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Latest Flash Reviews

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Score: 10
Fairy Sorrow

"Patience is not a virtue that I have in abundance."

submission: Fairy Sorrow
date: August 17, 2009

I don't know much about flash, but I know what I like, and I like this. Now, my problem is that I have now waited for FIVE YEARS to see something new from you. FIVE YEARS. I hate to think you are squandering your animating talents in favor of flipping burgers or something equally silly, so if you are waiting for someone to ask you to make more, consider yourself asked.

If you are done with this and want to animate no longer, well, at least you gave us this. I guess we really can't complain. Thank you.

August 23, 2009

Author's Response:

Hello, dear datatroll!

Frankly speaking this is the first review I answer in five years.

After this toon I had two animating projects, but due to some unpleasant moments of my life, the inspiration has left me... totally. It is like loosing one of the senses, like smell or hearing.

Now I seem to regain the vision of images and stories of the lands of imagination. And at the moment even tend to try and regain my hand-drawing skills.

It's pretty hard, while working as a newly graduated lawyer! :-) Total lack of time makes me spend the only available free time - the lunch breaks, with a pencil and a torn bit of paper.

But, hell! Perhaps I'll get through life's frontiers and complete idiocy of Flash CS4 and publish something with the new style and story. Hope you'll like it!

Thanks for the support! Another thanks of supporting after such an astronomical period of time!

Respectfully yours,
Volo

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Score: 6
Tankmen: Incursion

"A noble effort."

submission: Tankmen: Incursion
date: May 4, 2009

Ditch the falling leaves and put camera control in the hands of the player (close, mid, far) and I will come back and give this a ten. Keep working on it until it offers 20 hours of playtime and I will pay you ten bucks to download a copy for myself. Has the potential to be one of the best platformers I have ever played, right up there with the early Mega Man games and Earthworm Jim. Just too frustrating right now to bother with.
Sorry.

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Score: 10
KILLROY 10 part 3

"For the record..."

submission: KILLROY 10 part 3
date: November 22, 2008

You know, some of your other stuff is pretty cool. But at the end of the day I really wish you would just do more with this clown. Killroy kicks ass.

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Latest Audio Reviews

2 Reviews | 0 w/ Responses

Score: 10
TrainMadness

"This is still my favorite madness tune."

submission: TrainMadness
date: July 23, 2009

This has been on my mp3 player for a year, I guess I should say something.

More than most of the music I find her at newgrounds, this tune tells the story. It drags me, kicking and screaming, through all of Hank's pain every time I hear it.
Using an imitation of a steam engine sound for the baseline was pure genius, and the way it gets harder and more ragged in spots, then calms down a bit, then drags me back through the blades is a wonderful ride all the way through. I am genuinely hoping that in some perfect future, you, Evil-Dog, and ParagonX9 can get together and produce something epic. The three of you being nearly all of the the reason I bother to download music off of Newgrounds.

I hope you can work more things like the steam engine into your music. I think that using that effect as your drive through the piece brought out a lot of the glory of it. It takes it from being just a tune that was selected for a spot, to being one that was made for it. Attention to detail like that separates the good from the great. In my opinion, anyway. Slow motion helicopter blades, a warning klaxon, hoof beats, there are all kinds of things I can think of that would work.
All that said, my own creative talents tend to be with the written word, and thus I can only stand on the outside looking in here at newgrounds, where my own efforts would pale in comparison to the audio and visual maelstroms that the greats here can produce.

Wonderful work. Please don't stop.

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Score: 8
Resident Evil 2(Save Room)

"Nice work!"

date: January 14, 2009

For the record, I would have scored this top marks had it been an original work. I always choke a little bit on giving a ten to something like this.

Loved it though, reminded me a lot of running madly around trying to FIND this place when I ran out of shotgun shells. :)

Now I am off to listen to some of your other stuff!

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