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Reminded me of Lloyd in Space. Loved the humour, and how it was a good length.
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Already gave my opinion on the Brackenwood forum, but I'll just say again. This was excellent.
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"Same strengths and faults as the last one"
Good dialogue (liked the scene when they were trying to free the guy from the rubble) and animation, but the cinematography was poor, though better than last time (such as the camera rotation). There's more to being visually interesting than good drawings, or even good animation. I definitely like this though.
Take this with a grain of salt, but I'm not a fan of the numbers thing, such as when they're losing health. I know it happens in the games, but in this cartoon, I dunno...just not a fan. It doesn't hurt the score, but I doubt it would actually make anyone enjoy it more. Yeah. I say take it with a grain of salt because it's just my opinion and others might disagree, and also because it doesn't hurt the movie. Just thought I'd say.
Also, I don't see the point in splitting episodes up like this, you're well under the 10mb limit.
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I had to split them because my shitty computer can't handle editing all the peices and the libraries got messed up when I tried to merge them.
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Good drawings, good animation, but the dialogue was the best part. My main gripe with this was differently the cinematography, as in, the same angles were used time and time again, just that dead on angle, and it made this slightly boring. I'm off to watch the next part now.
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That's a good point, I'll keep that in mind.
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The DragonBall Z references were just way too much this time. I mean, sure Sonic does sonic wind in the games etc, but things like the fusion are just a plain rip off, and the whole gathering rings from all over the world reeked of spirit bomb. I mean, dude, you even traced wave animations from DragonBall Z.
That's not the worst thing though; the worst thing was how they good guys won. It pretty much went Nazo powers up, Sonic and Shadow fuse and power up, Nazo powers up, AND POWER UP AND POWER UP until for some reason, Nazo can't powerup anymore. It was just...terrible. You could have done something awesome and original, like the chaos emeralds scatter because they're being used by too many people and then they have to fight in their normal forms, or Sonic has to beat Nazo in a race to them or SOMETHING unexpected. I mean, at the end of the day it's just that they used the chaos emeralds over and over until someone lost. How is that exciting?
My final criticism I have to mention, is that the backgrounds are pretty bad. They seem like a complete after thought most of the time, the pencil tool really doesn't work with them, I find.
There were some fucking awesome bits though, mainly the part when Shadic hits Nazo, and then flies over to the mountain, then continues flying to Nazo. The overworld view was awesome. I also liked when Shadic flies down from space to the ground, and goes past all the clouds etc.
I also liked how you actually used Knuckles and Tails this time, rather than making them helpless side characters. Well done for that. Some of the voice manipulation was also well done, like "Shadic" etc.
I see you've put a lot of effort into this, but it does have too many noticeable flaws for me. A solid 7.
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Thanks a lot for reviewing!
This is a perfectly fair and constructive review. Please no one vote this as "useless".
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This was good, but I must say I'm really not a fan of the photoshopped backgrounds approach. Most things look pixely and especially jumpy during tweens. I say either make all the images really high resolution (this would make file size huge) or just learn to create great backgrounds using flash. I say before your next cartoon, you should focus on your backgrounds, because they're usually the weakest part.
The Tingle scene was by far the highlight, he had some pretty funny dialogue, especially when Link didn't have any money for the map.
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"Best thing I've seen here since Waterlollies"
The animation was perfect, and the character Chuck is hilarious. The voice acting and mannerisms were just wonderful. I'd like to see more of him despite the hilarious situation he's got himself in...seriously, who saw that ending coming? Hahahaha.
I didn't know who you were before, but now I do. Fan +1!
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that I haven't reviewed this amazingness yet. WOAH! But yes, this is fantastic. It's kinda ridiculous that it's not in the top 50, but that might change, perhaps.
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best thing in the world EVER.
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It's my favourite colouring mistake! Sonic's arms aren't blue, man.
Decent flash. I got the joke, woo.
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i know but i prefer having them blue over skin colored.
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