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Location: 'regon.
Job: Flashing
My name is Joshhhhhh. Call me that, not masterswordsface.
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This is a good challenge game with a simple premise. Your art is pretty neat, especially your little barrel-chested guy. Provides some timing and deciding when to jump and so on. Anyways, neat little game you got here. ;)
-J
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"Cute creative style that makes up a unique flash."
I've always liked your movies from the very first episode. You have a eastern style of art that fits excellently with the cute but sometimes dramatic story.
The whole story, from the first few episodes make it seem like a story of innocent love from two very different people. But in this part, it takes a dramatic turn. The themes change from a typical love story, to dealing with prejudice and friends who end up turning on each other. It gives the overall series some depth and shows a darker side.
Your animation style amazes me. Extremely smooth movements that work alongside the art style very well. The detail in the characters and the settings are nice. The colors are mostly monochrome except for key features in the characters, such as her cheeks and his scarf, and some key objects. I especially love how his scarf loses color once he decides he does not lover anymore.
A great story with a broad range of depth and detail, all within a cute and loveable style of art. I can't wait for the conclusion!
-J
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"Decent conclusion to a pretty good series"
I always liked this series(and pretty much the rest of your animations) from when I began watching them. You always had a knack for creative ideas, fun characters and spectacular voices. I'm surprised I'd never reviewed any of your movies before, but I guess I'll review this one now.
Like the rest of the series, you show the great talent of colorful settings and dialog. But now you show some of your great ideas animated by some of my favorite flash artists. This medley of artists keeps the whole movie interesting and it is great seeing some of the different interpretations of some of the characters in different styles.
I liked the idea of having the two characters narrorating the whole olympics and describing each individual event based on each artists interpretation. While you don't have as much of your own art in it, its easy to understand the whole premise is the animator's cameos. One thing I have to point out is your dialog between the two announcers isn't as creative as in your previous episodes, but I see how the writing depends more on how each piece turns out, rather than having it based primarily on your own setups.
All in all, it turned out pretty well. I could honestly say the a few of the parts were not as interesting as I expected, but I guess thats how they took their take on it.
I hope that you may someday make more episodes of Edible Castle, but for now I patiently look forward to release of Cuboy Ep. 3. ;-)
~Josh B
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This movie was a real creative piece of art and it was a bit jumbled together like a dream should be. Let me start with the animation.
Admittedly, the animation was a bit iffy. The movements of the character didn't seem to flow as well as it should have. The running animations seemed alright, but some movements seemed a bit off, for instance when hes teetering over the cliff. Some of the movements seemed just a tad jerky, like when he lands after being blasted away. The animation didn't hinder the movie too much as a whole, Its just there could be a few improvements.
Now the art pretty much more than makes up for what I said about the animation. When I pay attention to the art more, it seems more like an art film. I can tell this is a major part of the movie you focused on. The backrounds were fantastic. They definitely created a surreal dream world. The colors went along perfectly with the whole style of the movie. I loved the main character, who fit along with the whole piece as well as the giant pyramid.
About the whole dream; the events that occur are pretty random like in a real dream. However, it seemed to move along a little too fast, more so than in an actual dream. Again, it didn't really hinder the movie a whole lot, I just think there could be some brushing up.
Overall, the art was great; the animation and writing was alright but needed a couple improvements. It was a great piece the whole way through and I hope to see some more of your work in the near future. ;-)
~JB
Author's Response:
thanks for taking the time to write an all around constructive and helpful review :D
animationwise, ill keep improving, i hear what your saying. in the future i'll try to iron out the Frame by frame so there isn't any jerkyness.
for the art, thank a bunch :3 i spent a lot of time on that actually, so i'm glad you enjoyed.
as for the whole dream, sorry about the randomness, just trying to get a dream feel going. but in the future i'm sure there will be more structure.
thanks again and good luck with your submissions as well, (going to go watch them now :3
-jones
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I liked this episode as I like the others. The whole plot is an interesting interpretation of fearing and attacking the unknown. But it certainly proves that the giants weren't intentionally attack because the reinforcements showed they had more than enough power to defeat them.
Similar to others, the animation is fairly consistent but there are some physics and movements that seem unnatural almost. For instance the very end when he was burning up. Seemed a bit too fast. But thats not the worst thing a flash could have. This was one of my favorites in the whole series.
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I thought this game was very good. I loved the unique gameplay system of taking certain areas of land and battling by charging your troops. This type of game requires a lot of strategy for which is a good time to attack, defend or gather resources. Also, the game had a good level of difficulty, not too hard or easy.
Overall, great game! I've always loved you're games and i'm always looking forward to more from you.
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Good for a starter episode, but I felt there was many flaws to whole design and setup of the story. The backrounds were great and it was a neat art style, but I felt like it didn't flow too well. A lot of the character movements were annoyingly unnatural and tweens felt choppy. The whole story had holes in it, even for a first episode. There wasn't much setup to the character or the whole setting in general, like the story quickly changed to a person talking to being abducted by aliens, without much detail described about the main character.
I see what kind of style you're trying to create, and I like that, but I think if you work a little harder on the basic setting and the animation, it could turn out much, much better.
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Definitely strange. I just wonder what goes on your mind sometimes. I thought it was hilarious though.
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I was wondering when you would release this to Newgrounds.
Great animation and backrounds. The whole animation runs fairly smoothly, and the storyline is nice and original. Great job!
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I like it a lot.
AND STOP SPELLING MY NAME WRONG! >:-(
Author's Response:
B-but your name sounds cooler with an extra 's' though... Fine, I'll change it. Picky, picky...
:P
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