AWESOME!!!
I LOVE FF7 AND I LOVED THAT!!that was nice animation right there! except i could barley read the lines-the spelling font was weird..and the sentences disapeared so fast
other than that it wuz great..cant wait till next one!!!
Reviews for "Final Fantasy 7 Emperor"
your'e movie wants to pwn...
...but doesn't. tbh you have good skills but i think that you really need more action and stuff going on and also you needed voices in the movie. if you make a sequel make sure that there is more than 2 scenes in it and alot of stuff goes on cus tbh nothin happened in ff7 Emperor.
Your movie still needs a bit of finetuning.
The subtitles went too fast for me. The movie felt very lifeless without sound. the movie suddeleny picked up pace once the music started playing.
I like how you made the animation look a bit like the video game.
Get yourself some voice actors for this flash series your gonna make. Most pepole on this site have very short attention spans and don't want to read everything the characters say.
You just need better backgrounds and sound to bring more life to your flash.
Not bad, but it's lacking depth and style...
Hello and good evening, FD. I'm HaroFreak; here to review your movie!
A brief outline of your movie is a Final Fantasy VII piece of work of a story which so far seems to be about a retelling of Sephiroth's betrayal and the SOLDIERs' tale. Though it's no suprise that someone would retell the story in any way, but regardless...
ONTO THE IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS!
Your graphics were remade (Not Traced) out of the original frames and polygons (2D rendered as 3D) from the original game by Squaresoft (Now known as Square-Enix). It's decent, nice and smooth, especially the soldiers' running, but the absence of black outlines the characters you drew don't have depth to them. If you have some of the mon-connection points of the character frames a black outline, it would make them stick out more and give them more depth, graphics-wise.
I see that you have also used some official FF VII backgrounds as well as your own drawn ones. Though you used them well, the contrast between them is just too big. I don't advise using JPEGs for backgrounds as "Clean" ones take up too much space, whereas grainy ones are too ugly. Alternatively, no one could really shun you for tracing the backgrounds. After all, you ARE trying to express a place in the game as accurately as possible right?
The sound used in the animation starts with a nice calm tune with slight foreboding, then the tune switches to a rock beat as the soldiers deploy to arms. It's nice music, and it works well without sound, though adding a bit of sound doesn't do too much bad, no?
The style was not as good as I hoped after reading your preview text. The story in general is a bit generic and I don't really like how this plays out as an average "Antagonist among the protagonists' side"... It's a highly used feel which needs a longer storyline to maximise this effect. Perhaps providing a longer soliloquy for Sephiroth can increase the effect it has on your audience. It's still not too bad though, considering the pace of the movie you made by far.
There's something which i don't like about this movie; and that would be the bunched up subtitles and the lack of time the viewer is allowed to read it. There's just barely enough time to read it at an un-natural pace...
In summary, this movie has got good potential, unfortunately the user interface was poor due to the poorly structured subtitles and english. With some touch-ups with the character images, the background and perhaps more time for the user to read the subtitles at a suitable pace, this can become a good show.
Good luck with your next project, FD.
This is HaroFreak, signing off.
rowan-studios responds:
Erm.. prappy i wont take any of your words BECAUSE and here IS the part TRACING is ILLGEGALL YOU HEAR!!! Well for me it is and why so much text in a review? This animation was just a BETA though . Greetz Rowan
nothing special
it's not great, i mean the character animations are okay (although they look like you just traced some sprites) but the rest of it was piss poor. the story was boring, the animation (apart from the characters) was amateurish and badly done, not to mention the terrible grammar on the unreadable subtitles. good luck with the final version, but don't expect a good score.
rowan-studios responds:
If you think its traced its not if u dont believe me tell me what character i need to draw and i do it for you i dont care wich one but this was just a beta in my opinion i thought it would be blammed in a day but this animation is already on newground for 4 weeks or somethin i only want u guys to see the animation work the rest u can leave out .