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[what is this i dont even]

Ski free

Ski free. David Spade.
-Ski/free
-David/Spade
-BlackDevilX

Send me the song

Short-Factor responds:

Wow, thank you for giving this movie such a thorough review. You somehow managed to critique every aspect of the movie. I'm so glad you took the time out to give me such elaborate feedback, something I need as an artist.
BDX my dearest sweet.
I hate you.

[Sandbags Ultimate Dest.]

Needless to say, im not impressed.

~To: Diamond Henge Studios/Stephen/Klepto~
I am honored/ashamed for you that you decided to decompile the hell out of FFSX6, and im talking about the slash effects, even my animated BG for green Hill zone. But the big kicker was the fact you stole the entire beam effect. Now that i lold at. Lets not mention the fact that the animated street fighter alpha 3 background was handed to me by 'hadoukendude' (author of the FSM series) personally like 6 years ago, ya basically stole from 2 people, all in one part! Congrats!

Aside from that, the rest of the collab was a typical display of imagination people get when they get their hands on DBZ sounds, and a couple of fancy effects. Lets not get into the fact that this collab, was done before, because that cost you big originality points.

Like you said, this is pretty much Beat up Sandbag, the only difference is that these are a collections of the ones that didn't make the cut. I swear if you guys didn't put names on your parts i could have said that one person did the entire collab, but since this seems to be a mass collection of the same crap, i can give you all the exact same critique.

Now as for the music, I couldn't have even begun to imagine a poorer choice. not only did it NOT fit at all, but it basically bored me. I probably would have never found this if it wasnt for DarkZero down there telling me about DHS and his almighty decompiler, but feelings aside, i dont give out 0's unless it truly deserved it, and this in no way deserves a 0. Normally id give you a 5, but with the apparent decompiling of my stuff, and the lack of originality on EVERYONE'S part, and just the poor choice of music, you earn the great combined score of...!

2/5
3/10
-BlackDevilX

P.S. Tone down the blur effect. Turn up the sound quality. It felt like i was having a stroke. or a heart attack...or something i dunno.

Joeylicious responds:

It really is a shame that he stole from you honestly.

I greatly respect you BDX, and if we had known that you created that beam effect, we probably would have told him off.

We were aware that the concept of this collab was unoriginal, but we still thought it would be cool to try it out.

I still agree with you that the DBZ shit was unnecessary, but we thought it was what the people wanted.
And to an extent, we were right.

But all we (Well, me anyway) got was a bunch of retard fanboys spamming my inbox, asking me to send them effects, sounds etc.

I am greatly sorry that we wasted your time and very sorry on DiamondHenge's behalf.

Too bad I can't take it down now.

[The Ness Collab]

Temper Temper Long Exponent

GET IT CUZ UR NAME IS SHORT FACTOR

Short-Factor responds:

Nope

[Drawning Evolution]

Very good!

I have got to say, this is a fine peice of work. I loved the concept, and i loved the music. It fit very well with the flash. Even though the final drawing i felt could have been a bit beter, i loved how you expressed the different styles by having something happen (especially the shading part. I thought that was down right clever!)

5/5
10/10
-BlackDevilX

Dark-ChiCKeN responds:

Wow...thank u so much man! That means a lot , the last part was made in photoshop so it limited the animation. But thanks a lot man...

[Sonic Reversal: Ep. III]

That was....boring.

Sorry, but i wasnt impressed in the slightest at the fights. Its not that it was a bad flash, but the fighting was too repetitive. There were too many fights going on at once to even focus one of them at a time. I dont mind all out melees with characters doing 1v1 or 2v2 or even 3v3. But you had 1v1v1v1v1v1v1v1 if you understand what i am saying.

Basically i'll put it like this. Knuckles would fight shadow, get knocked into rouge who gets knocked into tails who then proceeds to fight shadow, who gets knocked back into knuckles which knocks him to rouge and then he'll start fighting rouge. Too many things going on at once made it hard to focus on one character. Dump this new style of fighting. Episode 2 was better, in my opinion.

It also kinda seemed that you spent most of your time with the fights and let the story weaken as this was basically 95% fighting and 5% story. There are enough sprite fighting movies on Newgrounds. Some that are a lot better, but there really aren't a lot of sprite movies with a strong story. Expand the story a bit more in you next episodes rather than trying to impress us with you action sequence.

Next, SOUND COMPRESSION. This flash has a very high file size for something so short. You need to seriously open this sucker up and change the settings on things, because damn.

Now, as for your twists, you categorized it wrong. it isnt a twist because...

*Spoilers*
1) You introduced metal Sonic in the same episode as you decided to link shadow and him as one. That could have been stretched out for A LOT of episodes and later come as a twist.

2) Shadow switching Sonic for metal Sonic isnt a twist. It was a trap. And an Obvious one at that. Also could have been stretched out for a few episodes.

*end Spoilers*

However, one thing i am VERY impressed with is the fact you used an animated Background. Many people who make sonic flashes tend to use backgrounds that should be animated, as a regular non static. The fact you took the effort to use something animated shows skill for detail.

Also, vary your sound effects, because they got too repetitive. Use different sound effects for different actions.

3/5
6/10
-BlackDevilX

WinterStorm responds:

Quite a few things to say. First of all, I actually had thought of the idea of Metal Sonic battling Tails and Knuckles while appearing as Sonic himself, but I was too far into making the episode before I came up with that. When it comes to the sounds, I seem to have some bad luck at finding any. Feel free to help me out; I would gladly take up the offer. As for the link? You'll find out later... Now the fight scene. Yes, I admit, it was quite chaotic, but I'm going to relieve that in later episodes. Check out my BBS posts to see what I mean.

[Knuckles vs Shadow X]

Yah so i lol'd

I found it hilarious XD. I think Sonic transforming and shadows clapping to the beat was funny enough.
5/5
9/10
-BlackDevilX

Nose-army responds:

Glad you liked it.

[Sonic & the 16bit world 4]

Too loud.

First off. I think your wrong. I think you have a stray stop action command in your credits, because it stopped for me, and all i did was right click, and play and it went through just fine.

Second, Why did it end like that? Sonic just talking and then cut to credits. That was very sloppily done, as i didn't even get to READ the entire subtitle.

Third, you over used that high pitched DBZ sound effect WAY too many times, to the point i was going to shut it off. I mean, really, if your going to go and use DBZ sounds, i KNOW there are more in the pack then just those couple of sound effects.

Fourth, all of your voices were low and scratchy. I had to turn it up to hear what they were saying, then got bombarded with a bunch of loud sound effects. Also you had knuckles V.A scream some of his lines which was also irritating. Keep the volumes of your sounds consistent.

However through all that unbearable complaints, i still made it through to the end. I'll admit, this is the first one of your series i've seen. The whole concept of fighting recolors i thought was hilarious. I personally hate it when people take sprites and just edit them slightly and apply some recolors to them and call it their own. Taking a move set from a char is one thing, but stealing the design and making it a different color is another. However, Mephalies has already been explained why hes in that form. Hes not just a recolor. I like the fact that you pointed out that it was just a Mega man BG. Yes it was from MMX1. I could recognize that lvl anywhere.

All in all, I have to say that you could probably do better. Stop using so much DBZ sound effects, as a majority of people over use them. Get some new ones. Check your movie out for any stray AS commans, and take the time to go over the voice quality, and the volume of your sound effects.

3/5
5/10
-BlackDevilX

Gaaz responds:

Thanks for the reveiw. I wasn't so bothered about the sound quality, my main focus was the battle scene; but sure, i'll try to pefect volume control in my next flash movies.

[Sonic Life 3: FFtE]

Finish it first.

Never submit half projects. If you want a beta tester, go get one, but this is what the alphas are for.

Anyways, its ok. I can clearly see that the menu music is taking up all the filesize in the flash, so you need to do something about that.

I don't know why, but ive always hated that lvl in sonic advance. The background is too irritating. Oh Well its ok i guess.

But finish it.

3/5
5/10
-BlackDevilX

SuperSaiyanSonic responds:

Woah...BlackDevilX...You're like one of the coolest artists ever. It feels good being reviewed by you.
Heh, I guess I didn't know about the Alphas section of NG. I'll make sure to submit future incompletes there. Thanks.
Yeah, I gotta do something about the music too. Thanks for the review! Peace out.