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.
<Review Request Club>

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
<Review Request Club>

Score: 1

"Very much overdone."

submission: Skate Something ep.1

date: May 14, 2008

I'm sorry to give such a low score and review to this Flash, but the fact is, I've seen tons of stuff like this before. The concept of a skateboarding stick has been done to death by scores of authors over the period in which NG has existed, and your movie has done little, if anything, to set itself apart from others of the genre. It's also too short, with only three scenes; this movie could benefit from more scenes, preferably depicting a larger variety of skateboarding tricks than just jumping and grinding.

As far as "improvement", I don't know what you can really do within the "skateboarding stick" genre. You can certainly increase the length and variety of the movie, and preferably find something that sets your movie apart from all the other skate movies out there, but other than that... There's not much you can do.
0/5, 1/10
<Review Request Club>

Score: 10

"Great work as always."

submission: Afro_Stud - The Fairytale

date: May 14, 2008

Hmm. So that's why those Pokémon Flashes ended... I always had heard it was otherwise, that Wade had actually paid Afro_Stud, not Hitler, to end them. Wonder why he did that? Still, I'm kinda glad it didn't get to Mudkip, just because I don't care for the /b/ meme that would have been in half or more of the reviews for that episode. Now onto the movie!

Is it just me, or do you improve more and more with every new Flash? I saw a few of your early Flashes not long ago, and then a few more recent stuff, from 2007 or so, and then the Pokémon one... And now this, possibly your best yet! I didn't know Afro_Stud liked Barbie dolls, nor did I know that he killed Hitler for not finishing the Pokémon quest (they told us it was suicide! This is madness!). A great Flash, in your time-honored tradition of improvement between movies.

I should finish off this review with a little factoid I learned today. You see, if it's really the birthday of the Afro_Stud character, you might like to know that he shares his birthday with the nation of Israel. Happy 60th to Israel and an even happier 21st to Afro_Stud!
5/5, 10/10.
<Review Request Club>

Score: 9

"Freakin' amazing"

submission: streetfighter flash

date: May 13, 2008

This game was quite bit of fun, once I got the hang of it. In fact, it was like playing Street Fighter on an actual console, which is the perfect feel for a game like this (since the feel of actually being in the arcade is probably impossible to recreate on a computer keyboard). With the characters, the quality music, and the console feel, it was quite a pleasure to play.

I do have one complaint however, and it is the controls. Not so much with the controls themselves, though, but with the fact that you never tell us what the controls are. I had to learn the controls by reading people's reviews, and basically going about a "trial-and-error" method of doing it. So yeah, that's not a good thing. You could have added a "controls" screen or an "instructions" screen, maybe an arrow key away from the screen where you gave combo instructions. So you lose a point for that, but it's still an overall fun game.
5/5, 9/10
<Review Request Club>

Score: 8

"WHA--!?"

submission: 4chan POKEMON

date: May 12, 2008

OK, OK, I usually wouldn't give this much of a score... But I've seen tons of attempted combos on /b/, and only twice have they worked out. This one, and one of the Team Rocket motto, with drawings in the same style. I don't know what it is, but someone is apparently damn good at making combos with Pokémon and not having some moron show up gay everything up with a "C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER!"

But amazement and shock don't save this submission from its biggest flaw. Namely, it's not much of a movie. Heck, it's just a series of screenshots from 4chan, put together and tweened with the original Pokémon theme in the background. Your friend made this (I have to wonder if he was the one behind the combo, or if he just saw it), you say, so perhaps your friend was only going for a bit of surprise with it, but he could probably do better. Still, my utter amazement at a working combo on /b/ gives this movie a passing score.
4/5, 8/10.

Score: 10

"Ah, I remember this one..."

submission: Inversion--

date: May 7, 2008

Didn't this win Underdog a while back on one of your alts? It's good to see it back.

To say the least, this Flash is... A bit weird. I've heard this sort of thing described as "experimental" before, so I guess that term can be used to describe it. But despite it being odd, this is a rather good submission, for the most part. The music fits fairly well with the graphics, and as always your drawing skills are 100% there. I don't know if this comparison is yet warranted, or ever will be, but keep improving like I've seen you improve, and maybe someday you'll be as good as, or if you're lucky even better than, ZekeySpaceyLizard.
5/5, 10/10

Score: 3

"Could have been far better."

submission: Pico VS Anonymous

date: May 5, 2008

Where to begin with what could be fixed up about this submission... Well, first of all, this movie could be much longer. Sometimes long movies suffer from being overdrawn, but it might be an advantage in this case. Perhaps add some more to the battle scene? Or have Anon spout more memes before Pico loses it and kills him.

Also, I don't exactly care for the single particular meme you picked for Anonymous' one line before finding his ass handed to him. Not so much that it doesn't work well in the movie, but that's just not one of my preferred memes.

Now for the good points. As short as it was, the animation was better than a lot of the stuff I've seen on NG thus far, although it was far from perfect. And it was in color and had sound, two things that many movies of this length, for some reason, lack. So it sure isn't the worst movie on Newgrounds, but it's not the best either. It's not quite, in my opinion, even average.
1/5, 3/10.