Reviews for Snow Wars Introduction

[Luigi77777]

It was ok...

This video wasn't as great as Hay Wars, you spent too much time with showing the ppl who were in it when you could have shown all of the ppls names at the same time. It was extremely short ( videowise ) because like I said before; you spent too much time with credits. But overall, I liked the idea of Snow Wars, and that you should build off all the videos you have involving the Whatever War series and eventually collaborate them all together to make just like a Wars Series Controller, like click one button to see this one etc. Anyways it was great but not to great. Better than what I could make so good job on this, I hope you make more Wars videos and good luck to any of you other flashes!

-Luigi77777

Fro responds:

Thanks for the review.

Like I said in the author comments this was just a trailer for Snow Wars so yeah it was just suppose to introduce the characters.

[byteslinger]

On the right track - not quite there yet

Hi, Corky,

Sorry, I'm not a big fan of the all-live video as a flash - just my opinion, though. Had there been rotoscoping or additional flash animation along with the live action, well, that's generally more interesting to watch.

The movie does have a plot line, and the sound track is dramatic and appropriate. However, the video quality is poor, and in many cases, overexposed to almost all-white conditions.

The acting is stiff, like a school play. The characters need to loosen up a bit. There was a little humor ("Do you know what day it is?" - "uh, June 5th?" - but there's snow everywhere) that helps, but sometimes too much humor can offset the drama you're trying to create.

It seems that you have all the raw materials you need - you just have to hone it down and refine it a bit. And maybe throw in some simple rotoscope animation (like when he shoots the gun, a lazer beam comes from it - or when someone gets shot, some blood effects)

But you're on the right track. Clean it up, and try it again! Hope this helps...

Fro responds:

You didn't like the acting? We've won awards for best acting before. :( I thought we were just a tad bit better than what you said.

I understand the whole opinion on movies and everything on newgrounds. That's perfectly fine. The original file is over 50 MB and this was the next step down so that's the best the quality is going to get.

Sadly, there is lasers when he shoots the guns. :( Pay closer attention and you will see them. (There was some flash mixed with the animation then)

Blood might be added in future submissions though. I never thought about that.

Thanks for the review.

[SpiffyMasta]

Review

I must first apologize for my previous reviews, even though it is hard to admit, they were obviously abusive.

I finally watched the whole thing, which I discovered was over only 30 seconds after I stopped watching the last time. It was still boring to me.

Things that need improvement.

If this is suppose to be in three parts, then you should submit all three parts, because there is not enough story in this part to grab my attention whatsoever. Maybe I would get it better if you had all three parts. I guess my sense of humor is not good enough, because I didn't think the jokes were funny, I thought they were obvious and tried too hard. The subtle art of comedy is a tough one to grasp.

As far as graphics go, you can barely see the "effects" you put in when you're shooting people. I don't know if you have these effects on the "higher quality" version, but this is a review on the version you submitted to this website. You need to look into a different lens or something if you're going to film in the snow, because the lighting is pretty bad at times, and maybe that's not your fault, but it makes hard to see at times.

Your sound was decent, the music was pretty much the only thing I liked, I thought it fit well. The menu was simple but pretty nice.

Overall I still give this a 3.

Fro responds:

No worries. Great review. You didn't have to change your score though. I was perfectly fine with the 0 you gave me. It had nothing to do with score just the review.

Ha, I knew you almost watched it all because it wasn't too much longer than 2 minutes.

The other two parts have well around 1,000 lasers that need to be drawn and edited. They won't be done for another year probably. That's how much work actually goes into these.

The newgrounds version completely fucked the effects. They look great on youtube though. For an example of better lasers watch the prequel to this called Hay Wars.

The camera was old, but that has nothing to do with video quality. The only reason it was that bad was because we had two choices for quality. The good quality was over 50 MB and this quality was the only one that was going to be small enough. We had to go with this one.

The sound was a great choice by my roommate.

Like I said, you could have kept your 0. I would have been perfectly fine with that.

Great review though. Can we put this all behind us now?

[UCanCallMeJesus]

Not very good

All of the text effects took way too much time. There was no animation it was just a low quality video. Not alot of effort was put into it. you are lucky if it passes.

Fro responds:

Passed with a 3.00.

Also, lasers, text, menu, effects, etc.. were all animations made in flash. Please don't leave an ignorant review.