Score: 5

"A nice preview, with flaws though."

by: HaroFreak

date: January 31, 2005

Hello and good evening, midnightstealthxp. HaroFreak here reviewing your movie upon request.

The main overview of this movie is a preview/introduction to a spinoff (Or Fan Side-Story, if you prefer this term) of the Legend of Zelda series by Nintendo. Link has passed away over the years, and evil was about. The infamous noisy-but-helpful Fairy returns and becomes what seems to be the main character of the series for now. Interesting how things might just turn out.

Anyway, onto the depth-review:

The graphics here were nice and somewhat colourful. Though it seems to be a bit too "Flat" and lacks a dimensional feel in some places, it can be easily fixed with a different gradient concentration on one of the sides. When it comes to the animation in general, it consists of mostly tweening (Which is not bad), but some Frame-By-Frame works seem rather un-natural such as the bridge of Hyrule Town/Castle. And at the beginning, part of what appears to be a logo of your Flash group is covered by a wall, that's a big downside since the wall gets in the way of the view so try to find a solution to make the whole image visible to the viewer. The lighting of Navi in general is nicely done though. One of my biggest complaints is the pacing of Navi's appearance as well as the text colour. If anything, I would change the colour of the text to a gradient-induced white/grey instead of a bright green. In general, not too bad, thought you might want to fix up Link...

The music at the beginning fits well, though I would choose a different theme from "Zelda's Lullabye" when the story involves a captured Hyrule Castle. I think "Ganon's Tower" fits better personally. As for voices, they are a bit quiet, but clear nonetheless. Quite good, though do something about the choice of music in delicate situations...

There is little to mention about the style of your work; Some of it comes off as being rather generic despite a not-so-bad storyline. Perhaps add a few scenes of what happens which might give more suspense...

In overall, it's a nice introduction to what you're making. Some flaws in there, but it's all-in-all a nice and brief intro. Just fix some of the abundant pacing to make things speed up a little, and good luck with your project.

This is HaroFreak, signing out.

Score: 7

"hi"

by: Rina-chan

date: January 29, 2005

Thanks for letting me be in this! I agree that the reading got kinda annoying so I will also be happy to narrate in a different voice unless you want to do it or have someone else do it. ^_^

Score: 6

"okay"

by: YoinK

date: January 29, 2005

i don't really like the music... but at least you mastered the motion tweening effect. Not a legend of zelda but a legend of link. interesting. i don't really like text readings.. i sure wished there was a narrator telling the story rather than lame text readings. there's so much you can do in flash.. why not use what you can potentially do? heh those glow fairies.. they sure are annoying.. but damn this movie moves at a very slow pace. But yea.. for next time.. get a voice actor to narrate this.. text readings like that that fill up the entire screen are just not entertaining. if i wanted to read i would have read a book.

Score: 8

"Good but...."

by: Goingb

date: January 29, 2005

This would have been a good movie if it didn't take so long to watch! The text only needs to be up on the screen for 15 secs max!

Score: 6

"Hey, man"

by: Deathdealer2037

date: January 29, 2005

every time u showed the words...u took 5 minutes to make it go away...I don't like that...link looked dumb, and show some violence when Zelda and the king were beheaded. U also made some spelling errors like excaped...untill. Its escaped and until.