Shot Down in Flames. A "REAL" Review.
Firstly, I am appauled at the ammount of "sheep" who browse this site. All of you who just instantly see something you like, in this case Anime and decide "omg it is teh best!!54@#!! U guyz Rok!"
No I am afraid not. The majority of people who contributed to this Flash "collab" were very amature, high-ego failures of an excuse of an animator.
GRANTED, there were 3 parts I thoroughly admired and give great compliments to, for their skills and style, experience and overall contribution to this Flash.
Now, for the REAL review.
Graphics: Normally I would give it an 8 for the superb contribution of those who possess talent and skill with Flash, but the ammount of crap that was shoved into this just doesnt make it possible. Some of this was just TRACED pictures which were tweened around the screen with minimal animating, if any. Others were drawn so badly with the Line and paint tool that it's an embarressment to the Flash. Honestly, check out people's work before accepting them into a collab.
Style: This goes out the window right now. A large portion was actually parts from or traced from the Animes themselves! What do you expect a 10 for your lack of creativity and talent? No, you score low on this one, a 1 or 2 if it werent for those with talent that redeem this flash to make it bareable.
Sound: An okay song, nice guitar solo and such, but its just way too long, granted if you need all that time for 17 people most of which have a few seconds of garbage to contribute.
Violence: Ugh, most of it was traced Anime scrolling accross the screen and doing nothing, nice touch with the exploding torando though..
Interactivity and Humour: No Humour, appart from the abysmall trash some of you managed to compile. I liked the Animimator Bios though, esspecially at the beggining, gave you something to do while you awaited the Flash to finish loading.
OVERALL: This was tough, as you had 3 good people and a tonne of horrible people with the exception of a few with some decent talent of their own. 9 Months hit the nail on the head though. 9 MONTHS!! Christ what were you doing flash for 5 minutes a day?? And 17 people with an 11MB file! There is no redemption from your score from me, your Flash was mediocre thanks to your willingness to let anyone just ruin it with their plagurising, talentless, skill-less, shocking excuse for animation.
Kudos to those who did their part in this animation, you get the credit you deserve :3
Shot Down in Flames.
MS.
