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Our Reviews for the story Lips Don’t Lie by @IoannaC :icecream: :revolving_hearts:

Annieways' Review

First impression
I like the title and description, it sounds like the story could fit in drama too.

Characters
Your characters are likeable, but I didn’t really got attached to the MC because she seemed to be easily influenced by her parents and by her best friend. However, I was glad to see that she is smart and confident. The love interest is kind of a mysterious guy and I like this type in Episode stories.

Plot
Your episodes are on the short side, which wouldn’t be a problem to me because that’s what I prefer, but I also felt like not much happened in the first 3 chapters. I would probably add more scenes and dialogues to the chapters not only to make them longer, but because your episodes are heavy in narration. But if you don’t want to make them longer, you could still consider to end them with “bigger” cliffhangers, because if it wasn’t for the review, I’m not sure I would have been convinced enough to continue. I felt this especially in episode 1.

Directing
You have a decent directing and some really good ideas: for example I liked that you showed the parents in the background during the customization. I’ve never seen it any stories, but I think the readers will appreciate this.

Some minor things that might help your directing look better:

  • When the paparazzi is taking photos of the couple in that TV show, they should face backwards
  • When the two families talk in front of the meeting room, it looks like the characters in the foreground were smaller than the ones in the background. I think it would look better if you scaled them a little bigger.
  • I can’t stress this enough, but I highly recommend to use idle_loop animations when a character stops talking. For fast readers like me it looks like your characters were talking at the same time, which can be distracting.

Overall
I think you have a good story on your hands, just a bit of something was missing to keep me hooked. Besides what I already mentioned, I just realized I don’t remember having seen many choices (apart from the dressing games)? Maybe you could try to make it more interactive, it would help us, the readers to get more engaged with the characters and the plot.

Thank you to @Annieways for this review.

bhxddiedashet's Review

My review:
I overall think this story is really good and has potential, but there are some misplaced or not added commas, periods and etc here and there but that’s not a big deal to me . But to others that might be an issue. The directing was basic-
It’s not a problem but I like more advanced directing and lots and lots of overlays :joy:. There was no choices, except like the dressing games as @LiyahxWrites stated, and I mean your story is on an interactive app so you might wanna add choices. It was a good story but not a story I would personally read on the daily.

Thank you to @xetic for this review.

_haruka's Review

First off, the title and description are good. They wouldn’t attract me, but I don’t tend to read drama/romance. I think people who are interested in that genre would probably get drawn in and interested to read more!

The intro with the overlays is pretty good, you could maybe apply this coding knowledge to other scenes! :heart:

The plot is pretty good, even though I’m not a fan of this genre, I found it pretty interesting. I think one thing to improve on would be bigger cliffhangers, or something to make the readers want to continue. Episode 2’s ending was good.

I think you may be missing a few commas here and there, so it may be a good idea to check over the dialogue a little. One thing I noticed is that the animations really do go well with the dialogue, and they’re proportionate. A lot of stories, when they use animation, it’s really dramatic compared to the dialogue and takes away from the story. I think maybe try using idle_loop when the characters stop speaking, so that it doesn’t look like they’re talking over each other.

A couple things I noticed:

The paparazzi should be facing towards the characters in Episode 1.

In the meeting in Episode 3, Aurora should be a layer behind her mum, as she is currently one layer on top.

When Aurora’s eating doughnuts, maybe make the plate a little smaller as it looks a bit big compared to the counter.

Overall, this was an interesting read, with room for improvement. I can see that your grammar is good, and the directing is also good (better than me lolol). I think you could maybe put a few more choices and make the story more interactive. :two_hearts:

Thank you to @_haruka for this review.

JemU776's Review

SOOOOOOO EVIL :smiling_imp:

*the word the isn’t needed in front of university.

*would be better to write his company instead of the company

I checked out the first episode. Hmm, I recommend for the author to end on a cliffhanger because while they were in the water, it kinda abruptly cut. Other than that, it was very smooth and a very well done cliche beginning (sometimes cliches are awesome). Right when MC talked about Luke being her rival, I KNEW she was gonna say that before she even said it : D Her father giving the company to her surprised me. But overall, episode 1 made a good impression on me and sorry for the short review :+1: :heart:

Thank you to @JemU776 for this review.

Simila100's Review

First impressions:

  • It was easy to locate the story, title and description were fairly intriguing for me to want to click on it.

Directing:

  • Almost no mistakes that I could see, other than the exception (something the other reviewers also pointed out), where during the beginning the girl walked through the chair.
  • I liked how you showed the parents getting customized at the same time as the MC. :blush:
  • During the news scene, the intro news music cut off abruptly. Maybe have it fade out? Although that’s totally your choice.

Plot:

  • Chapters were a little short, but that isn’t a problem.
  • Maybe instead of narrating who Luke was, show us? Show us that he’s a dick, show us that he’s the competition of the MC. :wink:
  • Seemed interesting enough of a plot for me to want to check out the story and see what it’s all about.

Music:

  • Use of music made sense where it was, but which I stated before, the news intro music cut off a little too quick imo, but it’s up to you if you’d like to change that!

Overall:

  • Since I reviewed only the first chapter, I see tons of potential in this story. I didn’t really spot grammar mistakes other than some misplaces of punctuation as @Annieways

Thank you to @Simila100 for this review.

xxLoveAaliyah's Review

The bold is where you need to correct in your script.

Episode 1, review.

  • Jennifer walks through the chair. You might want to layer the chair at layer 5 and layer Jennifer at layer 7,8 or just layer Jennifer closer to the screen.
  • Hey, babe. Did you miss me?” You didn’t put a comma before babe.
  • Luke seems to be a bit too tall when he stands up from the desk.
  • “Miss Beaunte, I need you to sign a few documents.” A comma should be after Beaunte because it’s a direct address.
  • Not a huge deal, but your speech bubbles should be higher and closer to the characters that are speaking.
  • When Aurora says she needs a coffee. The camera is not on her.
  • Hey, Steph!” Any time you are using a direct address, you need a comma before or after the name depending on the context.
  • Once again, not a huge deal. But maybe you should scale Steph’s speech bubble to around 88% to make it look better.
  • I won’t correct all of these as I have seen them too much. Adding a comma after or before a direct address goes a long way.
  • When Aurora says “I know and I’m sorry.” She isn’t doing a talking animation. Not a big deal, but yeah.
  • You have an overlay glitch when the TV scene comes on. To avoid this, use the & symbol instead of @
  • You should spot Rose’s speech bubble higher and closer to her.
  • Depending on where you live. The US or the UK. In the US. It should be “ Mr. Walker.” But if you are in the UK, I suppose “Mr Walker” is fine.
  • The Paparazzi 2 speech bubble is blocking his face.
  • Having default characters in stories seem a little lazy.
  • Episode one ended weirdly lol.

Episode 2, review.

  • You’re missing commas again. Direct address, commas.
  • Aurora isn’t using a talking_phone animation instead. Maybe, try this instead. &AURORA talk_phone_animation THEN AURORA is sigh_phone_confused
  • Emma’s speech bubble should be about 80-88% and you should scale under the phone, as it would look better.
  • Emma does a deep breath while talking. As I said earlier. Use the & sign and the THEN command.
  • When characters are finished talking. You should put them in an idle_loop animation
  • “Get to the point, Emma.” Put a comma before Emma.
  • “Mr. Michael, you are the owner of this restaurant, correct? You need a comma after Michael because it’s a direct address and also a stop.
  • Michael’s mouth was not moving when he responded. You should also put him an idle_loop animation because it looks weird how he’s standing there idle.
  • Same thing goes with nicknames.
  • Unfortunately, yes and we must find a solution.
  • First of all, I will talk to you however I want, It’s none of your business.”
  • I don’t understand the “It’s none of your business” bit. As it doesn’t make sense since Stephanie was talking directly to Jenna.
  • Jenna’s still in the talk_loop animation while Stephanie is talking.
  • This is more of my taste, but it would look much better if you zoomed a little closer to the characters.
  • Of course, I had to. That bitch was bullying you.”
  • Episode had a little too much narration for me.

I read up to chapter 3, but because the same errors were presented. I decided not to write down a review. Your directing was average. You didn’t have much directing errors. Which is great. In my opinion, the story lacked excitement. Not much was happening and you didn’t include any choices other than dressing games. You were missing a lot of commas which was off-putting, but hopefully, my feedback will come in handy.

Thank you to @LiyahxWrites for this review.

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