Reviews for Madness Inflammation

[Fro]

Yeah, some were pretty good.

~ Animation/Graphics ~

If I had more time I would break this down by author, but I don't so it'll have to be an overall view. Some were really good and yet some looked liked they were made by an amateur. Most were pretty smooth and in fact some were things that I would compare directly to Krinkels work, but on the other side there were some that ran very slow and rough around the edges. For the most part the animation was pretty good.

~ Story/Content ~

That thing is I've grown out of enjoying random killing like this a long time ago. So after awhile this did start to get boring. I did my best to try and stay interested, but there just really needed to be more humor in my opinion.

The only thing that was funny to me was the one where the clown went on a killing rampage and at the end shot himself in the head with the gun. Other than that it was like watching the same generic shooter again and again.

~ Audio ~

The music was good in my opinion and for the most part the sound was good as well. There were a few that were lacking sound effects and that made them seem very out of place. The submitter should have went through and added them.

~ Overall ~

A lot of mindless killing just like Madness should be, but so generic that it lacked a lot of individuality. I wouldn't have minded seeing more humor and perhaps something way different that we wouldn't expect to see from Madness.

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vogxhamraks responds:

Haha thanx for ur review and for giving ur opinion

[megamagition]

Mixed

Animation 7/10

It's hard to give a score to the animation as a whole when it's a collab which contains works from various animators. Ones better than others. One animator that really stuck was DIMB. What others lacked, in my opinion, was the chaotic nature of the old Madness flash films. They were too slow for one, and the kills were a bit mundane. I can honestly not one kill stuck in mind. And when you're making a film about little round headed, cross faced people that kill each other, the kills are everything.

Sound 5/10
Considering that a few animations didn't even have sound, and others lacked knife sounds, sound wasn't really the strong point of this film.

Music was ok, but not very engaging. Something that started calm, and got louder and more energetic would have been perfect, and if the animations were in order, as if the most chaotic were at the culmination of the song, now that, would have been awesome.

Bugs
Switches to medium quality from time to time for no reason.

Overall 6/10
An overall decent collection of animations, but it just doesn't work out as a whole. Many shorts weren't finished or polished enough, some tests were included to expand the run time, the music wasn't really fitting and there was a huge lack of sound effects, though some shorts really shined and made this a worthwhile watch.

A little bit of more careful organising next time, but overall a good collection of shorts.

[Coop]

Not bad, but a few isues:

Overall, for the effort, I'm going to give it a seven, as there are some parts of the piece that dragged the piece down, which was a shame. Some of the art work is excellent and probably only second to Krinkels, when it comes to Madness. Some issues with shaking of the characters and poor quality of the figures that were animated were only minor issues though.

If you've put this much effort into getting all of your pieces ready, I'd say that it is pretty much down to the organiser to make sure that all of the entries actually have sound. You don't come along and have two or three pieces that are mute, save for the backing music - throwing up the word "headshot" does not compensate, nor would it be particularly Madness - Hank's kills were across the rest of the body as well, which took away something from the spirit of the piece.

It was a shame not to see as much of Jesus as in other Madness pieces, as he is as integral a part as the Clown or even Hank. The two new guys from Combat 5.5 and 6.5 were nice additions, as they have clearly made their mark upon this series so far.

With the name graphics for people, please note that the names should be secondary, rather than a massive icon that takes up a third of the screen - we want to see the action, not your tag, so make it less eye-catching (greyscale, see through?) and make it slightly smaller, so that people focus on what is going on, as I'm a purist here and want to see what people can produce in flash, not in the Art Portal.

Happy Madness Day!

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vogxhamraks responds:

haha Ty for the 7 anyways i hope u enjoyed it

[MCarsten]

Goods and bads!

This was a really nice collab, with all the animations/shorts/parts inside it, some of them were pretty good looking really professional, others were more average, while a little of them looks a bit poor.

So the best I think I need to do here is give a commentary for each of the participants of your collab, describing their efforts and giving to it is wrong (if have it).

Also, before I start, I really liked your menu design, with these kind of "sketches" in the background, I also liked the digital buttons you did, when you roll over, it will have a white masked color going through. The author bios were informative, but too short and with little information, this is just like a rogue gallery, not a Biography. The music for the intro and credits were good too, but the smoke effects were glowing A LOT, this give a diffculty to read the texts and also this cammo with the white color, maybe try to do the glows gray or something. Would be cool if you have added a scene gallery/section/selection, for example, if someone really liked someone part, he don't will like to wait everything till the wanted part.

Now officially going to judgement from each scene:
EDGe0wnz -- it was nice with interesting action, I liked how he shoots (I think in a bird). 3~4/5
ZaracaM -- good action in this part, the chaingun fire was pretty good and the enemies coming too, just was a little "stupid" when he looks at the mouse and fall in the ground and say LOL. 3/5
Stemage -- I liked when the gray guys enter the room and the black ones do like a barricade behind the table, was with a lot of action and shooting in this one, turned this animation part pretty good, nice job! 4/5
xCooldude30x -- The blood FX was good, but I think the enemies could act a little fast, they just look to the clown and do as they don't care for his appearence. 3/5
Vogxhamraks -- The graphics and movements were pretty good animated, but I think your parts were slow and a little "repetitive", like in both, Hank looks to a side, fire, and turns to other and shoot. 3/5
Thingthingdude200 -- I liked how you introduced physics and realism in your animation where the bulletholes were nicely done in the guy face and the movements. 4/5
XXblinx -- Good action and nice movements. 3/5
ZaracaM(2) -- The movements were pretty good, was just weird that guy who jumped from nowhere. 3/5
Thingthingdude(2) -- Not so good as the first one, everything seems to be too slow. Was funny when he spit blood hehe. 3/5
xRoadkillx -- one of the more BEST here, physics from the characters, movements, guns, shootings, blood FX everything AMAZING. 5/5
DIMB -- the movements were nice, the shooting too, I also liked that everything happend fast, turning this with more quality. 4/5
EDG(2) -- everything working fast and nice movements and actions, nice! 4/5
Thingthingdude(3) -- Poor, just some seconds of nothing so cool. 1/5
Wyvernhunt -- The sniper costume is awesome, and the shot FX and physics were pretty good. 4/5
Vog(2) -- check first one 2/5
EDG(3) -- good action, running fast and good dynamics. 4~5/5
DIMB(2) -- The bg, lights, FX, alpha, everything AWESOME, the best from all. 5/5
STEMAGE -- Action, running fast, good quality, good fireshots, everything nice. 4~5/5

For the end, where have the flashing lights and some letters through, you could have added beneath the REPLAY button, a BACK TO MENU button, because for who leaved the credits and extras to the end, would like to see there, so add this simple and effort feature.

VOTE 5
3.90 / 5.00 (+ 0.0022)
"Goods and bads!"

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Respectfully,
SpyS.

vogxhamraks responds:

oh thanx anyways the second will be much better this is shit

[KingJamesWright]

Good collab with no terrible animators

I disagree with drift because I thought that xxblinx's part wasn't bad because it was smooth but was quite slow. But if I chose the worst animator it would be thingthingdude because his parts were quite choppy.