As sprite movies go,
this is a great one.
Reviews for "Little Fighter Alpha Ch.4"
MaxR responds:
uh-huh
Err
Okay, well... I'm going to be truthful.
Your physics of the actual game are off, and if you were trying to simulate life, you didn't do very good job at that either.
You incorperated random orcs from WC2+3, the random badguy girl Jan to be good (who used about 2% of her actual fighting ability), Bat was the main character(???), and about half the actual full LF2 crew to be bad. Not that I'm saying alterating characters to fit _your_ plot is bad, but it's a bit annoying to people who have played the game to see the some of the bad guys good and some of the good guys bad.
Like Crono from Crono Trigger being the big boss guy in a random flash movie, having Frog as his evil henchmen who dies in 5 seconds. I don't think any fans of that game would like that. This is what's going to happen if you keep continuing with no background story.
You also have 2 other people helping you make this movie, they should be working on the story more, because not a lot of things I'm recieving from your movie isn't clicking. There is no background story that they or you provided... you could have made one up. Atleast something like "Bat and Jan realized the error of their ways when fighting the little fighter crew, that they were on the wrong side. They both had a relationship with each other and Bat was drafted to the war... ect." Also explaining why the LF crew turned bad, like "Half the LF crew didn't like the direction that the crew was going, so they went against them." Or something along those lines (of course, both explained in a much more detailed way).
You also don't have any disclaimers for any of your movies, atleast none that I've noticed. Since atleast 80% of the reviewers are around the age of 13, they've been asking for things like your email, a link to a forum, and other things not endorsed by LF company that you've provided. Not to sound mean, but you should've contacted them before making things like this. These rules really only apply more strongly to games that were made more recent then final fantasy series.
Onward to my own personal opinion of your movies... it seems like some people have voted 5 and left 1 or 2 setence reviews with overall score 10. It's quite fine to get your friends to help you get your movies popular, but they left nothing helpful to further improve your actual movies. If you were going to become one of the most popular animators on newgrounds, it would have happened on it's own. Downvoting other series on newgrounds about little fighters and saying you made one first is NOT a good way at all to make yourself a respected animator.
Don't take anything _too_ seriously that of what I said above, I've only told you suggestions. In no way am I saying you suck and that you should quit life or anything. A lot of things in your movie need improving that not many other people saw, and I'm just pointing them out.
I found your movie while searching on newgrounds just to see what competition I was going to have, finding out that there was someone who made a series before me was a little dissappointing at first, but I realized any human would want to do something like this after finding something that they favored in life. I know I would.
Overall, please do consider some of the things I said above. I know your going to write a response to this just so you can have the last word, it might be something about my being a light aura or that "you never had any daily features!" Well I submitted my movies over 2 years ago, just so you know. Of course, if you weren't going to be steamed about my review, I consider you to be one of the better artists on newgrounds that can be eventually, ranked #1 with their movies. :)
MaxR responds:
Ian, Ian, Ian... Sorry it took me so long to respond to your review, it was just a couple of weeks ago that I started making Ch.7. And for all your questions are answerd in Ch.7 (in the extras), check it out! It just came out. Except a couple of questions I want to personally answer it for you, the reason so called Bat and Jan is good instead of Bat, if you havent notice the title of my movies its Little Fighter "ALPHA", and what's alpha, it's the beginning, things will happend that will fix and change the story. And I agree with you, most of my fans are 13 years old. But you're 14, so you're around there. I'll appreciated if you reviewed my Ch.7. Thanks again!
Man...I'm running out of noce things to say...
1)Something not nice...you suckity suck(not really...wait...that was something nice!)
2) IN my LFA2 review, I meant in the game, not the movie. You make good movies, but that's ungodly (like my Black mage in FFTactics. Stronger than TG Cid)
3) I need your email address. I liked talking with you. I'd give mine, but I don't know if that's allowed.
Keep 'em crankin', and I'll keep on rankin'
MaxR responds:
lol, sure, you can even join the LF Crew for my discussions there http://lfmovies.8k.com/index.html my e-mail is MaxR37@yahoo.com but I prefer chatting in AIM, it's just way faster.
A W E S O M E !!!
Well, that word tells everythings eh?
heheh i reconize all the soundtracks before look at the credit (i'm good ,am i?)
Too bad for me i didn't know a crap about LFighter =/ (i just checked the website and downloaded it ^_^ but it hasn't been update since 2002?)
Keep the good jobs , now i'm gonna watch the 5 and 6 =]
MaxR responds:
There are other Little Fighter versions too, like Reinforced to Online.
Ha! Very Cool.
I have been a fan of the LF game(s) for years. (Well, ever since the first one came out!) You have done a great job with this series. All the things I thought needed to be improved in the first 3, you have done with this! All except one, and maybe this is too picky. I think you need to work on your music transitions. Just stoping one track, and exploding into another isn't always the best way to go.
Anyways, nice movie! (Love the Matrix reference!)
MaxR responds:
I will work on that, some of the scenes I got lazy and made it short, so the music was cut short.