Score: 10

"Finally, something that deserves first place."

submission: Tarboy

date: September 25, 2009

What blew me away, out of many things from this flash, were the particle, and attack effects. You certainly have an eye for it, and integrated it with the rest of the style perfectly.

Story was quite different. Which is refreshing. Hard to come across things that have more than a rudimentary idea of "Original content" on this website anymore. That ALONE deserves 10 stars.

I would really like to see a tutorial from you, how to do some of the effects presented, unless you want to keep that thing a secret. Either way, your choice.

Keep it up. Don't stop believing in your work!

-GKG

Score: 6

"Good and Bad"

submission: Asaroki 05- Diagnosis

date: May 14, 2009

You draw faces very well, and the hair was quite nicely shaded, but your grasp of proportions is way off. Spend a little bit more time perhaps fine-tuning your skills and anatomy.
There's one thing to want to draw in an anime style, but you have to be able to pull of more than just the neck up to make a series.

It's crucial.

I used to be terrible at drawing bodies, but I practiced and practiced and now... well I've still got work to do, but I'm getting there.

Another plus was the voices. Good casting, quite professional.

Don't rush yourself, this seems like a good series, and I look forward to your improvement-

-GKG

Score: 6

"Interesting"

submission: Lekia (Flee)

date: May 12, 2009

But it seems you got really lazy with a lot of it. Three weeks is a tight budget, I understand, but why limit yourself like that when you're trying such a big project.

Still pictures can convey a lot when animation time is limited, but why not expend a little effort into those, rather than just succumbing to laziness? A good dramatic still can speak volumes.

I'm not going to comment on the music, because anyone can find music.

Timing was... Okay.

But scribbling out stuff really makes a bad impression when you're trying to promote your original characters, and your favorite characters.

Good luck next time.

-GKG

Score: 7

"Very good, but a couple of critigues."

submission: Pico Epsilon

date: May 11, 2009

Please. Please. Please.

Practice faces and hands.
I tried watching this for the animation, which was decent, at best, but the drawing style really got to me. If you're going for Americanized anime, try and practice a little more with each style before trying to merge them. It doesn't look like youve gotten a hole over it yet.

There were also multiple tween shortcuts, which looked absolutely lazy and MAYBE something that could be washed over a year or two ago. My standards, however, are high.

Pretty good, and impressive for such a big project, but I sitll can't give it full marks. There were too many things that bugged me about it.

-GKG

Score: 10

"I'll put this blatantly out there for everyone."

submission: Brawl Funnies [Dick 1]

date: May 10, 2009

Consider to yourself, WHY you hate this. You may have perfectly justifiable reasons for not liking this animation; such as

"I didn't like the production quality overall"
or
"I don't know about the brawl taunts series, so the jokes made little to no sense"

But for the rest of you fan-tards of the brawl taunts 'trilogy', I have a few strong words for you.

First off:

You have no justifiable reason to enjoy brawl taunts. Each one of those animations is a piece of shit that never deserved the popularity they got.
Flashes like that get the front page, and weekly/ monthly awards rather than some more deserving flashes.

It's gotten depressing, watching the steady downwards spiral of Newgrounds over the past year or two, when it really started getting out of hand.

So let me ask you this:

If you are complacent with the material and quality of brawl taunts.
If you are able to laugh at the incessant homosexual, and crude sex jokes, then why aren't you able to handle satirical humor?
Must fly right over your heads.

OR perhaps, you feel insulted at your precious shit-flashes being bashed that you have no other recourse than to take out your anger on this collab?

Now for my personal review.

There's quite a few times I have sat in my chair, astounded at the sheer amount of idiocy that infests newgrounds as a whole. And it's heartwarming to see a group such as the backalley's stand up to the crap in the portal.
While there were some with less creativity and script writing than others, the standard was far beyond what I expected.

Overall, this was a brilliant collab, and part two is an excellent continuation of this.

-GKG

(You fanboys are honestly gonna have to deal.)

Score: 9

"Amazing concept, original gameplay"

submission: Spewer

date: May 9, 2009

Even for a game about regurgitation and the physics attributed to those actions, it was a fantastic play; REALLY challenging. I broke down and cried a couple of times, but in the end, I beat it (Check my medals if you don't believe me :D

A couple of annoying bugs involved the physics and density of the black puke, because I often times found myself sinking suddenly from the impact of a particularly high jump into the opaque goop to be ripped to pixelated shreds by the saw blade walls below me. Yet when it's more concentrated, it works just fine.
Dunno if that was on purpose or not, but it irked me.

That dive level too, that was evil man. Pure. Fucking evil. THROW US A FUCKING BONE MAN.

Anyway. I would be delighted if you made a sequel, or an "expansion pack" to add more levels, or popular custom levels.

Speaking about the level editor.

I found it was EXTREMELY buggy, and I only managed to make a simple level. There are no instructions anywhere, which was discouraging....
Please fix that so I can start making my friends suffer :3

Us at Auracore greatly enjoyed this, and it made for a great conversation piece.

Good job man, seriously. Give yourself a pat on the back.

-GKG

Score: 10

"Why why why"

submission: Brawl Funnies DELUXE

date: May 7, 2009

Is this so amazing.

Score: 0

"Listen. Please. For the love of god."

submission: One More Brawl Taunts

date: May 7, 2009

Brawl taunts stopped being funny when it was first thought up.
There's no point to it anymore.

Giving this series out as a collab was an interesting idea; which failed. You obviously have no sense of quality control, and gave into the shit-for-talent audience your flashes attract.
That just shows your fan-base I guess.

None of these jokes were remotely amusing, and it pains me to know this is probably going on the front page thanks to >9000 14 year old boys who still view these things.

Now for a note to the artists.

Its great to be a fan of something. Its great to support something; but honestly. Look at yourselves. Look at what you've made. This isn't even worth my time, but I watched it the whole way, HOPING beyond all hopes that one artist would shine.

One or two exceeded the rest of you in quality, and gave my nose a rest from all the un-amused facepalming.

So what if you don't like my review. It's the truth, and at one point or another, you're going to have to face that. Artists, one more note;
If you want your skills to grow. Challenge yourself. This showed next-to-no motivation in either quality or production. It all boiled down to a badly drawn slideshow half the time, all the while being backed up by lame joke after lame joke.

Let's be clear.

Gay jokes are not funny, 4chan memes (badly placed) are not funny, crude sex jokes are not funny.

Rina, honestly, you need to draw the line somewhere.

For the love of the general population. Stop.

-GKG

Score: 10

"Another wonderful installment to the series."

submission: Red Moon

date: April 25, 2009

Ive been in love with this style of game since you released armed with wings 2, and the new jumping puzzles were amazingly challenging.

I will confess one dissatisfaction with the game. I am trying to complete the red orbs challenge, but there's no way for me to do it without falling at one point, which, I will definitely say, is pretty fucking annoying.

It is the stage where at one point you have one of those tentacles set up for jumping on a floating platform. Two red orbs on either side. Whenever I try to double jump it, the mechanics only bounce me off the platform to my impending doom.

Can I collect all the orbs even if I die and skip the ones I know Ive collected for the stage? Or do I have to collect them all per retry, because I know the music and art unlocks dissapear if you've collected them once... But not the orbs.

Anyway. There were a few glitches with the jumping, and it seemed very fiddly. I was displeased with the charging system, but otherwise the two main battles, ESPECIALLY THE LAST ONE were satisfying and completely rewarding to beat. It was a real challenge!

Cut scenes are well animated, but I don't like how you cut to the silhouettes, then add outlines overtop of them. The anatomy just looks... Off somehow. The silhouettes are much more stylish (I understand you need to use lines for lip synching and facial expression, but bodylanguage can go miles too.)

Anyway, pleeease keep making these games. Theyre my favorites on the whole site.

-GKG

Score: 2

"The only stars you get are because I pity you."

submission: Mad Mad Mario

date: April 19, 2009

Seriously,even drunk people can be funny. This isn't funny at all.

This kind of joke has been done so many times, and by so many different people. Some good, some bad. But this one left a bad taste in my mouth.
Bowser looks downright retarded, and his voice is OBVIOUSLY pitched down, making for a cheap sounding recording.

Mario with a really gruff angry voice =/ = Originality.

If you're going to break into this already bewilderingly overused genre, you should think before submitting. Maybe, just MAYBE someone would make a Mario flash that isn't complete SHIT.

The animation is wretched. Like you weren't even going to give enough of a shit to give the characters more than one dimension. Tweens only get you so far.

The background is like a handicapped child's scribble, colored in with photoshop.
Honestly man. I like your RENGADE AWESOME flashes. What the hell happened!?

Your attitude to reviewers is also piss-poor. Just because someone hasn't animated something, doesn't mean that their opinion , if expressed well, doesn't matter. You seriously are full of yourself, aren't you? Just because you've gotten on the front page?
Fuck off.

This 'animation' doesn't deserve any credit for graphics, voice acting, action, plot, animation, originality or 'gag' appeal.