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Gettin' some quick saves towards my b/p retirement goals on some of the 4 under judgement movies before I make some coffee... check.
Saw a flash with an interesting title... okay, let's have a look... check.

... WAIT, the movie starts with an animation of a jogger? Well, this is a fitting time of hell (i.e. morning) for such a flash, at least... Is this movie going to be boring, I wonder? Wait... there's some interesting things going on in the background... as he runs down each block... and especially as he crosses the cross streets... WTF? Burning... car... And whoa, the running animation cycle is... kinda fascinating in and of itself.

BOOM. Cowboys From Hell kicks in and T-Rex is imaginarily (can you believe that's a real word, BTW? I was about to write "fake word FTW here!" but then googled it real quick just to make sure there wasn't a slightly different spelling to make it proper, and... boom. O_O) making you run faster.

That's some great stuff. It was so great and surreal that it (plus the time of morning and lack of coffee, likely, which often have a... magnifying effect on surreality) compelled me to review right away, when I normally just make a shortcut to the flash entry and dump it in a "to be reviewed" folder with like 400 other movies and games. So, congrats on that, too! #;-}>

Great music choice, great concept, great execution. What better three ways to make a flash on NG are there? Someone let me know. Kudos, sir! KUDOS!

While watching a new version just submitted today. So anywho, gave it a shot. Your animation and hand-drawing skillz (as opposed to relying upon textures) are actually better than the dude who did the new one... but there's two major problems with it:

A) most importantly, you used a subpar (IMO, at least) version of the live FOTC recordings of Albi. This one's much shorter, doesn't have a lot of the nuances and slower (better) timing/pacing of the more well-known live recording (or even of the HBO version). Also, the audience in this one... laughs way more obnoxiously. Of course, you didn't record it, but there's a better version of the audio you coulda used, so it was an error of selection, an editorial error, IMO.

B) why is the mob (which is well designed, good job!) sitting right outside the mouth of the cave doing nothing the entire time Albi and the Albanian boy are talking? That just seems weird... both the official FOTC HBO version of the animation and the other NG Albi show the mob chasing Albi off, but not sitting right outside the cave for the private conversation that makes up most of the storyline of the song. Which I think is a better choice.

Aside from that, I love a lot of things about your version. Making Albi red instead of the usual green was an interesting difference, and I loved Albi's reaction to his teardrop jellybeans (though this version of the song cheated us of the later line in the song about the one special rainbow jellybean tear.... which is what Bret and Jemaine eventually started making the song cause Albi to not be racist anymore... apparently this is an early draft of the song, which doesn't have the layer of detail their eventual development of the story would come to have... alas. ;_;).

That reaction shot was priceless, in fact. So overall, great job other than the choice of the song version and the mob intruding on all the privateness of Albi + the boy for the whole rest of the plot, and of course... thanks for adding more FOTC flash to NG! WE NEEDS MORE. Do the Robot song or the David Bowie song, if you ever make another. #;-}>

.... if only they came to NG. (sniff)

Great idea for a flash, and while at first I was worried you'd just be directly copying the original animation from the FOTC show... when I heard the audio from one of their performance clips rather than the HBO show, and when I saw that you added your own little touches, like the thought bubbles above Albi and the Badly-Disfig'red Albanian Boy.... I was quite relieved and pleased. That was brilliant!

Also, the textures you put in for all the grass, trees, and Albi's scales... and dirt and stone, as well (but mostly the green things, which is fine by me as it happens to be my favourite colour EVAR)... were all quite good and lent the flash a distinct feel to it. Excellent job!

The only criticism I can levy against it, in fact... is that while the first dragon tear jellybean (the red one) was gorgeous... the second multi-coloured one looked kinda crappy by comparison. But that's okay.

The Albi song is in my top 3 FOTC songs along with the Humans are Dead and the Bowie Song, so... I'd love to see your take on other FOTC songs, especially those two... but really any of 'em. MORE FOTC FLASH ON NG, PLZ. FTW.

Your groovy track is finally being used by a submission (the new game submitted just now, today... Elliptic). Congrats on that (it's how I found the song, anyway). Oh, and I just gave it a 5 vote, which should balance out the previous reviewer's 0 (he shoulda come back the next day and hit 5 at that point to balance it himself! #;-}>)... JSYK.

I saw the title was Mass Effect over at that submission just now, so I wanted to see if it had anything to do with the game, and sure enough. I just got a new PC this month, and so I've been playing a lot of the games I missed, such as Halo and Doom 3 and Bioshock, over the past few years... I'll be getting Orange Box for my birthday next week, and finally Mass Effect is the last must-have game on my list, from what I've read about it. But since it just came out on PC like a month ago, it's still top-priced, so I'll have to wait awhile for it to drop a bit.

Still, this song being inspired by the game... serves as yet more mouth-watering anticipation-causing teasing for me in addition to all the reviews I've read. #;-}> Thanks for that.

Very nice atmospheric techno... kinda has a "slowed down drum 'n' bass" feel to it, really. I dig the beat a lot, the bass... the synths overlaid on top after many measures are decent (though the piano parts shine much more, even with everything that makes the song... dropping out to leave just the aural background + piano overlay), but it's really the beat 'n' groove that make this one... leading up to that soft ending. I'd love to hear piano like that WITH accompanying beats, in a way that "works," if that makes any sense.

Just heard this song on a new flash just submitted to the portal. The flash was crap but the song was great. When I saw it was from the audio portal, I had to come and see... er... have a listen, rather.

I haven't reviewed anything in the audio portal in years, but I don't want to lose track of this beaut, so here I am.

The title of the song, Sunlight, reminds me of Starlight by Muse, and this song's actual feel... is kinda like a techno rendition of the feel of that rock song. Upbeat, happy, but with a slight tinge of wistfulness or longing or nostalgia.

As others have said, the strings 'n' synths are great. The thumping four to the floor beat is fine, but I'd love to hear kinda a nu-skool breaks/breakbeat trance version of this. When the beats drop out and the music soars into the breakdown, I think about some Hybrid-esque beats kicking in instead... and it makes me smile (like Beachcoma by Hybrid, from their first album, Wide Angle).

So what I'm saying is, this is great, but I'd love to hear a more intricate drum version, too. #;-}> Well done. I've not heard better tone or mood from an audio portal techno song since the golden days of ParagonX9.

Loved it. Great stuff. SUBMIT MORE AUDIO, IOI8!

Was that a "cock-a-doodle-doo" in there before the breakdown? Heh. Greatness.