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[Thank you Josh McDaniels]

Lolwut?

I've never really been a fan of NFL - not my style of sport, to be honest. I think that there needs to be some serious work on this flash, however:

Animation - there is little that can be detected. Perhaps adding some voices would be a better way to deal with this piece, as it looks like it could use a more human touch, even if you're slating this coach character. From the vocals, you could then try some 'animutation' lip-syncing, which would make it look loads better.

Finally, make the music into a menu tune and add a main menu and preloader, which will give you more or less instant results. The whole setup will have improved so much by then that this piece will barely be recognisable and you'll be able to get some good plaudits for it, trust me.

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[Pixel Shrooms]

No mention of Humongous?

You've never played the game Munchkin then, where you can play the Humongous card on the fungus, to make the Humongous Fungus, in order to have a truly terrifying creature.

Decent lyrics and a relatively easy metal track that you've used on the 'thrash' genre. It sounds good and the additional bonuses with this wouk nicely, as you head along the verse, with the good rhymes. Not that it's really necessary in this genre :P

Perhaps you could have come up with something like a mosh pit or some sort of crowd that went along well with the band. Did you come up with this track before you came up with the 8-Bit Pwny Club 2 episode?

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[Zone of the Awesome]

Impressive

A nicely detailed parody of the Awesome series, as made famous by Egoraptor and friends over the years. I can see the humour in there, despite never having played "Zone of the Enders" before.

While some of the jokes may be a little lost on me, the general gist of the flash is one of sharp humour and wit, that will leave lots of people with smiles on their faces.

The animation can't really be commented on, save for the fact that it matches the style of awesome pretty much perfectly. I know that you can make better animation than this, but the real skill is in parodying someone else's style, which you've managed to do more than capably :)

I think the combat sequences were a little too brief, but that might be down to the style of the flash again - there's got to be more of a window for writing material on this game though and I'd have appreciated more material, so that you can be a little more generous with the cutting process.

Finally, congratulations on responding to all 510 reviews before mine - let's just hope I'm not the one to break the chain :P

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Galneda responds:

Nah, I do my best to respond to all; no exceptions.

This flash was a mess, if you want my honest opinion; I chose an obscure video game barely anyone has played before, done to a minimalistic styled parody, but rushed over-and-over again as I kept setting deadlines for myself, and then RE-setting deadlines when I missed them.

I had cut corners left and right, not fully understanding what I'm doing, either. This was only my second flash animation ever, mind you. lol

The combat sequences were brief because it was my first intensely challenging frame-by-frame animations...the very first being that head-explosion on the ":D" robot...that took me hours, and yet, it was over in a snap. That Jehuty vs. Raptor scene took me days...I couldn't wait for it to be over with, and in hindsight, I guess that's pretty evident. Soooo....yyyeah, sorry.. lol

But the briefness of everything can be blamed on both the "Awesome VG Parody" genre, and myself for my impatience and inexperience...but upon completing this, I gained experience, and I've (hopefully) learned from many of my mistakes in this.

Thanks for the review, Coop! You 'da man!

[Rorschach's End]

Awesome!

While it could have done with better sound - voice actors can duplicate these voices quite well, you have produced a brilliant piece of animation here.

I was half expecting there to be giant blue cock jokes here, but kudos to you for staying away from that area, which has been lampooned far too much since this film came out :)

A brilliantly surreal take on how the film should have ended, as I totall agree that there's no way that Rorschach should have died, although he would never have been able to live a lie.

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Galneda responds:

One of hogabeast's main points was actually using as much of the original audio as possible, to help concrete the connection with the scene. Although, I agree the quality could've at least been improved if I were to record from the DVD, I have no software that can do it perfectly; I pretty much just stuck my microphone a few inches from my speaker...as if that had to be said, you could probably tell with the slight fuzz in the background.

Yeah...Manhattan's cock jokes are way overdone. Thanks for agreeing!

True, true...Rorschach was a badass, but if his character wasn't established to be so Goddamn cool, the audience wouldn't have given a fuck if he died.

Thanks for the detailed review! This is my first impression of the [RRC] since I first heard about you guys months ago. You guys seem to be good at what you do!

[Skeleton's Revenge]

Hmm, a few changes and we're there

Not a bad piece overall - I can see that this particular entry would benefit from a subtitles bar, as jumping around the screen to click the speech bubbles to advance the text. I think that a button on the bar would suffice to advance the text in that respect.

The plot is workable, but could use a few tweaks, to make it less linear. Perhaps have the guy that killed the skeleton get back up after he died, or something, like a recurring villain, perhaps.

It's got some great potential, so keep working at it and hopefully the next one will be better :)

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kfc23456 responds:

...yhu ruined the secret for the next one
he's just injured,but he gets killed at the end of the next one

Secret ruiner >:o
lol just kidding, but i'm making a way better one

[Kaiblade Episode 2]

Well, it's a start

A little too much time was spent of the intro and outtro, as opposed to the plot exposition, for my liking. I feel that you've cheated a little too much with the valley at the start - it seems to be flickering through a couple of images that you've drawn, which don't change as much as a natural landscape would.

When the images of the characters come past on screen, they don't stay up for long enough for my tastes. Then again, there are so many of them, perhaps you could taylor it for the episode itself - that way you'd only have three characters on screen, saving you some time, to let us see them all.

A little more work on the drawing would be well appreciated, but it's not all bad, by any stretch of the imagination. I think that you've got a great start to a good looking series and judging by the score, some people agree with me there.

Perhaps expanding on the fight scene would help here, as while Jai did make it look ridiculously easy, he could have done a few more moves to down the turtle.

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CartoonCoffee responds:

Lol i didn't think people would catch on to the background. I guess i can't cheat in episode 3.
As for my art i think i could improve a bit aswell.
And the fight with the turtle was suppose to show Jai's incredible strength. There will more interesting fights down the road. That i promise

[Frodozers Vs. Clock Day]

Metal Slug

Well, it's a piece designed exclusively for Clock Day and while it's got a decent piece of music to go along with it, you're not talking much else in the piece here.

A few bits of variation, with some different firing patterns from the three characters / ordinance pieces would have been nice, especially when the piece got so far and then just cut out. Man, you didn't even keep it going for the length of the track. Surely these guys would have fought off the wave after wave of spam if they could have put some more effort in!

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Fro responds:

Effort on clock day would be the dumbest thing in the world. Why put effort into something that's going to be completely ignored unless put on the front page.

[SillyStopSkateMation4]

Awesome!

What a great animation this is - the way that some of the shots of the skater are drawn on the paper and that some are cut-outs just serves to make this better, with the sheer amount of thought, time and effort that you've put into this project.

Contrary to the title, there is nothing silly about this flash - it's a first class demonstration of how you can take your animation to the next level, without needing to do such detailed art and animation as Adam Phillips, for example. I love the sound effects and the way that you even included things like the taxi, which crashed a little too quick and tidily for my liking. More debris flying through the air would have been better in my opinion, but it's still fun.

Stop motion is so difficult and yet you have made it look so effortless and simply brilliant. I tip my cap to you, sir.

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[Blue Tot and Birdy Bird]

Not bad animation

I think that you need to spend some more time developing a plot that you can use definitively for your pieces, but this is certainly a decent looking work. I'm not exactly sure what the 'Blue Tot' is, but it is quite well drawn, in a simple sense. It fits in well with the background and the animation style of the bird.

I think that you could have used some sound effects of birdsong, to give the piece more depth and overall it's a little short to showcase your animating abilities. I am sure that you will go far with more practice and patience.

Not particularly a bad joke, but writing doesn't seem to be your best field.

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ZleapingBear responds:

write? ho writes??? :P
no i know. this was acteualy ment to be a random just practing animating... so i hadent writen any thing at all... just made it as the frames roled by...

But writing a plot migth will help even my animating, having a goal to go for.

Sound... well... i know...

Again.. thanks :)

[Little Shop of Horrors]

Funny

A great little flash, from one of the best movies of the 80s. I think that it's certainly got some good potential, but the audio sample that you used was a little short for my liking.

The lip sync was a little on the basic side - the mouth only moving up and down, as opposed to how Audrey II worked in the movie, with the 3D lips pulling themselves back, as opposed to just moving up and down.

Good use of the vines as tentacles, but this addition only goes to show up just how barren the rest of the shop really is. I think we'd appreciate an additional few bits and pieces of flora and fauna in order to improve the whole look of the piece relatively cheaply.

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