Reviews for A Bid For Freedom

[PatchouliGypsy]

This is intriguing!

Not what one typically expects from this site, but I loved the concept of an interactive storybook. The narration made it. Great kudos to your illustrator as well, beautiful work!

All the modern references (oreos, youtube, etc) were an interesting fit with the rest of the "proper" vocabulary, but I felt like it worked. :) I had a problem with one of your similies though... "as blue as dophin tears" made me cringe. :P

I hope to see more well developed and beautiful work like this!

[hgfyf1]

Dude

for me it showed the book then wouldn't go further my flash drive was probbly too old to even put up with it and i feel sorry for myself that i couldn't watch this, but I'll trust u raters and give it a 9

AdamCook responds:

If you're seeing the book, you should be able to flip the pages.
Did you read the instructions on the pre-loader page at the beginning, or in my Author Comments?
Just hold down your left mouse button on the bottom right corner of the page, drag your mouse until the page flips fully across to the other side and then release your mouse button.
If you can't see the bottom right corner on your screen, try going full-screen (F11 on most Windows computers) or try re-opening the movie in a window (click the "Pop-Up" button underneath this page's "Watch This Movie!" button) so you can scroll down to reach the bottom corner.

Give it a try, I'd really like you to be able to see and enjoy this.
Thanks for giving us a great rating despite your technical difficulties.

[HotDiggedyDemon]

A Surreal Excursion

Definitely something out of the ordinary, and exactly what this site needs. A FEW CRITIQUES: Up until the appearance of Kong, the sound effects were non-existent, and even afterwards they were few and far between. Of course, this lends to a certain atmospheric effect, but I think I might of liked to of seen it with sound and music throughout. As a bit of a catch 22, when there WAS music, the narration was a tad harder to follow, so I'd suggest lowering the background volume a little bit.

Now, for praise: The voice acting was impeccable, which is a downright rarity on newgrounds. The plot wasn't perfect but the poetic way in which sentences were built was very charming and enchanting. And of course, the illustrations were cool

All in all it was a very fun step in a different direction

AdamCook responds:

Huge respect to you for taking the time to review this; I think you've produced some very entertaining Flash in your time, so I'm really happy you enjoyed it.

I'd always intended to have atmospheric sounds running throughout; I wanted there to be a party vibe through the first bit with gentle chatter, clinking glasses, laughter etc. gradually unwinding into raucous hoots, wallpaper rips and utter destruction as the evening went on. I'd also planned for music for individual "scenes" (e.g. lounge piano for the party, ominous overtones for Kong, jungle rhythms etc.) that would play and loop for as long as you were in a particular physical area in the story.
Unfortunately a lot of the code that was supposed to do that decided that it would renounce all forms of music, and gave us huge errors when we tried to run anything alongside. It's a nightmare to cut it all up individually with the narrative clips, and we still need to find more sounds and tracks to fit a few scenes.
Nevertheless, I am still planning to get this happening and hopefully barring any horrible mishaps I should have that system working soon.

Good thing you mentioned about the music/narration balance; as an author hearing it back and knowing what's being said it's always hard to determine the balance (especially when the music rises to the occasion). When I get back to some more editing I'll be sure to tweak the music level a bit!

Nacho + Ceci are pure cool, and all the voice actors were fantastic (but then, they've always been fantastic). This just wouldn't be the same without them.
You saw the plot in exactly the right way; I'm sure you realise with all the archetypal characters and situations involved that I wasn't shooting for a Nobel prize, but I tried to twist their nature and then document them all elegantly.
It's great you were taken with the way it was written!

Many thanks from all of us for your great review! We hope to continue stepping in many different directions with at least the same degree of success!

[marek127]

very good indeed

though I thought it was still a little bit to cliché, it had interesting observations and beautiful ending

it made my day

[thatguy82]

totally rockin'!!

loved it, dude. keep it up

AdamCook responds:

Cheers man, we will!