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[Spirit Stars - "Darn Dog"]

Hey, I likee!

The art is a little rough and I wasn't real fond of a couple of the characters, but the animation was really nice. One thing that bugged the holy hell out of me though was that the case that the cartridge that she held up had Japanese writing on it and yet the game played in English. It seemed like one of those "I'm going to pointlessly include Japanese in this in hopes that people will be impressed that I know some" moments that nerdy idiots who like to pretend they're better than everyone because they put Japanese accents on cartoon titles and know roughly 100 words in the language put in their works either for the previously mentioned reasons or to establish a certain character as an unlikable Japanese wannabe.

My advice is to drop it. If they order Japanese food, if they read too far in an instruction manual, or if they have to talk an ancient samurai who's been thrust through time against his will out of suicide, then yes, drop some Japanese in there, but just putting in a random sentence or two here and there for absolutely no other reason than to say that there IS some in there is just really douchy. These characters aren't douchy yet. Don't walk them down the path of the douche.

But great work for the most part, I look forward to what you do in the future!

[A Fable II Experience 2]

Stunning!

By that I mean the way that the person with a one line review or so that vaguely advertises "great jokes" is considered a helpful review while the guy who details all the areas this flash falls short is considered a useless review because he failed to worship the author right. The main purpose of a review is supposed to be to let potential viewers know a bit about the movie itself so they know whether they're about to waste a piece of their life or not. If you're critiquing then the purpose becomes to tell the person who created it how they can improve. Brown nosing is not reviewing, it's just giving someone an undeserved text blowjob.

All that being said, congratulations on your achievements, you must be doing something right. You could probably make it to number one if you axed the irritating and unnecessary sidekick friend guy. His role in this flash was pointless and seemed forced. I like your art though. The humor wasn't my cup of tea but it does fit with fable. Keep up the good work.

WhiteLightning responds:

Well, thanks for the honesty and intelligent review, and not just screaming at me. I do think it's kinda funny that your review is still marked "useless" in light of your first sentence :3 But hey, internet, watcha gonna do.

['Til Everyone Is Singing]

Distracting.

It wasn't a bad video, in fact it could have been great, but the lyrics talking about EVERYONE singing when on screen NO ONE is even opening their mouths is too much of a contradiction. With all you did it wouldn't have taken too much extra effort to make their black dot for a mouth get larger on each syllable. Since you focus on the female when the female voice is singing and the male when the male voice is singing it seems like it's implied that they SHOULD be singing, but the fact that they aren't, just sort of standing there stonefaced, does a lot to rip me out of the illusion and make me very aware that I'm looking at simple sprites rather than performers. My advice would be to invest time in lipsynching in the future or DON'T focus on the character singing and just make the whole video a montage. Just don't go at it half-cocked or you end up with half a score. XD

IgnitionInc responds:

Haha thanks. I didn't really half-cock it but, yeah, it never really "hit" me how to lipsync. Thanks though!

[Sasuke's Chronicles #1]

Hmm...

The guy with the long black hair does an arm flapping thing while he stands there which is annoying. Sasuke says "I could care less" (meaning he cares) when he should be saying "I couldn't care less" (meaning it's impossible for him to care any less than he already does). Kakashi humps the air. While hilarious, it's probably not what you were going for and you probably would have been better off just having a still image of Kakashi. Finishing with two scenes in a row that don't make sense might be a bit too much, you should have stuck to just one. There is your critique.

devinsimmons92 responds:

thanks... lol u were right on the funny movement parts... their sheets had dumb standing animations but the i could care less part, many people uses it in the vice versa way also and found it kinda petty to even point that out but the parts that don't make sense, DONT'T MAKE SENSE for a reason... it will be revealed later in the series.

[Soul Eater - FMA]

Pfft...

In many cases, yes, the manga is as good or better than the anime. Soul Eater is definitely not one of those cases. Your flash focuses too much on the characters that don't matter and not enough on Black Star and Crona (the only characters that do). Please correct this in the future.

benmanrox responds:

Thanks for the advice, but my main goal was to put most of the characters into the flash :P All that said, I do agree that I didn't put some of the characters, like Crona, into the flash as much as I could have or would have like to. I'll try and improve this in the near future :)

[The Justin Bieber Show]

Confusing...

Your art's pretty good, and your animation is really awesome and smooth, but this really wasn't... Much. It really doesn't parody much of anything (at least not in a way that makes sense) and Justin Bieber could have just as easily been replaced by... Almost anyone and this toon would still amount to the same thing. For being the "Justin Bieber Show" I was a little disappointed that nothing about it parodied anything about Justin Bieber. Plus it was so short. I wanted to know who he saw at the mall. Can you just tell us? Just add to your author's comments or something who he saw at the mall so I can know whether I believe it or not?

HappyHarry responds:

"Justin Bieber could have just as easily been replaced by... Almost anyone and this toon would still amount to the same thing"

[Sonic X: Cosmic Chase]

No voices, but I figured it all out.

Shadow meets Sonic on the outskirts of a city. "You're too late, Sonic. Tails is clearing the civilians out of the city as we speak." Shadow says. "Too late? Sonic the Hedgehog is never late. I'll dance in a pool of humie blood by the end of the day!" Sonic insists before taking off toward the city. Shadow gives chase, pleading with the bloodthirsty hedgehog to show mercy, but Sonic continues trying to outrun Shadow, leaving a path of destruction in his wake. He's frustrated to find no civilians, despite unnecessarily breaking every window searching for them. He suddenly comes up with the brilliant idea to lure Shadow in by faking his own suicide. Sure enough, sympathetic Shadow comes to try to talk him down but Sonic conceals himself in the water when he sees Tails coming so he can get a double kill. "Shadow, I got everybody safely out of the city. They're building space colonies on Mars. Since no one can stop the blue demon, our only choice is to leave the planet and hope he can never follow. Here, I brought you the chaos emeralds so you can survive the cold vacuum of space," says Tails as he prepares to throw them to Shadow.

"Donkey masturbation!" Sonic shouts at the last moment. Such an unusual and foreign mental image is too much for the young fox's mind to handle and he bungles the throw in a moment of terrified brain porn. "Oops! Sorry Shadow," Tails says sincerely, "I'm low on fuel. I'm heading back into town to refill it and then I'll come back for you." With that he flies off. Underwater, Sonic becomes Urine Sonic. Luckily, Shadow becomes Super Shadow from the one emerald that Tails was able to pitch his way. The two fight for a while. At one point Shadow assumes that Sonic is just hurting inside because no one loves him. Shadow offers his body to Sonic, adding a suggestive wink, but Sonic's senseless thirst for violence causes the offer to have no effect. Robotnik, the genius responsible for colonizing Mars and saving the human race, shows up and takes a chaos emerald as an environment-friendly power source. Soon after beating up earth's defender, Shadow, the evil blue hedgehog turns his eyes on Tails who has returned to try to save his friend. "Shadow should be right about... GAH! Sonic?!? Oh no!" Tails exclaims as he tries to bring the plane to a halt so he can escape. "Take it up, fox. NOW!" Coerced by threats from Sonic, Tails flies the two of them into space. "Show me where the one responsible for this plan to move the humies to a safe location is." Sonic demands. "I... But he's saved so many lives from your unexplainable need to destroy everything just for fun." Tails says as he struggles with thoughts of doing the right thing against thoughts of his own safety. "Foxes can't breath in space in open cockpits. You're only alive because you're inhaling the life-giving pure evil that rolls out of every orifice on my body. You WILL obey... Or die."

Finally, Tails takes Sonic to meet with Robotnik. Tails triggers the silent "kill me" signal on his plane, selflessly warning Robotnik that the terrorist hedgehog is onboard. Sonic dodges the attack, though and begins smashing everything with reckless abandon, simply because it's there. They nearly stop him but Knuckles shows up with a cloak. Why would Knuckles need to hide his identity? Simple, because he has adopted Sonic's "break everything that can be broken" philosophy and knows that he would be arrested on sight. Together they break things. Sonic stays up top to break things but Knuckles goes inside the ship. Sonic nearly dies, but the tears of Amy resurrect him. Knowing that he's brought so much pain to a young girl turns him into Sadistic Sonic, his ultimate form. Knuckles is still inexplicably wearing his "disguise". After countering the ship's security, he attempts to break the master emerald but fails. In the aftermath, he sees that Robotnik has something not broken and breaks it too simply because he can. Finally, Sonic once again takes Tails hostage, demanding that the fox take him to the humans' new world. I can't wait for the sequel.

[Fast Combo]

Combo?

The guy doesn't even have an opponent. He just fritzes out on the wall. It would be better to call this "short spazfest". As a rule of thumb, if you have to justify a video by mentioning IN the flash that you only wasted time on it because you were bored then you probably shouldn't upload it.

[A Fable II Experience]

Wha?

I don't understand. What exactly happened IN the game? You said some stuff while attacking a non-responsive merchant and your friend gave him a ring that caused you to be engaged to him, and then you shot him? I'm missing the funny part, please enlighten me.

Your art is very nice though, kudos on that.

WhiteLightning responds:

Basically, I ended up slapping this npc character for some reason I can't remember, and a little happy face appeared above his head, which never happens. So I renamed the character Slappy. Unfortunately, your friends have the irritating ability to go through your inventory, and so my friend Jon gave him a ring, engaging me to him...so I had to shoot him or he would follow me around forever. It was a sad moment.

[Turing Test]

Ih8pkmn stole my review.

[everything he just said]

This is going to stick with me for a while. Well done.