good
it was good, needed sound in the begining, the story line was dry and slow... but i like the animation, oh and the start button on the sword didn't work i had to use right click
Reviews for "Final Fantasy 7 Emperor"
Interesting character animation, bad style.
All right. First off I'd like to congradulate you on creating those FFVII-style character models. That's a great achievement. However, the other aspects of the movie weren't that great. Overall, I didn't get the point of the story that was going on. A bunch of the lines in the beginning of the movie about stealing really weren't neccesary. The subtitles were quick and often had bad grammar, and most of the backgrounds except for those you took directly from FFVII were almost all black. Also, I don't see how Zack could have been taller than Sephiroth. This flash could use some improvement to become more than just eye-candy.
rowan-studios responds:
Thanks! But its just a beta version im workin on the serie now the first ebisode is about the Turks and someone of Clouds gang join them ''AGAIN'' you know soon enough!
Greetz rowan_studios
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
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.
Err........ disappointing.
I dont get it. The sprites are amazing, they look good and the animation is perfect. So why is this movie so bad? Well the backgrounds look bad but, aside from that, it's just boring. The storyline is a joke, you can't follow what the hell is going on. Also, the preloader doesn't work properly and I have to go to the trouble of right-clicking. The sprites are sylish, very cool. But everything else about this movie is appauling.