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Suggestions:
- Option to view no visualizations at all because it seems to add to lag quite a bit.
- If possible, load the next song while the current song is playing so that the next song will play instantly.
I'm not exactly sure what signing up does. It gives me my own channel, what does that mean? Does it mean it will play my favourites or will it play stations that I selected (trance, techno, etc.)? If the latter, how can I do this?
Otherwise, this is an excellent flash. I've always wanted a radio station that played good music. :D
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"Little things aren't that little. Good Job Overall"
I was a bit disappointed how you changed the look of your main character, Sarah.
I don't mean I don't like that she looked a bit dirtier or had more cuts or anything, I mean her actual person, face and body, itself was altered from the teaser trailer. It was perfect in the teaser and I don't know why you would change her.
Aside from the low quality fire, (which you don't really notice unless you're picky like that) I think that the teaser trailer was much more well done in terms of actual audio/video quality.
Also, I just generally hate when people do that. They make a first draft/episode or something then they change they way they draw them every so often. It's very annoying.
Volume on the voices and such was very low and in dire need of fine tuning. Without headphones I could barely hear the voices at max volume.
Also, I was under the impression that you were going to give more of an outlook on her actual life before the bombs started falling instead of just some random picture of her family in her car. I thought you were going to do something along the lines of showing her at work with her co-workers or playing with her family and just generally be a bigger part of the plot to make it seem that much more devastating to her than just "oh I'm at the beach relaxing, what's that?" I will admit though that the EMP bomb was definitely a nice touch of intensity to show the devastation.
Overall it was very true to form. Good Job. Nice suspense, and good foreshadowing and open-endedness that keeps us guessing.
I'm looking forward to more episodes of this, as I've been one of your long-time fans since you first came out with the teaser trailer.
I hope you find my critique helpful.
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I think this could have used a continue system or lives or something because once you get to the later ones (like 8,9,10) it gets harder and it's kinda BS that you have to start ALL OVER again. Even ONE extra chance to do a battle would suffice because it is a fairly simple game, I don't think you'd need more than 2 lives. I say this because the wait time (because it's a quick-draw game) is kinda long, combined with the fact that the entire premise of gameplay is based on pushing a single button. So, some people (like myself) will end up getting impatient because of this.
Otherwise this is a pretty neat mini-game flash.
4/5
7/10
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Almost every time I tried to input the CORRECT answer into something like "kiya" it said wrong almost every time. I tried doing it in different ways too and it still told me I was wrong when I typed in the correct answer. I suggest you allow for a little flexibility because you're basically typing out sounds using romaji, which is much more different than doing so in kana.
Also, there was one kana that did not appear for some reason.
I suggest looking over this flash and making sure you didn't miss anything and also to add flexibility when typing in the answer for kana such as "kiya/kya" "hiya/hya" etc. because everyone will have different interpretations on how to sound out the sounds using romaji.
P.S. What is Tenten and Maru?
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You start out in chapter one with nothing but a few crappy drawings and an extremely lousy and contradictory story and then you CONTINUE IT!?!?
Science/space + religion doesn't work seeing as how they're COMPLETELY different sets of beliefs. Not to mention how you blatantly copied Star Wars for most of this.
I will say this though: you DID get a TINY bit better at "drawing" and, drawing only, with each flash but, they're all still sub-par at best.
What's also pretty ridiculous is the fact that you do like any Americanized movie does: include religion as a big part of the story and/or use the USA as the ONLY important country when your story revolves around a battle between EARTH and planet "X". What's also funny is the fact that the "Vatican", which you mention multiple times throughout your series, is in ITALY but, you make no effort to include that, or any other country for that matter, into your story.
Not to mention the fact that the animation, drawings and voices are all poorly done and voiced by all the same person in the EXACT SAME TONE. Also, the fact that these flashes were only a few seconds long (which made it very easy to see all 9 in about 2 minutes) and I was able to just skim through your flashes and still have a good idea of what your story is, shows that it is a poorly thought out story and flash.
Everything in this series is very poorly done including the story, drawings, animation, voices, and other elements which escape me at the moment.
Please discontinue this awful series, learn to draw better, get some better equipment to create flashes, and think of a storyline that actually makes sense and is AT LEAST thought out to some degree. If not then I highly recommend you stop producing any flashes and to not pursue a career in animation/drawing or anything of the like.
Author's Response:
pretty truthful review, but these chapters are a warm up for a grand spectacular new movie, the last hour chapter 10! I won't bug you to watch it, but you will notice it. action packed, no short cuts
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Sorry but, there are MUCH more parts about Brawl that are worse than this. I was expecting there to be more to this but, it's only about the load time.
I suggest putting more substance in future flashes.
Also, I suggest beefing up on your drawing skills.
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I feel this was more well done than the first one. The jokes were more solid, instead of basing half of it on "ZOMG THAT'S CHEAP" which was more annoying than funny. Plenty of cameos and mini-parodies that were well executed.
Excellent job. Much better than the first.
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I'm afraid I'm going to have to agree with Angel-Dragon.
The song selection for this installment of SCGM Dx 3 was definitely not as good as SCGM Dx 2. This one is also noticeably more difficult than #2 which wouldn't be so bad if the songs I were playing were good songs that I knew and liked. Because of this, I'm not motivated to try and get better at this version of the game which will just make me stop playing all-together.
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The setting and overall concept are very much taken from the original ReBoot series (not to mention using the exact same name: Reboot):
Events happen inside a computer concerning data, files, corruption, Binary Code and other computer paraphernalia.
Not only that but, you also use cameos from outside sources such as: Tetris, Mario, Zelda, Megaman, Metroid, Star Wars, and the Norton Anti-virus program. Some more than others.
Also, icons in this Reboot can be compared to the original ReBoot:
Smite Agent -> Virus
Norton/Render/Police -> Guardian
Grey people -> Square and Sphere citizens
The only thing that's original has to do with your story. There's a lot of mystery behind Violet and the Smite agent vs. The orange girl and their "police" that you've created throughout the series. Violet obviously has done this sort of thing before and the police have dealt with it before as well so there's some unknown history that Render, Amy, and the whole city are being tied up into that I (and other viewers) would expect you to explain later in the series. None of which need the element of events happening and being part of a computer. You could easily come up with a different explanation.
I suggest renaming it something else. Maybe something related to what Violet is trying to do.
For anyone who HAS NOT seen the original ReBoot series on TV this will be a very cool and new experience for you, aside from the cameos, but, the original ReBoot series is a lot better.
For anyone who HAS already seen the original ReBoot series on TV this will seem very rehashed, and copied. It basically looks like they took the "ReBoot" idea, and its name, and remade it to a different story with different physics.
So, this would be a great series... if the ideas you have weren't already done.
Score:
4/10
The story is good but, it doesn't make up for everything else.
Author's Response:
The only reason it's named Reboot is because in the first episode, the computer reboots... any other similarities are coincidental.. don't know what to tell you.. as I actually never watched ReBoot the Tv series.
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When I first saw the title I thought "What the--? Is he trying to rip off ReBoot from YTV?" And then it turned out to be something completely different.
I don't like that you called this "Reboot" because there is already a series that's called Reboot on TV (that they've now cancelled). So, it kind of offended and confused me a bit to see something of the same name.
About the video itself: The first time I saw it I was completely confused and had no idea what was going on. So, I watched it a second time.
Guy and girl together
Random "rebooting" happens
girl gets sick and dies
guy is sad
guy meets new girl in college
End (TBC)
You're making the art simplistic so that there's more emphasis on the story and what's happening between the people within it.
It's a quaint little piece with some depth to it and in your sequels I'm sure you explain more on the way.
This video's rating alone
7/10
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