Score: 7

"pretty good."

submission: PAINT_IT_BLACK

date: July 27, 2008

I think that the flash did a decent job of capturing some of the emotion behind the creation of the song. however this comment is less about the author or his work and more about the people writing reviews.
It seems like newgrounds reviews are rapidly increasingly turning into vapid hrose-shit. take for instance "this is the best song ever !!!!!!!1111111" illuminating no doubt but the comment leaves me with a feeling of emptiness as if gee I don't know they failed to provide adequate criticism. additionally (and this is a general rule) to all you people out there who think you are some sort of music critic because you've heard like 30 songs in guitar hero 3: you aren't try learning about the bands and their reasons behind making a song.
I really find yendor87's comment legitimately helpful in this regard because not only does he call out all the GH music idiots he also points out that its ridiculous for some stupid trendsters to hijack a sogn about war and death and loss. for the record this song is not about angst, or mommy and daddy not loving you, its about a man who has returned home after watching his friends killed and now finds himself distanced from everyone around him. This is not emo self imposed exile this is a song about real emotional/physical issues.

in the interest of avoiding additional rampant hypocrisy I will now proceed to review the flash itself:
the concept was a decent one, I appreciate you leaving paint it black open to interpretation your format didn't force a specific main character or setting upon us allowing us to project our own emotions onto it, the surest beginnings of good art.
honestly your biggest flaw was that your flash only covered half the song, this could be a result of course limitations so don't think its a personal problem.
Let me stress that a 7 is in no way mediocre it is merely a way of saying that it was decently better than average and something that held my attention and interest.
in short: you unlike a large number of the reviewers have garnered my respect.

Score: 9

"a fun way to kill time on a sunday afternoon"

submission: The Rise of a Knight

date: March 30, 2008

Let me start this off by saying that I am often frustrated by hack and slash games, i often have problems in the words of another reviewer "finding ways to muck through the enemies" and your game was no exception I found myself consistently frustrated, but not in the bad "I-want-to-quit-right-now" way but rather in the "I wonder how I could do that differently and win" kind of way. basically it was challenging but not so challenging that I couldn't beat it. You managed to succesfully strike a balance between ease and difficulty.

given the long load time I was expecting good graphics, and they were delivered, and as an added plus the music kept the game from going stale in some places (as hack-and-slash games so often do)

In other words I commend you for this big ol chunk of code and art thats sitting on the internet.

Score: 1

"GARBAGE"

submission: Ackbar : The Movie

date: May 13, 2007

this was an unmitigated pile of crap!
the animation style screamed "I know lets copy sealab, only lets do it really poorly"
I mean hell you even had a character from sealab.
and the jokes what the hell was with that! they were poor and contrived, not nearly up to the standards of anything that I would even spit on!
so to summarize this flash was like an enchilada a giant enchilada with retard beans and an extra serving of cheesy all wrapped up in a big week old stale torn tortilla of crap!!

Score: 10

"I Loved it"

submission: The Last Stand.

date: May 1, 2007

this was by far one of the best games I've ever seen, with concept design and execution thereof that should be mimicked by console games, the graphics were to die for, as well as getting rid of the system of 'money', the sound for the guns was good, and the lack of music, while somewhat of a turnoff allowed me to pipe in my own music instead, even better!!!
in the immortal words of jesus christ
#heaven
<XXXs0n_0f_g0DXXX> "zombie games are ftw"

Score: 8

"boxhead? boxhead!"

submission: Boxhead: More Rooms

date: March 28, 2007

so I've been gone for a while and haven't noticed the original boxhead however after playing it and this game I have to say that this is game has the capability to be one of the greatest on newgrounds. the style was great I love running around with all the little box zombies and box satans. great game I love it I have no real criticism, the game is almost all strength.

Score: 4

"unmittigated crap"

submission: Stunt Bike Draw

date: January 11, 2007

Ok, I'm going to be honest here, this game looked like it had so much initial promise, then upon my running of the game my hopes and joys for such a good premise were destryoed by the mdeiocrity that was this game, sorry man but the driver was an idiot, and scrollign over and continuing to draw the landing ramp what was up with that? it was near impossible, or how ti glitched and made my rider do the same jump an infinite numbe of times, for having this game played "100 000s" of times and still having these pathetic glitches I find unbeleivable. so either you lied to us (shame!) or your testers have the intelligence of mildly retarted rhesus monkeys with extreme brain hemmhoraging. either way it's back to the drawing board.

Score: 5

"too short, but has potential"

submission: CC - wen i clok?

date: September 1, 2006

twas just too short to be funny, sorry to be a spoiler.
The artwork was better than some other flashes that Iv'e seen, though the voices were somewhat lacking. maybe if you had the same Idea's but instead had like 3 minutes of film this could have been better, as it stands it gets a 2 out of 5.

Score: 9

"very good!"

submission: Andy's Life Animations

date: August 23, 2006

first I smiled then I giggled then I laughed. these shorts a really great, I love the sound quality and the animation style. you get a good vote from me.

Score: 7

"nice"

submission: Sentient Fish Rape

date: August 23, 2006

Wow i was amused, really I was. I also appreciate the fact to go really mature but you didn't and thus didnt detract from the humor.

---common protocol---

Score: 9

"shit that was impressive"

submission: Alien Galaxion X

date: August 20, 2006

all in all this was a great game. The graphics were to die for, and the gameplay was great, although as noted the AI is REALLY stupid, so multiplayer would open up a whole new world for this game. not that it isn't already good. the game did get old after I won 6 times in a row with laser autocannon, it became the same deal. but overall if i had to sum this up into one sentance it would be: armor games scores again.