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Beyond the Galaxy Intro

July 7th, 2002
v1.00
Score : 3.0 tolerable
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This is the introductory movie of Jamie's upcoming dmod Beyond the Galaxy.

The basic idea of this dmod could be a good one if proper new graphics can be used. Dink was abducted by the more powerful brother of the evil wizard who was defeated by Dink.

However the only good thing for this dmod is the basic idea of the complete game. To me a good trailor needs to at least give people some eye-popping graphics, excellent execution, and nice music. In short, it should be able to tease people into wanting to play the game. There are a few great intro movies out there (including the intro movies of released dmods), but this one fell far short from them.

There are basically only 2 screens. No real action at all. Using the mysterious "death" (that Dink met before facing Seth from the original Dink game) to do the narrator job is simply rediculous! I guess he is just a servant type of character. Because Dink killed Seth, he becomes Dink's worshiper... just bizzard. And the toilet joke is not that funny at all. Then there is still no action showing how Dink defeated the evil wizard, and all you cann see is a strange "GORY MATERIAL" sign to show up. And then all screens fade down and a few more words. That's it!

3 midi's if you count the title music as well. The music is basically OK I believe. I am not sure if they were from jamie's midi pack, but overall I don't like them. In fact I can't even listen to 2 of the 3 midis more than 30 seconds. But that might be just my own taste. A good midi should fit the overall theme of the game; however, there is no action what so ever in this intro, you cannot say if they are suitable or not.

Apparently jamie used his Spare tile in this intro, too. Although people reviewing his Spare Tile pointed out that his tile is in 24-bit format, Jamie still used the 24-bit tile which takes about 3 times as large hard drive space as the correct 256-color! In addition to this, it shows that the tiles do not look good when other Dink's graphics images are on them. You can argue that the mysterie on a weird swirl tile looks OK. Originally I thought the marble floor is one of the few that can be used with Dink graphics files. I guess I was wrong. Those pillars standing on the sides of the screen just do not match the marble floor. It simply looks bad.

Only new graphics are the title and the strange "notice" that I mentioned earlier. Compared with the quality of the tile, they are not good. And I don't understand the good of the new splash.bmp and esplash.bmp. They are basically black! And each took up 300+KB of your hard drive space!! I just don't get it.

In conclusion, a good intro that is worth a look before the main game comes out should either have amazing new graphics to show (like Silencer's BTS or redink1's FIAT v.0.99) or have some dramatic actions with interesting story-telling (like SimonK's SOB v.2).

So if you want to see what Jamie is doing, then you can download this, but I doubt you would let them stay in your computer afterwards. Sorry Jamie, I might or might not understand why you mention my name in your credit, but you can certainly do much better than this!
August 24th, 2003
v1.00
Score : 3.0 tolerable
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SimonK
Peasant He/Him Australia
 
An intro for a DMOD that will probably be never released.

Dink is thrown to another galaxy by some wizard. There's a new title screen but not much else. Some new titles. I don't remember hearing any new music or sounds. Spare tiles comes into play. A new font is also used, which does make a pleasant change.

But does this intro/trailer make you want to play the full version? Well, kinda, but only if it is raining, and I've got nothing better to do. But seeing as how this intro has been out of ages and the full version will never appear that question is academic.

Overal 3 out 10
October 8th, 2002
v1.00
Score : 3.0 tolerable
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Binirit
Peasant She/Her
 
This is an intro to the full game that has not been released yet.

Storyline: Dink defeats an evil wizard and is thrown by the wizard’s much more powerful brother far beyond the galaxy.

Map and graphics: The title screen is good; it gives an impression of space. No other new graphics.

Music: Although there are midi’s in the folder, I did not hear any music while watching this preview.

Good: I liked the chocolate like background from the spare tiles in combination with the guy rowing the boat. A new, good readable font is used.

Not so good: A preview, trailer or intro should make you want to see the whole movie, or play the full D-mod in this case, but this intro is not tantalising enough. And that is a shame, because the purpose of a preview is that you want to play the full D-mod and can not wait until it is released.
Another Dink was somewhere on the background; if you press spacebar he will say something.

Overall: Mediocre.

Fit for: If you want to see how an intro movie can be done.
August 9th, 2002
v1.00
Score : 8.0 good
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An Easy intro, Funny and short and has (Like tomsthebomb said) 3 good mids.
I realy hope that the Dmod will be good and full of fun like strange alliens and stuff.
keep up the good work imacrazyguy
July 13th, 2002
v1.00
Score : 4.0 tolerable
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SabreTrout
Noble He/Him United Kingdom
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This is a intro over which you have no control. Already that puts it on a downer, as watching an intro is at best ok, and usually poor. This is pretty dire. The attempt at humour may appeal to some, but not me. I find it quite immmature and with no real panache. Plot seems interesting, but the intro does not explain enough. The new graphics and scripting were generally poor, though 1 or 2 ideas seemed good. Overall, this is a very poor download, and I would not advise you to get it. The full version could be good though.
July 11th, 2002
v1.00
Score : 2.0 horrible
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WC
Peasant He/Him United States
Destroying noobs since 1999. 
This is a small intro released from Jamie's new d-mod 'beyond the galaxy'. This d-mod plot is a ok plot, but lacks real though, I hope in the full version this plot is expanded upon or this d-mod is going to suck just like this intro. There were several new graphics in this d-mod that were just too huge for the adverage 56k user. (Why not 8bit format?) There were a couple new midi which I didn't really care for, but matched the mood ok. I found the overall proformance of this demo to be weak, and thrown together. There was no action and just text which doesn't make me want to hage on for the full version.

Overall: This d-mod could have been made much better with a couple of special effects, less text, and a couple of tweaks in a few places. Score 2.0