Blessing's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Fairly OddFortress]

Artistically, this was really good. The style looked really faithful to Fairly Oddparents. I was pleasantly surprised. The "hats n hats n hats n hats" line made me laugh. This was really well executed with one exception... I can't tell if it was a low quality mic, some major reduced quality audio exporting, multiple recordings of the lyrics over each other, or some horrible filter, but whatever was done to the vocals made it sound really bad. There were honestly whole sections of lyrics that I couldn't pick up 2 words out of. It was like listening to two people singing in different keys while making out with one another with mouths full of marbles. And one of them has one of those robot voice things that chronic smokers get. Awfully unclear lyrics (I'm aware they're in the author's comments, but this section isn't for reviewing THAT now is it?), but otherwise this was really well done.

MisterChris responds:

Thanks for the feedback! I completely agree with you, the audio track was not as good as it could have been. The problem came from having 3 different online voice actors singing for me, and when they're working for free you make due with what you have. Originally is sounded much worse, so I sent it off to have someone who is better at mixing audio take a stab at it, and I got what you are hearing now back. I can only assume the muddled voices were there to mask the big differences in voice talents, and there was autotune put into it as well (Which I wasn't happy about). But for what it is, it could've been much better, but hey, there's always room for improvement. :)

[Ralph TyrannoBolt Ep #16]

The art was good, the animation was nice, and the audio (despite being half dragon ball z sounds) was decent. I enjoyed a lot of the humor too. I was really happy wih this flash and felt it deserved a higher score and then suddenly came the bombshell that he was supposed to be 12. Holy Dipper Pines, this "kid" sounds to be in his mid twenties. That made me look at things a little differently, but still it wasn't too much of a black mark. Then came the forced line about a boner. It didn't flow, it wasn't witty or anything, it was just like you really really wanted to comment on his boner and decided that was the best spot to put it in. I'm not a fan of people creating stories combining children and sex things (see: pedophilia). And just as I wouldn't want my money supporting terrorists, I don't want my precious stars supporting pedophiles. Still, since this was entertaining, I've weighed the quality of this flash against your unpleasant lifestyle choice and have decided that one star is the fair middle ground. You're a talented artist. Keep up the good work (until you're prosecuted, of course).

ArinsMind responds:

It's just a flash cartoon?

[Girl Gamer]

This was a great idea with a lot of potential. I have played with too many girls who want to say "by the way, i'm a girl" and expect everyone to flip out and bow down to them like it's some amazing thing (meanwhile feminists complain about female roles in games, constantly pointing out how common it is for girls to play games... hmmm.....). I really liked this with the exception of everything the guy in the glasses brought to the flash. None of his lines were funny and all of his parts served to kill the mood. Like when one of your friends tells a joke and everyone's laughing and then one of your other friends feels the need to explain the joke, immediately ending all laughter. That's about the effect that every word, action, or appearance by the guy with the glasses served in this flash. I think it would have benefitted from just focusing on the other 3 characters. Still, aside from him, this was pretty decent so you get a 3.

[The Freelance Police]

Spazkid's voice acting was so craptacularly crappy that I had to wipe my speakers. But this was otherwise an acceptable flash.

Twisted4000 responds:

I actually liked his acting lol

[Zonic is gay]

I was honestly impressed with how bad this is. Your art is horribly inconsistent. Everyone makes stupid faces every second. There are constant irritating loops. This makes zero sense. Nothing about this is close to almost funny. I'm genuinely insulted to have had my eyes exposed to this, but I have to remember that not everyone is as talented as me. I'll be creating a tutorial on making flash videos for people like you in the coming weeks. Favorite me so that you can see it and hopefully release a much better video for your next flash.

[We Played Nintendo]

Your Nester sounded 30 to me where I've always pictured him closer to 10 or so, I could have done without the filmed parts (this being a flash site and all) and rehashing animation that's already been uploaded and had its heyday is kind of a nuisance, but aside from those three things this was pretty entertaining! The music was nice and the animation (though a little scarce) was pretty awesome! Keep up the good work

[Zelda Phantasmagoria]

This had some really funny moments (my favorite being the scene with the fox thing), but man, all those weird faces. Every time you changed your art style to give someone a weird trollface or something it made me cringe. If not for that (and possibly the transition screens with the heart) I'd give this flash a much higher score.

[When Peeing]

This is hella random, right down to the author's comments. Why is that chick criticizing ANYONE while wearing a Pikachu costume? What a dumb ho. She does, in her own ho-ish way, have a point though. If you're constantly peeing yourself you should probably get some diapers. Keep up the awesome work!

[Yeah!!!]

This flash is like 8 seconds long...

[Seesaw (animation test)]

Really confused by this. I'll assume there are some resources you just don't know about yet and take this opportunity to fill you in.

First and foremost, any time you show anything to someone they're going to form an opinion. If you can't handle that opinion your best two options are to become wildly homicidal dictator of the world and force everyone to agree with you or, the better choice, simply not show it to anyone sense there's no logical reason for the public at large to need to see it unless you want feedback.

That being said, since this is only a test, it definitely would have been best just to keep it to yourself until you had something worthy of showing off. If you didn't want reviews and such you could have submitted it to the dumping grounds (at the top of the screen next to your account name there should be an arrow pointing into a... Dumpster thing or something) and that would allow you to show people you wanted to show, test out how it would look once submitted to newgrounds, and avoid unfriendly reviews from the general public.

Alternatively, if you did want to show it to the public but didn't want it to be reviewed and scored, you could have uploaded it to deviant art. Reviews there are usually nicer, not because the people are but because people there don't usually bother to leave reviews for things they hate whereas here reviews are more heavily encouraged, whether you hate something or love it.

By putting it here in the Newgrounds flash portal you're basically saying "tell me your opinion on this" to the Newgrounds community, which means that there will be haters. Especially since you admit this is only a test. On that note, I think the audio is a little annoying, the animation isn't anything spectacular, and the lack of a preloader sucks, but I like the way you drew the faces.

I'm a little curious, what was it that you were testing that you couldn't have simply tested on your hard drive? If you didn't want public feedback then there had to be a reason that you would NEED to upload this to Newgrounds. Kinda dumb to drop your pants in the middle of the street and then tell people they have no right to judge the buttcheeks that you're waving all over the place, know what I mean?