Score: 9

"Brilliant"

submission: Sonic in Search for Love

date: November 16, 2009

The idea of basically telling the story of a terrible fanfic isn't new. But i liked this short. It shows how god awful the writer and liberally takes the piss out of him/her.

I've tried doing a similar thing by reading out forum posts, but i pale in comparison to the brilliant voice work in this short.

Score: 10

"Simple and fun."

submission: This is the Only Level

date: August 19, 2009

A brilliant follow-up to Achievement Unlocked, i enjoyed this one just as much as the others mainly because it can be figured out without need of the walkthrough. Some would say that's too easy but i like the various puzzle solving elements in this game.

Your work continues to surprise me with how you can take such a simple idea and make such a fun simple little game with it, even some of the more abstract puzzles show a good degree of actionscript knowledge, so it's not like you make such a simple game because your no good!

Overall i don't really have any complaints about this game, which i feel bad about as i like to leave criticism in a review to help an author improve on his work, but here i really can't. All i can say is i enjoyed this game very much and hope to see more like it in the future!

Score: 9

"Timing was off, otherwise great."

submission: Crotchless Chaps

date: August 5, 2009

Well animated, good jokes and situations that made for some funny scenes. However the dialogue seems forced and unnatural, the characters don't seem like there the ones saying the lines and there is a lot of pauses and slow scene changes that break the feel of the animation that becomes downright jarring at points.

Ultimately it's down to Simon doing every voice, as they all sound like they were recorded separately. Had each character had it's own voice actor this could have been avoided.

Score: 10

"Bloody hell man"

submission: Pico Gets In Shape

date: May 5, 2009

That's some shit you pull out your ass!

Bugger all animation but smooth framerate and a funny plot.

Score: 9

"Biggest Mindfuck Ever"

submission: Fatherly Bonds

date: May 4, 2009

A fun, well animated, well drawn short filled with wonder inside cameos and the like. But it has a flaw in that it starts with a vague plot and just sort of craps all over it a little bit later.

I'm a guy who takes sides on everything. A flash has to, for me, either be a plot driven story for it's whole duration or totally abandon all sense of plot throughout so we know that's what is intended by the animator. Going from a slight plot to a complete baffling mindfuck when they meet the Castle Crasher to me just dents this movie from a 10.

Score: 9

"Stellar Voice Acting"

submission: Prostitute Mickey 2 1/2

date: April 24, 2009

I found the sketch funny. I found the voices are very close to the actual voice actors for the respective characters and the setting for the entire series is an interesting twist on the usually squeaky clean Disney characters.

While LordXavierBritish is correct is his comments about the use of tweens or the short not being a true parody, the short is funny and it's animation style doesn't demand a higher framerate count or lipsync, it can be said it's designed to look crummy to give it a more vintage feel.

Score: 10

"Funny because it's true."

submission: Mad Mad Mario

date: April 3, 2009

Stellar work. Animation style fits in with the overall tone of the short and Mario and Bowser's voice work is spot on for the situtation. Great writing, great premise and an overall funny animation.

Score: 10

"Smashing April Fools"

submission: $eG@

date: April 1, 2009

Love the many references to the many versions of Sonic.

But err... needs more Vector!

Score: 9

"HOLY FUCK D-LUCKS IS BELOW ME"

submission: SFIV - Rufus Vs Seth

date: March 25, 2009

FUCKIN' HI BITCH!

Oh yeah the movie was alright too. Like the animation stylie n shit.

Score: 9

"Fun, but has issues."

submission: Portal Defenders

date: March 17, 2009

Graphics-wise it's got a brilliant style to it, no qualms there. The gameplay is quite lacking however. You essentially spam the same button moves over and over throughout the whole thing, and the bombs are woefully hit-or-miss, there too hard to aim and do too much damage.

Also, the lack of any invincible recovery time cripples you on the last boss, he can melee you then fire off his laser and your trapped in a powerful combo that drains a good fifth of your total health. This, combined with having to fight Johnny and Stamper right before him with no health pickups in-between, creates a level of fake difficulty, i can't beat the final boss because of cheap tricks to bump up the difficulty and that irritates me and makes me have to knock it down a bit.