SoulMaster71's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Mario vs. Bowser (new)]

Could use some improvements.

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.

CarnageDemon responds:

Thank you, I appreciate the feedback. I completely agree with you on all aspects and I actually had similiar thoughts. I intend to add sound first among the many things to fix. It would be on there already but I had been working on the project at school and my time and resources were extremely limitted. However, I'm buying Flash to load onto my home PC and there will be a lot more on the finished work. Consider the submitted Flash a demo. I'll be sure to keep in mind all of your suggestions when working on it in the future.

[Skate Something ep.1]

Very much overdone.

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>

sistem69 responds:

no prob i liked ur honesty thanks for the clarifing review.

[Inversion--]

Ah, I remember this one...

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

50vmp responds:

damn man yea

[StagBeetle Goes Fishing]

I've got to say, StagBeetle...

You're one hell of an artist when you decide to do something good. The first part of this is good. The water, the fishing, the joke you made about how so many here will think the Metal Gear reference is "awesome", the epic pulling up of the note from the water (lol, I really need to play Ace Attorney sometime), all very good.

But the ending really screws this movie. I would gladly give it a 5 and a 10, but the ending (a never-ending loop of shooting noises) is definitely not to my liking. It's just too loud in comparison to the rest of the movie. And yet overall the movie is still pretty good.
4/5, 8/10.

StagBeetle responds:

tee hee

[MBot vs. Kirk-Cocaine]

You cannot stop MBot?

Apparently someone could, and that someone's name was Wade Fulp.

This is actually one of your "better" works, Zeeb. Not quite a weeklong effort in, ahem, "experimental" techniques and spoofs of every anime and movie ever made like another alt-submitted movie of yours that I can name, but it's certainly not bad. My biggest problem with this submission is not so much with the movie but about the very concept of MBot, but it's far too late to talk about that now.

You could have placed a "replay" button at the end of the movie, on that final frame with "MBote for the Win" and "You cannot stop MBot", but other than that, no complaints. Well, except that it's not some long, complex movie like some others I enjoy, with story and such, but that obviously wasn't the purpose of this movie.
3/5, 6/10.

LordZeebmork responds:

It was supposed to end in a shitty loop thing, but thgfdhf sgfhshfd MBot was great

[[L7C]QuestForLevel60-Day5]

All right! Now we're getting somewhere

I remember when these began, all the way back in December. Back then, these movies, while better than the Afro_Stud ripoff that I expected, well... OK, I can't really put it any other way, and no offense, but they just sucked at the start. No sound, crappy sprite use, blank white background, you remember it all so I won't waste space with any further detail. Then you had Bstuk2 do episode 4, while you worked on other projects... And it was the best one yet.

But you must have taken the hints from the NG community about improving your skills and your submissions, because this one's damn good. If I may say so, Yoshi, it's a major improvement over any other work that you have yet made. I'm greatly impressed by how much you have improved since December, or even more so on your great improvements since the last time I saw any of your movies other than the Afro_Stud ripoffs.

Overall, it's not quite the best movie I've seen on NG. However, it is the best movie of yours that I've seen. Keep up improving like this, and pretty soon you'll be one hell of a popular artist, far more so than you are now.
5/5, 10/10. Review #106.

Sispri responds:

Thanks, SoulMaster, I do consider this one of my best works. It was also my time using sprites, heh. They'll be more to come, so look out. ;)

[Samus vs Meta knight:ssbb]

All right dec...

You've certainly improved since those first two Anti-KK movies you made. True, this one wasn't quite of the quality of Bowser's Kingdom or some other legendary sprite movies I could mention, but it's both an improvement over your earlier work and a fairly good movie in itself. Not bad at all. The sound was a little too loud on my computer, so it loses a point for that, but overall it's pretty damn good. Plus, you knew exactly who would win in that situation... Samus > Meta Knight.
5/5, 9/10, Review #103.

dec-1310 responds:

thx soulmaster... Yeah my flash would maybe never be better than those like SMBZ... And I also knew that samus pwns Meta knight...