TheDoctor's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Chrono Trigger Blade Duel]

Ooh, looks like I inspired something else!

Overall not a bad movie, I liked the way Glenn used his tongue in the battle, and the rolling down the stairs bit made me laugh. A few pointers for future flash work:
1) Use the Trace bitmap option in flash with your sprites, that way they wont look all fuzzy.
2) Dont use so much music. I think one or two pieces per battle is best, in this movie we never really got to hear much of them (And it makes the filesize huge for a relatively short movie).
3) The fighting might have been a little TOO fast. Call me a hypocrite for saying this, but you need to be able to see what the characters are doing ;)
4) WTF!? CRONO WINNING!? Glenn>Crono

Nice job though, if you make more flash then try to make it longer+add in some plot (as I am doing with my next CT movie). Oh, you can contact me on MSN or AIM to discuss flash (most of the time I will be on MSN though).

Magius responds:

Yep... Doc I gotta admit I admired Chrono Mirror and it did give me a precedent for this. I'll keep your advice in mind. E-mail me or Msg me on AIM anytime. (Kenshin070m) I'd really like some flash tips. Especially if anyone knows how to create 2 separate endings for the viewer to choose. I'd update the movie to include it if someone would teach me.

[Black Mages 2: SE]

Oh the randomness!

That was just great to watch, I loved how you had the damage scores floating around for the duration of the movie. The drawings arent the best, but they fit perfectly into this style of animation. The insanity crossed with the 8BT references made this an original (something that is very rare on NG now), and amusing FF parody. Good job.

matt-likes-swords responds:

original eh?

[FF:The day after LD]

Well, im just reviewing this as a flash ok?

Seeing as I left this whole flame war a long time ago.
Very good effects, I also like the way you have most of your fighting zoomed in, much more dynamic, I must try that.
Fairly good drawings as well, would be nice to see you do a 100% hand drawn flash some day. Could have done without all the buttsecks references though :P

Anyway, I must be getting back to my own flash as I will NEVER get it finished if I keep spending all my time on NG.

Shin2k27 responds:

Hm well for the hand drawn movie, i can just tell you that it MIGHT be sooner than you think, thx for the comments and im still waiting to see the next FF deathmatch.

[FF: Warfare 8]

One thing!

Less battles. You have quantity of them but this comes at the expense of quality. I can understand having a lot of short battles (As many characters need to be killed) but there should be the odd epic one.
Still, nice to see the series progress and everything start to come together. One thing I would like to request of you is your sound effects. I have very few decent FF/CT ones and I would be most appreciative if you would send yours to me.

Keep it up ;)

-TheDoc

[FFVI:The Day After Part14]

Nah, not your best

That would be the thing about the series, it dosent really get better as it continues. Really could do with a lot more original content, other than that it built up nicely, however you are doing more battle and less talk, you should focus on what you are good at. The scene was like: "Celes you are all I have, marry me! Yes. Oh great!" for something like that it should have been longer, as I felt like it was just text, with no real emotion.
And what really happened in the plot? Not a whole lot here, this content of this episode could have been added to the beginning of the next one easily.

I suggest with your battles you either:
1) Remove most/all the talking, I dont like it when fights are constantly paused by some dialogue, if your opponent stopped to talk you would be like: ARRGH! DIE FOOL! Not just waiting for them to finish.
2) Make them longer. As with the previous point, dialogue is a space filler, but wont make the fight a whole lot better. Meaning that in this series they only get in a few attacks with each battle, not amazingly entertaining with this kind of thing.

So overall I give a 6.5/10 for this. I found it a bit of a pointless episode, I was expecting much more drama for the penultimate installment.

Oh and in regards to the ongoing argument with Shin/Crow/moogle, just ignore them. The whole thing got old a while ago, be the mature one and just take no notice of the (now repetitive) comments. And if they say you are backing down then let them think that, in the end it is just argument for the sake of it. So be the intelligent one and heed my advice.

Thank you for your time.
-The Doc

Vinstigator responds:

Well I was gonna put more drama but some people wanted more action so I had to deliver!

And about the crow/shin/moogle situation...you're right. In this topic

http://newgrounds.com/bbs/topic.php?id=144310

BOTH Shin and GoldCrow (well he's now known as ShadowedCrow for some reason) are talking smack about my movie! But you know what? I gotta take your advice. Thanks for the review, Lenin! Or should I say, Doc :)

[Legends versus next gen]

Not bad, not bad at all

Being too short is the real problem. I was expecting another scene to come after the battle, sprites looked a bit crappy when zoomed in as well.
Meh, still good fighting, you just need to work on lengthening the scenes (I know they can sometimes be a real bitch to get done).

Oh, and can you send me the dante sheet? I found a site with them on but the link had been removed :(

Moogleslayer responds:

Yay a review from the master of sprite fight!, the reason the things kinda short is that i made a challange with vince and he didnt accept... so i finished it up fairly quickly, and the crappy looking sprites in the zoom... i dont know why the hell they look so awful you wouldnt happen to know how to fix that would you? o and my msn is [e-mail] if you want the dante sprites and backrounds. thx for the review btw

[NG Deathmatch 1(2/2)]

Amazing!

This reminds me a lot of "Celebrity deathmatch", and the quality was getting close to that as well.
I cant wait for more of these.

[Stickyboy]

A series make you!

This could be classic one day. Good voices and nice style of animation, the subtitles could be made a bit more legible though.

[FF: Warfare 7]

Front page?

Im sorry, but Wade just got bored there...
Not bad though, this was probably your best one.

HAcoreRD responds:

god BLESS wade, lenin :)