Score: 9
"Yay, more Tomsplitters so soon!"
date: August 12, 2004
Just what I asked for (in my review of part 1)! Ah, but be CAREFUL what ye ask for, right?
In this case, all we who wanted more goodly Tomsplitters actions... got just that. Intro was great. Loved the silhouettes. The... "hospital" scene was good, yes yes... um... the microwave flashback scene... heh.
"What do they use for baked beans?"
"Marbles."
That would be the best exchange from this one. heh. I noticed it getting really laggy (well, being laggy all along, but starting to really show it here in the "walking past all the shops and billboards" scene). My old comp's mostly at fault, but considering the graphics are fairly simple, I'm not sure if you could have done something to smooth it out a bit and make sure that the soundbits don't stop too early, as they were doing consistently (this is even at low quality, BTW).
So anywho, the sight gags and funny shop names and all were groovy, but it took so long that I was really getting boring. But then... yay, a time portal! Now we're getting somewhere (again).
More LOTR stuff. Excellence! I think you've achieved just the right balance here between recycling things from the first one and making things different enough to be interesting and still funny. Gay + British accent + Mr. T is just sooooo very wrong. ;_; At least you didn't try to voice Darth Vader, as well. One case where sound clips = a vastly superior choice. Great job! I hope to see a Tomsplitters 3 sooner or later, considering how quickly part 2 arrived, please tell me you're making one? #;-}>
Author's Response:
Thanks very much, I'm glad you enjoyed it. Sorry about the lag for you, dunno what that was about it works fine for me...? Anyway, you were nice and observant, even noticing a few of the gags we didn't expect everyone to get. And as for TS3... I'm three scenes into the making of it, but it looks unlikely to come out soon, if ever. I might give it some more time soon though...
