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Well, you might as well tell us the secret right in your description, because no one is going to stare at this thing for longer than ten seconds to find out what it is. I wish I could give a more constructive review, but really, this thing is a mess. What's the point? It's not really a game per se, and it definitely isn't a movie. It's just a bunch of stuff moving. That might work well on three year olds, but you're going to have a hard time impressing people whose ages are in the double digits, man. Sorry.
Author's Response:
If i told you the secret it would no longer be a secret.
I wasnt trying to impress anyone. At all.
Im only glad you took the time to atleast TRY and help me improve unlike 90% of the reviews i get.
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It really does look slick, but it would benefit greatly from some music! Also, whenever you die, it's a bit tedious to take us back to your logo and then the menu screen. It would work much more efficiently if you just offered a "play again?" option after you die. Keep up the good work.
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Oh, what a nice cartoon! There are philosophical implications here about ghosts that are just wonderful, of course, but at the same time, the real strength in this movie is in the characters' nuanced and playful interactions with each other. This is the type of thing that you may overhear a close group of friends talking about at a restaurant, or in the locker room of a gym, granted if the group of friends in question happened to be four charming animals. They beat around the bush, they repeat themselves, they argue, and they don't really get anywhere with their efforts, but there's something so endearingly HUMAN about the whole process that it's impossible to complain about its meandering.
It's nothing earth-shattering storywise, but that's exactly what's so refreshing about it; it revels in its own simplicity. Something jam-packed with action or some horrible conflict or situation is a challenge in and of itself, of course, but there's still something to be said for being able to pull off something intricate and subtle, just as you've done here. I especially like how the sketchy visuals play up the whimsical and simple story. The animation is absolutely beautiful. I like this story because it makes me feel that cartoons still have a lot to say; just as much as anything filmed in live-action. We need more animations like this.
Author's Response:
Thank you very much for your review!
I love hearing conversations between any motley lot of characters, as you may have guessed. I had given these characters in the cartoon a bit of backstory, so they were a lot of fun to animate. It helped to be drawing mostly by hand, because it was more instinctive. (I tried animating with flash, but I got impatient.)
As you mentioned, the cartoon is not completely mainstream, so I was wondering what would happen if I put on Newgrounds.
I hope other different animations do will spring up, especially with the internet and Flash animation allowing people to directly create for other people (instead of through distribution middlemen). I admit to pulling that directly from Scott McCloud's books, by the way.
I think the influence of stories from Japan is also helping diversity with American 'toons. Ozu's "Tokyo Story" will never be mainstream, but still I think there's more of an appreciation for that quiet, everyday-ness now.
(Incidentally, the "ghost question" has its origins in an older story I wrote.)
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