Not safe for children
So this isn't your normal children's tale anymore. Ok, cutting to the core of this flash.
The art is fantastic. The music and voice is pretty good. The animation is sub-par. The story seems great at the surface, but is actually pretty lacking.
I like the artistic mix of the "still storybook" shots, along with the animation, and art-wise everything was fantastic. But things still looked sloppy on the flash side of things, tweens and FBFs. And was it just me or did it seem like there was atleast 5 different versions of Hood? She seemed to change in appearence with each camera change.
As for the voice, it's not bad, especially compared to the other junk on NG, but at any point I was basically expecting a big corny MUAHAHAHAHA from the narrator: is was kinda cheesy, especially when Hood's dialogue started.
***MILD SPOILER***
As for the story, it just feels like somthing is lacking. I mean it seems like good "shock value" at first, but then I realize that the "new storyline" that you present here is just, well, common sense/reality. Wolf eats three people, The end. And stories are boring when there is no opposing force. If the wolf is the quasi-anti-hero, then where's the nemesis? The closest thing I could think of was the music soundtrack, which gave me visions of justice (the wolf was the force of justice here?)? Not really.
The whole beginning sequence is bull as well, in regards to the iron corset crap. If you put us in the mood to believe that Hood really was a stronger person, why, upon stepping into the forest, did she INSTANTELY revert back to her traditional storybook weak-innocent-naive self? Looks to me like more lame shock value jammed into the story. But it just occured to me that if you could have shown Hood atleast show her strength and fight Wolf, and even if she still failed to stay alive, then atleast that would have satisfied my aforementioned "opposing force" arguement from above.
Final Verdict: This flash made me say the word "art" too many times. Overrated. Don't be fooled by initial shock value.
-AnacondaHL