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[Castle Repercussions - A]

Great, Man!

Castle 3C and 3D use masterful graphics, sound, and concept work. It's the first display of radical fighting animation that features shrapnel, massive war-like combat, and the most intense character development yet. The general's true colors are revealed as Etrius and Lloyd are removed from the rest of the group. Additionally, the voice acting is better than both A and B, featuring the becoming-maniacal voice of the general, the comic-relief line from Romanov, and many others. The watcher gets exceptionally strong feelings for Beecher, although the entire team earns immense respect when they show their will to survive. No characters in this film are weak, not even the soldier fodder. Best of all it leaves everyone worried sick about Etrius and Lloyd. The menu sound effects were a bit loud compared to the rest of it, though. On a last note, Dimmu Borgir perfectly fits the environment of the parallel universe. Its name complements the film all on its own! (Meaning "dark fortresses" in Norwegian.)

From where we left off, we had all that on our minds. In Castle Repercussions, the watcher is perfectly teased by the ominous intro... And the rest of the film, really. We enter the spooky deserted castle once again, lead by a private. Cooler still is the sentience that lurks within the castle, a foreshadowing to a malicious figure that we hope we can learn of later.

Sound, graphics, animation, concept, all perfect! Love how you changed the point of view back to the private! Only problem I had with it was that I missed the invisible button and playhead badly. Wish you could have used them again.

[Castle III part B]

Awesome!

Graphics are once again awesome, and the animation is a bit smoother than Part A. You used blur effects this time, and everything looks a bit smoother. However, the menu lagged a little bit. The insides of the castle were pretty neat, too, although there were a few rare cases where parts of the graphics looked a little plain.

The voice acting was pretty good, but a few lines seemed to place emphasis in the wrong spot, and the tone was off a little. The character development was otherwise great; you can see outstanding chemistry between the characters.

The invisible button and playhead were very nice. It made the film easy to navigate, and overall I loved the feature.

[Castle III part A]

Beautiful

Graphics are incredible, despite the fact you're using sticks. Animation is pretty much top-notch as well. However, a few of the animations such as the helicopter blades are a little choppy, so you could have used some blur effects on them in my opinion.

The voice acting is simply superb; high quality, clear, and they fit the characters well. The only thing that irked me about the dialogue were the consistent mistakes with the subtitles.

The concept is utter brilliance. You've set up a common futuristic distopia but fused it with sci-fi and fantasy at the same time. Masterfully shot, great presentation!

[The Pen is Mightier...]

Wow!

That was great! Graphics were great (obviously), but let me add that the animation had one quirk... When the bullet went into color and there was filmy white stuff on the back of the bullet. It looked too sticky, and I'm guessing it was smoke or something, or some kind of gaseous effect. If it was, there should have been some more particles being clipped off of it, or just dissipating from the sides as well.

Sound was great, well done, good quality, but it started off a little slow. A lot of people are going to close out of it before it reaches the end because of it. Seriously, the beginning IS BORING. I guess that's the point though.

Lastly, the concept was pretty original. I loved it! You did a great job with it!

[Christmas Uncovered]

Liked It

The graphics are great, but the characters probably should have had outlines. Maybe even just giving their edges a slight lighting differential would have been nice. Otherwise the graphics were awesome.

The sound was nice, good quality. The story... Eh, it was funny, but way too short. You needed to add way more. Adding the tiniest bit would have made a big difference.

But all in all it was funny.

[Snow Fight]

Good

The graphics were simple but good, the blur effects were nice and well-thought out, and the proportions weren't obnoxious (like a few anime movies). Overall the animation was good.

The audio was also great. Loved the British accent, also high quality and great timing.

The storyline started good but got old fast. While it is a cartoon, it's somewhat resemblant of a 5 year old's elaborate story that swells with time. I loved the rock, and the mustard gas made me laugh, but after that it just went downhill and the plotline wasn't quite as graceful.

47times responds:

Thanks for the review, and just to let you know, I'm Australian, not British.

[the Last of the Dashkin]

What a Crock

NOTE: This was from my old review which was deleted, but I got a PERSONAL HEADS UP from Holla36 that it IS NOT abusive. I don't want some stupid fanboys flagging this again.

There's like... No animation in it. You tossed in some Filters, the animation is way choppier, especially the walking and running, and it just kind of... Disappointed me.

The graphics are pretty much the same as they've always been, which I guess is good. The audio quality was very high.

Here's the main problem, though. You've always used silent storytelling before, making the story unfold on its own instead of leading the viewer on with narration. You should have maybe shown a flashback to the Dashkin or something, or maybe some kind of montage timeline to tell the story. Spoon-feeding it to the audience was a big mistake.

Another thing that pissed me off was presentation. While the animation was several minutes long, you made it seem kind of short. You end it with the line "we're about to find out", which leads the player to believe the entire animation was only the intro. The animation told a lot and a little at the same time, but it was done all wrong.

A lot of people won't like this because there's not enough happening. It's a bunch of telling and no action, which is what people really want. You could have just kept the file on your computer until you had some more aftermath to tack to the back of the animation, and you'd have gotten way more stars from me.

[Microcosm]

Nice!

Graphics were simple, but that was the point. The sound was okay, but nothing too spectacular. The storyline was pretty interesting... It wasn't much of a mindfuck, but it was still interesting. The only thing I didn't really like was the whole Matrix ripoff.

[I'll Sue Ya!]

Great!

Funny and animated very well. I didn't know you were the same guy who also did Star Wars Gangsta Rap!!

This is great, and I'd say you have an awesome career ahead of you!

Only problem is the video quality was iffy and the sound was a little quiet... But that's not your fault since this is a Flash adaption.

[Madness Combat 5.5]

Very Good!

Better than your previous ones because it's got more melee fighting in it. The action could have been a bit quicker though... I'd have much preferred it if it had twice the minions or something... There wasn't enough carnage going on, or even combos for that matter. The music was also kind of sub-par, no offense to Cheshyre. It got kind of repetitive and was too ambient. It was a bit short, but 7000 frames is probably good enough...

However, the animation was extremely good, especially the easing. The trajectory of this series is going in a pretty good direction.