DM's PM here on NG ya know. ;) But I do love these Bear-based bits of crazy, Christmas related and all as they are with this one! Was not expecting such a victim though. XD But that ending... hmmmmmm... horse head in bed like The Godfather? Whatever happened to Santa's big revenge? Not really catching that bit...
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Dm's / PM's , tomato/tomahto :D and thank you for your review, We will do our best to clarify anything that might seem confusing in any future shorts. I really do appreciate your support and glad you enjoyed this. If you have any questions I can't answer em here but you can hit me up in PM*. Cheers! Happy holidays
-Mike Lewis
Not sure how that flashback really related to the eye hmmmmm... I like the animation style, both creative and detailed, but the story itself... seems like it just jumps into something you might need prerequisite knowledge for here. Even though it's the first episode. Maybe it'll all make sense with the sequels though... either way it's an interesting start! Looking forward to seeing more.
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Thanks for the feedback it's much appreciated!! We were trying to create an ongoing gag that develops in subsequent episodes where Gerry has more flashbacks and more is revealed to the audience including how he lost his eye. We did cut a small clip out when Gerry returns from his flashback in this episode where he makes reference to his eye saying "that was the same night I lost my eye, not quite sure how that happened though..." but maybe we should add that back in based on your feedback. Anyway thanks again!!! :)
What a trip! Overindulgence, temporal insanity, psychedelic self-loathing and cynical... would've thought it was a drug-induced delirium more than a session of psychological turmoil and self-insight if the description didn't say it... a certain part of me relates, a certain feels it's just too exaggerated to feel real, a certain part that it's disturbingly well done;. Really captures that angst of existential crisis. Whatever part triumphs it was something else! And you keep the madness going for soo long. Too. Work of art. I do feel it could've ended in a darker, deeper; somehow more conclusive way, though!
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I agree with the conclusion bit- I had some reservations when coming back to the edit on this film and think i should've had a miniature brain show up at the end with him interacting with it (duh)
Appreciate your kind words my friend!!!
Got me really thinking of Tron with this one. :) Solid work on the details, smooth motions, pace and of course, most all: that lightshow! Nostalgic synth for the soundtrack too! Love this.
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Thanks a lot for your comment :) This shot has a lot of inspirations, between them is Tron, of course, but in general, al the 80s retrofuturistic style.
Well it's not a bad loop, though as you say just a camera spinning around that snowman... nice lighting and mood though. Thinking a 3D kind of Christmas Card with something like this might be pretty cool! Keep it going.
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Yes, in hindsight it is more of a picture than a movie..might be a bit misleading, sorry about that!
So that's why you don't want a baby. XD I must admit the early lives of these critters are still a mystery to me, being the youngest and all but... I didn't realize it was quite this bad!!! Good fun, and some of that trademark FDS psychedelia in the background too, sideway sky and all...
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Thank you so much, I'm glad you enjoyed it and are able to see why I am not a fan of babies.
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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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
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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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 :)
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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thanks for the kind words <33
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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I animate with mouse and thanks so much for the comment
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