Release Review for Sound and Vision

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Chaos:
Well, they made a really good smear-effect:  looks
great, is great. The Vectorworld is really good, too!  There were a lot of
other nice effects in this demo, so I think this is one of the best this
year.



Graphics: ugly

Sound: so la la

Design: none

Effects: great smear, nice Vectorworld.


New, good Idea: For the first time, a really good and fast smear
effect:  Congratulations, you really made an important improvement to an
effect!


Overall: good



Dr.Jekyll:
This demo features a not too good design. The colour-combination in the intro,
for instance, looks terrible. A pity, since the coding is very good. The
fractal-landscape is nice, and so is the precalulated vector-globe.



The music fits the demo rather well, and is the first tune we have ever heard
from Jellybean. The graphics are unfortunately not the best, and could easily
have been improved. Not a bad demo, which proves that Reflect has got some 
good coders, but the graphics and design let the overall impression down.



That one is one of my favourites. As I saw the demo I was quite astonished
by the effects. That one has really the best coding of all 10 demos.
The design is not so well but Zeque showed up with a lot of really
great-looking effects.The music and the gfx were not as good as the
coding was , something they must improve.The best effects are the Vector-City
and his Fractal calculation routine which is extremely fast.He proved that
shadebobs are not the only things that can be run with a shade effect (although
he used shadebobs too). This demo runs with a a small bug on A3000.



Laxity:
Hmmm... Well, this demo is actually perhaps the hardest to judge. It seems
Reflect have some rather skilled coders, yet the design? Well, let's say:
timing, please! (boring!).



The graphics are probably the worst part in this demo, untalented and
instimulating in every way.



Either the music is some kind of E.T. entertainment equipment, so that it
might pass my delicate ear, or else it's just something that slipped out my
sensitive ass last night.



In fact, the only thing that keeps me from giving this demo negative points on
a scale from 1-10, is the code.



Reviewer's comment: "Hmmmm... Naaah!"



Zeque:
This is our demo, but I'll comment on it anyway. The main
routines - Globe, Shadowed World, and Fractal Landscapes - are
rather cool, and some of the other parts have some kick, too.
The music and GFX are good, although not excellent. Design
doesn't exist, if not that we decided to leave all boring text
screens out. To be frank, I never expected Sound Vision to be
this popular.



Hannibal:
Although I had never heard of this group before, it is really a nice demo.
Especially the shade-intro and the lightsourced landscape is great, but the
other effects are nice, too. The pictures are nice, and the tunes are just
perfect for this demo. The design could be a little better, and a few of the
effects should be let out, but all in all a really nice demo.