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[Madness Fervency]

barely satisfying

Concept: submitting concept art for the sake of submitting.

Aesthetic: The art is on point with the style of the original madness series lots of monochromatic colors. (variation of black and white) and red. The drawing of some of the original characters are almost perfect. The art is very simplistic as known throughout the Madness series. The sound has good quality, the action sounds make sense and the gunshots are realistic cause they're louder than the punches. And the music, has that fast paced madness flare long time fans have easily grown accustomed too.

Animation: despite replicating the style to perfection with the characters ADHD bouncy movement, and bullet and melee weapon injuries are overshadowed by it's obvious flaws. Characters and items freezing or characters moving and then suddenly stopping while action sounds are still playing shouldn't be there just because you got lazy or using the fact that they're just conceptual action scenes as an excuse.( No offense)

Overall: while it captures the feel of madness it shoots itself in the foot, not for being unfinished but from the evident flaws that were overlooked. It feels kind of shoe horned just to submit old clips without making sure they run properly which greatly effects the reception, whether you're a seasoned veteran in flash or an upcoming underdog.

2/5

[Elder Scrolls Adventures]

Has saturday cartoon flare and nothing else

Oh look more skyrim in the top portal...

Concept: Combining an ridiculously over-hyped video game with an intro style of an old school Saturday morning cartoon.

Aesthetic: Nice use of colors but overall pretty basic, no notable use of tints or shading. Characters and backgrounds are drawn pretty well and I'm sure it looks relevant in comparison to the actual games environments. Special effects are okay nothing outstanding but they fit the mood of the flash and art style of the characters. Sound is clear and listenable with minimal and sensible adjustments to volume necessary.

Animation: Characters are expressive, as they should be considering most of them are children. No glitch or choppiness anywhere.

Comedy: Yeah its pretty obvious that if you haven't played the game you probably won't get much or any humor out of this at all. A smirk wanted to reveal itself but died before the expression completed.

Overall: If your not a Skyrim fan or don't feel nostalgic over the cartoons of the 80's-90's, skip this. While it has great animation and artwork there's not much humor offered to newcomers who only know the game based on it's advertisements.

2/5

[Minecraft Documentary]

too much documentary, not enough comedy

Yet another highly successful flash based on a highly successful game.

Concept: parodying a video game and combining the style of animal documentaries.

Aesthetic: Art is stylized and looks very much like the game itself.Nice vibrant colors and great use of tints and shades. The sound quality is clear and narrator can be heard clearly for the most part. What little music there is sounds peaceful and relaxing, while at the sometime expressing sorrow especially implied based on the life cycle of this creature based on this parody.

Animation: Consistently smooth no choppy cameras or glitch like movement. It was somewhat repetitive though since the creature it's based on wasn't that interesting and just pranced about for most of the flash. There were interesting moments like when it confronted an adventurer, but not much else really kept my interest. The presentation is more interesting than the actual animation itself, in my opinion.

Humor: The fact that it was pretty much a video game documentary wasn't the best idea to dwell into considering the execution didn't make up for it. It seemed the entire "comedy" aspect was based on the creatures ability to blow its self up, (I guess) that's it? It seems like a waste of build up just for that especially since the creature and his quest was boring to begin with. I'll admit the climax of the joke did make me smirk briefly, but by no means was it hilarious.

Overall: I don't see what the big deal is about this flash, besides the obvious video game fan-base chucking 5's and 10's like crazy. Although the art is beautiful and stays true to the game everything else about it was pretty dull. Unfortunately this parody felt more like a real documentary based on an animal (like a cow) that nobody could give a damn about. Evident to me that this flash only caters to the hardcore fans and nothing more.

2/5

Improvements:
- choose a more far interesting creature next time. ( The ending confirms they did for the possible sequel )

- More than one joke

[Song Of Skyrim]

Skyrim's hype knows no limits

Skyrim, Skyrim, Skyrim I'm so sick of hearing/seeing talk about this damn game.(And no that doesn't affect this score obviously, so SHUT-UP Fan-boys/girls.)
Commercials, forums, hell even a child is being named after a character in this game. Saying this game is highly anticipated is an understatement and now it hasn't been out for more than 1 weeks and a flash dedicated to it comes out of nowhere and easily racks 2nd place (probably struggling for first place on a reg in the top 50.) Gee I Wonder Why? -_-

Concept: Commercial,tribute (whatever you prefer) in the form of a (well) animated play.

Aesthetic:
Drawing is excellent and characters ( for the most part) look realistic. The landscape is just as stellar I really feel like I'm in the medieval times. Depth is pretty much mastered but I think the first frame that showed the village and it's inhabitants looked a little weird. The perspective played with my eyes a little bit.

As for sound the voices were convincing enough for me to believe they belong to each character and the main warrior's voice is just epic. The lyrics to the song was pretty creative and sound like it took some thought to come up with. Sure the words used to rhyme aren't that impressive but it's the structure is those sentences that felt like it took some intellect.

Animation: Aside from some choppiness of the pan camera on the rallied villagers the rest of the flash was smooth. Realistic movement of characters and special effects flowed nicely, there was some great moments of full body movement as well. The most expressive was when the warrior was clenching the nerd by the shirt (also "Fight the fight in old Skyrim" was my favorite line.)

Overall: You know the hype has gone too far when a child's life is related to a video game.(no offense) But this productivity is more than enough to make me over look the the media nonsense. It's rare to see poetry in a flash and I respect it for being original. It doesn't make me want to buy the game but the flash has earned a well deserved spot on my favorite list for being original and just fun to watch.

Skyrim fan or not it's worth the very short minute+ few,and I do mean few seconds.

9.5 (guess I have to round up huh?)
5/5

[American Pokemon]

Just didn't quite do it for me...

Concept: Taking twisting the concept of Pokemon into a parodied docudrama of a washed up, yet still highly popular anime.

Aesthetic: the drawing style is pretty well done humans (overall) look realistic and usage of color is spot on. Good use of tints and shades to add distinction and perspective to characters and environments alike.

Animation: Accustomed to smooth fluid animation from this author as always. I like the fluidity of movement from the characters mouths. If you mute the volume you can somewhat read their lips.

Humor: Swing and a miss, concept was risky enough as it is and the execution didn't make an outstanding impression. I get it what you attempted to do, combine the emotionally milking documentaries with a children's cartoon but it was worth a chuckle at most. Maybe if you based this off Psychopaths or straight up Pokemon obsessed man-boys. Then you wouldn't get all the useless melodramatic reviews you have now. In turn it probably be funnier cause psychopaths and middle aged man boys are actually able and far more expressive.

Overall:
Obviously not the best of works from the author. It attempts humor but in the end result is a dull mocking of docudramas with a poke-mon theme that just doesn't mix well enough to satisfy the funny bone.

*flame shield activated* Okay for those who think the author is sick and twisted remember where you are,now read the slogan."everything BY everyone" NOT "everything for everyone."

2/5

[Villainy - The Tape]

Short,sweet hilarity

Concept: tribute to Halloween.

Art: Drawing is well done human characters look realistic. Colors are pretty basic overall aside from the use of shading and tints..

Animation: Since this was quick project and can't match up to other authors works like Villany Ep-1. But it's still better than majority of comedy/parodies out there. Full body movement is always great to see iin flashes.

Humor: Nailed it, from offering kids cigarettes to making a fool out of horror gimmicks. It was especially funny when the mood was killed. (I even noticed the little knockoff Indiana Jones poster Illinois Adams, the hell?lol.)

Overall: Although late to the party that was the best (jocular) middle finger to Halloween I've ever seen. although I'm 2 days too late. This flash would've been the best way to end Halloween for people who stayed at home.

5/5

[Dragon Ball Zee]

New dog (authors),same tricks.

Concept: Pretty much the same jokes based on the rinse and repeat fighting style of DBZ we've seen a thousand times over portrayed from these authors own style.

Art: Gonzossm art style is decent I don't really like the amateur-like stylized art direction he's chosen but I know he has potential to perform works outside it. The colors are nice and vibrant just like the original Akira Toriyama classic.

Animation: Well since it's based on an anime that has lots of stand still moments the lack of real animation (full body movements) is understandable and of course adds relativity to the parody.

Humor: Meh, as stated pretty typical DBZ parody.This anime has always had a one trick pony parody style for the longest time. (although the abridged series proved that can change) But the jokes here are too easy and too overdone. You can pretty much find these in a dbz forum back in the 90's-early 2000's. However I did like the way the censorship was humorously used to productively to rack in subscribers.

Sound: Great quality, never had to shift the volume to understand dialogue or tone down an extremely loud sound effect.The voices were cool too since it is a parody after all.

Overall: If your a HUGE fan of these authors and they can just do no wrong, go for it. But all I found was just another rinse and repeat of juvenile jokes based on the common turn offs of DBZ and anime in general.

2/5

[Nyan Caxx]

Redundant statement but....WTF did I just watch?

Hate to read? Skip down to the "OVERALL" summary.

Concept: In short: To mindfuck the audience as much as possible. But it's pretty much stated in the authors comments.

Story:Er........I can only describe it as main character (A freind in real life, maybe?) experiencing a HUGE trip from some existing Iconic NG cat-like loop animation.

Art: When I see flashes like this I can't help but compare it to the almost equally crazy art style of Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World. Obviously the use of color is uncanny and in the hands of Redminus it's a weapon. The color really sets the mood for each scene giving it that much more power in atmosphere as the mood shifts from happy and exciting to ominous and dark through this the trip. The art style is evident as seen in MVC3 parodies with sharp well drawn characters.

Animation: Little choppiness on this old dinosaur I utilize but absolutely none with the lights dimmed. (Funny I never new that improved the animation up till now.) Character movement is realistic (in the real world) as well as being snake like in the dream.

Humor: Personally I found myself giving far more eyebrow raises rather than laughing in approval. I never really watched the Flash that this joke is based on so yeah my ignorance is one factor. Another one is how the joke is addressed in this flash, sure you got the silly theme song and the conversational humor explaining the history of the flashes existence. But I don't know it provoked a smirk at best. (But I'm sure to your great delight that damn song is stuck in my head.)

Audio: Sound quality was inconsistent, when it came to the trip it was fine. But when the male character talked I had to raise it slightly to understand him. Music was on point, they set up the mood for each wacky and eerie scene perfectly.Sound effects made sense ( whatever sense is left, that is.) and somewhere interesting to hear such as the video game like noise from a 8-16 t console.

OVERALL: For those who actually have knowledge of the joke apparently this is for you ( Racked up #1 flash of all time.) For newcomers like me the joke may be a swing and a miss but the interesting colorful and smooth animation is well worth it's reception and is worthy of a spot on my favorite flashes of all time list. Hopefully other newcomers can overlook it's zany theme and enjoy the great animation and art that I've had the pleasure to grace my monitor.

4/5

[DaveyToons10172011]

an innocent turd of the week...

With no sign of retarded humor or racial remarks?! It's a miracle, this is much better then the cess pool of former turd of he week flashes. It seems like you guys were experimenting an original character but just didn't have the experience to impress the masses. And To be fair, rightly so.

Everything within this flash could use improvement. The highlight of this flash is the use and animation of color if you use brightness and color shading to your advantage it would make the club more convincing.

OVERALL: At least you present an honest artist work,confirmed by the lack of reviews. If you don't already know NG users LOVE to bash, and this flash hardly has anything bash-worthy. I commend you guys for being brave enough to test drive a concept hopefully if you have the drive. You'll improve on it. Remember take every opinion with a grain of salt.