Reviews for MD08: Cliffs of Dover

[perfect-insanity]

great work

Visuals: well drawn and went in time with the music, only problem id that they don't correlate with what is going on, Haggard explained it better than I ever could, still good work on the graphics

Audio: sweet tunes, whether you played them yourself or made them with a synth they sound great, the cut out for the message grabbed my attention back after getting a touch bored

Overall: a good submission worthy of the name madness, especially with the end piece, which was quite funny and unexpected

[Sonofkirk]

Well done !

Nice work with the graphics man, it was pleasant to see. The drawings were very smooth and soft. Your madness guy was well drawn, it was very close to the original drawings, loved it a lot : ). Though the guitar body wasn't exepted and crasy, though it was funny. The only thing I can complain about is the stage, it was too poor. Maybe you could add some guitar amps, pedal board and so on.

A decent work with the animation, like the graphics, it was quite smooth. I really enjoyed when the madness guy started to bang his head, it wasn't really in tempo but I liked this idea ; ). Though there are some problems with the animation : as Haggard said previously, there is no logic between the left hand of the guitarist and the music, when the notes are getting higher, the guitarist should move his hand at the bottom of the neck and the opposite when the notes get lower. And yeah, it lacked of motion ... the guitarist should move much than he does, make him run along the stage and jumping ! And a last thing, the interuption at the middle of the flash was too harsh, make it softer : ).

There wasn't real story here, but the song itself is a story so yeah ! And also I liked when, at the end, the guy recieve a piece of steel in his head, it would seems to be a parody of the Madness violence lol. Well done.

Awesome choice of music, Eric Johnson is a God and Cliffs of Dover is a master piece, very good choice. It's nice to see you didn't use the most popular songs as Eruption of Van Halen or a Dragonforce shitty solo, as everyone do. The sound was great, no problem here.

Overall, it's a good Madness Day submission, and it's nice to see there wasn't blood and violence.

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[Haggard]

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That was quite unexpected. One would expect lots of blood and violence from a flash with "Madness" in it's name. It's very refreshing that you chose to create a (mostly) non-violent flash for madness day.

The animations are quite smooth and it's a pity that you didn't include other band members here. That way the viewer had something more to look at.

The biggest downside of this flash is that the movement of the arms doesn't correlate with what he is supposed to be playing. For example, when he moved his hands up the neck (towards the corpus), we could hear lower and lower notes played. But to play lower notes he would have to move his hand in the other direction, down the neck.

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[Fro]

Decent flash submission.

Animation/Graphics - Good animation and graphics here. You can't usually complain about drawings or anything else like that on Madness flashes since they are pretty much all the same. The animation was good and smooth. I really couldn't find anything wrong with it at all. Maybe have him moving around stage more could of made it a bit better, but with that it may have been a bit more challenging due to the fact that it would be more animation, plus the spotlight would have to follow him around.

Story - A nice nonviolent flash, which is common on Madness Day very often. I'm happy that you had the little intersection after awhile in the song because that's a pretty lengthy song and we would of probably got bored, but I just don't know if that's what I would of done for the break up. I don't know exactly would of worked good there, but I just think that maybe trying something else there would make it a bit better. A couple of things that could of made it a bit better could be to add the drummer and some of the other band along with the guitarist. Again, that would make the flash more difficult to make since it would add more animation, but it's something to think about.

Audio - Great audio. I'm a sucker for anything that was played on a guitar and anything that's fast or heavy. That may be because a couple of my friends are good at guitar and one of my roommates played GH3 all year last year. (He has dropped out >.<) The only thing I think you could of added was maybe the sound of a crowd cheering him or something like that.

Overall - A nice flash and a good change of pace of regular Madness submissions, but could of been a bit better with a couple of things.

C52

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UnrealCanine responds:

Thank you for a detailed and analyical review

[jiajie]

lol

nice