When I saw the thumbnail I was brought back to when I saw your trailer for this series, and I was interested. You see, I remember reading a lot of the comments on that flash, and agreed with many of them asking for character amendments and slight changes to the premise. I hoped that you would take this constructive criticism and implement them into the series.
Sadly, it seems you didn't.
I wanted to like this flash, but the main character is just so unrelatable that there is no way that I can enjoy it fully. Maybe that's the point, but there are some niggles that make me think that is isn't. For one, I can't view this flash in the same way that I view other violent flashes like madness or stick fights because you have very clearly grounded this in the real world. Also, the inclusion of a very obvious image board and its behaviours just serve to ground this in reality.
But what I think causes this to fully fall flat for me is your description. A desensitization to gore and violence online does not equal desensitization to gore and violence in reality.
I feel no disgust in seeing gory pictures online any more, and I think that this is the same for many people who have been saturated in internet culture, however I'm still an objector to war, to the death penalty, to honour killings and school shootings. My point is, seeing a picture of a car crash and not feeling grossed out by it doesn't make one blood-thirsty, which your character is. She is truly insane.
Furthermore, it portrays a negative image of certain online cultures that don't deserve that image. Your flash doesn't show interaction between different online cultures, it shows the interaction of an insane person egged on by the anonymous hoards. Something that should never be glorified.
Story aside however, the voice work was pretty poor, but I did like the animation.
While a lot of the geometry stuff is very old knowledge, it's still interesting and you illustrated them well, however the spiritual fluff you throw in there at times kind of disappoints me. To me it looks like you have used a rather sneaky tactic of using cold hard mathematical proofs to push much less grounded religio-spiritual hypothesis. It's like saying "Hey, here's a bunch of interesting proven maths. Now here's a philosophical hypothesis which must be true because that mathematical stuff I talked about earlier was true."
I just ask people not to jump on the bandwagon and blindly accept that this guy must know what he's talking about because he knows a lot of facts. A little scepticism and reading some peer reviewed research should be done before accepting anything as true. I guess that goes for what I'm saying too.
Also, the rating accompanying this comment is no reflection on the flash. I merely gave it 5 in order to post my comment. To be perfectly honest I don't know what to rate this as.
...it was pretty good.
I'm sure you were unaware of Kevin Bacon day before it happened, so since this was made in such a short period of time, I have to give you credit for accentuating the true spirit of Kevin Bacon day.
This was much more addictive than I expected it to be. You read 'Pong' and think 'Not this again' but the combination of sound effects, amusing (if not a bit too few) messages and actually rewarding game-play all added up to a decent game.
It's not going to win any innovation awards, or graphics, or sound, but for what it is, it's a fun game. I actually felt joyous after beating some of the harder levels, something which many flash games of this sort fail to do.
I was going to say it was easy, but once I got deeper into the game I really felt the difficulty.
Overall, a surprisingly good pong clone.
Newgrounds is for Flash animations, not videos. Sure, there are a few well received videos here, but they are very NG oriented. This isn't the kind of video you can get away with on this site.
The video itself was OK. The laptop specs weren't really useful. Things like processing power, graphics card, memory etc are all good things to know. Also there was a lot of lag between video and audio when you were the 'alien'.
Once again though, this really is a "YouTube" thing, not a Newgrounds thing.
P.S. You spelt laptop incorrectly in your title.
The animation is impressive. Smooth and quick. I love the way the health bars go down when the pokemon get hurt. Oh, and I sort of found the easter eggs. . .
I used a program, OK! But it was worth it. The 'min one was really unexpected and actually made me laugh out loud. Something I rarely do with Flash animations.
This is a great game. The controls are nice, battles are action packed and the difficulty curve is perfect. My main problem with the game is the achievements. It's a great feature and I love it when I unlock an achievement, but most of the time they don't save. I've beaten Mindchamber and Stamper and Jeff, got over 80% in the P-Bot clean-up minigame and checked out the walkthrough, all triggering the 'achievement unlocked' event, yet the achievements do not save. It's really annoying and it ruins the whole integrity of the achievements, it really needs to be fixed. That's why it looses a star.
You shouldn't steal flashes. I always blow the whistle if I see a stolen flash. Do the work yourself and if the flash is a success, you might feel some accomplishment.
It's really easy to get a copy of a .flv file and transfer it onto your hard drive anyway, so that's probably why so many people are tempted to post them as their own work.
Now, reviewing your piece for more than the moral, I'd have to say it was poorly animated and drawn and was too short to allow it to achieve a high mark.
Although the shoop was funny.
This was quite good. The concept was solid and the game play was fun. Not only that, but you pulled it off well. It got me thinking that this would do very well as a game for DSWare. Of course it would need to be longer and the visuals would need to be re-thought, but overall, I'd buy it.
This is a very fun game. I like the Kirby element and the different weapons you could pick up. I completed the game using 18 lives and found it challenging enough to keep playing 'till the end, even after one game over. The large 'Big gay' enemies were challenging in their own right, but once you have dodging down they're not to bad. I liked the amusing names later on in the game as well, and the surprise ending was a nice touch too as was the multiple character choice once you've completed the game. I urge all of you who have given up on this game to try again, I know it's hard at first, but you soon learn the mechanics.
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All 53 flash Reviews
Rated 2 / 5 stars October 27, 2011
Disappointed that it doesn't differ from trailer
When I saw the thumbnail I was brought back to when I saw your trailer for this series, and I was interested. You see, I remember reading a lot of the comments on that flash, and agreed with many of them asking for character amendments and slight changes to the premise. I hoped that you would take this constructive criticism and implement them into the series.
Sadly, it seems you didn't.
I wanted to like this flash, but the main character is just so unrelatable that there is no way that I can enjoy it fully. Maybe that's the point, but there are some niggles that make me think that is isn't. For one, I can't view this flash in the same way that I view other violent flashes like madness or stick fights because you have very clearly grounded this in the real world. Also, the inclusion of a very obvious image board and its behaviours just serve to ground this in reality.
But what I think causes this to fully fall flat for me is your description. A desensitization to gore and violence online does not equal desensitization to gore and violence in reality.
I feel no disgust in seeing gory pictures online any more, and I think that this is the same for many people who have been saturated in internet culture, however I'm still an objector to war, to the death penalty, to honour killings and school shootings. My point is, seeing a picture of a car crash and not feeling grossed out by it doesn't make one blood-thirsty, which your character is. She is truly insane.
Furthermore, it portrays a negative image of certain online cultures that don't deserve that image. Your flash doesn't show interaction between different online cultures, it shows the interaction of an insane person egged on by the anonymous hoards. Something that should never be glorified.
Story aside however, the voice work was pretty poor, but I did like the animation.
Rated 2.5 / 5 stars June 21, 2011
Proof and philosophy doesn't sit well with me.
While a lot of the geometry stuff is very old knowledge, it's still interesting and you illustrated them well, however the spiritual fluff you throw in there at times kind of disappoints me. To me it looks like you have used a rather sneaky tactic of using cold hard mathematical proofs to push much less grounded religio-spiritual hypothesis. It's like saying "Hey, here's a bunch of interesting proven maths. Now here's a philosophical hypothesis which must be true because that mathematical stuff I talked about earlier was true."
I just ask people not to jump on the bandwagon and blindly accept that this guy must know what he's talking about because he knows a lot of facts. A little scepticism and reading some peer reviewed research should be done before accepting anything as true. I guess that goes for what I'm saying too.
Also, the rating accompanying this comment is no reflection on the flash. I merely gave it 5 in order to post my comment. To be perfectly honest I don't know what to rate this as.
Rated 3.5 / 5 stars April 4, 2010
Considering the prep time...
...it was pretty good.
I'm sure you were unaware of Kevin Bacon day before it happened, so since this was made in such a short period of time, I have to give you credit for accentuating the true spirit of Kevin Bacon day.
Rated 3 / 5 stars January 18, 2010
Surprisingly fun
This was much more addictive than I expected it to be. You read 'Pong' and think 'Not this again' but the combination of sound effects, amusing (if not a bit too few) messages and actually rewarding game-play all added up to a decent game.
It's not going to win any innovation awards, or graphics, or sound, but for what it is, it's a fun game. I actually felt joyous after beating some of the harder levels, something which many flash games of this sort fail to do.
I was going to say it was easy, but once I got deeper into the game I really felt the difficulty.
Overall, a surprisingly good pong clone.
Rated 1 / 5 stars January 17, 2010
This isn't YouTube
Newgrounds is for Flash animations, not videos. Sure, there are a few well received videos here, but they are very NG oriented. This isn't the kind of video you can get away with on this site.
The video itself was OK. The laptop specs weren't really useful. Things like processing power, graphics card, memory etc are all good things to know. Also there was a lot of lag between video and audio when you were the 'alien'.
Once again though, this really is a "YouTube" thing, not a Newgrounds thing.
P.S. You spelt laptop incorrectly in your title.
Rated 5 / 5 stars May 14, 2009
Awesome.
The animation is impressive. Smooth and quick. I love the way the health bars go down when the pokemon get hurt. Oh, and I sort of found the easter eggs. . .
I used a program, OK! But it was worth it. The 'min one was really unexpected and actually made me laugh out loud. Something I rarely do with Flash animations.
Rated 4.5 / 5 stars March 5, 2009
Great fun
This is a great game. The controls are nice, battles are action packed and the difficulty curve is perfect. My main problem with the game is the achievements. It's a great feature and I love it when I unlock an achievement, but most of the time they don't save. I've beaten Mindchamber and Stamper and Jeff, got over 80% in the P-Bot clean-up minigame and checked out the walkthrough, all triggering the 'achievement unlocked' event, yet the achievements do not save. It's really annoying and it ruins the whole integrity of the achievements, it really needs to be fixed. That's why it looses a star.
Rated 2.5 / 5 stars November 15, 2008
Too right,
You shouldn't steal flashes. I always blow the whistle if I see a stolen flash. Do the work yourself and if the flash is a success, you might feel some accomplishment.
It's really easy to get a copy of a .flv file and transfer it onto your hard drive anyway, so that's probably why so many people are tempted to post them as their own work.
Now, reviewing your piece for more than the moral, I'd have to say it was poorly animated and drawn and was too short to allow it to achieve a high mark.
Although the shoop was funny.
Rated 4 / 5 stars October 23, 2008
Nice.
This was quite good. The concept was solid and the game play was fun. Not only that, but you pulled it off well. It got me thinking that this would do very well as a game for DSWare. Of course it would need to be longer and the visuals would need to be re-thought, but overall, I'd buy it.
Rated 4.5 / 5 stars October 11, 2008
Nice
This is a very fun game. I like the Kirby element and the different weapons you could pick up. I completed the game using 18 lives and found it challenging enough to keep playing 'till the end, even after one game over. The large 'Big gay' enemies were challenging in their own right, but once you have dodging down they're not to bad. I liked the amusing names later on in the game as well, and the surprise ending was a nice touch too as was the multiple character choice once you've completed the game. I urge all of you who have given up on this game to try again, I know it's hard at first, but you soon learn the mechanics.
Thanks alot for completing it.