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I didn't expect much out of this considering the generic music you picked. I like Disturbed, and this happens to be one of my favorite songs, but I'll be the first to admit that this is fairly generic.
Out of the artists maybe 3-4 actually had well animated and drawn pieces. Out of those, maybe 1 or 2 did anything that even came close to matching the song's rhythm. And out of those, not one single person actually did anything that had to do with the lyrics of the song. Although the music is fairly simple, the lyrics have a real message in them, and is one of the reasons why i enjoy this song so much.
Also, with a third of the artists trying to go for dark and creepy, another trying to just be abstract, and the last third just trying to make fight scenes this mixed together terribly.
I suggest looking up the lyrics and trying to understand them before just throwing random shit together. Sorry guys, but this was just disappointing.
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You've given us a download link, and now i shall download it, because this is hilarious.
I love the looped songs you do.
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For the dude who says there's a bug with mozilla firefox, there isn't. It's just you. So i suggest you be a bit more courteous about your reviews and votes before just assuming this was the author's fault.
As for this game, it's absolutely incredible. The ambience, the atmosphere, Wonderland itself, and the first scene. Everything, really, just all fit together so perfectly. It reminded me of those old point and click adventure games i used to play like Day of the Tentacle. Not only that, but the humor inserted was absolutely golden on top of it, especially with how many combinations there were. I would just go around finding items and trying to use them on things, even if i knew they wouldn't work, just to see the funny little blurb pop up.
Honestly, this was one of the most well done games on Newgrounds imo. You're on par with American McGee's Alice, and managed to combine it with some other classic aspects of gaming.
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You included Day of the Tentacle, and therefore you win.
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Absolutely amazing. One of my favorite flashes of all time i think. The music selection was fucking awesome, the humor was randomly hilarious, and it was overall just extremely well done.
And the random Bidoof... had me laughing out loud.
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Well done. Had a good Saturday morning cartoon feel to it that i enjoyed.
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Interesting. It draws you in, while maintaining a bleak and morbid feel. I loved the mask you put on the doctor, i don't know if you meant it as such (Though you probably did, otherwise that'd be an odd fluke), but that mask was used for doctors during the bubonic plague to filter their breathing. It was a nice touch.
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Don't know if you read reviews. I would hope you would considering how much time you spent on writing that large paragraph above.
The animation itself wasn't really much of anything, you complain about those who make fun of games and parody them. Yet all you're doing is a parody of a parody. I understand that this may be the point you're trying to get across, through the irony of such an act, but it's not saying much for yourself.
As for Newgrounds as a whole. Of course there are going to be those who cater to the majority, and of course Newgrounds is looking to make money by appealing to what's popular. It's natural of any business, and natural for most humans to try and find a niche for themselves. But i think the major flaw in what you're saying is that animation is suffering due to this. And i think that's completely wrong. There are 1000's of unique, interesting, and original works on this site that are absolutely stunning in their quality. Perhaps it is people like you, who simply view what the majority views and don't dig in deeper to try and find the more imaginative animations that's the problem? Newgrounds has animations of almost every flavor, and of a varying range of quality, which helps people like TheSwain go from animation quality of Blockhead 1 to Mastermind 3. The difference is stunning, but if this site only allowed on it the most popular and the most talented people he would've been left in the dust.
Newgrounds is just hosting this material, it isn't acting as a dictatorship of animation really. What they choose to promote is what they choose to promote, if you're interested in more defined and complex animation then go looking for it, because it's definitely here.
Also, two things. One, people who like the generic "awesome" stuff can also like the more complex flashes. You make it seem as if it's one or the other. Two, if people don't want the more complex flashes they don't want them, shoving them in their faces isn't going to make it any better, it's just going to reduce newground's traffic. And that is a sure fire way in the long run to end a website's legacy. If anything, i think that would hurt animation as a whole more than anything. There aren't many sites like newgrounds where user-generated content is actually taken seriously.
Author's Response:
A few months ago ashford pride made a movie with a foreboding title. It was called "Awesome Grounds".
Well ladies and gentlemen, that's might as well what this site should be called (at least right now), with the top row on the front page slot dedicated to an "awesome" movie and an "awesome" parody, an "awesome" t-shirt in the newgrounds store, and pretty much every "awesome" movie in the top 100, along with han's "awesome's creed".
I can't go to newgrounds with seeing something not about egoraptor or his coveted video game parody series. It makes me wonder sometimes if pursuing anything but half-assed cartoons making mildly funny observations about video games laced with profanity is even worth it. Truly, they are what bring the masses of 13-year olds to this site, and thus increases traffic and competition in the internet world. But you have to ask yourself, with this sort of two-bit audience increasing in numbers, are they really interested in watching anything else?
I understand that it's a dog eat dog world in the online entertainment business, and to compete you have to pretty much put up content that a majority of internet browsers would click on. This includes either women or video games. Things they already know they want. And that's all they want. They sign up, watch more, and come back and do it again later. They're trained to know that what they want is easily accessible and is promoted all over the site.
Original content is often shuffled off to the bottom of the page, or never gets any attention to begin with. Now comes into play the whole 'they won't click on it unless there's a boob for the icon', etc etc. That's because they've been fashioned to think that way.
I'm not saying i have all the mysterious answers to the way people's minds work. But this much is true - if all people click on are breasts and video game icons, and you give them breasts and video game icons, you're not pushing the envelope.
Newgrounds is the epitome of user-generated content. We already have a massive advantage over youtube in the fact that making a cartoon involves so much more creativity than snappily editing your webcam footage. So instead of 200 cartoons coming out every minute, we have 200 cartoons coming out every day. That gives someone a better chance of breaking out and being discovered for his hard work, and a reward for a job well done.
But in the same way that viewers are trained that they don't have to go out of their way to avoid original content they would otherwise enjoy, authors are becoming more and more disenchanted with their personal creations and are turning to nerd culture icons and cheap tactics to get viewers.
I can't tell you how many animators I have spoken to that have shunned their own creations in favor of sub-pop culture parody and disjointed scripts sprinkled with toilet humor and profanity. a cartoon catering to everyone who's forgotten what cartoons are all about. And here we are shoving away everything about cartoons that was originally appealing and magical, because we're pretty much forced to.
I'm not pointing the finger at any one person here. I think it's part of the bigger picture - bigger than Newgrounds, too. But if people really care about the future of cartoons and animation, we wouldn't be seeing this kind of blatant favoritism.
People will find what they want if they want it. They don't need to be spoon fed it all.
For thirty years animators who strive to create something genuinely unique have gotten nothing but a slap in the face. It's sickening and it has to stop someday, before they all disappear.
Lastly, this post is not about me. I'm not writing this out of self-pity, bitterness or spite. I'm being honest. I care a lot about the future of animation, and what I see around me is very troubling. The industry is bad enough, but where the future lies is in the small corners of the animation world. Newgrounds is one of them. I spend a lot of time trying to encourage and teach frame-by-frame animation, and creating your own characters and scripts. That is what is important
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A tad overdramatic and cliche at points, but overall not bad.
I have no problems with the graphics either except for one thing. The part where the girl waves her arms about. Didn't seem to fit your animation style at all, and it was kind of creepy.
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I'm neither a foamy fanboy, nor one of the trolls who feels the need to follow you around saying you suck.
Some are worth watching, some aren't. This one i just found to be annoying and tedious to listen to. It's not that i'm offended for any reason by the content, it was just bland.
I've heard this all before, and i've heard it done when it wasn't with a high pitched squirrel voice that starts to get on your nerves after a few minutes.
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