Auz's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Zelda, Master of Hyrule 2]

Improved a bit, but still not good

Well it has improved a bit. I can see that it's a bit longer then episode one. I still don't think it's a good movie though. Many things could use improvement in this.

First of all, the graphics need some improvement. They didn't looked that good in my opinion. Also I would've choosen some different sprites, I know that these are from the original game and your probably are going to say that I'm not a true Zelda fan if I don't like these and blah blah. I do like most Zelda games, but I know that there are better Zelda sprites out there that could make the movie a lot better. The backgrounds were also very bad and had no details. Sometimes it was just an orange and a blue square that's supposed to be the sea and the beach or something. Second, you should add some more sounds and music in it. It already has some sounds and music, I know that, but at some moments there were none and that made the movie a bit boring. Third, like you already said, the scene selection is a bit pointless. When I click at that, it says: Scene 1, Scene 2 and Scene 3. This doesn't mean anything to me, at least make something so that I know when scene 2 and 3 starts. Also, you must make the movies a bit longer if you want the scene selection to be usefull. Fourth, the fights could be a lot better. Right now it was just some sword that appeared and the monster was defeated. I know it's probably pretty hard to make good fights with sprites, but try to improve them in some way.

Overall I'd give this movie 5 out of 10, 2 out of 5. I guess you at least putted some effort into this and cause of the music it had and the story, I gave it some extra points. I ain't really that interested in part three, but I'll keep an eye out for it anyway. Hopefully that improved a bit. This episodes score if about 0.5 higher, so hopefully part three will get something close to 3.00 (and deserves that score). Anyway, keep it up and good luck with the rest of the series.

~Auz

[Jester the chester]

Quite amusing

Well I wanted to wright a review today and I decided to press the random submission button and this came out. I think it was a pretty decent movie. It surely shows some potential. However, I think there are a couple of reasons for the kinda average score (well 2.60 ain't bad, but for this, I think it's kinda average).

First of all, it misses sounds and music. This is really too bad, the score could have been a lot higher if you added that. I see that you wanted to update this as soon as possible, but well, this submission is nearly 1 year old so I don't think you'll ever update this. Second, the movie is kinda short. I think, if you made it a bit longer, it would have been a lot better. You could also add some more short cartoons in one submission. I think that would be the best, cause if you made this longer, it might become boring instead of funny. Be sure to add a menuscreen and all that if you decide to make more short cartoons.

Well I highly doubt that you are going to remake this actually. I see that this is your latest submission and I don't think you'll ever submit anything on Newgrounds again. Too bad, I think you would have made a couple of really good movies. The graphics were very good in this and if someone can draw pretty well, then I think he's capable of making good movies, cause the rest is probably not that diffecult. Anyway, I'd give this movie 5 out of 10, 2 out of 5. It was quite an amusing movie, too bad it was so short and had no sounds. Well good luck with any other things you were planning to make with flash (if you were planning to make anything someday).

~Auz

[Just one of mario's days!]

Average

Meh this was kinda average. I've seen a lot better then this, seen worse as well though. I guess it's only your second flash, so I shouldn't expect that much. I ain't a big fan of these kinda movies, I know that there are Mario sprites that look better, but if you like these more, too bad then. Anyway, I can see the score improved a lot. Your first flash had a score of about 1.65, this one has 1.10 higher. That's quite a difference. Anyway, a couple of suggestions that might make the movie get an even higher score:

First suggestion, the part were Mario looked down took a bit long. There wasn't that much variety in the 'stairs' so you could've made that a bit shorter. Second, you could make the movie a bit longer by adding extra scenes and all that. Just think of something. It would also be cool if you added some kinda menu screen with a scene-selection, bonus-scenes and a mini game, although I think that is probably a bit too diffecult to make for you. I'd say just try to make something like that, if it takes to long then just forget it. Third, the background could be a bit better. I guess you just took some background from a Mario game, but maybe you can find a more detailed one somewhere.

Overall I'd give this 5 out of 10, 2 out of 5. Like I said, it was kinda average, practice a bit more with flash I'd say and hopefully you'll do better next time. Well good luck with any other things you were planning to make.

~Auz

[Lilium]

You've done very well here

Wow, this was surely an awesome movie. It's really kinda weird that it got a daily third place, a weekly fourth place and is now the number one of all time. That doesn't happen very often. Score must have got a lot higher after daily third. Too bad though, you could have won a daily first and weekly first. I also see that this was your first flash ever, now that's quite impressive. If this was your first, then I would like to know how good your 10th will be. Not many people make something as good as this as their first submission.

Anyway, I saw at the author comments that you were working on a sequel. That's a good thing, the story is quite promising and the character looks pretty good. Dunno if you were going to make a game or another movie though, a game would be pretty cool.

Well not many things that could use improvement I think. Maybe some more animation and less of a slideshow, but I saw you already knew about that. Also, maybe you could add some sound-effects. That might make the movie a bit better, but I guess it could ruin the movie as well. The last thing, maybe the next episode should have a little bit more information about what the story is all about. The story seemed kinda weird to me.

Overall I'd give this 8 out of 10, 4 out of 5. Like I said, I think you've done pretty well here. Especially cause it's one of your first submissions. Hopefully the sequel will be submitted soon, I'll surely check it out. Anyway, keep up the excellent work and I wish you good luck with the rest of the movies.

~Auz

[Hyrulian Rhapsody]

You sure you made this in 2 days?

Say this was pretty good. It's kinda hard to believe that you made this in 2 days. If that's true then I would like to know what you could make in 2 weeks. I mean, 2 days of work and a low filesize. Normally that stuff is blam-material, but this was far from being blammed. 3.18 is a very good score. I also see that this is one of your first flashes (or at least one of your first flashes you submitted here), I must say I'm pretty impressed.

Although I don't think this movie is enough to win an award, and it will most likely not get one. Well maybe the underdog of the week award, but that's also very unlikely (1.50 difference is quite a lot, but not enough I think). Well I think the only that could make this movie a lot better is that you should have made it longer. The movie was not really that short, but it could've been a bit longer. Just add some more scenes or something and maybe you could add a menu screen with some short extra movies and a minigame. I've seen stuff like that before that got a very high score (somewhere close to 4.00), so maybe you should try making something like that.

Anyway, overall I'd give this 7 out of 10, 3 out of 5. Like I've said, it's pretty impressive that you made something like this in such a short time. Could've been better if you worked a bit longer on it. Well maybe you should try to draw real figures instead of using sprites. If your sure you probably can't draw anything better then stickman then keep using sprites cause sprites > stickmovies. Anyway, I hope to see some more (good) stuff from you soon. Keep up the good work and good luck with any other movies you were planning to make in the future.

~Auz

Neon-Shadow responds:

Thankyou for a PROPER review :).
Yeah, I made this in 2 days on and off. I could have worked longer on it, but this was just a little thing I wanted to do to get me back into Flash after making my last cartoon in December! It was going to be much shorter, but I managed to add some more stuff into it.

I can draw though, sprites isn't the only thing I do ;) check out my site for more on that. Thanks a lot for the encouraging feedback. I plan on spending longer on my future projects!

[Brunk's Zelda Collection]

This was pretty good

I would call this a pertty good flash. I expected less actually, those submissions that have like a couple of short cartoons are usually not that good. This was one of the better in my opinion. Still, you need to improve on a couple of things. Also, I think you should add a couple of things to make this even better.

First of all, the drawing could use a little improvement. They weren't really that bad though, they were actually pretty good, but if you want to get an even higher score, you have to draw a little bit better. Second, the 3 cartoons were kinda short. A minute for every cartoon is not really that long and I even doubt if they all are one minute. You could either make the movies a bit longer, you know add some extra scenes and all that or you could add some more cartoons. I saw that you were planning to make more of these kind of movies, so I hope there will be more to watch there. Third, well it's not really that important, but the menu screen could use some music maybe. You don't have to add that, it would just be a nice extra thing.

Anyway, overall I'd give this 7 out of 10, 3 out of 5. I think you've done pretty well here, could be a bit better, but it was a pretty good submission. Well I've seen that you were planning to make some more of these in the future. I'll keep an eye out for them. Keep up the good work and good luck with making the movies.

~Auz

von-Brunk responds:

I actually wrote and began animating several other shorts, but I wanted this to be a small file. Plus, this cartoon collection itself was beginning to lag in Flash MX 2004 (due to lots of content and wav files) when I finished making it, so a few cartoons were cut. They'll be in the next Brunk Zelda Collection.

[Halo 2D]

Not that entertaining

Well this didn't really entertained me at all. I guess this is only one of your first flashes so I shouldn't expect that much I guess. On the other hand, you really worked a couple of weeks on this? That's hard to believe, I heard about other people who could do stuff like this in a couple of days (or even a couple of hours). Anyway the things that need to improve:

First of all, the subtitles. I think it would be better if you added some black box at the bottom of the screen so that the text is a bit easier to read. Second, it was kinda short. I think you should make this a bit longer. You should also add some storyline in this, that'll make the movie a lot more interesting. You could at some scenes about why they were fighting and stuff like that. Third, I think the music was way too loud. I know you'd say: 'turn your speakers down then', but they were already at a very low volume. So please make the music a bit less loud and add some better music cause I didn't really liked the music it had now. Fourth, the fights could be a bit better, they weren't really that spectacular. Practice a bit more with making good fights I'd say.

Anyway, overall I'd give this 4 out of 10, 2 out of 5. Like I said, didn't really entertained me. To answer your question about if you should keep making it, I'd say yes. Not that I'm really waiting for anything like this again, but I just hope that you'll get better with flash cause of that. Dunno if your planning to make a whole series out of this though. Anyway I hope you'll take some of my advice and that your next submission will be better then this. Keep it up and good luck with any future projects.

~Auz

Dog responds:

What I ment was i did this animation a couple of weeks ago then gave up on it. It actually took me a few hours to make, thats why it was ordinary. Sorry Guys

[My FFX Tribute]

Decent

This was kinda decent I think. I've seen better then this, but okay, I've seen worse then this as well. Anyway, I have a feeling that this could be a lot better if you put some extra work in it. At least make sure that you improve on the following things.

First of all, the background. It was just a white screen and that was it. Some good background would be nice and could get this movie a higher score. Just think of something. Second, I think you need to improve the graphics a bit. It's not that they were crappy or something, but I know that they weren't that great. I know that you asked people not to comment on the sticky animation, but you really have to improve that. It's really important and it'll give the movie a higher score for sure. Third, it was kinda short. I think it would be better if you made it longer and added some storyline in it as well. Just add some scenes with a couple of enemies and those four characters fight them or just think of something else (more original maybe?). Fourth, well there was music in this (which I didn't really liked, but that's my opinion), but there were no sounds in this. It would be nice if you added a couple of sounds like explosion- and swordsounds.

Well I hope you'll put some extra work in it to make this movie a bit better, although I doubt you'll remake this. Anyway, overall I'd give it 6 out of 10, 3 out of 5. Like I said, it was a decent movie. Practice a bit more with flash and learn how to draw better, cause the graphics are very important. Anyway, keep it up and good luck with any other future projects.

~Auz

cheese-meister responds:

well youre right im not going to remake this, once a movies in/gets blammed thats it, no more

[some stick fights]

Belongs to the better stickmovies

I should say, this belongs to the catagory of the better stick movies. I'm not really a huge fan of stick movies though, not that I really hate them, but I prefer to see real drawn characters. Anyway, some stuff could be improved.

First of all, the first two parts needed a background. Right now it was only some white screen with nothing. A good background could improve the score, so just think of some good background. Second, I would have choosen different music. I think the song was kinda boring, but it's just a matter of taste I guess. Third, I think you should have added a storyline in this. You could stick the scenes together you know. You could also make some extra scenes which explain why the sticks are fighting and of course you should also make a good ending scene then. Some more types of sticks would be nice as well then, you know, stick that carry different weapons, stick that are bigger, sticks that are very small and blow themselves up (that would be cool). Fourth, I've seen part 3 of this movie before, called hill fight. I see you've copied some scenes from that. Dunno if thats allowed, I don't really feel like bitching about that to Wade, but please don't copy scenes from old movies okay?

Anyway, I've seen some other movie of you that got a score that was over 3.00 so I know you can do better then this. Please make something like that next time instead of a couple of stick fights. Also please learn how to draw real characters, those movies are always better these kind of movies. Well overall I'd give this 5 out of 10, 2 out of 5. Like I said, belongs to the better stick movies. Anyway, good luck with making any other flashes and stuff.

~Auz

[FF: Mixed in Balamb2(3/3)]

Thought you forgot about this series...

Wow, I think it was quite a while ago since you submitted part two. I thought that was when I signed up, 4 months ago. I thought, you forgot about the series or was too busy with a lot of other things. Anyway, I didn't really expected to see this. Part two is still in my favorites as #5, part one is also in the list and I think this episode will go to my favorites as well. However, for some reasons, I think this episode was not as good as the others.

First of all, it was pretty short. It seemed to be even shorter then the other parts. This was actually quite a bit dissapointing. I also expected some huge fight at the end, but it wasn't really that huge. I don't know why Squall and Cloud didn't used their swords, pretty weird that Squall first ran with a sword and then started to punch Dracula. Second, the graphics were pretty well drawn as always, but the characters seemed to look different in every scene. Of course it's probably incredibly hard to draw them exactly the same, so you don't reallly have to try to improve this.

Anyway, even though this isn't as good as the other parts in my opinion, it still is a great movie, no doubt about that. Too bad you didn't won the daily first, but congrats with the daily second. This might win a weekly award as well, 4.26 is surely high enough. Overall I'd give this 9 out of 10, 5 out of 5. l I hope that you'll make a FF: Mixed in Balamb3 someday, although that will probably take quite a while. Well keep up the excellent work and good luck with any other future projects.

~Auz