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[Bad Guys Go To Hell]

great

thumbs up all the way around dude... After the second and third Bad Guys episodes I was a little worried that you were just riding the success of the first one (which in my opinion is excellence) but this one came with a new flavor and a new series of jokes :) Very cool stuff. I liked the first scene too, explaining how they've been evicted because they are poorly animated. Although it may have been a bit harsh in the name-calling it was still a very accurate statement about the entertainment industry in general (who cares about quality and content, it's gotta be pretty and slick).

ChrisNosal responds:

Yeah, I tried not to be too harsh. The "elitist fucks" thing was thrown in to cover something that I actually thought was MORE mean spirited. heh.

Thanks.

[Black & White:Atheism]

not bad

I think you gotta work very heavily on the plot if you're using The Movies... This was cool to watch but only because it shows what the game can do.

Smon responds:

Glad you enjoyed it, yeah... the plot was just a little short I made for fun.

[A long short journey]

good work

not exactly my cup of tea, but I liked your facial expressions a lot. :) Good job

Josemaria responds:

thanks. I like making exagerated expressions. Cartoony:D.. I don't think it's really anyone's cup of tea... It's not that interesting:D
thanks for the review

[Pope Vs Jesus]

what the hell's the point?

the idea of Jesus and the pope fighting could be funny, but there was no point... why were they fighting? It's just a poorly done action sequence with somebody "called" jesus and somebody "dressed like" a cleric... reference South Park's Jesus vs. Santa. This short cartoon actually had wit and humor, it had an underlying motive (Santa stole christmas from Jesus) and it had a very subtle message (they're both fantasy characters).

This had nothing. The drawing and animation style can be worked around but you need better writing dude. You need to research good flashes and compete against them, outdo them.

dazza-mate responds:

It seemed like a good idea at the time.

[The First Wave]

pretty cool but...

first, like others I'm sure have said (can't read reviews yet) it's a bit slow paced for a war piece. The sound effects were a bit... canned... well, only the bomb effects really.

second. One thing that drives me nuts in flashes is when half of the design is like art and the other half is thrown together crap. I see in most flashes, and in this one, excellently drawn guns and vehicles, then shoddily thrown together buildings and people. The people in your flash were good, but the buildings deserve just as much attention as the planes, despite the low screen time. Look at how smooth the soldiers at the radar station were, and they got only a few seconds. This is why I gave you 8 for graphics (the planes and people) but a 2 for style (you had no solid style, but a mix of styles).

Good job and I hope you make the conclusion since I'm too lazy to google it and find out what happened ;)

critiqUe109 responds:

Well, I would have thought of several themes, but this was as close as i can get. I like your comment on the airplanes though.

[Adventures of Bible Boy]

good :)

The graphics are quite sub-par and the sound was dodgy in spots too... but the concept is great :) It's nice to see someone taking a poke at the big J without overdoing the cliches (exagerated x-tian cliches are the suck... subtlety is needed). I liked it. :)

monkeycat responds:

Thanks! I think this was a case of it takes one to properly make fun of one... I grew up going to church so I knew all the right buttons to push...

[|Psycho|]

excellent clock flash!

i normally care very little for clock flashes but you've done a great job on this. I don't remember much from the movie but I've read the book very recently and the flash was bang on! Great job squeezing it all into ten minutes. There's loads of stuff that I felt were missing but considering the work you've already put into this and the condensed size of it it's a damn fine job.

[BadGuys2:AppeasingTheGods]

this was good

I liked this, but it didn't have the same "punch" that the last one had. I think, though we want longer, maybe shorter is better. It seems that in your first flash you didn't even have time to breathe, it was just too fast coming at you and you wouldn't stop laughing through most of it (even after several views) this one however gave me lots of time to regain composure and assess the situation on screen... got a few mild chuckles out of it.

It is indeed very good work (above my standard) and on NG definately worth a front page... it pales next to Badguys though. i'm very much looking forward to the next one (great voice acting by the way)

ChrisNosal responds:

Yeah, I'm sure I'll make short ones again. I just don't want every episode to be the same.

[Kill the Poor]

great job

the only downside I have to say is the sound quality, which you're already aware of... perhaps you could have tried playing with the equalizer before importing it to get the voices out louder and clearer than the guitar (that's where most of the vocals were lost)

So, the downside being a moot point, let's move on to the good:

I love that the energy of the flash matches punk energy. It's a very fast and crazy animation. I especially love when bush runs up to the emergency meeting and starts giving a "rally speech" even as he's first hitting the podium... And although I could have like dropping the swastika behind him, there really wasn't enough of a context behind it (there might have been if the sound had been clearer, not sure) so I think it wasn't a good choice for that scene... because of context not because of anything offensive or whatever.

I liked this... and it's not often I see real punk music used in flashes so that was refreshing too :)

ProjectSplinter responds:

Ah, thank you for your response. Its nice to see some critisism i can use instead of the usual "THIS SUCKS AND YOU SUCK BOO HOO!!!!11111"

rock on.

[Fun With Sacrilege]

kind of lame...

if you're going to be an iconoclast (which I fully encourage) you should have something decent to say...

although I was pretty pleased to see the first shot of the devil gettin nasty with... was it billy graham? after that though, it was just more of the same.

LordXanthus responds:

I suppose it is kind of lame and repetitive, but I'd only been using Flash for 15 days when I finished it, and I thought it was a bit funny. Better than some of the crap you find in the portal, anyway. Also: That wasn't Billy Graham, it was Jerry Falwell.