Darkend's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Sprite Deathmatch Tourny]

"Will Dynamo use his powers for good or evil?!?!"

who cares.

-Darkend-

Darcath responds:

Hehe. Not you. :)

[Kafka Beetle]

You've heard it before and you'll hear it again

The party thing at the end killed this flash. Really, you had something very good going for you there. Great graphics, smooth motion, haunting mood, perfect music, your first flash movie ever, it was all there for you man. Way to take the chainsaw to your moment of oppertunity. Sure, you could just try again but that was your first animation so it would've been real impressive. I voted a 2. If the last scene was gone it would've gotten a 4 or 5. If I were you right now, I'd be shooting myself in the foot. Oh well, I guess you can't be perfect from the start. You still have a lot to learn.

-Darkend-

[StarCraft: The Return]

Well thought out, but not fully executed

I can tell you're very creative (I've checked out your site) and you put a lot of thought into your stories. However I think you need a little more help in actually putting your projects together.

My personal artist friend here is tweaking out over your sloppy graphics concerning your people. Your ships and mecha stuff were awesome, no doubt there, but your people and faces are...yeeeeahhh. You need to fix the shading in the hair because you drew out of the lines once and overall (on the redhead) the hair was spiky but the shadows were round. Very bad. Stay in your lines. And shade! Shade everything, your colors are too bright. The ships were too lit up for being in space.

Get some help with your voice acting so you don't have to do every single voice. We can tell you're having trouble trying to change it.

You're dealing with a major StarCraft fanatic here. I know it inside and out. Enough to say that the design on some of the crafts were a little wrong. For HEAVENS SAKE dont have the dropship have those straight legged landing pads! That's so gross. It looks like something out of the 70's. You did okay in capturing the world, except when they went to that..general guy to get briefed. He talked and looked like a principal in a school and the whole matter didn't seem serious at all. Not to mention unrealistic dialogue between them. I don't know that part just looked corny.

Work a little more and you'll get closer to capturing the world. Overall good job though. 'A' for effort.

-Darkend-

LogFish responds:

I love A's for effort! Heh. Thanks for your detailed pointers on the freehand graphics, that's what reviewers don't usually do, tell the person how to do something they clearly don't know how to do. (granted, most don't know how anyway). Anyway - I'm shading the graphics in the next episode with the pencil and filling it etc. so the lines are looking much better - this one was a real abortion in that respect looking back on it, trying to cross pencil with brush - i gave up as is clear when the shading stops early on heh.
I don't really think I can be assed doing lighting effects all the time for everything, as while they look cool you can't use the graphics again, and this is flash afterall. Filesize under 5 meg and all that.
I'm putting voice actors in the next one, whether that'll be a blessing or a curse, we'll see.
Thanks heaps for that useful review!

[HACKware ep. 1]

Boring, Long, Old, and not Funny

I dont know, this was just so boring and long dude. Maybe this may come as a shock to you but this was not funny at all in my opinion. The jokes were either premature, or old. I'm seeing too many movies like this lately. The poorly drawn, long, bad-joked, movies.

Did you get this idea from Decline in Video Gaming? I know the plot is different, but c'mon the similarities were all there, except yours was this mediocre one. The graphic style of the characters, the intros, the comedy flash-backs like, "Hey guys remember what happend last time we tried this?" *que flash back* Its old.

Lastly, this lasted too long and you drug out things that should've been. Shorten your scenes especially your "comedy" scenes because those were the longest and thew worst.

Come up with something more original, improve your graphics, and get some new jokes and humor. It was so long that you must have spent a long time on it so I gave you a 2 to protect, but you barely deserved it.

-Darkend-

Sudden-Flash responds:

I am making ep. 2 more original. I have developed my own style now, and yes, for the record most of my inspiration for design methods came from Decline.

[Starcraft Homeworld remix]

Eh, I dont know..I didnt really like it

the only thing that I liked about this was your graphics...everything else was just kinda dumb. I was expecting the Zealots psi blades to be a lot longer and cooler than that. They barely passed their hands in length, if that. The song wasnt that great, especially with the quotes that didn't fit. "This is not WarCraft in space!" "I wonder what this button does." No, none that that made sense dude.

But what really bugged me out of all of it was that nuclear missile. Oh my gosh dude, what the heck? C'mon man, you know that no one is going to use a big ol' powerful nuclear missile on a stupid dinky interceptor. What was that?! Really, that was just dumb.

There were just a few other things, having to do with the reality of it all. (tanks shooting at such close range). But your graphics saved you..for the most part

Overall, decent job.

-Darkend-

LegolaSS responds:

ok i know its not the best moive ever but you must understand i created a moive based on the music, second of all, these are early days, you can not espect somthing spectatular now?... ok, now to answer your questions... the psi blade... ok sure if you thought they were lightsabers on the end of there hands, well thats fine, yeah i suppose there a little short but its rather hard to tell when there that small, the song was somthing i found which had zealots talking in and i thought would make a intressting moive, the nuclear missile... ok they fired the missle at a protoss base, but the interceptor... well.. intercepted, and got in the way thus blowin up, some people saw it like that, others saw it like you... and the tank shootin at close range, right as you may of seen, the zealot just standing there... well thats just down 2 to factors, time... and lazyness... but thank you for writing such a detailed review, i apressiate it, and i hope i have answered all your questions, if not email me, thxs darkend hope to see you reviewin over moives soon...

[Aint That A Bitch?]

Well that makes a lot of sense

Kinda hard to not like something if I've never seen it before, don'cha think?

-Darkend-

[Nightmare Pt1]

You Already Submitted This Before

Why are you submitting this again? You haven't changed anything. If it gets blamed once, its just going to die again.

[Gaia Destruction]

Nightwish Rocks. Period.

Nightwish is pretty much my favorite band of all (check my profile) I have just about all their albums. Yeah, the guy talking about how the song was terrible just doesn't know the style and the coolness of Nightwish. Too bad.

However, I'm not judging you on your choice of music, its your animation because that is the true thing that defines a flash. You've heard the others say it and I'm going to say it again. Get some legs on those angels. It was just annoying and in a lot of parts looked bad.

This was more of a music video than anything else so I'm judging your style on your protrayal of the song. I've listen to this song a lot and have gotten my own images in my head...and yours were nothing like mine. But I will say, yours was very good and creative. You just need to work on those graphics. My image is more cinimatic and serious. Yours looked comical almost. That was my biggest beef with this. Change your graphic style and this baby is a winner.

Good Job

-Darkend-

[Whoooop2]

Uhh...

I'm trying to figure out what I just saw...

-Darkend-

[Bof X]

That was bad

You have a horrible sense of humor...I didn't laugh at ANY of the crap you put in there. You think people getting killed in odd ways, sick use of the body, and yelling like a retard, "WTF OMG STFU" is funny? You sound 11 years old. Randomness and weirdness if funny, however, you have to know how to do it. Your failing. Next time, to make this better I would suggest finding different forms of humor that are actually...funny. You know, things that don't really involve the things listed above, otherwise you look completely immature. Also, as far as your graphics, pull away from sprites. Its not good to rely on them too much. Thats all I have to suggest.

-Darkend-