the idea of the micture of differrent elemens, the "ART" was notbad either, and most of all it made me laugh so it has a good entertainment value, i did think the file was abit much at 3 megs though, but overall i enjoyd it...

~~THINGS TO IMPROVE ON~~
Just lower the filesize somewhat...

~~OVERALL~~
Funny and entertaining with some decent humor and artwork, could be compressed abit better though...

~X~

[1vs1 stick fight]

((( OK )))

~~REVIEW~~
Well this was interesting, i thought the "BLEEDING EYES" wa a nice touch, but overall this was a neat little animation but does need some sorta effort from the backrounds to the character art...

~~THINGS TO IMPROVE ON~~
More detail and effort is needed...

~~OVERALL~~
Funny but needs more to it...

~X~

[Robust & Dog]

((( NEAT STYLE )))

~~REVIEW~~
This was sorta neat with the whole "B&W" theme, and the characters were neat, i do think it needs some work on more detail like in the backrounds and more effects, also abit of color would spice up things...

~~THINGS TO IMPROVE ON~~
Add more animation to the characters, I noticed the text was abit sloppy, why not give it some detail aswell as some Text bubbles, a decent font with some deep colors and good text bubles should improve on this... Well while its black and white, you may want to think about adding some color even just a drop here or there, like say a blood drop so that the B&W reflects more it would be a nice touch of little color vs the B&W...

~~OVERALL~~
A neat little flash but could use some improving...

~X~

Extar responds:

Glad you enjoyed the flash and thanks for the review!
Having black and white, then adding some bits of colour like for blood is too corny, I'm not going to start ripping off Sin City wholesale. Also, text bubbles would totally spoil the style of the flash, I was aiming for something subtle and not brash, even if readability and such would suffer.
You actually wanted more text? Most people get a headache when I ask them to read instead of me shouting the story at them through voices.
I'm not entirely sure what you thought was wrong with the font, too large/small or just not visible enough?
I will agree with you that there wasn't much detail in the backgrounds. However, I thought really detailed backgrounds would just be distracting and could mean the characters could have been lost with it being in black and white.
The criticisms you mention are the exact limitations I imposed on myself to actually make the flash unique and not like every other flash on NG, if I compromised them the flash would lose any individuality it might have.