Aminominous's Reviews

[Time Squad [Part 2]]

Blockhead at his best

This is a great flash. One can tell that you poured your effort into it- at the same time it presents a very entertaining story while seeming to serve as a testing ground for different characters, scenes, emotions, and story elements. On your site you describe how blockhead is such a testing ground, and I can't wait to see what you'll make next. The sheer length of all the parts is monumental: 30 minutes, which is much more than the length of a standard TV cartoon episode excluding commercials.

Though the character's don't change much, some of them do in important ways (such as the cyborg with his death and such). This isn't a negative because too much character development would be unfitting in a pure action movie like this. Blockhead's complete lack of change whatsoever despite the dangerous situations adds humor, and him telling the conscious that he forgot what had happened after the adventure adds a sense of resolved pointlessness- if the adventure had not happened, Blockhead would act the exact same.

The music is very polished- though it still shows audible roots in midi (in some of the portions, especially the percussion I think I hear rendered midi) it still fits every scene very well and the whole score is never uninteresting or distracting. If you had better equipment I'd bet you could make some damn fine music for flashes.

[Time Squad [Part 1]]

Awesome

This is a great flash. One can tell that you poured your effort into it- at the same time it presents a very entertaining story while seeming to serve as a testing ground for different characters, scenes, emotions, and story elements. On your site you describe how blockhead is such a testing ground, and I can't wait to see what you'll make next. The sheer length of all the parts is monumental: 30 minutes, which is much more than the length of a standard TV cartoon episode excluding commercials.

Though the character's don't change much, some of them do in important ways (such as the cyborg with his death and such). This isn't a negative because too much character development would be unfitting in a pure action movie like this. Blockhead's complete lack of change whatsoever despite the dangerous situations adds humor, and him telling the conscious that he forgot what had happened after the adventure adds a sense of resolved pointlessness- if the adventure had not happened, Blockhead would act the exact same.

The music is very polished- though it still shows audible roots in midi (in some of the portions, especially the percussion I think I hear rendered midi) it still fits every scene very well and the whole score is never uninteresting or distracting. If you had better equipment I'd bet you could make some damn fine music for flashes.

[Blockhead: Episode 6]

I loved this

This is one of my favorite flash series of all time and #6 is the best to date. I think what makes the character of Blockhead so compelling is that it is as if a normal person has been split down the middle into two different personalities, with one being completely dominant and the other forced to watch without much effect. Blockhead has child-like psych problems, including pica, mania, developmental disabilities, hyperactivity/ADD, and is sociopathic. The Ego has problems more associated with adulthood, including depression, nihilism, anger problems, and suicidal thoughts. If you meshed the two together you'd get a more or less normal person, as their extremes would cancel out.

I wouldn't worry about including too much Ego- his reation to what Blockhead does, and the following interaction between them, is some of the best stuff. I think that Time Squad is far less enjoyable because of the lack of Ego, and the addition of the other flat characters.

My only complaint is that the episodes are too short! Almost every moment of them is hilarious, and I am left wanting much more. You may also want to try making the episodes have a bit more complex situations with randomness still present but more of the directed kind, with each part of the situation cascading and building on the next until a moment of hilarity.

[Punk-o-matic]

crap

What a brilliant game! I mean, now you can replicate every single punk song ever, since they all sound the same anyways. I clicked the random song generator a few times, and the products were indistinguishable from each other. A great representation of musical reality.