Splash 16 ch22 Mag Reviews
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shit! it's august,the night is
fucking hot,i'm terribly bored,but
i have to review some mags for sp-
lash 16,damn... i can find a coup-
le of better things to do but i've
to sit and type,god why me?
okey,after some very usual and
typical mag-editor depression lets
get into what i've got for this i-
ssue of splash!
first of all you should know t-
hat i've stopped swapping so i'm
quite unaware of the things going
round and i also don't have any
new stuff,so the mags reviewed he-
re are old issues,sorry for that!
so,the mags reviewed for this
issue are:
-moonlight 5 by gothic design
and
-exploding 11 by trans-x
MOONLIGHT 5
when i'm writing this,there has
been 40 days from the release date
and they will not use this issue's
outfit anymore but i've reviewed
it anyway.if i see a new issue wi-
th a new outfit then i can review
again...so let's go now
OUTFIT:after a low designed and
bugging intro you get into the ma-
in menu.the set out is quite well-
known:a gothic logo at the top and
and a moonlight logo at the
bottom.the chapter names are pre-
sented between them.some sprites
appear at the borders and when you
select the chapter name,everything
fades away except for the choosen
name and screen goes blank for a
long period of loading,shit.that's
really boring.
the text screen is also very
familiar.there's a moonlight logo
on top and a 16 multiplexer char
is dancing on it.(i remember this
from a very known thing,but let's
leave this).and the text upscroll
under this story. when you press
fire you again wait the main menu
to be loaded.b o r i n g! also so-
metimes the code fucked up on get-
ting back to the menu,but perhaps
that's because of my drive,i don't
know.
well,the outfit is already bor-
ing and furthermore,everything ex-
ept the musics were made by dudes
out of gothic and this took much
more points as i really don't like
this kind of thing.but this is my
view and they already must be usi-
ng the new outfit coded by a got-
hic coder.anyway,this one has qui-
te low points.
%40
TEXT: the text ain't that good
as well.i think the editor doesn't
get much help from neither readers
nor the other gothic members.most
of the chapters were short artic-
les from the editor and the rest
is the usual stuff in little amou-
nts.needs more work!
%60
OBJECTIVITY: there wasn't much
problem with this as already there
wasn't much things to comment on
or so.
%80
GRAPHICS: the graphics were qu-
ite well drawn and colourfully pa-
inted but only logos...
%80
MUSIC: the main menu had the 64
version of "all that she wants" f-
rom ace of base.in fact the real
tune makes me puke but this conver
sion was really reasonable.(64 ru-
les,eh?)
the text displayer's zak was
also not bad anyway...
%85
at the moment,moonlight is qui-
te a weak mag with poor outfit and
text but i think it can be impro-
ved with the support of other gro-
up members and with a good spread-
ing.but the editor must really put
more work in it and he should thi-
nk of some new and original ideas.
that's my view...
so an overall score for moonli-
gt:
(40+60+80+80+85)/5
%69-5 for overall
%64
EXPLODING 11
when i first saw this mag in a
disk's directory,i was a bit surp-
rised as it had died a pretty long
time ago with the group trans-x!
but now it seems that both the mag
and the group are back,cool! it's
really nice to see familiar names
round the scene,so thanks to lone-
star for all his works...
now,let's go for the review:
OUTFIT: after about two intro
screens and the usual exploding de
cruch,you finally get into the mag
.there's a bad logo swinging up t-
he screen and there's a 2x2 scrol-
ler right under it but the charset
sucks...right down,you can see the
chapter names and finally some exp
loding sprites.
you should know that exploding
is a one file mag which is quite
hard to find nowadays.when you ch-
oose the chapter you go through t-
he pages...
well, in fact the design is qu-
ite okey for a one-file mag but da
other details let it down...
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TEXT: as i have told you explo-
ding is a one file mag so it can
never give other mags a competiti-
on in text,and i really don't know
how to judge it,so i can say that
the amount is few,but quality is
quite good.no crap talk at all..
%70
OBJECTIVITY: i think the editor
commented on the things that he
wasn't expected to ,so this lowers
the objectivity.
%60
GRAPHICS: well,the graphics
are really quite poor.i can unders
tand that they have to use 3 colo-
ured gfx,but they really could be
a lot better!
%50
MUSIC: the music was totally
irritating and of low quality!!!
%40
well,in fact i don't know how
fair is it to compare exploding
with all those huge multi-filed
mags but surely it needs a lot of
improvement from the graphics to
the musics but i hope they will
not turn into a multi-filed mag as
this one reminds me of old days
and one filed mag has its own tas-
tes.just a little work will solve
a lot of problems!!!
(70+70+60+50+40)/5
%58
well,that was all for the revi-
ews of this issue.in fact i am re-
ally thinking of changing the way
i review the mags as a mag with
poor outfit and text may get high
points because it has nice graphi-
cs and musics,or vice versa...
anyway,wait until the next issue
to see what will happen...
finally let's check the overall
mag tests...
1.immortal flash 9.........%90
2.inquiry 1................%85
.update 7.................%85
4.impulse 2................%83
5.scene observer 2.........%78
6.comic pirates 3..........%76
7.nitro 9..................%75
.tele 64 1................%75
9.newspress................%65
10.moonlight 5..............%64
11.internal 15..............%58
12.exploding 11.............%58
that's all folks! keep your ass
always rocked !!!
the boss/accuracy!
