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[WarMachine PART2]

Great enemy

The thing I found the most interesting about this was the robotic enemy. I was wondering where the blood was coming at the end, but it was apparently an organism in a robot body. It was sweet to see it just explode with its flesh everywhere at the end. The hero took a fair beating as well. I thought it was going to be a stick flash at first because of the loading screen. It's still a great flash because it has such fantastic animation and amazing fight scenes.

Well, fight scene, that's really all it is. There are tons of submissions here that are just fights and nothing else, but they work because they're just wonderful to look at. It couldn't have been that quick of a battle if it was in two parts. The sounds were great as well and the art shift at the end with the beat up hero was funny too. Robotic arms are always a delight for fight scenes.

[Xiao Xiao]

First?

I am not sure if you are the same person who made the other entries, but it seems to be an authentic "Xiao Xiao" submission. Looking back, it's great to see how far you have come. This suffers from the fact that it's mostly just another typical stick flash. The one thing that was interesting were the voice clips used. I also liked how you had that cool Matrix style title screen. I can at least appreciate you mentioning how long it took to make.

For the short duration it was, the fighting style wasn't that bad. It's just strange because these characters look so small. In the other entries, it's better because the characters seem to make more use of their surroundings. These also appear a bit more humanlike in appearance. It is great to know you got a whole lot better, especially with the third one!

[Cat Vader 2]

He wasn't in Episode 2!

This is a premise where you can simply do no wrong because it combines two things that are really popular on the Internet. The most impressive thing was how all of Darth Vader's lines are always related to what was going on in the situation. I expected Cat Vader to force choke someone. The animation was not the best, but it doesn't matter because it's so darn funny. I especially love watching this little guy point his paws at people. When he was talking to the guy in bed, I thought he was saying, "Growl".

He was actually saying, "Meow" or something like that. There's no real story, it's more of a series of jokes that are used with this character. That's all you need to make this great. I didn't even notice until now how good Cat Vader looks with the whiskers around his helmet. At least his entire body did not get singed, but he is black.

koit responds:

Glad you like it.

He's a "rowl"-er. That's the sound Vades likes to make, not a meow, a rowl.

[Sonic RPG eps 8]

Tons of fun

Yes, I did skip the fight scenes and go to the rest of it. Hey, at least I tried and managed to get at least 20,000 points of damage to him! I did as good as I did in any RPG. This is a long series so it's a bit hard to keep up with but I admire all the hard work and effort put into this. It's especially cool to see the characters mouths move with actual voices. I know that one purple character is from "Nights", but is that also the character's name?

The fight scene was really good and so were the talking scenes. It's great that you put so much emotion into the character's voices. It was always great to have a good selection of music to keep your anticipation up. Everyone seems to be fairly in character as they partake in this story. It's work like this that puts fan work in motion.

[Blood Ravens Retribution]

That was unexpected

I had no idea this cartoon was going to take the turn it did. The weirdest thing was how random it was. I admit that if I saw that too, I would probably blow up everyone too because it would fit the random appearance of everything. I don't see a lot of "Dawn Of War" parodies around here so they're nice to see. What was cool were how authentic the voices were. This whole thing was so stupid, I found entertainment in it.

The bearded guy with the blonde hair looked like Jesus. I sincerely thought this was going to be a serious cartoon the whole way through. I probably wouldn't have liked or dislike it more if it had changed. The animation was well, something that I have mixed emotions about. It was quite authentic, but didn't flow that well.

[Firebreather Valentines]

Needs much work

You needed to work with having a background and a lot more music. Even the objects themselves were not covered in any sort of color. It also got a bit annoying how the song was an infinite loop at the end and you could not restart. The animation seemed so off in this, especially with how the main character looked. His lines just seemed to be jiggling all over his body. Even the "Happy Valentine's Day" message at the end looked crude.

The one part that was a bit funny was when he turned into the shoop da whoop guy. It makes you realize that some memes will simply never die, huh? I would turn into a monster too if I had to get up at six in the morning. The music at the end kind of sounded like it was made by the same guys who did the "I Ran So Far Away" song. I hope you had a nice Valentine's Day too.

[CD10 Return of the cock]

Oh, a penis

I suggest you try to do better on a variety of things like some music. I know it was just a single image but it seems like there could have been some sound in this. If not that, there could have been an infinite loop showing some crude song. I realize that a lot of flashes are like that and it makes them a bit better. The only thing I liked was how it was kind of funny how the penis was shown. Every one of those fruits does look like parts of an actual penis!

You rarely see fruit clocks and vegetable clocks together like that. Maybe you were trying to promote some sort of peace? I was not even aware that the cock had been away. How can a cock take a shit anyway? I really should stop wondering right now how a cock could have shit come out of itself in any way at all.

icyh3ll responds:

You are thinking way to into this... This was just a clock day submission. To put effort into one is a real waste of time. I used powerbullet to make this in about 5 minutes just to have something to submit. Considering one of the highest rated Clock Day submissions is the letter B, I'd say I put too much effort into this. This is the second submission of Clock Day 2010.

[Madness is Contagious]

Kind of different

It's great that people always manage to come up with new and original things in their Madness flash. While this was not from Madness Day, it managed to do quite well. The best part was probably the unique idea of people becoming red. While it doesn't make much sense, it's still original. What I did not like was how there was no music until the second half. It was weird how you were listing all the countries in alphabetical order.

I knew you wouldn't make it to every one of them. I am glad to understand the airborne is why it affects the dead. Science has proven that those are in fact the most dangerous and widespread of all viruses. The animation could have been better as it is standard for a Madness flash. I didn't know the title would be literal.

XXBlinx responds:

thanks for the comment, the countries in alphabetical order is a conicindence. The story does make make sense? People are trying to survive and at the end the dad (guy in blue) kills himself cause his family are infected

[svs secret of the ocean 2]

Not the worst out there

You spelled "since" wrong, as it's actually "since". There were a lot of problems with this, particularly with how everything seemed so disorganized. What was good was that the sprite works weren't half bad. Everything just moved so slowly as there was not much action in the beginning. I don't know why everything seemed red with Shadow's fight with Sonic. At least it cleared up when Knuckles and Tails arrived.

It also ended too abruptly as I was expecting some credits. The font that the characters used was a bit too small. It would have been better to have the dialogue contained in a box too. You need to brush up on some stuff, as being just introduced, I can not say much for the story. I am used to sprite movies like this on the website.

tal9x9 responds:

i am a beginner first i don't no a lot about flash but wait for part 4 it's gonna be longer and i will use 24fps on it and you didn't watch part 1 so you don't understand this part