I'm not sure about Holy Pally. On one hand, it features a singing, dancing draenei. I think one of the best things about World of Warcraft are dancing draenei. It therefore stands to reason one of the best things about WoW machinima is dancing draenei. But I feel like the singer's voice was over-affected by the filters, and it left the song feeling garbled. It's really hard to get a grip on the performance with that being the case. The lyrics and vocals are by MelodeeNagrand.
The video itself, however, was fun. The machinima was created by Nagrandify. (I think these two have something about Nagrand. I'm pretty good at detecting these things.) The music video was plenty apt to MelodeeNagrand's lyrics, and kept the pace of the song. It felt a little dark to me, but that could just be that I get distracted by shiny things.
Ultimately, Holy Pally was a decent video. I hope to see more from the pair, as they seem to interact well together.
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Must admit, I got bored fairly quickly as the maker seemed to use the healing motion waaaaay too much. We get it, she can heal. Can you have some other moves pls? Then again, maybe that was the point?
You can still pull out your Dio records and play them over the video, it won't fit the video at all but you can still pretend it's a tribute to the man. :(
/agree. With that said, I think I take it upon myself to write that parody. WTB someone who can machinima a WoW tribute to the Lord of Metal Vocalists.
In my mind Draenei pop song machinima are pretty much in the same league as female Belf pop song machinima and male Belf rap now. I want more original works.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Elleyna Jul 15th 2010 12:07PM
Is it me, or did it seem like the entire video was just spamming Holy Light?
Kuro Jul 15th 2010 12:30PM
Do Holy Paladins usually spam anything else?
Almoderate Jul 15th 2010 1:58PM
I have to say... It did make the video itself repetitive, but I enjoyed the song itself. She has a nice voice.
RoseClown Jul 15th 2010 12:07PM
Must admit, I got bored fairly quickly as the maker seemed to use the healing motion waaaaay too much. We get it, she can heal. Can you have some other moves pls? Then again, maybe that was the point?
The effects were pretty cool though.
david_maurice Jul 15th 2010 12:18PM
/waggle
Ohtarello Jul 15th 2010 12:19PM
I really really really wanted this to be a parody of Dio and thus I am really really really disappointed. :(
david_maurice Jul 15th 2010 12:38PM
You can still pull out your Dio records and play them over the video, it won't fit the video at all but you can still pretend it's a tribute to the man. :(
phaye.arthas Jul 15th 2010 12:42PM
Ditto.
Audio was far too repetitive
Visuals were far too repetitive.
This comment is repetitive.
Seraph Jul 18th 2010 2:32PM
/agree. With that said, I think I take it upon myself to write that parody. WTB someone who can machinima a WoW tribute to the Lord of Metal Vocalists.
Jez Jul 15th 2010 12:30PM
Ouch.
Sharvis Jul 15th 2010 12:31PM
I enjoyed the video, thanks Mr. Gray. And her singing was fine to me; it sounded more raw than filtered, which is a thumbs up for me.
sh0wtime Jul 15th 2010 1:38PM
Forget this trash, I came here expecting a Dio - Holy Diver parody. I am extremely disappointed in all of you.
krusty_burger Jul 15th 2010 12:34PM
i couldn't understand most of the words. maybe it's just me though.
david_maurice Jul 15th 2010 12:53PM
I didn't know it was english until I heard the word "Polymorph" somewhere in there.
Elovan Jul 15th 2010 12:49PM
There's a better verison on youtube, Vocals aren't as chopy and the video isn't repetitive. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGMdHoimEV4&feature=related
Qot Jul 15th 2010 2:03PM
Better, but it still sounds a bit like it was recorded in the shower. I would be interested to see how she could do with a decent mic.
Moeru Jul 15th 2010 12:56PM
In my mind Draenei pop song machinima are pretty much in the same league as female Belf pop song machinima and male Belf rap now. I want more original works.
Drakkenfyre Jul 15th 2010 1:36PM
No way. You can count those kind of videos on two hands. Blood Elf song videos? There are literally hundreds.
Sergman Jul 15th 2010 1:05PM
I was somewhat waiting for mr Dio's Holy Diver as I saw the title of the song...well, at least I had hope there for a second :)
Quad Jul 15th 2010 1:08PM
Replace holy, holy pally with faceroll, faceroll pally and its prefect!