Score: 9

"Good times."

submission: 32-Bit Tournament-2

date: June 18, 2009

I had to deduct a point for the ending, though. That works for network television because the time frame between episodes is measured in days. For a flash series that can be months or years between episodes, maybe not such a good idea...

Stylistically speaking, I just couldn't get into it. Not your fault, so no deductions there. It doesn't seem to invoke the same aura of intensity that most of your other videos do. For the characters you used, it seemed a bit to "happy", too "playful". I never really felt the sense of urgency or danger as I did with the first episode.

Again, that's all stylistic and subjective. Feel free to disregard my matters of opinion. It's one hell of a flash, it just didn't "click" with me personally.

(Oh, and thanks for the shout-out!)

9/10 5/5

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Score: 8

"It's good for what it is."

submission: Raiden vs. Lui Kang

date: May 25, 2009

The only issues that I have with it are stylistic, so feel free to disregard anything I say.

First of all, I think you may have overdone the photoshopping on that arena. It does not fit well with the characters. It's too "colorful", too "happy". Secondly, I couldn't help but think "why do they bleed rose petals?" when I looked at the hitsparks.

Still, for a short collab entry, it was very good.

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Score: 8

"Hmmmmm...."

submission: Street Fighter Epic Ep.2

date: May 25, 2009

I must say that your choreography was innovative despite the occasional anime cliches. You know how to make a good fight.

However, I had to deduct a couple of points for construction. While that sound loop at the beginning is easily avoidable, it should never have been an issue in the first place. It's an easy fix and you should have taken care of it before submitting. That kind of detail matters. You want to appeal to as wide an audience as possible, even those who don't follow directions.

Also, when you have your action sequences separated by story, you should have some sort of chapter select feature. It would be a different case if you had one long action sequence, but waiting between them is tedious during later viewings when I am already familiar with the plot line.

Kudos on the text. You actually managed to have floating text that wasn't intrusive! Good job!

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Score: 10

"Enjoy this "10"."

submission: The Mortal Kombat Kollab!

date: April 19, 2009

You guys deserve it!

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Score: 8

"Well done,"

submission: Street Fighter Epic Ep.1

date: March 29, 2009

It was a little too Dragonball Z-ish for my tastes, but that is entirely subjective and bears no weight on your score.

The "floating text" needed some grammatical cleanup and was very intrusive when used during the fight.

Also, asking the question "should I continue" is basically just shamelessly fishing for compliments. There's really nothing wrong with that, just try not to be so obvious about it!

The question of whether or not you should continue should be up to you, not your viewers. Animate because you want to. Don't do it just to appease the masses. That road leads to mediocrity.

Need proof? Look at Hollywood.

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Score: 8

"Kewl"

submission: Ryu Vs Gouki

date: March 28, 2009

The reason why your animation on Newgrounds is slower than the original is because your background music track is an event sound. You should set it to stream. A streamed musical track forces the video to keep pace with the audio. Without a streamed musical track, you will always lose about 25% of your speed when the movie is played through a browser.

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As for the content of your movie, I love the speed of your choreography. There are still a few things that you need to learn about the Flash program itself, but you're pretty solid otherwise.

You mostly need to learn how to properly work with sound. Sound makes more of a difference than you realize. Learn how to properly use and compress it.

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Score: 10

"Just so you know..."

submission: Street Fighter Hard Times

date: February 14, 2009

That was the most hardcore laundry-folding I have ever seen.

10/10 for the bitch slaps. Good times!

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Score: 9

"Pretty good!"

submission: Fightin' In The Streets

date: February 1, 2009

The last couple of major hits really sold it for me! We so very rarely see that applied to Street Fighters. It's very refreshing!

Oh, and have you TRULY "watched them all"?

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Score: 8

"Not bad!"

submission: Street Fighter Series

date: January 14, 2009

You're off to a good start!

Let me give you a tip: You don't have to dedicate one specific layer to each fighter. I noticed that Ken's sprites held the top position during the whole movie, which makes it look awkward when Ryu lands blows "behind" Ken. Instead of dedicating one layer each to "Ken" and "Ryu", make generic layers such as "Top Fighter" and "Bottom Fighter". You can then swap which layers you put the characters in depending on which one you need to be on "top". Just make sure that you can keep up with it.

Although there are some exceptions, the attacker should generally be on top.

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Score: 8

"Yeah..."

submission: Immortal Kombat!

date: January 14, 2009

That's all pretty much true.

Some of the biggest annoyances of the 2D generation couldn't really be helped, though. The reason that Mortal Kombat had so damn many pallet-swaped ninjas was because of memory limitations. That's pretty much all you can do when your fans clamor for more playable characters than you can realistically have.

And, yeah, plotlines used in those games did tend to be short and lacked detail. But, considering that half of the people bitch when there is too much plot and the other half bitches when there's not enough, it was more economical for the game developer to err on the side that would free up game space.

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