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[Mario Vs Sonic Entry]

Hm, ending wasn't so great.

~ Animation/Graphics ~

So how did this do in the contest or is the contest not over yet? I personally thought that the animation was great and I'm always impressed when people can make sprite animations fast paced and enjoyable like this. In my opinion it's animated with some of the best sprite animators I had ever seen. Backgrounds and everything else were great. Very good visually all around.

~ Story/Content ~

I would usually complain about there not being a story to why the two sides are fighting, but I don't know what the competition requirements were. I personally rather see a reason why they are fighting even if it's something small and stupid like why Peter and the big chicken fight on family guy.

The fight was pretty action packed and lasted a pretty good length. I wouldn't mind it being a tad bit longer, but you timed it pretty well. The ending wasn't very good in my opinion simply because I couldn't tell what happened. I wouldn't have known unless you wrote that they both punched each other in the face in a response to one of the reviews below.

I would have rather seen it end with them crashing through the ice and fighting underwater or something similar to that.

~ Audio ~

The sound effects were really good and I like that you used some voices here and there. The music was also pretty good, but don't shy away from using the audio in the audio portal here. There's some really good stuff.

~ Overall ~

It was a pretty good action packed submission. I wouldn't have minded a reason why or a better ending though.

DarkZeroProductionZ responds:

Thank you very much for your review ;)
I did good in the Contest, I got first place :D

Yeah, about the story, he just asked for a Sprite Fight, I really forgot about the Story/plot. The ending... That was a counter punch, The sprite came out really bad, lol, and I realized it came out bad until I finished it, and I really didn't want to make the sprite all over again in another position, so I just left it like that. Also, I actually wanted to have a fight underwater while Mario turned into Ice Mario, but sadly Sonic doesn't know how to swim, and he's scared of water. Anyways, thanks for your review, I appreciate it.

[R&A New Year's]

Ok ok.. I just laughed at a cock joke...

~ Animation ~

I would have to say that if I was pacing this off of only the animation then it probably wouldn't have gotten more than a 2 or maybe a three if I was feeling generous that day. It was really bad and it's probably something that I could do, even though I'm really bad at animating. It's really hard to say how to improve at this point because it's really the basics.

~ Graphics ~

If I had to base my review off of the graphics only then I would probably only give this a 2 or 3 out of 10. Again, very basic and not very good at all. The part where you drew the characters way different added to the humor pretty good and the overall bad quality also added to the humor slightly. I don't know if it would have been as funny without it.

~ Story/Content ~

Why the hell did I laugh at the cock joke? I hardly ever laugh at the cock joke, but apparently that was just random enough and funny enough to make me laugh. I really enjoyed it and the complete random laughter and plot just made it an enjoyable flash to watch.

~ Audio ~

The voices were done rather good and I really liked the laughing. It all seemed really good. Great job here.

~ Overall ~

Terrible graphics, but the humor really saves this submission. It also makes me want to favor it for future reference.

RainbowRiderAlpha responds:

thanks for the in-depth review man

Ricky and I have a lot of ideas we want to get done, and that's hard to do if we spend a lot of time on one project.

For our next flash, since I already delayed it, I'll make it look better

thanks again

[Conscience and Therapy]

Hm, details please :P

~ Animation ~

The animation was a bit choppy in a couple of places. For example when the car was bouncing up and down from the external view of the vehicle it really didn't look like it was being drove at all, but instead just bouncing up in down.

~ Graphics ~

The drawings were pretty good for the most part, but they still had a lot of room for improvement. The drawings of the people weren't the best, but what I think could help the overall production is more detail in the backgrounds like you had in the one with the blades of grass. That looked great so more detail the better it looks! Also, the soldier didn't look like a soldier at all, but just some random guy off of the street that found a gun to use.

~ Story/Content ~

I think that in the beginning you should have showed the soldier shooting the boy. Perhaps he's fighting some enemy soldiers and the boy surprises him somehow or even just he child getting in the way by accident and he can't check his aim in enough time.

~ Concept ~

It was an original concept for a flash, which is a nice thing to see every now and then. It showed some emotion, but I really thing that the point you wanted to get across was complete sadness and remorse. You could have showed this much better in the facial expressions and some other means.

~ Audio ~

The music was very fitting and really goes good with the idea that the guy is going crazy over this. I think that the beginning could have used sad music and then you could have went into the more upbeat music though.

~ Overall ~

I think that it has a good story and symbolizes something, but you could have pushed it a little further in both story and emotion. Details would really help this submission out as well.

FAtmat666 responds:

Thanks for the review! This is probably the most helpful one I've gotten, for any flash of mine.
I developed the story and flow of the animation to fit the music, which can be limiting. However, I feel that once I get better at it, it will make for a mood that cannot be gotten another way. For now, though, bits of story is left out and filler is added. I also let the emotions of the story slip a little bit away from the emotions of the music.
I really agree that more details would help, and haven't thought of that before. I'll be sure to put more in to my future works.

[Patchman: The Dark Night]

Patchman = A pretty good character

~ Animation/Graphics ~

You had some pretty good graphics here and have a real talent for drawing cartoon like characters. The animation was very smooth and the submission itself is very pleasing to the eyes. Probably the best submission by far that was requested on my userpage.

~ Story/Content ~

I was kind of upset that it ended so soon, but it was a nice short that had a cool little twist to the end of it. It never really made me laugh or anything like that, but I did smile a bit at it and could see the humor. This seems like a character and a family that you could easily build characters around in an original way.

~ Audio ~

The voice acting was alright, but not the best. It almost added to the humor a little bit. The sound effects and the music were great though. Overall the audio was a pretty good strong point to the submission.

~ Overall ~

A pretty good submission all around. Not a perfect ten, but nothing ever is really a "perfect" ten so I'll give it one. Congrats on the daily first and keep up the good work.

[NX - God Knows]

How dare you tell me not to rate bad because of...

How dare you tell me not to rate bad because of sprites. I love sprites. ;)

~ Animation/Graphics ~

Like I mentioned up above I prefer watching sprites over regular submissions. They just have that great video game feel to them that I love so much. You had a nice usage of zooms and pans that kept changing it up from the stagnant video clip of them standing there playing their instruments. You also did a good job with syncing the mouth movements with the voices.

~ Story/Content ~

It was kind of boring just the way it was. It would have been better if you would have used this as part of a story instead of having it as the whole thing simply because it was just them playing and nothing else went on. So perhaps building a story with this happening somewhere in the middle could make it more interesting?

~ Audio ~

The audio was of good quality, but obviously I couldn't understand a word of it. Perhaps having the option of turning English subtitles on could make this better.

~ Overall ~

Try to do more than just having a music video. Build around the story a bit more and perhaps some English subtitles.

Pienkaito responds:

Well, thank you very much for the comment.

Also, I did hear from many that it lacks "story". I got so tired from doing all the lip-syncing that I got lazy doing any other stuff.
Same goes to the subtitles.

All this was actually planned, but got scrapped due to my lazy attitude.

However, I thank you once again for the review.
I hope, we meet someday again!. ;-)

[Who is Ricky Brown ?]

Who is who?

~ Animation/Graphics ~

I would have suggested not using real pictures. They aren't that bad in this submission, but they also take away from the overall production a little bit. I love the animation that you had though and I love most of your graphics. There were a few people who could have been drawn better such as the people from King of the Hill.

~ Story/Content ~

I thought you did a really good job here making the scenes come alive. I liked how everything flowed and it was actually pretty funny. There really wasn't much to comment on about the content since it was based off of someones audio.

~ Audio ~

The voices were pretty good. The King of the Hill voices could have been better, but it really wasn't too bad. I liked almost all of the voices and Ricky Brown there did a good job on adding a lot of humor to it. Especially the last scene made me laugh a bit with the whole, "Ricky Brown is my mom" bit.

~ Overall ~

Great audio and the graphics can improve slightly.

angiDGL responds:

Thanks for the in depth review, I'll take your advice for future projects.

[Bounce-MSTRKRFT]

A bit odd, but for some reason kind of fun.

~ Animation/Graphics ~

The animation was alright all around, but it could be much smoother in many places. I think that the biggest thing about the submission was the poor graphics. There were some parts that were done pretty good, but most of it was pictures and low quality work. I'm sure it would have taken much longer to do the whole thing with decent quality, but it really suffered without it in my opinion. It could have been much more entertaining if it wasn't for the poor graphics.

~ Story/Content ~

I actually like how random it was, but again the graphics kind of took away from the content here. If it was animated better I think the places and situations you put in your scenes would have been much stronger. The randomness kept me entertained, but towards the end of the song I was hoping it would end soon.

~ Audio ~

The song quality was good and you seemed to pick a great song to make a movie about. You did a pretty good job overall syncing animation and sound together.

~ Overall ~

For the most part the animation and graphics were lacking here, but the randomness was pretty good.

[21 Pains]

Hm, sorry for not reviewing earlier.

~ Animation ~

I think the animation was the downfall of the submission. Not because the animation that you had was bad, but because there was really a lack of it. When the dude gets shot perhaps he could have cringed his body more and some things like that. I can understand people who are saying they don't like it because there isn't much going on.

~ Graphics ~

The graphics were one of the best part of the submission in my opinion. The drawings were very good and the background was very fitting. Perhaps in the background there could have been more details such as pictures on the wall, a Uzbek flag, and other things similar to that.

~ Story/Content ~

I never saw the music video before you showed me, but I find it to be a pretty good parody of the music video. Maybe there could have been a scene where the cops drove up and started shooting at them so people knew what was going on more. Anything to change up the stagnant standing in one area the entire time. I personally tought the dialogue was pretty funny.

~ Audio ~

Man, I don't make a good girl, but I think that the male voice came out pretty good. Let's find a girl that is willing to do the voices next time. :P The music in the background was pretty good. Perhaps you should have added some bullet sound effects or something like that?

~ Overall ~

It could have used more animation and different scenes than just the normal standing there. I have a terrible girl voice and I think the dialogue is kind of funny. On to the next project.

MonoFlauta responds:

Oks an awesome review haha thanks for reviewing, if there is a next time together in a parody will be better believe me:P

And yeah many good ideas...

Oh your voice girl was good dont worry XD there were more funny

[DANCE!!1]

Keep working because it wasn't terrible!

~ Animation/Graphics ~

Animation wise it was quite good. There wasn't any faults at all. Graphic wise it wasn't bad either. The backgrounds and the character was done pretty good. I think that there could have been more detail in the background though and that would have really helped the score that I gave your submission.

~ Story/Content ~

The only way to make this any better besides the different detailed backgrounds would be a different dance for each song. Even though this was kind of funny and it showed that you really don't have to be good at dancing since one mediocre dance can look good with a bunch of different genres. I would have to say that the heavier music didn't go with the dance very well.

~ Audio ~

Good quality audio and a good variety. Great choices all around here and there isn't much to comment on about.

~ Overall ~

It could use some more variety in the dances and adding details to the backgrounds would have really made this much better. The easter egg is way too easy to find. :P

[Gaygdom Hearts]

That was odd.

~ Animation/Graphics ~

This wasn't created in flash was it? The animation was a bit odd in a few places and the graphics were kind of fuzzy like you took this from another program and edited it into a video file and then into a flash file or something like that. The background needed to be worked on a lot, but the characters were drawn very good and that's where most of the points in my rating are coming from.

~ Story/Content ~

I've played the game Kindom Hearts, but this still wasn't very funny. It was like you were trying to be too funny and well... it just wasn't. A play on words and gay jokes really don't make thins automatically funny. Work on some original and funny jokes and perhaps this would be alright.

~ Audio ~

The voices were good and everything. I don't speak that language so thanks for adding the subtitles. Everything with the sound seemed perfectly find as well.

~ Overall ~

The animation needs a bit of work, the sound was great, but in my opinion the story wasn't very funny at all.

CondenadosProducoes responds:

Hello man. I created this in the Flash, but I had a problem when I exported the SWF, then I exported a AVI movie and created a new archive. Thanks for review.