trust the reviewers
i have only been on NG for a while but this is the first time i see such a disparity between awards: weekly 4th but review crew pick
so lets see who beat you: bunnykill, CI: unregulated, and XIN:session 13
first constatation: what a great week!
2nd: you got beat by flashes that are more accessible to the main audience
bunnykill: madness parody
CI: unregulated: classic shooter
xin session 13 : anime fighting
you, though, have created your thing (own caracters etc.). it's dark and mysterious, something NG reviewers love (see david firth, though i don't think it's quite the same style as yours)
dark: well the sun is shining outside and yet it's dark outside and there's a crow! you also have a kind of sketchy look in your drawing, the reverb on the voices also render a nice effect. also the rabit looks ike a rat!...
mysterious: everybody will agree that
1) we have no idea where this is going
2)the landscapes are weird.
the sound FX also adds a lot of mystery, so does the dialogue.
seeing the character walk alone in a city full of weird landscapes while listening to a weird soundtack (it's somekind of strings played backards right?) is not what everybody wants to see at first in a flash! they'll preffer the kickass fighting of bunnykill etc. but knowing NG members this is EXACTLY what they want in a flash, there also glad to see something different from what they see normaly. that explains the disparity in awards.
look now , you're 6th while CI is 29th , bunnykill, 88th and XIN 13 is 139th, over time people saw what they were missing