As for the third part, as promised, I would open the floor to the majority! Comment freely, and in 24 hours, I shall post the proper judgments, and we'll see if we have a winner, or if this goes to the Lightning Round!
Bitmap: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_YUqo3aA1s
Theorist: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_HpUnReeM4
And now a review by TsundereWorks,
BitmapUsing a video by Kefit, whose timeless rage has rung in our ears for much time, has only made minor alterations to the source video. Bitmap has taken two tracks along with a sound effect and edited them into the video and called it a day.The video is a failed replay of EoSD's Stage 6, but setting it apart from other gameplay videos of a similar nature is the player's frustration and anger. In the end, Kefit gives a yell of defeat
, and whines like a little bitch.So what has Bitmap done? In the first half of the video, Bitmap has overlayed the original audio track with a song from
Pee Wee Herman's Big Adventure. I never heard this before, so I thought it was very well-composed, and I liked it. This first half kept me from closing the tab, but then again, I have to see through these two videos (no matter how boring) so that I could write my opinion about them later on.
In the video, the original theme music is even more drowned out. At some points, the inserted theme is actually higher than Kefit's voice on the mic.
During the second half, Bitmap inserts another track. (I can't remember the name, but everyone who uses the Internet has probably heard it at least once.) My impression of the video changed from promising to clich?d. I must admit, though, the chance in music matched the humorous theme of the video, and better focused on Kefit's voice. The first theme drew my attention to the stage and to Remilia herself, for the theme suggested an evil, ingenious plan to me.
Towards the end, when Kefit is defeated, the video is rudely halted by a Super Mario sound effect that we all know very well. First, you are defeated, second, you game over'd at Touhou. I did feel that there should have been a clear pause between the two sounds to create emphasis.
The minor details: The video is grainy and in low resolution. Although this can't be remedied, it's there. Bitmap has lowered the volume of Kefit's voice at some parts of the video, so I am grateful for that.
Conclusion: Bitmap has taken a video of an elite Touhou gamer playing the final stage of EoSD and failing towards the end because his friend (though probably not his friend anymore) ruined his concentration countless times. Maybe he was just so focused on winning that he didn't pay attention? Don't know, but it doesn't matter.
Bitmap added two tracks to the video, and a sound effect at the end. Although it meets the requirements, I was expecting much more from him since the start.
There is no creativity in this video, it is completely unoriginal and it's nothing new to what I've already seen. I do praise you for not messing it up, since some sorts do tend to try too hard, but still...It's far from what I've been expecting from an IM submission.Next!
TheoristUsing a gameplay video of a player fighting against Hijiri Byakuren, Moerin attempts to highlight Byakuren's character and belittle the player's efforts at the same time by inserting Superman's theme song. The video itself is very boring, since it's something that most Touhou players have probably seen already. :derp:
Well, there you have it! The Superman-esque theme of the video derives from nothing more than a wordplay of Byakuren's spell card.Kind of ironic, though. The player is fighting against Byakuren, who is supposed to be great and powerful like Superman, but she's getting creamed by the player! Although the player isn't shooting, he is overconfident and is instead timing out her spell card, dodging everything like a pro. Byakuren is not scoring any hits, and she is losing time. What part of this is like Superman? Like I have said before, the idea from this video comes from nothing more than a use of casual wordplay.
At the end, we are greeted by an illustration of Byakuren, in a Superman costume.
The minor details:Black borders all around the video. This is usually caused by letterboxing inside of the video editor, submitting into Youtube, and because Youtube thinks the video is out of proportion, will then add more letterboxing to the video so that it can fit inside the aspect ratio of the player. The result: we have four rectangle around the video.
Also, the final product is devoid of all original sound effects and music. I thought the rules were to at least keep the sound effects intact.
Other than that, it is a clean job.
Conclusion:The concept is too simplistic to be effective, but that's not the worst thing. The video demonstrates exactly the opposite of what the audio is implying.Maybe your intention was to be ironic, but it would be too subtle for anyone to notice anyway. When you consider all these factors, you have a poor result that should hardly qualify as an IM submission.
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Final Decision:Both seem like last minute ideas produced in very short time. The video doesn't even feature gameplay of the contestants, rather using an outside source and editing it instead. I would have graded a submission much higher if the video were actually a recording of the contestants playing in Lunatic.
I will have to give my vote to Bitmap for at least trying to be funny, although the quality and level of work isn't so much different than Moerin's.
##BitmapA word to Bitmap:
If you manage to get into the final round, give it your all! Same goes for Moerin! I honestly thought that your first and second challenges were much more appealing and creative than this one, but I see that you two have potential.
Just put more time into it and carefully plan out what you are doing, I know you two can do it!
