Thetageist's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[A Girl Can Dream]

Fed up with "girl falls into favorite fandom" fanfics, are we? So many people are and there exist so many parodies, so this is nothing original at all. But I nevertheless appreciate this animation for the sake of how well it's made. I really like the art style and character designs, they look like a combo of Disney and a more modern cartoon show (the She-Ra reboot, perhaps?). The lighting and visual effects are done very well and the animation is really smooth. This is overall a great animation and I'm glad you're venting your fanfic frustrations in this way. The people who decide to bash the actual human beings behind Mary Sue fics instead would do well to learn from you.

Curzec responds:

The idea behind the story actually came from my personal fantasizing about hanging out with my favorite characters and the self awareness of how dangerous most places those characters inhibit are. Combine that with a very short deadline and so I ended up with a rather sudden anti-climactic ending. I briefly thought about other endings like the girl realizing the danger herself and then being comically hesitant. This ending was the shortest though so I went with that.

I have 0 problems with people writing, drawing, or just fantasizing about "falling into fandom" things. It can get a bit silly, but if it makes them happy then why the heck not, right? It's a pretty harmless, self-indulgent thing.

Glad to hear you like the visuals! This short is a few years old now, so I hope I improved on the things you enjoyed.

[Diacrisis Trailer]

I finally decided to check this out for real, and it's pretty intriguing. This trailer is mostly well done, so this review is mainly about what it shows the game is like. However, I'm wondering if the trailer maybe took too long to demonstrate the game's uniqueness beyond introducing it as a zombie game (see below). Some people might click away before that happens if they don't think they're seeing anything new. Furthermore, the trailer doesn't seem to show how the game is horror rather than just "gun action", as you put it. Even the choice of music implies badassery rather than terror to me. Now, on to the game. I actually quite like that you're up for the challenge of making a horror game without realistic graphics or first person view. Furthermore, it originally looked like it was going to be just another zombie game, but it looks like there's actually more depth to the plot, given how I saw shots of some of the prisoners alive... and a guy on a cross engulfed in flames (supernatural at work?) and some neo-Nazi dude?! About him, if he has any spoken lines that have to do with his bigotry, please be sure that you can pull it off well, because otherwise it becomes that game-ruining "gotta have Nazis" cliche. Also, I didn't manage to catch it in the other shots, but in the shot of him raising the axe, both swastikas depicted are backwards. One more nitpicky detail, but I'm thinking maybe you could change the protagonist's last name to something more realistic, just in case that little bit of cheesiness/badassery undermines the horror atmosphere. Overall, this has some good potential, and I look forward to not playing it because I'm a wuss. ;)

Alucard responds:

Thanks my man!!

[The Allies! - D-Day]

That's some decent stop motion, and I kind of like the idea of a stop motion war movie. I honestly couldn't really get invested into the plot, though - neither from watching the animation (which didn't give me much of a reason to care about what was going on) nor from reading the description (which killed the intrigue of what the mission was about and also gave me tropey vibes). I'm a big fan of the game Wolfenstein 3D, and I don't know what makes me like that game and not this stop-motion, but perhaps you should find an emulator with which to play the game so you can get some ideas of how they manage to nail a plot that's four times tropier than yours. This does have potential.

Twin-Tales responds:

We are currently writing episode 2 and I feel it's already stronger than episode 1. And our hopes/goal is that the series will improve after every episode. I also feel the journey the characters are on is more important than the actual goal.

I know of Wolfenstein 3D but don't really know what is about, but will check it out.