Pure Hilarity from start to finish
This is ten times better than the first one.
The only problem is that it drags on a little bit.
It's nice to see a high ranking English flash too!
Well done again.
Reviews for "Decline of Video Gaming 2"
Funniest. Flash. Ever
You've outdone yourselves. Again. I doubt I'll ever see a flash as funny as this one...It was funny right from the off. (No really, it was, because I noticed that standard windows background..hehehe)And the directors notes gives reason to watch it again. Bring on Decline 3!
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Good job.
But, the fact of your illiterate view of seeing these great game companies that made some classic gaming and putting it into your flash will get you some rude comments.
Hmm...
Look, no offense, but you can do a lot better than this. I know a lot of people like it and I did like your first movie, but not so much for the movie, but for the jokes. And watching this (really long) sequel, I realized that these jokes aren't really your own. They're pretty common. "FF timebar system is weird, Resident Evil is commercialized, etc." We've all heard these jokes before. Hell, many of us probably made the same observations to our friends. Of course originality isn't everything; presentation can make the worst cliche funny again.
But presentation was also pretty lacking; there's not really any setup for the jokes and punchlines beyond the "pregnant pause." And goddammit, there's so bloody many of them. "Statement. Silence. Punchline." And that's pretty much what made this movie so long and tedious. Too many silent moments and pauses.
Graphics are not bad, I guess. But there's places where it's really lacking. Like the hands in the airplane scene. The audio got really annoying after awhile; whatever recording method you're using, it's getting a lot of background noise. And put some life into your lines! Everything's a dull monotone. Being cynical doesn't mean always speaking like a Barry White on Valium. Sarcasm loses its edge without any emotion.
Also, isn't depicting yourselves as the topmost enemies of the big bad video game corporations pretty much self-glorification, gamer-style?
The-Super-Flash-Bros responds:
You make some good points. But maybe we CAN'T do better than this? Maybe we're trying our hardest, and this is all we can manage? I dunno. If you don't like the style of humour, thats fine, cos I know a lot of people do.
I do apologise about the inconsistency of the hand drawings.......they're so hard to make look right!
Decline was originally written as just 3 guys. We decided they might as well be 'us' - then we wouldn't have to worry about thinking up new names and identities. I suppose it is a form of self-glorification.......but I don't really see that as much of an issue. We're allowed to fantasise - we never went to e3, but in this, we do!
And - if we pick up on jokes that people have already made amongst themselves - then thats great! They'll be able to relate to us as gamers, and laugh for a second time.
"Graphics are not bad, I guess"
To be honest, I don't really agree with you at all. This is a tweened comedy, not a Disney fbf epic. For what it is, I think the graphics are pretty good. Sorry if that sounded cocky, but I worked very hard on them.
Thanks for the review! Maybe you'll like our newer stuff more. You seen the Another Day series?
-Dim
great
that was excellent but please, please find what wrong with the way you're recording your voices! that noise is very annoying.
The-Super-Flash-Bros responds:
I do apologise. Our microphone was too sensitive, and picked up the background noise of the computer. I fixed that long ago, so all our upcoming stuff has much nicer quality recordings.
-Dim