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This was made in 2001? This is better than most sprite movies made today in terms of effects and comic timing. While there are a few flaws, the originality more than made up for it. Thumbs Up.
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"Good presentation...needs polishing,"
This piece is very, very uneven. I liked the preloader, the opening, and the menu. I laughed at parts (Armord Armadillo's scenario was the best), then cringed at a lot of this. The big problem with these shorts is that it's simply too reliant on the same jokes. There's a difference between juvenile and redundant humor, and this piece walks on both sides of the line.
Also, the sprite work, though good, needed to be cleaned up a little. Some of the edits looked great, others looked completely horrible.
It's not bad, and there's plenty to like such as how you made the elements flow together, but please broaden the humor beyond the pattern of "gay/retard" bashing,
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Your observations are sharp, the animation effective, the sound and the voice acting is superb. This is a top notch Flash.
The only thing that mars this is piece is that complaints such as these been done repeatedly. Previous entries may not have the exact, hilarious and effective combination you've used, but there's something lacking in the freshness of the core, despite the well made presentation.
Author's Response:
I'm unaware of any Zelda spoof where complaints about abundant rupees or the redundancy of shops is presented. I've seen a lot of jokes about getting money from bushes, but my focus was their lack of application in the games, not the silliness in which they are obtained (the latter being done to death in spoofs). Not being able to take rupees with you (wallet limitation) and, on top of that, not being able to really do anything with them is a sloppy oversight that we'll probably continue to see in future titles.
Thanks for the review!
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"Well executed, but missing a but of magic..."
This is a well done remastering of the stage music for Flame Stag, which is good. I like the original riffs and accompaniments, and I like the effort that has been put into it.
There's a bit of sound imbalance at times. The drums cut off the guitars a little, and while the sound effects are nice, they simply don't blend well with the song.
Some of those sound effects sounded like Mega Man X1 weapons, not X2, and they seemed a little random with the exception of the appropriate beginning and ending.
The biggest problem, in my opinion, though, is that there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of imagination to this piece. While it's a well-done cover of the music, it doesn't seem to add a lot to this tune. That doesn't make it bad or inadequate by any means, but it doesn't make it that memorable, either.
Author's Response:
I agree with the imbalance and I tell you why it happened. This is the first track from me I that tried to "master". Now I'm not very familiar with that but I thought it's time to take a step forward. I guess for my first try, I turned out well, though, like mentioned before, there is a little imbalance. The track is very "trebley". I cut off to much of the mids and lows, sadly.
The sound effects are 100 % from Mega Man X1. There aren't any complete or quality sounding sfx from Mega Man X2 available on the web. At least not that I know. So I took a couple from Mega Man X1. Heh and they aren't placed "random". I mean, if you play the actual game, do you know what sfx are there in the next 10 seconds? I guess not. ;)
I wanted to provide that feeling for the listener. How it would sound in the actual "in-game".
Let me ask you another question for your last review part. Why are some remixes no remixes at all? ... Because they lack of imagination for the original itself. Some Mega Man remixes I've heard punch tunes in a completely new direction. This isn't bad at all, though, as a big Mega Man fan myself, it just hurts not to hear the original melody in it's purest form. For me, THAT isn't memorable, since you are waiting for that in a cover/remixsong.
I'm more the guy, that takes on the original and adds parts with own ideas, while staying "old-skool". I just my way of doing "it". :)
Anyways, thank you very much for the detailed review, it's appreciated to hear some good old constructive criticism from time to time!
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What an awesome tune, with a very balanced sound across all the instrumental tracks. The voice clips are just the right level, as is the percussion and everything else. For some odd reason it reminds me of the first part of Akuma's theme from the Street Fighter series, but it's a great piece of work.
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Thanks!!
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