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"And now I'm officially current on E'n'L... [734]"
Oh boy.... Dragonforce ep, eh? Well, what a good way to reach the end of this particular reviewing spree. See, I've still got about another dozen of your movies to review, but I'm gonna take a break for a day or two and review the rest before (or on) Clock Day.
It IS like Nintendo music, Shadow. THAT'S THE WHOLE FREAKING POINT. VG metal FTW!!! Terra... come on, now. Whew. TERRA J/K FTW... sorta.
LOL! Gogo meets Borat: "Dragonforce mimic themselves... I LIKE!" Well said, GogoBorat. Well said. That cannot be denied, after all.
Hahahah... soldiers... such bandwagon-jumpers. My gf doesn't like Dragonforce, BTW, but I've played TTFAF on GH3 enough times in the living room with the volume up while she was TRYING to ignore it over here on the desktop PC... to the point that if I play it from the CD in the car, she complains at first, but then she's singing along with most of the song. #;-}>
To be fair, she says she enjoys the vocals (lyrical silliness is part of the appeal of the vocals, I think, and the singer's voice isn't bad for metal), she just can't handle the 3-4 minute superfast guitar solos. They start to wear her down. #;-}>
Anyway, Edgar and Locke, of course, had the most comprehensive and reasonable assessments of the band. The band ain't great, but they've got a couple good songs (and some bad ones... yet all their songs sound the same... HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?).
You shoulda used Cry for Eternity in the flash (along with TTFAF as the solo, as you did), IMO. Valley of the Damned is okay but nothing special. Cry for Eternity's right up there with TTFAF in terms of 8 minute enjoymints and actually has a lot more variety from start to finish, especially in the long solo/instrumental passages in the 40-80% range (ALL 7-8 MINUTE DRAGONFORCE SONGS HAVE THE SAME SOLO AREAS, IT'S AMAZING!). PLEASE TO BE HAVING MOAR CRY FOR ETERNITY!
:::presses the TTFAF solo button and enjoys::: LATER, DRAGON!
Author's Response:
"..and review the rest before (or on) Clock Day."
HURRAY!
lol at your gf's reactions to DragonForce.
Nah, Valley of the Damned had to be here, simply because many overlook their first two albums and they really shouldn't overlook Valley of the Damned. So that's why I added the song Valley of the Damned to this flash. :)
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Is that Relm? LOL... good ol' metal standards... Green Day and RHCP... well, at least she mentioned fairly good rock bands as being metal instead of crappy rock bands... (or worse yet... crappy faux-metal bands, eh?).
Ed-GAHR. Heh... such overpronunciation funs. #;-}>
OMG... soloooooooooooooooo? Nice new feature!
But wait... noooo, not Megadeth. They can't even spell properly. ;_; Oh, well at least it's Hangar 18, which I know from one of the early Guitar Hero games, and it's decent enough. :::nods:::
Yeah, come to think of it... the main thing I don't like about Megadeth is the vocals, and.. uh... solos don't tend to have any vocals (beyond perhaps a few grunts, "ah"s or "yeah"s every now and then, I suppose, depending on the band).
CITIZENS DEMAND MOAR "COWBOYS FROM HELL" FOR NEXT SOLO. But then again, it's the chorus I want to hear in that... Eh. It's all good.
Author's Response:
Of course it's Relm. :)
Megadeth rule, and who cares about how death is spelt. :P
You'll hear Cowboys from Hell in the near future, BUT THERE WILL NOT BE A FEATURED RIFF, OK?!
Anyway, thanks for all these reviews gfox. :)
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Very nice feature! No wonder they call it... "special." #;-}>
Helloween public server announcement of sorts, eh? Well, you guys are always pushing Helloween on me, so I might as well have a look... er... listen see here.
It IS an interesting name, Shadow. Not enough BROOTALITY (i.e. death grunts FTL), eh? hahaha.
:::listens to Helloween sample::: Ehhhhhhh... they're no Maiden. Celes sure gets blown away by just about ANYthing, doesn't she. O_O
NEEDS MOAR TERRA. But here's Gogo instead.
It's not clear why the random Imperial soldier thinks E 'n' L are so irritating. O_o
Whoa. Random villagers who are anti-metal for stupid reasons, eh? FUN!
Nice sampling of old 16-bit FF music, BTW. BATTLE TIEMS. Monsters love teh metal. Too bad they don't love conversationings.
Hey, wait... they don't recognise ya because your sprite ain't Bahamut from FFVI, but... they were talking at the start of the story like they're already been talking with you, and you'd threatened series cancellation on them. So... how did they not already know what you looked like? PLOT HOLE. (unless it's explained away via e-mail/phone conversationings, but then... eh.. that's weak)
Author's Response:
Like I said to a response to your older reviews, Shadow is a Death Metal Douchebag.
They're no Maiden? I'll admit, there was no clips of Michael Kiske singing on this flash, but you'll be surprised at how much he sounds like Bruce Dickinson.
The Imperial Soldiers hate Edgar and Locke simply because they're enemies of them and that one soldier finds them to be annoying.
We communicated via mobile phone. ;)
Thanks gfox! :D
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(OR WILL IT BE... it has quite a good ep 4 to live up to... so far the best of the series, IMO)
Wintersun again? Weren't both of the songs in ep 4 from them? Like I said, they're okay... but TOO MUCH.
YAY, JUDAS PRIEST. Whoa, dude... pronounce Nostradamus more insanely, will you? #;-}>
Metallica... ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. If the last few albums sucked so much, there's only one way to go from there (up... even if only slightly up).
OMG, NEW CANNIBAL CORPSE. That's Shadow's band, eh? LOL!
Okay, while the music wasn't the best, and there weren't enough "neat guest stars" in this episode, I like the range of metal bands discussed, and there were some funny bits towards the end (you really coulda skewered those last two bands a bit more, even... heh). GOOD JOB LIVING UP TO THE STANDARD OF #4 AFTER ALL, huzzah!
Author's Response:
DID YOU JUST SAY FABULOUS?! >:O
From what I've heard from Metallica's new album, it's already much better than St. Anger, so that's a positive sign. :)
Yes, Cannibal Corpse is Shadow's band.
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""ROFLS" my ass. ROFFLES, DAMN YOU. [730]"
Hey, Edgar and Locke are having a chat in front of a background image of Narshe. WHO WOULDA THUNK IT. Seriously, that's a nice change of pace from the usual grass/rocks/cliff/sky background you usually use for these.
That was all righty. Not my cup of coffee (NOTE: not tea) exactly, but 'sokay.
OMG, IT'S CELES. .................... Uh... That was.... um... a weird "whoa" she let out when she listened to the ipod there at the end, man... to say the least. #;-}>
Author's Response:
Not your cup of PORTAL coffee, you mean? #;-}>
HEY, I STOLE YOUR SMILEY! #;-}>
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Nu-metal isn't new, either. And thus the stupidity of naming any genre or period of art/music "new" or "modern" or "post-modern" is illustrated, since SOMEday the term will be OUT OF DATE TO THE EXTREME.
So unless that's the entire point, of course.
Ewwww... Gau's taste is teh suck (making this episode suffer because there's nothing to listen to and enjoy like in most eps ;_;)... I like Gogo's music better than Gau's, I think.
Ahahahah. Crawling. Yeah. Even I, out of touch with the youths... know of THAT one, at least, thanks to its pop-culture value to humanity in making fun of teh depressed kids of the 2000s. Ayup.
GO, EDGAR, GO! CHAINSAW'D.
Author's Response:
I'd rather listen to Slipknot than to listen to BFMV.
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"BULLET FOR VINCENT VALENTINE... [728]"
That's what the subtitle made me think of, at least.
Edgar 'n' Locke are gonna have some fun at Gogo's (and Trivium's) expense, eh? Sounds like fun.
:::listens to various FFVI characters riff on various metal and faux-metal topics/bands/so forth:::
Uh... the first music clip was definitely better than the second clip... so even if they were similar, they were different enough for that to be the case. Also, the second clip sounded like video game music more than metal. And certainly more than emo. #;-}>
Not that I'm an emo expert, alas (or is that thankfully? hell if I know).
Author's Response:
"Not that I'm an emo expert, alas (or is that thankfully? hell if I know)."
BFMV look very emo-ish.
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And yes, if you were wondering... the above number means this is the THIRD time I am making review #727, thanks to two reviews deleted each previous time I got to 727 reviews. On the plus side, today I SHALL BE EXCEEDING 727, so this will also be the FINAL review #727 I have to make.
To the flash itself:
Afro_Stud left you a wwwwww-ful PM at the start of the PM system, eh? How.... uh... original. o_o
Your other PMs... um... kinda pale by comparison to that, though. I agree with you about the first person listed in a collab should be the "main" account responsible (if there is one... and if not, then the submitter/uploader), though. At least your flash here had a MESSAGE for us to learn.
:::brain explodes while reading your final PM from Drunksonic:::
No more.. please... no more. ;_;
Author's Response:
"No more.. please... no more. ;_;"
Don't worry gfox, the trauma's over.
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"I just got Bioshock a month or so ago... [727.2]"
... back in early June, and while I haven't finished it yet (I blame HL2 and TF2 and Portal!), I've been enjoying it a great deal. I was a big System Shock 2 fan, so this shouldn't come as a surprise. You seem to have been inspired more by the plasmid insanity and the setting (love the endless water leak in the background, spot on!) of the game than the plot/characters, though maybe those two bastards and their awesome moustaches will show up later on in a part I haven't gotten to yet. I'll stay tuned!
Anywho, some spelling/grammar errors on the text cards inbetwixt the action aside... a jolly good look back at what Bioshock's Rapture might have been like in the 1910s or 1920s rather than the 1950s as in the game. BEFORE THE MADNESS SET IN... or... is it... too late already? (gasp)
Love the ice plasmid, fire plasmid, and then the third "plasmid"... for some reason, when I was reading the title card with the "heroin and LSD" diagnosis on it, I totally anticipated that he was going to have AIDS as well, also. Well played, sir. WELL PLAYED.
Kitty-in-a-Big-Daddy FTFW, also. That is a perfect production company logo.
One question, though: what was up with the don't trust Irish rogues sign? Looks like Oscar Wilde or something. Was that a parody of one of the many many posters in the game? I'm still back around the dental offices area, so while I've seen a lot of the awesome art/posters/advertisements in Rapture, I'm sure I haven't seen even half of 'em yet, heh.
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You'll need to get about half way through the game to understand the poster I think,
Thanks for taking the time to write the lengthy review!
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Checklist:
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!
Author's Response:
Sadly, judging by the score not everyone on NG has the same criteria as you. Do you ever wonder what makes some movies great scores and what makes some movie get mediocre ones? Well that's a whine for another time. Anyways, thanks for the review, a review like this is what makes artists like me keep going. Also, I'm actually pretty stoked on the word imaginarily. I'm going to try to use it randomly in conversation more.
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