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I'm leaving this review with this score for a reason, and it's because I don't know the true story behind this. I've heard drunk driving accident a number of times, and now through your flash I hear a different story. I'm not a heartless person at all, but when it comes to portal spammers, and then spamming the portal over one spammers death - it's tough to go along with. But I'm not here to critisize, I'm here to give you an honest review.
Graphics/Animation: 2
I probably would have given you a 3 or 4 here, but I saw a spelling error, and one thing about text flashes that really kills me is when someone doesn't do a full spellcheck. Not to mention the "flash" part of the movie was completely non-existant. If you wanted to do a real submission for your brother as a tribute then I think you should have taken this a little further. What you SHOULD HAVE done was take a collection of his older flashes and do little mini clips of them instead because spam or not, it still looks better than a story with nothing but text. The reason I didn't give you a high score was because there was one picture shown twice and the rest was text.
Audio: 6
I can't really complain here. There was a song all the way through the flash and it came through clear, which is saying a lot. There weren't any sound effects - nor was there reason for any. I guess I could say you didn't do too bad in this area of your flash.
Story: 7
Your flash actually scored well here because there WAS a story, and true or not you presented it somewhat well along with the music. It was a sad and very graphic story, but you got your point across and that's what is most important. Nice job in this category.
Originality: 0
I would give you a higher score for originality, but due to how many of these flashes I saw that day I simply can't. Like I said before I'm not heartless I'm just here to review your flash.
Overall: 2/10
I understand this was a tribute to your brother and if it is truth then I'm honestly sorry for being so harsh with this review. The only problem is that if I knew it was MY brother who died and I had talent in flash, then I would certainly be using it to make a huge, elaborate flash that people would remember forever for how detailed and amazing it was. I would work my ass off to put something in the Top 50 dedicated to him. This is why I was so harsh about your flash being a dedication. I'm sorry for your loss, and good luck.
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This game was definitely enough to keep me entertained for a little while, but then it started hurting my eyes a bit. It was fairly well made and it was a good concept, but I just had a problem with the simplicity.
I understand your game wasn't meant to become really big and ellaborate or anything, which is fine because it was still a decent game, but my problem is always the little things. You can always have your flash get a high score by improving the actual look of the preloader, menu, menu buttons, and credits. You did something cool by having your past reviews float by about the game, which was fairly original looking to me, but it was all off of a white based screen. You need to get a better looking preloader and change up the look of your buttons.
When I say it's too simple I mean that white is always the base background for everything. It just isn't all that acceptable when it comes to making quality flashes nowadays.
You may be asking yourself why I'm pinpointing the little things instead of your game? Because the littlest parts of your flash are what people will notice the most when it comes to voting. You had a fairly good style of a flash game, but once you improve everything based around it, you have yourself an overall way better score. Good idea for a game, and I'm looking forward to another one sometime in the near future. Good luck!
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Author's Response:
I understand picking the little things, together they can make a big difference. The NG preloaders are far better than my own so I will keep using them until I start making my own dynamic. The answers to the questions will be different for each answer will have a different one. There will be a sunburst effect applied to the background. By changing the look of the buttons, what do you mean?
Thanks for the review, mwmike.
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Great job with this collab, everything was perfect in my eyes and sounded great to my ears. This is one of those memorable collabs that deserves to be in my favorites, but now...onto my review!
Graphics/Animation: 10
The most important thing about this collab was that the animating was very smoothly done all the way through. Everyone's individual contribution ran just as smoothly as the ones before and after it. Even though some of the contributions were stick figure ones (and I'm USUALLY not a fan of sticks), they were very well animated and had some awesome movements. The best parts were the special effects of the fighting and mostly the water. In a collab like this it's so important to get the minor details right, and you all did it right. I also want to commend you all on the backgrounds, which include the actual background and details of the ships. Everyone has great animating skills in this collab, and I'm glad you came together because this was awesome!
Audio: 9.5
The song was awesome, flat out awesome. It fit in completely with the flash itself, and most importantly it was almost like it was synced perfect to the actual actions in the flash. The menu music, Pirates of the Carribean, was also another great song you included to almost set the mood for the flash itself. The sound effects were also really really well done. Everything was dead onto the action of the animation in which it defined. My only downfall that I docked you 0.5 points for was because the voice acting of the characters was too low to even hear at all. I couldn't hear them no matter what I tried to do. But overall great work with the sound!
Originality: 10
Something I've never seen, but wanted to see is a flash about Pirates the way you guys made on. I wish I was just saying that to use as a compliment, but it's completely true. I've seen a couple of pirate flashes on Newgrounds here and there, but nothing that comes out to being this caliber. I really enjoyed how original each of your ideas was, because you'll never score high if you just do the traditional pirate lifestyle - looting, sailing, swordfights. You all included things such as skateboarding and pulling out weapons like uzis. This is incredibly important, and I'm glad to have seen such talent here!
Collab Score: 10
This is something I've added new to my review style. Basically what I am doing here is rating you based on how well all of you were able to come together and put together this collab. I've been complimenting you all so far up to this point, so obviously you'll get praised with the 10/10 here, but I'll also tell you why. The best part of a collab is when you can see one style of one author leading into a style of the next in line. It seemed like all of you were on the same page when you were using brighter colors for the backgrounds and the character styles were all almost the same or similar to another in the lineup. I honestly think that if there's going to be another collab from all of you it will generally sync up perfectly based on how your styles all work well with each other.
Overall: 10/10
This is easily a 10/10 score. There isn't enough I could say to praise you all any more for what you have done with this flash. I'm really looking forward to another collab of yours in the future. Great work with this flash, honestly. Keep up the good work all of you!
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Author's Response:
Thanks for the review, it almost made me cry. :3 This made my day and ILUVYOU<3
One of the best reviews of all the 401 review for this submission great job. :D Also, in you 'Collab Score' you could include 'Preloader Game' and 'Menu' cuz that are also important things for a collab! :D
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This was a very well done and fast paced beat. At the beginning you set the tone with the wind sounds and built it up into a good fast paced song. It wasn't too intense or too soft for anyone's taste, but it was just right. The only thing that started to get on my nerves after a while was the chiming noise that went on the WHOLE TIME. But honestly it wasn't bad at all, so great work!
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Author's Response:
Thanks for the review. The chiming noise was made because that high note was the most pronounced note in the motion synth pad I had going throughout most of the song, and I wanted to bring that out for some variation. But then I decided it would be a good unifying factor throughout the song. And I wanted to create some Left/Right motion. I do think it is a bit prominent, maybe I should've lowered the volume in some parts. Glad you liked it overall though :)
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This was truly a presentation of pure energy and aggression all packed into one ridiculous sounding beat. This is definitely something you would see in a modern martial arts movie during an all out fight scene. It had a nice repetitive beat, but with a bunch of different sound effects going on in the background. Definitely a song that was worth anyone's time to listen to. Anything that you were aiming for to impress a listener with you definitely were able to get in this song! Great work with this and I'm looking forward to listening to your songs in the future!
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Author's Response:
I saw an ad for an upcoming martial arts film that looked pretty kickass, you reminded me of that.
Thanks for the compliments, you made me feel loved. <3
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It definitely wasn't as sloppy as you made it out to be in your Author's comments. I actually found it to be quite impressive. I liked the way it was a bunch of sounds mixed up because that means one thing for the song - it isn't repetitive. Once you try to aim for a certain beat that builds up throughout a song, you always have to worry about boring the person listening. This song you didn't have that to worry about at all. In fact this at no point got too repetitive. However there was a buildup at one point, but in the end it turned out great! Even the ending, though it sounded different from the rest of the song, fit in great! Nice work!
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Author's Response:
hello my friend, i apologize for the late response, as ive been busy lately with college :(.
you are completely right, i guess i killed it on my comment T_T, well i was kidna hyper and since it was something experimental .... im glad u actually liked it hehe the ending still im not quite convinced with it, i did another version with an alternate ending to this one, i guess ill post it to see what you think about it . thanks for reviewing it :D
im glad its not repetitive hehe:D
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