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Reviews for "GunMage"
Not Bad
It was a good idea, but personally i didnt like it.
cool
by any chance did u get the idea of this from hellsing at all
Just an intro.
A small intro, so nothing too exciting as of yet.
A small advice though, if you are going to use the same animation for more than one character, it is going to take more than just a necklace.
Give their cloths, hair, eyes, whatever, different colors too.
Sleexteft responds:
Hmmm, What colors would you suggest? Black, Red, and White is what I have as of right now, plus the hint of gold with the gun. Oh and the no eyes is intentional. Sort of like Vicious in Cowboy Bebop, or I guess alot of animes, when the characters have no eyes, its like their brooding right? Well thanks for the comments, let me know more.
Weak
Let me get this straight. I can undestand the whole there being 3-4 really original animes out there, and with originality in movies and storyline rapidly drying out faster than you can say "Holy overdrived genre, Batman" it's not suprising. But you, an author who realizes this, should be actively striving to make your concept more original. I can't think of any suggestions, but I'm sure there are some more original ways to put a new spin on an old concept of the gunslinging hero one you are using.
Now, hold on a moment. So this will be an interactive game with its own website? It will have an involving storyline? It will be continuously updated with new levels and will be lots of fun? I'm sorry all I saw was some random (relatively poorly drawn, by the way) guy in a black flowing sort of trenchcoat and white pants who carries two large guns named Thanatos and Eros shooting and things. Then we see a bullet flying down a street, then we see a cheesy matrix effect rip off that doesn't really cut a 2 on a coolness scale going up to 10. Then more random shooting, then the guy gets shot and then his guns keep evaporating and reappearing, and then we learn that it is to be released later on and the site gunmage.com is displayed at the end. And I am supposed to understand this is a game how, just from the movie alone? I mean the only reason I understood this to be a game is because you said so in your rant review thing, but seriously some viewers don't care enough to read the stuff the authors of these movies write and so I'll bet a lot of them didn't get it. I mean you could have given us excerpts from the story, involve us more instead of having some guy fire guns in bizarre action poses to some cheesy japanese song that no one can understand. We need details, we need a reason to care about all of this, and I don't see a very good reason presented in this movie.
This thing is gonna be coming late into the fall, right? Try again, then. Maybe make another sort of trailer, release some details about the game, the story, the levels. Make us interested, because if the cheesy half-anime sort of drawing style doesn't kill the first trailer, the lack of any plot elements (or 'intellectual property' as you put it) will. Keep trying, use some of my advice and you'll have a 7 or an 8 right off the bat.
Sleexteft responds:
*Sigh, no no, you see, I love Hellsing, I think it awesome regardless of its inspirational origins. It LOOKED like it was taken from alot of things and it DID have alot of things from other animes, but the key was it had its own personality eventually. Sort of the difference between Rah Xephon and Dual!, both are criticized as Eva clones but Rah eventually breaks into its own mold, you just have to TRY to see past just the intro. In either case, when someone that made oh say one flash called Battlemoon X episode 1 and comes around telling me what to do to improve my work...Well? No thanks. If you are so quick to criticize lack of originality, please present your sparklingly work so that I may praise it, if not, well at least drop the hostility and at least give my story a chance like I hope people gave Hellsing and Rah Xephon and many other new animes a chance. I mean come on, Hellsing was GREAT cause it had a dark mantra about it, I'm just trying to emulate it.