Cyberdevil's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Demo reel 2016]

A bit old at this point but not bad! Thorough composition and a looot of variation along the way too. Fun to watch through.

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[AU Reviews 05: Pac-man World 2]

Man I get a whiff of that motion sickness just watching this video. XD Those early days of 3D huh... I ran into those problems with pretty much all the early FPS games too, including DOOM, but usually it didn't really kick in quite this fast. A bit more bobbing here with all those jumps. Don't think I've ever played any of the 3D games with this franchise but just the style brings back memories. XD N64 era FTW! As for Pacman: my best memories are probably the big Google Pacman binge a few years back... when they had it in their logo. Even managed to extract the script so I could play it offline when they took it down. Good times.

Anyway this was a thorough review! I pretty much like the spontaneous approach to the script, it feels natural but elaborate, with a lot of focus on technical aspects as well as personal impressions, and a solid conclusion at the end of it. You move between game footage and animation at a stable pace too! Grand end and all. XD And intro. And everything. I wouldn't mind more 30 minute episodes but yeah, 10-15 seems like a more moderate amount! The more the better for those monetary purposes though?

Nice work with this one anyway, and looking forward to the third! Great music too @MistyEntertainment !

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artistunknown responds:

Oh man if you can feel the motion sickness just from the edited footage then I can't imagine how bad it would be for you actually playing it! I used to get motion sickness a lot more as a kid, but I don't remember getting it for this, but it happened every time I tried to play it when making this review lol. It wasn't the only thing giving me motion sickness though, but it did have the worst effect. It really is that camera bobbing.

Yeah, I haven't played any of the other 3D pacman games except for this one, and I guess Pacman Fever, which doesn't really count since it's a party game, but I've heard good things about the other Pacman World games so I'll definitely give 'em a shot at some point, and maybe even review them since I already did this one ;3

The N64 era of 3D platformers was great, but they certainly have their fair share of problems, I think Yooka-Laylee is a good modern example of that, at least from what people have said, I haven't actually played it yet, but there's been so many improvements on the genre since its inception and apparently it had none of them. It's still probably my favorite genre of video games though, mostly for the nostalgia lol. I remember that Google Pacman, it's always interesting when google does that sort of interactive logo thing. You extracted the script to play it off line? lol man that's crazy.

I'm glad you like the spontaneous approach. The more of these I write, the more spontaneous they get. I figured it would be a good style to separate it from other video game reviewers, that and it being animated. I wanted to give these a sorta shitpost feel with how crazy the editing can get, plus the awful jokes X3

Natural but elaborate, that's a good way of describing it. Probably the hardest part of making these is bringing it all together for the conclusion and making it flow well, so I'm glad you thought the conclusion was solid!

Also good to hear the animated bits are paced well between the gameplay, that's always a worry of mine, especially when posting these on Newgrounds. idk how many more 30 minute episodes there will be, this one just kinda happened because I took a different approach to writing it, and I kinda wanna experiment with other methods to see which I like most. Most of them will be 10-15 minutes, but I'm pretty sure I wrote one that's like 40 minutes so I'm not entirely looking forward to how long that's gonna take to make lol. A longer length is definitely better for youtube, since the algorithm favors watch time, but it seems to be that if a video is at least 10 minutes long then it doesn't matter the length, it'll get the same level of favoritism as the other videos that are over 10 minutes long, so it probably makes most sense to just stick to around that length so it's less work! That would imply that I'm actually capable of writing consistently-lengthed reviews though, which I'm not lol.

There's plenty more reviews to come, it's just gonna be a while. I probably should try to focus on them more though since the length and subject makes them more likely to gain traction on youtube than a cartoon, plus they take less time to make!

And yeah, Chris' music is pretty great ;3

[Austin Talks: Episode 2 (Miamian Adventures of a biker boy)]

Another entertaining episode with a more personal tone to it! Kinda weird with such an optimistic tone even through the worse parts of that biking scenario (I was thinking it'd be a hospital-level fall what with the hill building up like that), but glad it all worked out alright after all! Good imagery to accompany the text, though timing was sometimes a bit last minute, and course: good voice! Good to listen to. Good fun... mostly. That other story hmm... hope to hear that one too, maybe in a future ep! A great day to you too!

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AustinJayCook responds:

Dotm worryy dude I'm getting a little better every time, and there's a bunch of stories I'm putting scripts together for the next upcoming episodes :) they seem much better :)

[Snow Day]

Whenever the snow starts falling down it starts getting interesting. :D Nice one.

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[DisCourt-Minion]

Something truly menacing crawling forth at the end there hmm... cliffhanger for the next one? Will there be one? Solid work with the animation and voicing here, but the script somehow leaves off in the middle of it. It feels like this could be the start but... so far not particularly much has happened... hope there'll be more.

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[Wake. - Trailer]

Falling, falling, falling... mysterious creatures hovering around the room... moving through time and space and states of consciousness... I love this. Masterful and mysterious glimpse into a mind or a world I hope to see more of! So fluent animation. So much creative detail. Really promising work.

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CuteNikeChan responds:

thanks for the kind words <33

[Meaningless Messages : Foamy The Squirrel]

Foamy really speaking the truth in this one! :D A meaningful rant on the meaninglessness of the general stream of content online these days. Really enjoying these recent bits of wisdom. Ah yeah, the good old days when the restricted forms of media made people really take a stand to have their say...

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[RubberOnionBattle Nov 2018]

Man these just keep getting better and better with each one! :D Seems more people are jumping on board too. Fun to see all the different styles. Tough choices between some of these, the first three in particular were definitely my favorite contenders, but also the 'carnage day' twist, lmao. XD In the end though... gotta go with #3. It really stands out in a good way. Impressive transformations. Good music. Good fun. Little ending twist and everything.

Great stuff all!

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[my first animation to newgrounds]

For a first one it really wasn't that bad! Good music, a lot of running around... it was fun to watch and easy to follow, just a bit open pace. Feel like if you bring it all together a bit more, and of course: keep polishing the animation, this would be pretty good. Keep it up!

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AlejandroEldorado responds:

I animate with mouse and thanks so much for the comment

[Spirit Trees]

Props to your teacher on really crafting some masterful music here! Such a sad story... I don't follow all the way, but at the end, I guess they're reunited in death? For a while I thought the black bird was the darkness within himself; that he'd somehow caused the death of the other one... when at the start I thought he was really doing something good. Helping out. Giving some food. The tree... not good at all? Poisonous fruit? I feel like I'm losing a vital part of the narrative, but overall so well crafted. You bring forth the emotion for real.

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Pepsters responds:

Thank you so much! Interpretation of the narrative was a real issue during pre-production. I'll be sure to really tackle that problem for next time!