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[Aura: story mode]

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I was a bit lost. I was a lot lost really. Some of your people looked really good, while others appeared like slightly enhanced "Simpsons" characters. The plot was so confusing. The sound was okay but the way the guy would talk without saying anything (text or otherwise) was a bit frustrating as I couldn't really venture a guess on what he was saying. Was there a plot? I'm confused about that. A lot of it was very stylized, and the majority of your artwork was visually stunning. Damn though, the story was so hard to follow... Personally I think you should get a better writer and animate for him, but whatever.

Sarkazm responds:

lol
i was never put in one line with the Simpsons yet, that's a new one.

as for me "getting a better writer", i will forgive you this insult and won't whack your empty head open with my new hammer, for you didn't know what were you writing.
If YOU didn't see a plot, it doesn't mean that it wasn't there....

[Alien Report Part III]

Ah...

I've been following your series since the first. I like your work. With so many sprites and stick movies, and so many people who can't do a decent "serious" flash series, it's really refreshing to have flashes like yours. It really didn't take long for me to load (cable connection) however your flashes aren't exactly friendly to low end computers like mine. I won't hold that against you, it didn't affect your score from me because I realize that's more my problem than yours (as i have an unusually weak 500mhz processor). Even at 2 frames per second, the fight scenes were still pretty impressive. The oil painting look that some parts of the flash seemed to have did clash a bit (in my opinion) but overall I like your style. Plot's not too shabby either. Keep it up!

[The Death of Buu]

I disagree with "the others"...

To say that DBZ is overrated isn't really a reason for voting bad on this flash. Halo is the most overrated game of all time but I still respect the fact that for some reason people seem to like it. No, it was not DBZ itself that made me dislike your flash, it was that whole "unoriginal bastard" thing you were talking about. You just copy an episode (or at least a part of one) completely pretty much and there's no way I can give you credit for that. I'm sure you did put time and effort into this and for that I kind of pity you. You have to think about it. I mean, I COULD reshoot the matrix, word for word, but use myself and my friends as the actors. It would take months of time and effort on our parts, you can't deny that, but to expect people to be impressed would be stupid. No one would see the work that WE did, they'd simply look and say "that's been done and those stupid kids are trying to take credit for it". Quite frankly, that's how I feel about your flash. If you want to combine DBZ and animating that's fine. I'm a DBZ fan myself and I hate flashes that are all tweened. But BE original, do your own story or something do SOMETHING that won't seem so... already done for you. It may have taken time and effort to draw, but the rest of us spend time and effort plotting out flashes too. You seem to have skill, but I can't be certain until you do a flash of your own. Until then you're getting low points from me for trying to rehash an old cartoon.

[Rival Part 3: Max n Alex]

To be fair...

...the animation was very good in most places. I don't doubt that this took quite some time and effort on your part, kudos to you. Stick flashes are usually pretty pointless, but I could tell this one attempted a plot. I know I'm going to get hell from other reviewers for saying this, but where I come from we're allowed to speak our minds and so I will. I feel that overall this flash didn't progress the plot very far. It would have been better to delay the release a bit and add a little further to the story. The sound altered in volume a few times and some people didn't sound very convincing. I won't say that it sucks because it's sticks, because they're detailed sticks. However, with the amount of effort you put into the sticks it would be nice to see how you do a non-stick flash. Your animation is well done, like I said, but you must admit that if it's referred to as a stick it's obviously lacking some important features as far as appearance goes. Regardless, shows a lot of potential.

PeterMurphy responds:

Yeah that was a fair review, thanx.

I'm doing a nonstick currently and im taking serious time over it. its part of a college project so should be pretty good. Heres a link for what to expect graphically. http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/2935322/

fbf, not tweened animation.

[Alien Report Part II]

In detail...

I can tell this took effort. The detail in the drawings and the runtime of the flash brings me to believe effort was put into this. However, despite it's good points, it does have rough spots. To be honest, I (like a few other reviewers I've noticed) don't fully understand why this alien chose to be a protector. Just like how I don't understand why the little girl started crying when she saw the alien holding her ball. The soundtrack you chose was okay, effective for what it was, however I think they weren't the best choices of music. My main gripe is your shading. It's totally unrealistic and it makes your good looking drawings seem crappy. Also, your animation is a bit limited. Too much tweening. I know you're going to argue that so much effort was put into shading that you don't have time to smooth out animation, blah, blah, blah, but I feel that animation is more important overall, and if you have to choose between your vicious style of shading and smoother animation please go for the animation. Not too shabby overall though, hope to see more from you.

[DBZ in a Nutshell 2]

Meh, kinda funny...

Not nearly as funny as the first, but still kinda funny. The first one seemed more organized and better thought out, this one just seems like it was all made up on the spot and the puns are weak as a result. The super saiyan comment was funny, there are too many, but aside from that this was just so-so.

[Unreal Tourney 2k3!!]

TOTAL UNREALISTIC CRAP!!!

EVERYONE KNOWS YOU CAN'T TELEPORT WHILE CARRYING THE FLAG!!! ;)

madarkwasp responds:

lol, ya got me there, so i simply reply with *runs behind a rock*

[Joe Zombie :: Episode 5]

Not too bad for sticks

The 3d animation used in this flash is really impressive, that's why I've given you a 7 in graphics. However, this is a stick movie and stick movies are never impressive in the field of graphics. The sound was so-so. Nothing stellar but not the worst on NG either. This flash seemed kinda slow compared to the other Joe Zombies. This one had some good character development, finally explained a lot that I had been wondering about, but it lacked any major action. The little fight they had near the end was far too brief and there seemed to be a few graphical errors (watch it again, i'm sure you'll catch what i mean). There in the end when the red guy was talking while the power drained, a lot of those lines seemed unrealistic. It seemed like he would only say something like that if he was stalling for something to happen. I expected a bit more, but nice job on the 3d at least.

[GameFAQs: CloudvsCATS v.6]

Hmm..

I suppose this would be more entertaining if I knew the people from this gameFAQs contest. I didn't find this to be very good, but I suppose you're doing this for your friends or whoever.

[A Dragon's Destiny 2 R]

Without trying to spare any feelings...

I wasn't impressed. The 3d wasn't too shabby, I can see you put effort into that, but the rest I was forced to wonder about. Your art ranked about midway on my grading scale, I've seen worse, but I've seen better. If there was any 2d animation I must have missed it while yawning or flinching from the audio. Tween and let flash do all the work for you? The opera-ish background music was kind of cliche' and only further bored me. Your plot didn't seem to develop too much here, it's almost as if this whole flash isn't even necessary. The voice acting wasn't too great. Scratch that, it wasn't good at all. That whole "Tell anyone and you're dead" (I'm paraphrasing so don't argue with me about the line) didn't seem like something a soldier like that would say. Even if he did say that, the WAY your voice actor said it really sounded like he didn't know what to say so he just spit out the first thing that came to mind. That part without audio seemed really lazy to me at first, but looking back on it it was a genius idea. You should do your whole movie that way.