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[Episode 4: Zero-Point Season Zero]

So. I just finished all four episodes, and was pretty surprised how good this is. The story here is pretty good, and the voice acting is also pretty good as well. The animation could use a little work, but since this is an individually made project, it gets some slack on that regard.

The only real thing that I have to criticize is that the story is very cliche. I like the idea of doing a world with government regulated super heroes, and that part is something that isn't done very often, but the story itself around Zero Point is drawing on a lot of major cliches. I really hope that you try to come up with something more unique given this show's plot. I also think Samson should have been the main villian of the series since he seems like a good antagonist. I was sort of sad to see the best character in this show get killed off after only four episodes. Honestly, I think it would have been a more interesting plot to have Samson and Zero Point as rivals, and Samson trying to undermine the government's regulation of post-humans, which seemed like he was trying to do. It would have been very interesting to explore the regulation's effects on superheroes and how they're viewed by Zero Point and Samson given how they both seem to want to do good, but go about it oppositely. However, now we're left with a very obvious main villain of the series, and honestly, there's not much now to come back for since the rest of the story of this is fairly obvious given the cliches. I hope you come up with some more unique aspects of the story rather than "The government is evil and you work for evil" story that seems to be the main focus. You have shown that you have the talent to come up with great stories, given how awesome this world is so far. I just hope that you don't go down the cliche road.

Overall, the series is very interesting, and I do plan to follow it.

Prozac-Boy responds:

Thanks for the feedback, really appreciated it! There's definitely room for improvement with the writing side of things since this is my first time writing a script. The issues outlined will be addressed in the next series, it was quite a learning experience doing this that's for sure!

[Smash Kingdom: Here Comes My Hero]

Welp... I thought that stuff about Terry Bogard being in Smash was just a rumor. Well then... Guess I'm gonna avoid the DLC. So far I haven't seen one character I want to play as (I can't say I was ever a fan of Banjo Kazooie, but he at least seems like he fits in).

I'm really tired of all these third party people showing up. I wanna see Kirby's response to some of the third party people now in the game.

araskin500 responds:

Already did last year before the game came out

https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/718673

[Zero vs. Iris]

Well... It was a good attempt. The animation is fairly solid. Though there's moments where the characters stop moving, which sorta takes away from the fight. I assume this was supposed to be like the Decisive Battle sprite fights as it seemed like the same style, but this falls seriously short. The battle is definitely needing to be longer since it was really short, and honestly, you should have just left out the last part after the fight. That meme is dead. Another thing is the sudden changes in music. I assume the first part was a nod to the Decisive Battle flashes, but then it goes into the Iris battle music, which feels like a complete tone-shift.

The animation is good. With a little practice and a little work, I think you could make a pretty good animation. It's just a matter of putting in the time and effort to do so. It feels like you gave up halfway through this and just stopped caring. If you put your full effort into another animation, I think you could do a pretty good job.

NanoSoft responds:

Thanks for making this review!

I wasn't consciously inspired by the Decisive Battle series for this animation, I started this animation as a personal animation, but I find it cool that it got compared to them since I'm a big fan of them myself :P

The part after the fight was something I wanted to include to show the aftermath of the fight, to show the darkness in Zero's life during that time period...I didn't want to capitalize on the meme, but make it serious again like it was intended to be in the 1st place

The changes in music is something that happened late in the animation, initially I was gonna stick to only the X vs. Zero music, but then I listened to the Iris battle theme for the first time, and loved it so much I had to include it in the animation too...but I put alot of effort into the intro with the X vs. Zero music so I kept both in there like the madman I am haha

Thanks for your compliment on my animation style, it definitely needs time and effort.

Here's another animation of mine which you might like more than this one, if you're curious to watch it: https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/715665

Once again, thanks for the review!

[Mario's Power Up Calamity]

Sorry... But this concept has been done to death... The copying of Castle Calamity has pretty much had every incarnation it can. Bad enough it was too short as it is, but it also needed the framerate upped a bit because the animation was really slow to the point the entire animation felt like it was in slow motion. That and there were only a few skits in this and none of them were funny at all. Honestly, this feels like a animation that was coppled together in one afternoon, and done very lazily at that.

I don't like having to be an asshole, but this really needed a lot of work before it was ready to be posted.

FramePerfectJump responds:

Sorry it's not your thing. The flash runs at 30 FPS so I'm not sure what the issue is with the framerate. I do tend to make mario run slow since it gives the audience a chance to observe what it happens. I don't like it when objects fly all over the place. Thanks for your input.

[Samus Final Stand]

Very nice. It was a pretty good little animation. Could have easily made a great Metroid game, even if the finding the Metroid was more or less the plot of Super Metroid, but I'm not complaining about plot as I know this wasn't meant to have a lot. It's a great animation and honestly, I don't have too much to say in terms of negatives. only thing I noticed was the backgrounds look strange at times, like at the part at 1:56 where it looks like Samus is running in place as the background moves around her then suddenly she ends up on another plane of existence. It was a bit awkward of a jump with nothing to convey what was happening. Though honestly, it's a minor detail that is probably just me being nitpicky, and really doesn't take away from the experience for most people. Anyway. Great work.

MysticSkillz responds:

Thank you for the review, far as 1:56 I see what you saying. I wanted to give it the feeling of darkness behind the wall.

[4 Swords Misadventures 10]

Am I missing something? Why is this a loop of them playing the title? I see everyone saying nice things but on my end it looks more like a April Fool's Day joke...

VicHD responds:

if you get the original flash version, press the spacebar and the arrow keys to continue to the next scenes. Just in case I reverted to the original video format.

[Ebola Outbreak Fail Carto]

This should have been submitted as art. There was nothing in your commentary we couldn't figure out for ourselves.

tonyfamous responds:

while there is art in this video, this is a video about the art, so it was submitted as a movie.

[Naruto vs Krillin [Sprite]

As much as I hate to admit it, I think Krillin would probably win if this fight were to happen.

I did like the choose your ending option. Very nice animation in general though. Everything looked the way it was supposed to.

AnimeBoss responds:

Thanks ^^
And I'm not disagreeing with you but , why do you think Krillin would win? o_O

[Subzero vs. Ken]

not bad for a simple fight. Nothing really to complain about anymore.

SebzX12 responds:

yeah, lol.

[Nightwolf vs. Mileena]

Not bad for a short fight. To be honest though, in these animations health bars kinda limit what you can do and how long the battle can go on for. But it was a great fight for what it was.

Also I seem to have an issue with the loading screen not converting to play button. I'm not sure if it's just me or what.

SebzX12 responds:

What's wrong with the loading screen?