Shuko's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Mario's Night Time Advent]

Eh... Overdone to death.

Graphics:
First off, the technique with the sprites was really crappy, as you left the black background in there with it. Of course, I'm sure you meant to do that, since you were oh-so-subtly trying to make your point through bad graphics and crappy flash powers. But I digress. The backgrounds made me chuckle. You got the majority of your points there.

Style:
Overdone. Plain and simple. I've seen so many "omg, sprite flashes are unoriginal and they suck" movies that they've ceased to be good. You have to make it new and at least take a different slant if you want people to take it seriously.

Sound:
Awful. Well, I take that back. The part with the typing sounds and the windows noises made me laugh. :P Well-placed. But I will say that I greatly dislike it when flash artists intentionally change the volume at various parts of their flash, especially if it's as extreme as yours was. Ouch.

Violence:
Mario killed a goomba. A goomba killed Mario. No blood, no drama. I gave you pity points.

Interactivity:
Your preloader was funny, what with all the unfilled fields and whatnot. You would have gotten more, had your play button showed signs of being active when my mouse icon was over it. :p

Humor:
Not funny. At all. Like I said, it's been overdone. I'm not saying that anti-mario/anti-sprite flashes can't be funny. I'm just saying that if you want to make a good one, do something original with it. Crack on a specific aspect and expand on it or something. I dunno. All I know is that I'm seeing the same thing I've seen many times already. Recently.

Overall:
I was a bit generous with the review score, I think. I personally voted to blam, but you'll probably pass, since it has Mario in the title, lol. Ironic, isn't it?

notoriousm responds:

ARE you kidding me Maron is really cool

[Black Volume 1]

Not too bad for a first!

As far as stick flashes go, it's very choppy and the fighting rather slow. But despite that, I can see that you put a nice amount of attention to detail in there. :) I like the fact that you decided to provide a back story and not just do mindless fighting, lol.

Are you going to buy a license to Flash so you can continue the series? I hope so. Makenai! (don't give up!)

Fremen responds:

Thanks. I'm gonna get a copy of Flash from my friend, so I will probably do one or two animations over the summer.

I'll try to continue this series, so you can look forward to Black 2 and 3. Also, I'll probably get better as it goes. The best example I can think of is Xin. In the beginning it was ok, but at the end, it was amazing.

[im a fuckin fag]

Bleh...

I can't believe I sat through the whole thing. xD

Not that my comments count or anything, since you obviously won't like them anyway...

The animation was good at first, but then I began to realize that you were just going to repeat the same stuff over and over again. Lip synching to music takes time and effort, but it's not difficult at all - especially to a slow-paced song like this. It's like you're trying out for a band, and when you get up there, you only play twinkle twinkle little star for the audition, lol.

But even the animation isn't my main concern. I'm just wondering why, if you hate this guy's music so much, do you even bother wasting creative energy on a vid for it? Like it or not, your video gives his music attention, even if you INTEND it to be only negative attention. Basically, you're Manson's tool. How do you like that? :p

How about making a video for something you're INTO next time?

taylor-bortner responds:

the fact that it repeats is to show how repetetive the song is

["What An Accident"]

Lol!

That was awesome. :P The eye twitching was a nice touch too. xD

I didn't expect things to turn out that way at all. xD Great job, man. :P

AbzRox responds:

Abz: Thanx babe! means alot for my first flash!!!

Psy: Thanks for the review Shuko. I'm glad you liked it.

[Mario,Mario and Mario]

Lol. It's come a long way. :P

This Mario flash has evolved quite a bit since the last time I saw it. :P Great work! You need to work on incorporating more hand-drawn stuff tho. :P Your sprites are great, but the hand-drawn figures kind of varied in quality. ;)

Keep up the great work, Zonic! I'll be keeping an eye out for more of your stuff!

Btw, where d'you hang out nowadays, anyway? xD

Zonic64 responds:

hey!

i thougt you hate me since the bannage on vgdc rofl

anyway, thx shuko and im not as much on the comp anymore since i got banned lol, but come to Revival Eyes Studio or Sheezy Art cuz im there too : 3

[Beans Beans]

Hahah! You sound funny! =3

Blordow sounds like an irish Munchkin. Who knew?

Lol. Great stuff. It's a quickie though, and I wanna see more, longer stuff from ye. Get back in your dungeon and animate, says I. -_- Don't make me break out the leeches and scream again...

Blordow responds:

Irish Munchkin? That's different. Btw that's not my REAL voice, it's just edited the pitch :P

thanks!

[On the Subject of Truth]

Nice message, decent graphics. ;)

Well, first off, I liked the message. Am I correct in thinking that the idea of "TRUTH" is not an absolute? That real truth may be depend on the individual, and differ from one person to the next?

Anyway, I liked it - the message, I mean. And like I said, the graphics were decent. Could have been a lot more refined and cleaned up, and you need to work on the fluidity of your movement. ;) But the boldness of your animation shows that you're not afraid to take chances either, so I can see you getting better and better as you work at it. Good job. I'd like to see more stuff from you. :P

Steampunk responds:

Thanks for a positive review! Yeah you got the point correct. I was gonna make it more straight forward but instead decided to take a chance and not patronise the viewer, nice to see ppl can understand the message.

[Rocko's Groovy]

Lol. Not bad. :P

Heehee. This really is more of an inside joke to those of us who've seen the ending credits to CCS. :P But I liked seeing your take on it. The psycho sun in the beginning made me laugh. xD Seriously, I went back to watch it again and paused the movie to take a good look at it. Hilarious. XD That's why I gave you a high humor score. ;)

Graphics were great as far as the backgrounds go, but your take on Kero-chan could have been a lot more fluid. Good job on putting the shadows underneath him - good eye for detail there. The only things I would have changed would be to increase the framerate a bit and add some extra frames into his leaps. :P But not bad for what it is. Graphics got a 7 because I liked the backgrounds.

Style got a poor score. It's not so much a slam against your movie as it is the fact that you were really just repeating something that's already been done. ;) Everyone needs to start somewhere, and emulating an already good idea is a fine place to start. Don't let my low score discourage you.

No violence, no score.

Interactivity, you had the play and replay buttons. Bare minimum.

Shipp responds:

Thanks, I was beginning to think nobody on Newgrounds has seen CCS. I intentionally put fewer frames to his leap because I just wanted to make my cat doing the same thing Kero does, but since he doesn't have wings, he stayed in the air for less time.

[Phoenix Wright zero pt.1]

Sigh...

I hope that was your own original story. If you're just repeating what happened in the Phoenix Wright game, I'm going to be severely angry. *Hasn't played her copy yet*

Anyway, the story was captivating and kept me interested. But the grammar sucked eggs. Really, next time you need to get someone to do a grammar and spelling check for you. You made so many mistakes it was incredibly rare to see a single block of text without any. Those kinds of details will stand out, especially in a text-based movie like this.

And next time, be sure to make some of your own animations, and don't just rely on the existing sprites. The limited number of poses in the PW game will make this thing boring if you don't spice them up a little. Add some voice acting, stop abruptly cutting off and starting the music, and clean up your grammar. Then make sure you use your own story, and you're good to go. ;)

Good luck. I hope you continue to improve!

MogMage responds:

First I want to say that the story isn't a copy from the game. The story is all made up by me but I have used the characters from the original story.

Then I know that my english sucks and I wished I was better with the spelling.

And voice acting! No way! My voice is worse than my spelling. Belive me.

[Varp 01 American Student]

Er... So you're a Virp then?

The views you expressed are very stereotypical, politically innaccurate, and childish. Imperialism does NOT promote racism, hatred, or greed. People do. Just like Communism doesn't promote abuse of power, hatred, and greed, but its people sometimes do. Ideals are great because they're simply that - ideals. But when you introduce human beings into the equation, it all falls apart. Communism in theory is a great idea. But if you get people to carry it out, it's doomed to fail. Even imperialism suffers the same fate. Finding a balance between government, economy, and public welfare is a delicate art, and as of yet, we haven't been able to completely account for the human factor. ;)

Kenzu responds:

I never said that imperialism promotes racism. (But it does promote greed.)

"Just like Communism doesn't promote abuse of power, hatred, and greed, but its people sometimes do." Wow, you are one out of few people who arent 100% anti. Chapeau!

I'm found that the balance is more to the left of most governments that exist right now. I want to pay higher taxes. (Really!)