Nylo's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Ragnarok - Item Drops]

Ha ha, nice.

Yup, the good ol' days of RO, I had some good times with my Knight and faithful Peco Peco. Anyways, your visuals are really nice, mostly because I like the way you animated your characters. Things like simple head movements and such really brought your characters more alive instead of walking them up to an object and moving their mouths. I like you you got mauled by the Acolite and how she teleported out of there; lousy acolites, always made me pay for teleports, but that's what running into the portal from a distance is for. I may have been rich, but every Zenny counts, ha ha ha. The voice acting was surprisingly good. I agree with J3nnica, it's nice to hear voice acting in sprite movies instead of the traditional bubble. You guys had a nice laid-back tone while J3nnica gave a nicely rounded perky tone for her Acolite. I liked the style, which captured the basic mood of just walking around and murdering cute little animals in the world of RO. It was a tad short, but I liked it. Nice work.

Hadji-San responds:

thanks man, nice to see how someone knows whats going on. yeah i miss the good ol days of RO.

[The Story Of Mek, ACT 1]

Nice lip syncronizing.

That was pretty different, I can't say I've seen something like that in a while. your visuals are really nice, I really like how you put the effort into syncronizing the mouthing with the audio, it really pays off in the overall effect of the characters. The audio, as you said, was distorted. I can't really think of what would solve it, since you already tried compressing it, that kind of bites. But I did like the acting, it was believable and humorous. The idea of the cartoon was pretty good, the only thing it could really use is some more characters. I liked it, nice work.

Mek1985 responds:

Thanks dude. Oh and this saga is just beginning..there will be MANY more characters to come!

[arfenhouse teh movie too]

Animutation at it's best.

I just got though watching this on your own website a few hours ago, since NG was going nuts. I'm glad it's here so I can put in a much appreciated review for your work. I love Arfenhouse, and to this day remians my absolute favorite piece of animutation, with DrunkMagiKoopa's work following afterwords. Everything that made Arfenhouse 1 so damn good is all here and then some. The sound is delicious, I love the DDR segment with Don Flemenco, thatwas too damn funny. What I really like about this is that there's so much slapped together work mixed with quality animation at the same time, the same goes for insanely fast voice acting mixed with good voice acting (Joe). I think Joe's part really came off better in this one (even though I thought it was impossible) because he's even more agitated by all the weird shit going on. I love every bit of this, and deeply applaud every amount of work you put into this. Arfenhouse truly does rock.

Misteroo responds:

A huge focus of Joseph and the others was in trying to synchronize their mouths/movements to the audio. It just gets disappointing when an awesome flash's timing starts to get ruined--I compensated for that for your viewing pleasure :D Thanks for the review!

[My Life Is Broken]

Hmm, it's a good start.

There are a few things that kind of hurt this video. I really do like vieos based of music, provided it's done in a cool and creative way. I think you've got the right idea here, but just had a little trouble executing it. Your visuals were a bit iffy in some parts and pretty good in others. Parts where someone would run without any animation kind of hurt the mood, and parts where you had animation in your character (specifically the part with the hand signs) really uped the flow. Audio choice was pretty good, it's always interesting to see how people interpret heavy songs. The visuals used to represent deeper meanings could use a little work, like the track with the stop sign. Try and make things like that just as obvious, but not so blunt. I really did like the style in this and I encourage you to keep it up. There are a few good flash movies on NG that really make use of visual meaning to their songs, like .:Last Resort:. it's really good. Well, keep on practicing, I think you're on the right track. Nice work.

carmelhadinosaur responds:

Thanks! Great advices and good luck to you too!

[MegaMan/X:Final Battle 4]

The plot thickens

Just when I think the series can't get any better, it...well...get's better! It seems like your work with manuvering the sprites the way you want them has significantly improved; I really like seeing all the creative ways you carried the battles out, especially in clown mans case. Your audio is perfect, I couldn't suggest one thing in it, it's comopletely perfect to the megaman/x world. Your style in this is just plain awesome. The story line you have lined up has plenty of twists and turns with plenty of surprises. That's a rarity. This series is done so well, I catch myself thinking it's an actual part of the game story; very well done. Keep up the amazing work.

CheveLoco responds:

thank you!

[Desolation Teaser 2]

Hmmm, it's so-so.

It's nothing too amazing, but your plot seems interesting enough. Your visuals could really use some work, but if you've got a really really good story lined up, it can completely overshadow bad visuals for a lot of people (just look at the NG author Mark McPherson). Your voice acting is a little iffy, but I think you guys are headed in the right direction. I'm gathering, from what was said by the characters, that they are not of this world, or definitely different. So try not to slur words together in their diologue, it gives them too much of a human touch. I did like your audio choice, instrumentals always go pretty well with things like these. Hope to see your final product soon; good luck.

OOTC responds:

Thanks man! I wasn't expecting to get such a good reception but it seems people like it enough. This is really my first time doing flash which is why the drawings aren't too great. The trailer already has a ton more animation. You're right about the characters...you'll see when chapter one finally comes out. Again, thanks for the review and watch for my series in the future. :)

[Dude - Episode 1]

Nice potential

Interesting. I really like your visuals and animatino style. Granted this is your first flash and there is a lot of jottyness to be found, the style in which you animate and draw shows that your the kind of author that definitely goes on to pregress really well; kinda like Joe Blanchette, just look at his first work. Your audio, though a great touch, needs some work. The voice acting might need a tad bit more emphesis on emotion and character change. I've done voice acting before, so I too know how weird it can be to say weird things in a mic, but it really helps if done right. Another thing with the audio was that the timing was a little off. Like after someone said something, there would be a noticable pause in the flow the the cartoon. Try to get rid of those pauses, it'll really help the flow of the movie. The plot was somewhat interesting as well, the only thing I can really suggest is throwing in some more surprises, but for the most part, it seems like you really know what you want. Keep up the good work, you show lots of potential.

TheZebu responds:

The time I don't have voice trouble is when I'm doing voices for the "Dude" character, primarily because he has no mouth.

[American Identity]

AWwww, it was just gettin' started.

Aw snap, you know, that was just really starting to grow on me. Your visuals were pretty funny, I liked the stick figure falling into the Grand Canyon. Though lots were ripped pictures, they seemed to do good with what you were going for. Not a whole lot of animation or movement, so it felt like the movie was missing a little something. Your audio was ok, but it almost seemed like there wasn't enough of it. Try to get some funky music in there to go with the off-beat mood of the flash. As for style, this really did seem like it was picking up at one point, but then it just got somewhat incoherant and jumbled. I think if mapped out humorous events (like the Cher and Michael Jackson thing) to fill the movie, it'd come off a lot better than random events. Had a good start, but kind of ended abruptly. Keep it up, I think it's got potential.

Muka3D responds:

Thanks for the detailed review! ChEsDeRmAn and I will take your advice, and keep reaching for perfection!

[The ROBOTECH movie part3]

*Sniff* That was beautiful.

That was amazing. I hadn't seen the previouis two in a while, but after I started remembering the plot, oh man, did it pick up for me. A very dramatic event, your music selection went perfect with that. Your visuals were done excellently, the part where the ship is rising from the water and the view looks up at it rising with the sun shining and the water falling was just too cool. The style on this baby packs a wollop, at least for me. Knowing what I did about the other two movies, the ending really does prove to be ironic and tradgic. I haven't seen a good dramatic flash in a long time, and it's Robotech of all things. Amazing job, I was really taken by your work in this one.

Nanashi responds:

Wow. This goes on my list of favoret reviews. Thanks man. That shot of the ship from below, with the sone above it is my favoret too. I added it later, becouse I wanted to realy give the viewers an Idea of how MASSIVE the MDF 1 is. I mean, my god, the size of long island!

:)

[The REALITY of WW2]

Pretty funny...

I got halfway though your movie. It's as best as I can do, since Newgrounds is being really weird on me right now and I'm lucky if a movie loads at all. Anyways, though I take WWII very seriously, I realize that if we can't laugh about something so unracially biased (at least from what I saw) we're kind of going in circles. So with that said, I'm rating your movie with all political views aside, since you never went overboard in taking a side of Axis or Allies; they both got rocked pretty good. Visuals were done nicely, I liked the fast paced action and creativity/irony of a lot of the events. Especially that grenade one. Very good sound effects, fit in very well and they did their job. Good creativity, it wasn't jsut random killing and explosions, it actually had some thought put into the way things played out. You did a pretty damn good job here, nice work.

Emagdnim678 responds:

wow thanks for the review. its going to help me alot in the next one. thanks for taking the time