Score: 8

"Here's the gear you need!"

submission: Sonic andthe Black Knight

date: November 22, 2008

That line was strangely funny.
Nice work.

Score: 3

"Whoa, whoa whoa...."

submission: Mario Bros. X 5

date: November 18, 2008

This flash is too short for a file size this big, did you compress it? If not then I kindly suggest that you do.
There was a huge backtracking scene with no option to skip it, which would have been great to do, especially for those who have already the previous one. Plus you lack a preloader, which is a staple for all good flash movie and games, I pressed the spacebar, and then the whole movie got glitchy on me for like 30 seconds, try and use a preloader next time. And also there was no entertainment value here, it was dialogue and what seemed to be insignificant plot progression, try and add at least one fight scene to make it all feel worth it. There were basically two scenes in the movie, the backtrack wasn't all that much of a scene, and credits in my opinion are exempt from being a scene. This seemed like you were too lazy to go further in with the story, so you called it a day and finished it up, not a good idea.
You animation was average, in movies like these what separates the men from the boys is the overall quality and originality of the fight scenes, which there were none of in this movie, again, your animation skills are good, but not very notable.
The sound was alright, nothing to really comment on about that.
Below average due to both your lack of substance and flash, try a bit harder next time.

Score: 3

"HA! HAHAHAHA!!!!!!"

submission: Link VS Mario Fight!

date: November 2, 2008

Dude, no.
Just....no.
This is too cliched. I can't say it was good, for its intention, because it wasn't.
Horrible plot device, like Mario would whip ass over some mushrooms, and Link confusing a short blurry red and blue figure for Ganon. Just bad. The Animation was poor, very poor. You should work on your movie clips more, probably increase the framerate, find some better sounds, and not be lazy about it. The only way I would desire a sequel is if you actually improved greatly.
I'm not talking about some sort of SMBZ rip, but something---well---good.
Plus you should say "If you want a sequel, say so". What matters is if you want a sequel. If people didn't want one, would you stop and just leave this bad story, a bad story with a cliff hanger? Like the Super Mario Brothers movie?
No sir. Personall, you shouldn't care if people want a sequel or not, make one anyway. But please, improve on your skills.
You may want to reference my Sprite Tutorial, for some extra tips. You may find something good in there.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view /426876
See you around, and practice please.
The bad animation was funny by the way, which is why my title is what it is.
2/5
3/10

Score: 6

"Not bad, though a bit overrated"

submission: Sonic Vs. Shadow

date: October 16, 2008

You do have skill, that I will acknowledge.
But the fighting seemed a bit slow. It didn't keep up with the music you get in it, neither was it all that epic of a fight either. You effects were good, and it stayed kinda true to the DBZ fighting style.
Adding voice clips was a nice touch as well, but I think you chose the wrong set to use.
It was always, "power" this and "power" that, it was made too repetative and weakened the quality of the fight in itself.
I hope in the full version, the fight picks up, because if it doesn't, then this demo sums the whole fight up.
Keep at it.

Score: 9

"Great Work"

submission: Super Mario bros Z ep.7

date: October 5, 2008

Definitely one of your best, lots of good comical humor, more than your previous chapters, good depth in contrast to your other episodes, give the guy who concieved the pipe maze a good kudos for me. Great custom sprites as well.
Your music was more diverse and the fight scenes were well placed as well.
Geat epic touch in the escape from negative world.
And the greatest feature I saw the the fine mixture between spites and computer drawn images, great conversion there. We should talk sometime.

Score: 8

"informative"

submission: Making Wii Friendly Flash

date: May 3, 2008

I don't own a Wii, therefore, contrary to opinions the the first few reviews, I found this useful. The filters will affect me as well as both Chaos Sonic and the BVG, not to mention the big filesizes of both of them. I can get you my sprite tutorial and my newgrounds in flash for you though.

In any case, you breathed too hard into the mic, and you voice presentation was sloppy, but you already had you fair share of people pointing that out, so I will end that here.
I did find 2 things fascinating.
1. Your voice is deeper than I imagined
and
2. I've been miss-pronouncing your name for like--ever.
I'm too used to japanese pronounciation, so I assumed it was (Mee-zox) and not (Mai-zox) like it apparently is. Sorry, hehe.

All and all, nice job.
8/10
4/5

Score: 7

"Too GT-ish"

submission: Mario VS Goku The Clash

date: April 10, 2008

It started out with a beam struggle--DBZ never started like that, it was always a fight beforehand.
Other than that, it was great--for a first.
I'd love to know where did you get those beam sprites.

Score: 3

"Sloppy Presentation"

submission: White Tigers

date: April 10, 2008

This could use much more work. Your sprite animation was very faulty and everything moved spontaneously as it went by, I have no clue how you did that.
A little bit of music would have helped, along with some cleaner text boxes. I don't believe that you submitted a decent amount of information. A progression button also would have helped, instead of letting time pass by.
You also should have had some other pictures other than the tigers themselves. Perhaps a picture of where they live and a photograph of the population average. Its also nice to know where you gathered all this information.

By now you should see that I'm not being biased here and this is my personal opinion.
As a viewer, I say, you need much more work.
As your mentor, I say, keep practicing your sprite animation, you're not ready to submit a movie from what I see.
Sorry if I came down too harsh on you.
1/5
3/10

Score: 5

"Hm..."

submission: DBZ Goku Vs Frieza

date: March 21, 2008

Okay, one thing I have to address, and this is from experience--don't tell people NOT to critisize about certain things, not everyone reads the "Author's Comments" abd hey will eventually judge your work in ways you didn't want them too. Thats all I saw in you comments was "Don't critisize me on this" and "Don't critisize me on that" Don't sound too desperate in you plea too. Sorry if I'm coming off to harsh here, but this is from experience with flash and people reviewing them.

Now on to the flash. The overall quality was a bit sketchy, Freiza was good, but you could use more work on Goku. The fight scene, although was intended to be short, is waaay too short. It wasn't anything worthy of me wanting to see the full movie, and thats the point of a trailer, to get them excited about the full movie. Sorry, I wasn't excited. Chronologically, you are way off. When did this take place? How did Freiza get out of hell? I'm assuming since Goku is dead and this is after Trunks killed Freiza, this is after the Cell saga, but you have to include details like this. I understand that this took alot of work, but more work could have been put into this.
You aim to tease with a trailer and you aim to please with the movie, telling by the trailer, I'm not too close to wanting to see the movie. Perhaps if the full movie was of better quality, then that will change everything.

Work on the animation more and everything else will fall into place. Keep up the good work, you have potential.
3/5
5/10

Score: 7

"Well."

submission: MegaMan X-Armors

date: March 4, 2008

The concept was good, but misleading. I thought you were going to make a story out of this, then it aburptly ends. Your animation was bad. I can't use a better word.
Other than the running and flying, the movie clips moved in the instance that they should stay still. Shadow Armor X does not go in circular motion when using the Saber. Please work on that part. The key asset to sprite animation is animating the sprites right.
Other than that, it was good. I'd like to see you make a story out of this.