Auz's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Bahamut: ATWI80D 03]

Nice one

I liked this flash. I still don't see that much improvement to the drawings yet, but I can see that you've gotten more experience with animating by now. Everything just seemed to look more subtle and smooth than in your earlier flashes. Also I did still see several white borders around pictures. It's just a small thing, but it looks a bit ugly. Again if you ever want to improve this flash, just at least try to get rid of those.

Anyway, I think Bahamut's voice was of a low quality. Soundwise that is. I guess due to the crappy microphone you had back then. Too bad, but it's still better to use your own voice than Speakonia voices.

I think it's nice that you gave a link to the poorly drawn stickguy's youtube vids :p It's like: Go here to tell him that he is an ass. I had to laugh at that short break. But as Fro already suggested, you should have perhaps added some sounds to Bahamuts Mega Flare attack.

That's about it. What I didn't really get by the way was why the Earth was once again being destroyed. I guess this was one was just because of randomness. I doubt the secret that Afro was wearing a wig was that groundbreaking that the entire Earth exploded. It was obvious that it was not his natural hair, right? ;)

Overall 8 out of 10, 4 out of 5. One of the better ones I've seen from you so far.

~Auz

kinggila responds:

The earth couldn't handle the fact that Afro's hair was a wig so it went KABOOM! :P

[Bahamut: ATWI80D 02]

Nice

I can not really remember what exactly happened back when this was submitted. Too bad you didn't really provide an explanation on how it was your fault and all (or how people thought it was your fault).

Anyway this was a pretty nice submission in my opinion. Lots of jokes in this one of which some were quite funny. I think "But you like pink!" could have been funnier if you hadn't used Speakonia though. It fell a bit flat this way due to the lack of emotion in a Speakonia voice. The funniest part was probably the email checking. Especially koreamans email was nice (and typically koreaman) :p

For the rest it still could have been better drawingswise, but at least you tried. And it created some funny momens which were perhaps unintentional. Like the bed being much longer than Bahamut was. Which makes me wonder how tall Bahamut is supposed to be in your flashes by the way. In the FF games he is usually at least five times bigger than any of the characters, but in your flashes he seems like a midget occasionally.

Overall 8 out of 10, 4 out of 5. It was nicely done.

~Auz

kinggila responds:

Sizes vary in these flashes so Bahamut's height is never really determined. Also, everyone hated Bahamut for not traveling around the world as he should have done.

[Bahamut's Friday the 13th]

Nice one

I liked how Bahamut tossed his MP3 player around the earth a couple of times, then around the solar system and then right into the sun after hearing the Spice Girls :p Even funnier how it was not (only) the MP3 player that was destroyed, but (also) the sun. I guess it must've been made out of Gameboy Classic material or something.

Anyway I also liked the voices in this cartoon. Ever since I went from your first flash upwards with reviewing, this is the first one I encountered with you using your own voice. And the voice-acting is actually better then I remember it to be. Afro_Studs voice was also nicely done.

Overall 7 out of 10, 3 out of 5. I enjoyed this little cartoon.

~Auz

kinggila responds:

That MP3 player moment was plain silly. Then again, so are my flashes in general. :P

[Happy TalkLikeaPirate Day]

Enjoyed this one

This was a good one in my opinion. I liked the voices Muffin and Afrostar had. Along with that it was kinda funny that Bahamut was pirate talking with Speakonia. The pirate sentences he used were quite nicely written as well. I know I would do pretty terrible with scriptwriting for talk like a pirate day.

For the rest I liked the backgroundtune again. Couldn't quite make out which song it was from which FF game though. I think one from somewhere between FF2 and FF5 although it also sounded somewhat like FF9 music.

Overall 8 out of 10, 4 out of 5. A very nice tribute to talk like a pirate day. I think from all your earlier flashes, this was one of my favorites thus far.

~Auz

kinggila responds:

I thought I had credits there but it's "It's Difficult Standing on Both Feet, Isn't it?" from FFVII. :)

[StrawberryClock v Bahamut]

Alright

This was a nice alternative ending to your other flash. Too bad we still saw no Mega Flares, epic battles with overdramatic music or anything fancy with special effects.

Anyway, I thought the sound quality was very low with the sneezing sound. As a matter of fact it didn't sound much like a sneezing sound at all through my speakers. I read in your reply to Haggards review that you got this sound from findsounds. Odd that there wasn't any other one of a much better quality.

Overall 5 out of 10, 2 out of 5. A little better than the other one, but not enough to make me vote higher. Still it was a nice idea to make a second movie with sort of a deja-vu element.

~Auz

kinggila responds:

I could have sneezed myself, especially when I caught a cold that day but luck was against me even more when I couldn't even sneeze at all when I wanted to. :(

[Kill Bahamut! 01]

Wha..?

Lol, what the fuck? :p Back when you submitted this, I think this was one of your most random submissions yet.

With Bahamut standing on top of a hill like that, I thought some overdramatic epic battle would take place. But apparently a simple B-attack was already enough to slay Bahamut. I was sure that he wouldn't go down that easily and would at least unleash a Mega Flare or two, but alas it was over quickly. I guess he was still no match for the king of the portal.

Overall 5 out of 10, 2 out of 5. It could've used some more effort, but for an ordinary spam submission it wasn't bad.

~Auz

kinggila responds:

Yep, it's definitely a spam submission and I can clearly admit that. :) The only problem is, I only ever made four of these counting the alternative one to this.

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Good one

Lol. You really did the spin counter thing manually? :p That must have been an awful lot of work, not to mention very unnecessary. There are probably several simple actionscripts that could have saved you all that trouble.

Anyway, I was always under the impression that this was an endless loop and that the spin counter would just keep on counting until eternity. Now I finally know that it stops after 1,000 spins. It might have been fun if it actually did go on forever, but that might have driven most people crazy.

Nice song you used for this flash by the way. Not that I'm such a big fan of it, but I know my dad always listens to 80's songs like that and I never thought people of my age would also know about it. For the rest it would have been nice perhaps if Mario was also spinning or something like that. Now he was just standing there doing nothing. Maybe Sonic's spinning paralyzed him or maybe it was a mental battle I don't know.

Overall 8 out of 10, 4 out of 5. Nice clockday submission.

~Auz

kinggila responds:

Sadly, I couldn't find the right actionscript to do it then. X_X Also, best not make this go on forever as I already had complaints about the first one stopping halfway, lol.

Haha, You Spin Me Right Round is a timeless classic.

Mario was waiting for Sonic to do something, I guess.

[Zidane N' Zidane 01]

Lol

Nice parody on the events that happened at the world cup of 2006. I still remember Zidane's legendary red card well and also all the parodies that started to run across the internet. Many people were talking that it was a disgrace, but to be honest I don't think he could have picked a better way to end his football career :p

Anyway, I thought it was funny that the commentary guy was talking to Zidane Tribal from his commentary box. Would've been even funnier if you could somehow make him shout or make it sound like he was talking across the stadium speakers. But that might have been a bit difficult, especially when using Speakonia.

I also thought the headbutt scene was pretty funny :p It was not animated that well and pretty short, but it looked very funny nonetheless.

Overall 8 out of 10, 4 out of 5. I liked this flash. Back when it came out I think this was one of your best. Or at least one of my favorite submissions from you.

~Auz

PS: You made a slight mistake at the names of the French team. It's Thuram, not Thurum ;)

kinggila responds:

Thanks to Zidane's headbutt, there was something to give a damn about in World Cup 2006. I hope something just as epic happens in 2010. :)

[Bahamut: ATWI80D 01]

Alright

I liked that you actually made a parody movie rather than just swapping a few pictures with the original series.

Some things looked kinda ugly and rushed though :p I thought even some of your earlier flashes had better drawings and graphics than this one. Especially the first scene with Anderson was not so pretty. You could have tried to get rid of the white border and use a higher quality picture. At the scene when Bahamut was at the beach it got better though. I saw that there was still a white border around BlueHippo, but it was not so eye-catching anymore there.

For the rest I think there was something wrong with the sound loop at the end. At the end of the loop I kept hearing some sort of scratching noise. You might wanna upload a better file or some other music (if you ever want to improve this flash).

Overall 6 out of 10, 3 out of 5. Not among the best things I have seen from you, but it was alright.

~Auz

kinggila responds:

The sound looping issue was fixed long ago but like the syncing problems, it's something I'd like to keep unless I give it API.

[Bahamut: ATIO80W 01]

It was alright

It wasn't that much special, but it was okay for one of your first submissions to the portal (this was like your 6th or so if I counted correctly). The animation was alright, even though there wasn't much in it. I liked the FF9 theme playing at the background and I also liked the characters that popped up behind the window at the back. Not that it was so funny, but it distracted just enough so that this movie would not be too boring.

The only big complaint I have about this flash is that it seemed like the subtitles were behind a bit before Bahamut started mentioning the websites. It's kind of an annoyance to read subtitles that don't match with the sound. So you might wanna fix it someday if you feel like it. Although I can imagine on the other hand that you can't be arsed to do so, since I don't think many people check out this flash anymore. It could also be caused by my computer though. If that's the case forgot what I said.

Overall 6 out of 10, 3 out of 5. Not much special like I said, but it was alright.

~Auz

kinggila responds:

Ah, the days when I was a novice in Flash. :) I'd fix it but I'd rather leave my flashes as they are, unless they get API.