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Reviews for "Abyssal"

Here it is...

Here's what I think, I don't know where you are coming from in this, personal interest, to find the weak spot in people, or other things, but one thing you want to know when doing something like this is that when your expressing a fear or situation to people, it's through you. Your connection, your feeling's on a matter are mostly sub-conscious and the visuals are triggers to the fear. So while this may have stirred into your mind with the whole package, your only giving us a part of the feeling. Now don't get me wrong, doing that is no easy thing, I just wanted to let you know this. And another thing is that while your addressing your people through a visual media, mental reference is everything. Not that your creatures were not imaginative, but that they were so closely related to human figures and attributes, people can relate to that. People see people everyday, so it's not going to horrify someone as much, especially when your goal is to thrill with the unknown. Listen great job, grade A stuff, I just wanted to give my two cents. But I find your view interesting and, if you would be so kind to let me, I'd love to help in any future endeavors you might take on. My email is connorquinto@gmail.com

Scythemantis responds:

A very fair and thoughtful evaluation! I know the description sounds like I'm on the outside looking in at other people's little phobias, but in fact I did tailor this as the situation that would disturb me the most, very similar to some of my childhood nightmares. I know it's unusual, but the less human a creature looks, the less frightening I find it. I adore insects and mollusks more than anything, so most of pop culture's aliens and monsters just come off as innocent, interesting "animals" to me, beautiful and "cool" no matter how fearsome or dangerous they might be.

Twisted human features are all that can really disturb me in a monster, which is common enough to be a named psychological phenomenon (the uncanny valley) - it's said to be the reason so many people fear clowns (though oddly enough, they don't bother me at all). I also felt that giving the monsters so many anthropomorphic touches would raise bigger, unanswerable questions about what they are where the guy actually is :)

creepy...?

what the heck is this about?

Scythemantis responds:

It's about, uh...being in a really weird place, with weird things! :)

damn

spookie shit right there

-.-

next time a preloader with a play button pls

If you fix the sound...

it's gonna be one of the best horror themed flash animations! Definitely very cool, but the sound, as someone else pointed out before me, is a little inconsistent.