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[Sad Larry]

HAHAHA oh god

This was perfectly executed. PERFECTLY.

[Knuckles Briefs]

Terrible

There were a couple of times where I smirked, but not nearly enough times as I sighed. The short (or uh, brief) where Knuckles tried to swat the fly and broke the master emerald, please, who DIDN'T see that coming? It was bad enough that it seemed to last forever. We get it, you're parodying 2001: a space odyssey, as if we haven't seen that happen a million times.

The best short by far was the one with the tv screens Knuckles uses to find the emerald pieces. The title is also pretty funny. That's about all the positives I can chalk up.

[Zelda: UO Epis:8]

Great episode

Some of it was directed really well. The scene where link's arm is cut off and he's looking up at that guy, and everything's inverted and it has that high pitch noise, that really set the scene well. Probably my favourite moment in the series, it was just so "oh crap", but in a better way. But using farore's wind to teleport, while clever, was still not executed in the best way.

A common complaint I have solely about your action sequences is that they're too fast, so you can't tell what's going on very well or absorb it. And once again, only made worse by farore's wind, this was everything happening at lightning speed, and then slowing down for when people get hit. It's a rut you've gotten yourself in, and it's a fine directing technique IF you vary it up a little.

Though I digress that this was still a good episode. I liked the dialogue (but the quality of recording was often awful, sorry. I'm not gonna mark you down for that because it wasn't specifically you that recorded everything) and I also liked that record player gag quite a lot for some reason, I think I just love little references to the games like that, and I'm intrigued how and why Midna is back (but I hope she isn't TOO involved).

Final criticism is that sometimes the scenes where things rotate look far too tweeny, in particular the scene at the end when the guy who cut off link's arm looks out the window.

Also gotta ask, will we ever see any references to Majora's Mask in the series? Just that it's my favourite game, and was just wondering.

[Saunich der Hejhaug]

Funny in a bizarre way

Haha, it almost reminded me of Sonic meets David Firth. I laughed out loud when he took a nap, for some reason or another (props also goes to the great title).

[Sonic: Dark Chaos PT1]

Hmm, well

First of all, I'd like to say that the lack of sound effects doesn't hurt the movie at all, as it's more of a music video action sequence, like Waterlollies or the Sonic CD opening. I'd also like to give you kudos for making a sonic cartoon that isn't full of Dragon Ball Z references, and is mainly based on speed combat.

However, there are many problems with this, mainly in the fact that it seems like you didn't really know what to do with the fight. It was mainly just the both of them running, occasionally running into eachother etc. Like, how the fight started off not with Metal trying to fight Sonic, but confronting him and then running away as if to say "come on, chase me". That's not how a real fight scene would happen, and it pretty much stayed this way through out. It was not directed very well, with the mirrored actions (both of them running up hills and then both running into eachother to make a predicatable climax). Things like Sonic pushing metal away when he did that move where he turns orange and dashes at you wasn't very in character, as sonic doesn't usually rely on the strength of his arms, especially against an attack like that.

And the animation was rather bland. The running was pretty good, but things like the spin dash looked terrible and, I don't know how to describe it. I guess 2d and filtered.

I know I am being pretty harsh, but it's just that you got the concept and style pretty dead on, it was just the execution that falls flat on it's face. Comparing it to something like Nazo Unleashed, this has the upper hand on concept but not animation or direction or excitement in general.

Keep doing what you're doing, but really try to out do yourself in the next one, really plan every shot etc.

[EW: Matt Sucks]

Liked a lot of the humour

Though the graphics etc weren't that great, and some of the jokes were a bit lame (biting the garlic was a bit predictable). I'm giving it a 9/10 simply for the mirror part and the end when he walks outside, they were pretty genius.

[Fjernsyn]

Hahahaahah man

I personally found all of this hilarious, particularly the paint drying thing and how the commentator explains that cos there's paint on the judges hand the paint isn't dry. It was all just very silly and I loved all of it.

[Burnt Face Man 7]

Brilliant

not the best but still brilliant. "We've stolen his skin" ahahhhaaha.

[Hallow Statistic]

Great

Despite the lower score, this is SO much better than any Zelda UO. Really well done dude. I'm not sure if it's 10 worth but I'm gonna give you one anyway just for how much improvement there is over the last thing I saw of yours.