Bezman's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Ace's Optical Illusions]

Not enough obscure and groovy stuff.

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(note: I'm not rating everything or trying to break the flash up into constituent parts. Just giving you an idea of how good/bad I consider the points I mention.)
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+++: Most of the illusions you showed were fairly interesting.

+++: The new duck/rabbit was specially cool and worked really well just as an aesthetically pleasing graphic.

---: lack of 'work' done by you.

---: I've seen some illusions better than some of these, which you should have included, had your search been more thorough.

---: I had seen most of the illusions before. C'mon, everyone's seen the 2/3 prong fork...

----: Apart from the new duck/rabbit, there weren't any decent ones that were new to me.

---: your 'next' button has a terrible hitbox, it seems. Learn to make better buttons. Make a rectangle covering the whole graphic in the hitbox frame.

-: no 'replay' button at end.

-: no 'previous' button.

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Minimal effort from you. It looks like you didn't even really search thoroughly enough to find quality stuff to be new to lovers of optical illusions (who would be the target audience for this, surely).

Considering the buttons were your main work here, the lousy hitboxes were almost unforgivable.

But I did enjoy seeing a few of these again and the new rabbit/duck is cool.

[Chillz Story]

Moral - I need a zippo lighter.

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+++: Music fitted well and was well selected throughout

-: switches between songs was a little jarring at points (more fading might have been nicer).

-: the animation for the drummer at the start (tweening the height) looked a bit shitty, as did the guy you kinda skewed as he slided over to the girl.

++++: most of the animation was awesome. Clean lines. Fairly expressive. Good use of silhouettes. Nice colours.

+++++: It was a solid story I enjoyed watching multiple times.

+++: I like the way you don't use speech as a stylistic choice.

-: What was the relationship between Chillz and the hooker? Why was he paying to see her, then playing the sax? Why pay to see her when he can't pay his rent? If they love each other, can't she see him 'out of work'? In writing this, I think I understand more about the situation, but I still think that could have been explained a bit more. Also - what the hell was the boss doing telling the girl to go over to the bar? Fair enough if I'm missing something obvious or if it's meant to be uncertain. But I'd like to know what's going on in those 2 areas.

-: I think you could have better shown the time passing before Chillz has to sell his saxaphone. As it is, it looks as if he just went a day without food, which isn't long.

-: I think you could have made the saxaphone-selling a bit more emotional.

-/2: ending is slightly cheesy. Having said that, I didn't personally see it coming.

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A well directed animation. Graphics and music are great. Really, all my complaints seem out of place when talking of such a beautiful piece of work..

High-Hopes responds:

Amazing review dude, thanx

[1-800-SLUTS]

'Rock' sounds provide only a fleeting novelty.

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-: The 'quit' button seemed a pointless idea.

--: And when I pressed it out of curiousity (to see what it did), it did nothing I could percieve.

-: When we click to retry, it should start straight away. We shouldn't have to click 'play' again - we've already said we want to play.

++: The sounds were kinda interesting for a minute or so.

++: Basic gameplay - ignoring the fact that it's unoriginal, it's fairly solid.

+: You've made an attempt to further distinguish it by having more buttons.

-: I think the gameplay's a bit slow. I think this game should have speed options.

---: no record of our best score.

-: the graphics are dull.

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It's an unoriginal concept and whilst I appreciate the changes you've made, it fails to actually improve in any way - just provide an alternative. The novelty soon wears off.

For your next game, try to do something more original. When you're making something so similar to pre-existing games, your version better have a lot of polish, which this doesn't.

Still, keep at it. You've got potential.

Stay funky,
- Bez

ThePeterMissile responds:

That sure is a lot of words.

[Cosby's Revenge]

Are all your submissions in this style?

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-----: no story or jokes. NO entertainment, really.
+: flying jello is vaguely interesting
++: the 3 tiny figures on the bottom left intrigue me slightly.

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It's a piece of crap and I can't help but wonder how you get them in. Do you just submit them until some slip through?

ViceFullbuster responds:

Ya lost me.

[Tails and his GBA]

5/10

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---: the link to 'download [your] special swf viewing program' opens in the same window
-: and apparantly it's been moved or something.

+++: Nice presentation, with GBAs...

-: only occassional speech

+++: I like dimension-travelling. The idea of travelling into games is nice.

-: You type 'were' instead of 'we're' when they enter either game.

++: made me chuckle at end of Mario game

++: also at end of sonic game

---: but a lot of the moview leading up to the gampak felt a bit slow

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I found it funny at either end, but the start seemed a bit dull.

I'm gonna give you 4/10 rather than 5. I know it's not what you referred to, but your threat of buttsex scared me.

RupeeClock responds:

You should consider not using this awful system actually, it's not helpful, just confusing.

Please, don't review any of my movies.