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Reviews for "Warriors of the Portal"

Felt Like an Unrealized Video Game

I need to go against the majority here. This flash is good, but I can't say it is great. I will not give it a 10 just because it features so many NG characters from over the years. What worked best for me was the overall quality of the CGI. The character rendering was a great surprise. Movements were, for the most part, smooth and overall had a realistic feel to it. The fight scene between Gigantor and Mindchamber was nicely done.

What didn't work was the pacing. There was no direction to it. Most characters seemed to be "cast" in the flash only for the sake of appearing. The net result is that none of the characters get to do anything interesting. The "plot" of the flash is that characters fight to the death until there are two left, but we never get to see those deaths. Except for Gooseman. And it felt like his face time was because you had more than one line of dialog for him. Otherwise the viewer sees a fight start, but not end. The plot should move right to the point, rather than present the start of a fight and then just drop it. When you abruptly cut to the final fight, the viewer asks, "well, how did they get here?" Certain artists also seem to be disproportionally represented. I can somewhat understand that, especially in Tom's case since this is a Pico Day Flash. But having a character like Puppy from RAB, in full-on "Fucking Fucker" mode, or even Blockhead doing something completely nonsensical to win a fight over a superior opponent, would have added some much needed variety and humor to otherwise monotonous content. And how can you have a plot line surrounding King of the Portal without Strawberry Clock? Instead of truly feeling like a battle between "Warriors of the Portal," it felt more like pandering to the audience and particular artists.

Aspects of the animation that need improvement: There are several points where you can click on Easter eggs in the flash to view/change scenes, but none affect the outcome. This is fine for users who want the challenge of finding Easter eggs, but pointless otherwise. Instead of paying attention to the flash, users are clicking around with the mouse and mashing the keyboard. The images were rather dark and dull-colored and uninteresting to look at. And the voice work felt rather flat. I would expect characters in life-or-death situations to sound more animated. The viewer won't be invested in the action if the characters do not sound like they are invested in the action.

In sum, the presentation was great, but the potential of such an epic tale was never fully realized. I suspect a LOT of time when into rendering the characters as well as you did. But you didn't give those wonderfully rendered characters anything to do except to show up and then leave. Even if nothing else changed about the flash, simply showing a few seconds of the END of each fight, instead of a few seconds of the beginning, would have improved the quality drastically.

PS: I would have loved to see Mindchamber squash Foamy in about 0.5 seconds. But that's just me.

Pretty but boring

The 3D animation was nice and all that, even if it did look a bit choppy and compressed when converted to flash, but... it just wasn't really that interesting a movie. I know the plot wasn't exactly the point, but it's about as well developed as the plot of Sonic Riders. "Hey guys what if... the heroes from all these flash series FOUGHT TO THE DEATH!?" There isn't really a story to speak of here, just meaningless, boring violence with well-known characters (which I guess is the point of Pico day, oh well.). Oh, and the voice acting is a bit lacklustre to boot.

This movie just goes to show, that even with hard work, ten months and the best tools in the business, you can still turn up drivel if you don't have a good idea.

yo esperava que hank ganara >:( o que almenos apareciera deimos y sanford con el :s

SWEET FIRE MOUTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!IT IS A 3 RANKING BECAUSE YOU ARE A ....!

A cool idea, and an interesting style for it. The sound effects were pretty good, and I appreciate the medals. Unfortunately, some of the fighting looked off. The models themselves were great, but a lot of the time it didn't look like characters were getting hit or they glided in a weird way. There were some awesome moments though, like the final fight between Gigantor and Mindchamber and Larry vs the zombies. I especially liked how Gigantor ground Mindchamber into the wall. The voice acting was pretty good, but some characters disappeared without explanation. This includes Hank (though upon closer inspection he had to have been eliminated by Nene, but that could have been a really cool fight) and the Tankmen. Gooseman was pretty funny. The implication was that the Tankmen eliminated Mindchamber, not that they were eliminated. The two ending thing is pretty neat. the secrets are really cool as well, that "erotic" scene being funny and the secret ending was really cool. The medals provided enough clues, so that was nice.
Overall cool ,but could have been even cooler if some fights weren't skipped over.