Score: 7

"First Flash, you say?"

submission: Sonic In Angel Island

date: July 4, 2008

Damn, if this is the first Flash you've ever made... Whoa. I've seen a hundred "first Flashes" here, but this has to be one of the best.

Of course, it was your first, so it was imperfect in some ways (missing a lot of elements of the usual Sonic games, such as music, a lot of sound effects, Rings, a life counter, Game Over, etc.), but by the looks of it, it was a version 0.5, which usually means a demo. I'd love to see a completed version of this when you've improved a bit.
4/5, 7/10.

Score: 0

"Needs a lot of work."

submission: Wegra Adventure 3

date: June 24, 2008

I don't know if there's really anything positive I can say about this submission. It looked like a bunch of low-quality .jpg files thrown together without so much as a motion tween, the Speakonia voice was quite hard to understand due to an excessively low pitch (try using a different voice, maybe something like "Adult Male #1, American English" at a medium pitch and speed: it would make it more understandable), the sound didn't sync up well with the graphics near the end, it needlessly brought out overused 4chan memes, and it lacked any sort of cohesive storyline whatsoever. I'm assuming that you were making an attempt at random humor here, however it's just not funny. I strongly suggest that, before submitting another movie of this sort, you improve both your Flash and writing skills.
0/5, 0/10.
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Score: 10

"As always, it was good."

submission: Bahamut's Fav. Reviews

date: June 10, 2008

I remember watching a 2002 submission where a Flash author of the early days of NG compiled his favorite reviews and what he would have responded to them. All of the reviews in that movie except maybe one were abusive, so at the very least this Flash shows how much more civilized NG has become since 2002, which from most viewpoints can be considered a good thing. But onto the movie itself!

As always, Bahamut, you've managed to put together a pretty good Flash movie. I (kinda) know 6 out of the 7 "featured" reviewers (even had RupeeClock on my Favorite Artists list at one point), and in fact many of the reviewers from the Bonus Section (including myself)... Does that mean I spend too much time here? Nonetheless, the reviews and your reactions to them were rather interesting. And I can't take points off for Speakonia usage because there was the option to skip that (and also because you didn't use the high-pitched, high-speed Speakonia voice that makes my ears bleed), a feature that I really liked, seeing as how Speakonia gets boring fast. Therefore, as usual...
5/5, 10/10

Score: 10

"I should have reviewed this ages ago."

submission: 4chan 4evar

date: June 10, 2008

While I do enjoy your hentai work, Zone, this is quite possibly my favorite animation that you've made. If only 4chan was quite so cute and semi-innocent as you made it look... Not saying it isn't fun, but /b/ is nowhere near that cute. As always the animation was good, and I loved the song you used. Only one little thing...
NEEDS MOAR DESU!
Despite that, 5/5, 10/10, Favorited.

Score: 10

"I said I would review this..."

submission: Generic Half-Assed Collab

date: June 10, 2008

So here I am, reviewing!

Overall, it's pretty good. None of these movies would be much good on their own, nor would the game (which makes up a sort of "centerpiece" around which the rest of the collab revolves), but put them together like this and it's quite the Flash, truly a worthy submission to the Portal. Of special note are the game (which I reached the end of, something I couldn't seem to do before now) and 50vmp's part (classic sQueef, good art and animation). Jehosapha's and Psycho's parts were something of weak points, but overall it was a good one.
5/5, 10/10.

Score: 4

"Could use some improvements."

submission: Mario vs. Bowser (new)

date: June 4, 2008

It's not "terrible", not by any means, but if you want to develop a good game out of this there are quite a few improvements that you could, and that I think you should, make to this game.

First of all, you could definitely use sound. For example, since you're using Paper Mario characters, why not the music from Paper Mario as well? Fitting music can add to any submission, and this one as much as any soundless submission I've yet seen.

Next suggestion: more moves. Fireballs, jump kicks, and guns are all good and well, but the addition of more moves (Bob-ombs, Koopa shells, Mario's hammer) would make this a more interesting game by far. And another thing that ties in with that, Bowser should have some moves of his own. Perhaps even make it a full-fledged fight between them, with health bars, counters, and all.

Now for the good things about this game. It's somewhat fun to play (though it is far too short and limited), it's got better graphics than half the movies or games I see on this site, and rather than using verused SNES-style sprites you decided to take the road less traveled and use Paper Mario-type graphics, which is definitely a nice change. But overall it's slightly less than average.
2/5, 4/10.

Score: 8

"Looks like it will be good."

submission: Legend of Zelda trailer

date: June 1, 2008

It looks like you're making a hell of a good movie there. Actually it looks like it was inspired, to some degree, by Dragon Ball Z, which some might consider "overdone" and "unoriginal", but which isn't a problem to me since I like DBZ. And what's more, I'm also a major Zelda fan, so you definitely earn some points there.

My only problem is that it's really, really short. I mean, yeah, I know it's basically a commercial for the coming movie, but still, it could have been a bit longer. So you lose a couple points for it being short, but it's still not bad.
4/5, 8/10.

Score: 9

"Fun little game."

submission: Commie Cannon

date: May 19, 2008

I do believe I've played something of the sort before, an old game on some game system about defending something of the sort from alien invaders... Was that an inspiration? Either way, this is a good game.

I'd give it a perfect five and ten, in fact, except for one small thing. You see, it got a bit too hard after the giant aircraft passed over the first time. You probably should have had a sort of "difficulty select" thing, with the default speed and frequency of aircraft is "Normal" mode. Maybe it's just that my mouse is acting retarded, but still, it was a pretty hard game.
5/5, 9/10.

Score: 10

"All right man, all right..."

submission: Mortal Kombat 2.3 FV

date: May 19, 2008

First off, EE, congratulations on the first Underdog in weeks not stolen by spammers and mass-reviewing. Would have been damn nice if you had been able to pull it up just a point or two and get RCP, but hey, UotD's better than nothing, right? And plus, you're more likely to clinch RCP next time after this performance. Now onto the movie!

Over the last few months I've become quite a bit less interested in sprite movies, but even now I have a few positive things to say about this one. First of all, while it is just the same kind of thing seen in the MK games with a slightly different storyline put to it, it's still an interesting movie, something good to watch when I get bored of B/Ping for a bit. And what's more, it's Mortal Kombat, which was one of the first games I played. Just seeing these sprites again brings back some memories... So yeah, it's a good one.

As for what you can work on? I'm not much of a Flashist myself, so I can't provide any help technique-wise, but I can say that it could use something like "The story so far..." at the start of it, explaining what went on in the previous movies in the series for those of us who haven't watched it. But you don't lose any points for that, since it's not an "expected" part of a good Flash, just a suggestion. But other than that, I can't find any bad points in this movie.
5/5, 10/10.
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Score: 10

"Ah, yes, it IS Casualty's birthday!"

submission: Casualty in New York City

date: May 18, 2008

I was going to PM him about it after reading it on NG Log, but I didn't have time before I had to go do something... Ah well, happy birthday to the man whose log and Portal Guard program allowed me to get out of my low B/P status, and now onto the movie!

It may be short. It may not be quite as ambitious as your Pokémon Flash in terms of graphics or storyline. But it's still good, in its own way, like all your movies. Didn't take too long to watch or to load, and as always it was funny (Casualty showing up to replace Frank Sinatra crooning with metal!), so why not give it the perfect score?
5/5, 10/10
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