Score: 10

"This was mucking around?"

submission: Manga-Gaga 100 Omake

date: August 17, 2004

Then I'd like to see what you can make when you're actually serious about making something. There are very few users on Newgrounds that can animate as well as you can.

The style of this, as many are probably going to say, very closely resembles "num1000 512kb cache mix," which you can also find on this site. But then again, I really wouldn't know what else you would come up with when you base a flash around that song. Your version is good, his version is good. That's becuase it's a good song to base an anime themed flash on.

As I said, there are very few authors on this site that have the animation skills that you do. Hopefully you'll get some of the recognition of all the other artists with exceptional drawing skills, most of which have movies in the top 50 of all time. Especially you just made this while you were "mucking around." I generally tend to think of flashes made that way turning out rather pathetic, not ending up with a portal award and a pot on the front page. With your artistic talent, I hope to see more submissions from you.

As for the audio, yes, it's the same song in the flash I mentioned above. Still high quality sound as well. It's a good choice of music if you're making anything like this. If you have any other flashes that you're going to submit here, I hope you have a good microphone. I've seen a bunch of flashes that can be made a lot worse with a bunch of sputtering sounds whenever the person talks.

With that, I just hope you submit more flashes. It's good to see a good movie once in awhile among the endless amounts of crap that inundate the portal every day.

Score: 10

"I laughed, I cried."

submission: Pizza Pizza Pie!

date: August 10, 2004

lolvote5kthxbye.

Score: 10

"dassa"

submission: Lincolnfrog

date: July 19, 2004

This is easily the best flash ever.

Score: 10

"arfdsaf"

submission: piconjo's b&w massacre

date: July 17, 2004

You gave this entry a 5, raising its score to 1.81!

SCORE NOT HIGH ENOUGH

Score: 10

"A true work of art."

submission: Salad Fingers Episode 2

date: July 16, 2004

I really must say that this is one of the best flashes I have ever seen in my time on Newgrounds. The movie is completely different than any other flash on this site, and even differs quite a bit from your original Salad Fingers episode. It's definately a relief to see something this good, instead of the same old stick figure and Neurotically Yours flashes over and over again. Your style isn't currently, and will probably never be the same as anyone else's.

Graphics wise, everything is great. You add your own stle, which I though was most noticable when you're viewing the child through the hole in the wall, and the hole is comprised of jagged lines all forming a circle. It all pulls together to give the entire movie an eerie sort of feeling, which is difficult to achieve in flash. Salad Fingers himself is well drawn as well. His facial expressions, movement, and trembling all express his character well. This movie just wouldn't be the same without the visuals.

My favorite part might be the sound. The voices of each character are recorded well without any muffled sounds or sputtering. I also find that the voices express the characters rather well. From Salad Finger's quiet, high pitched voice, to the indecipherable scream of Hubert Cumberdale, everything fits into place to set the overall mood. Once again, this movie wouldn't be the same without the sound.

Of course, your style is probably one of the most unique and macabre of anything on Newgrounds (with the exception of Burnt Face Man.) Salad Fingers projects an aura of slight insanity, with a bit of helplessness. It's a pleasant change from watching sticks kill eachother with swords. Watching the puppet in his dreams scream, and watching Salad Fingers understand it as if he were actually saying it adds to the demented feeling. Watching him smile as his blood pours from his finger while muttering about how he likes it when the red water comes out, everything fits into place.

So overall, I give you a 10/10 on the review, and a 5/5 for the score. It's very uncommon to run into something different on Newgrounds, and I hope you make this a continuing series. I would certainly enjoy seeing Salad Fingers Episode 3 on the front page at some time.

Score: 10

"God dammit I love you."

submission: Band on the Run

date: July 15, 2004

That is perhaps the best flash I have ever seen, ever. I can't even express how fucking brilliant you are. It's exactly what appeals to sick bastards like me, that and all your other flashes. Every single one of them are brilliant. Brilliant to the max.

The best part is how the graphics fail to mean a damn thing in any of your flashes. They could be poorly drawn stick figures and I wouldn't care. Not to say that your animation is in any way bad, just nothing terribly outstanding. But then again, who the fuck cares?

Your sound is about as good as it comes. A good microphone that has decent volume, and no sputtery sounds when the characters are talking. Good thing, since it makes it much more enjoyable, since you don't sit there and silently think to yourself how much the audio quality in the movie sucks.

But the part that distinguishes this flash from the rest of the stuff on Newgrounds is by far your sense of humor. So far, i've never seen anything near as hilarious as the flashes you make, with the exception of a thread some level 1 guy made in the BBS about how Piconjo is a bastard for making fun of his god, LegendaryFrog. I had a hearty rofling at that.

So, keep making your flashes, and I'll keep voting 5 on them, which I feel isn't high enough for them. I consider it a great injustice that you have yet to win any portal awards. Probably becuase of all the people who are too busy being offended by your movies to realise how great they are. Too bad.

Score: 4

"HAHHAHHHAHAHHAA"

submission: Sin and Repentance

date: July 8, 2004

That's right, you get a 10 for humour, since I was laughing uncontrollably at the very beginning when the guy got down on his knees and said "Dear lord, what is sin, and what is repentance?" Which prompted a black jesus to appear out of the sky wearing a dress, who then continued to start talking, with really long pauses in between his sentences. Oh, and the part where I got to burn in hell at then end was great too. Looks like my disrespect for the leader of your cult is going to send me to a pit of fire for eternity.

Trust me when I say this. Newgrounds is one of the worst places you could have submitted this flash, becuase the site is filled with people like me who will just make fun of your religeon. An athiest and a christian can get in an argument, and both will go home knowing they are both reight. With that said, stop trying to convert me. I don't care if your god expresses his undying love for me by sending me to hell for eternity.

You really should make the graphics better, even if it isn't the point of the flash. Watching ghetto-jesus float there and quote his favorite book is hardly good animation. You should also get rid of the really long pauses inbetween his sentences. That just makes it more tedious that it already is.

Ann yeah yeah, I know. God bless you.

Score: 10

"HAHAHAHAHAHFUCK"

submission: HOT PISS!111

date: July 7, 2004

Look, it's dancing with me! It's like there's some sort of magical force that's telling me that everything is going to be ok.

Score: 9

"Exponentially better than Recoil"

submission: Alloy: Arena

date: July 6, 2004

So now that I've finally played it on a computer other than my own, I feel I can give you a decent review of this brilliant game. It's kind of hard to play on mine, what with the massive slowdown on low quality.

The graphics are great. Although most of the enemies are just different colored versions of eachother, they each have their unique attacks with were all animated well. I haven't gotten any farther than those bastards that lunge at me on fire, but I'll keep on trying to see what else the game has to offer. All of Alloy's attacks are also well drawn, from the punch and kick combos on the ground, to the kicking ones in midair. All the little details in this flash show how much work went in to it.

The sound is the only real thing I disliked about this game. It really isn't my style, and gets intenely aggrivating after enough loops. It doesn't really matter that much though, since I just opened up something better in Winamp.

However, the gameplay is great. It's not an easy game, which keeps me trying to progress through as far as I can go, with no sign of new enemies stopping. This is where the flash truly shines, and shows that the gaming engine took a bit of thought. I tend to get killed rather easily while on the ground, so I spend most of the time in the air, doing kick combos and shooting them with the minigun (provided I don't have a shock rifle handy) and racking up about 5000 points whenever I land back on the ground, all from hangtime and combo bonuses.

So now I get to wait for the final version of the game to come out, but you've already proved that the game engine is great. Nintendo should have picked this one up.

Score: 9

"A good stick movie."

submission: The Battlefield IV

date: June 30, 2004

I commonly think of this as one of the 2 good stick figure series in existence, the other being Xiao Xiao. This however, varies quite a bit form that, since the characters in Battlefield are always intent on killing eachother, and everything around them at the same time. That's just what makes each episode so great.

The graphics in this flash are great, and show people that (some) stick figure animations can be visually pleasing, and take a lot of effort to make. A high frame rate and well drawn scenery is basically what separates the good stick movies from the bad ones. The other good part is that low speed computers (mine) are able to run them without too much slowdown.

The sound is also great. The sound effects were always on cue, and the background music doesn't distract from what's going on at the moment. It's also good to see that the same effect wasn't used over and over.

In terms of violence, this is much better than any other stick figure series I've ever seen. As it progresses, the scene becomes scattered with dead bodies all over the place, and a sufficient amount of blood splattered all over the wall. Then when it ends, you're left with none of the scenery it began with, and giant red smudges all over the screen.

Damn good flash, and I hope to see nuber 5 sometime soon.