Score: 8

""El Fin" = "The End", but..."

submission: El Fin

date: November 1, 2009

...for you, it is only the beggining. Such dedication, especially for your very first animation, is something I truly admire. You can only improve from this point on... unless your life hits the dumps, but lets hope that doesn't happen.

I must say that the final product was worthy of praise. What caught my eye the most was the amazing art style, really it was the best. Your animation had some tiny nitpickings, but mostly, it was very good. The only things that may throw the whole thing off were some sounds, since that seemed just a bit off synch.

Haha, Halloween... My, I haven't had a true Halloween in ages, the Halloween spirit is dead in my country when you compare it to other countries. Anywho, it's late by a whole day, but have a late nice Halloween wish.

Score: 6

"An OK attempt."

submission: Ha Ha! Sonic

date: October 29, 2009

It's actually better than a lot of the other begginer submissions. Now, perhaps you may not be a begginer now, but it still felt lacking in coeherence, as if the events happening were a little disjointed.

Also, your English is acceptable, but there are several spelling mistakes, such as a tense problem when Metal Sonic spoke. These mistakes all took place in your English. Your translations are also a little too literal, for example:

"Tú no me asustas... Encima, eres un clon pésimo"
"You do not scare me... You are a clone over bad"

First and foremost, you lacked punctuations to finish both sentences. Second, "You do not scare me..." is correct, but "You are a clone over bad" is wrong; instead, it should be along the lines of "You are a faulty clone", or "You are a pathetic clone".

Regardless of spelling mistakes, it was passable. However, I would suggest that you make separate implementations of lenguages; as in, let the viewer choose to watch the movie in Spanish or in English; piling up both lenguages in a single box is unnecesary, akward and is just not done.

I'm posting this review in English, so you can try to work on your own a little more. Don't worry, it's not that hard; after all, I, too, am a native speaker of Spanish. Perhaps more reading material in English may help you expand your knowledge.

Good luck.

Score: 8

"Ok..."

submission: Arise

date: October 29, 2009

Amazing. Simply amazing. These type of games are usually all really crafty, and the feeling, the atmosphere, everything was simply amazing.

Man, for a a few seconds there, my heart actually began to pump a little faster! That's quite the feat, cause I feel aboslutely no fear whatsoever; try having your amygdalae removed.

I'll try the 2nd one soon. This is definitely a great game. Shortness is it's only drawback.

Score: 10

"I had completely forgetten about "Power of Three"!"

submission: Cave of Wonders

date: October 29, 2009

I now see it was a mistake, if this excellent game is any indication. I wonder how other PO3 creations will be...?

Anyway, while it WAS short, it was a really good game. Good thing it was short too; for the kind of challenges the medals presented, you had to replay the game several times; several because it's not often that someone can finish this on the 1st try (you'd have to be quite the veteran. I only have 15 years of videogame experience under my belt, and 2 years of FLASH game experience).

The presentation was very well done, from the 3 short introductory screens which left a great feelig welling up, as if a warning to get ready (quite true), to the 10 second sprint to Luis.

It was challenging; I'll give it that. The only truly hard part was keeping the missile at bay while making Luis stack th blocks; any other mishap was a careless mistake made by the player.

Now, I DID experience some slowdown, but my laptop is a "hand-me-down" from my dad, and I had a lot of other windows open anyway, so it's no big deal.

Everything was nice, all around. I truly look forward to another PO3 game now. If this is anything to go by...

Yes, btw, 200 seconds is a little harsh, but it's doable. The trick is being able to finish the UFO phase quickly, and not getting slowed down by the flames during the escape.

Score: 8

"Good, and simple (bad)"

submission: Vector Boom

date: July 12, 2009

Fellow user goloerel pretty much highlighted the things the game lacks, though I would like to mention that getting a Max Power power up and going, for lack of a better word, momentarily insane and trigger happy never got old. Though also, at many points throughout the game, getting a power up often signified the difference between life and death.

For example, in the 9th level, near the end of it, no less than 4 of the big purple ships, 3 or 5 of the fuel containing ships and dozens of the blue, red and yellow ships were swarming me, and more were incoming. I was struggling slightly, nearly half my life gone, until, by pure luck alone, one of them left a MP power up behind. All it took was one single shot, and the galaxy lit up with a powerful burst of light. No more enemies.

Then, on the last level (normal mode), I was left shocked (O_O WTF HAX like) at the sheer size of the monstrosity that was the last boss. I took care of a few ships coming in on the side. Guess what, an MP power up! Big Bad Boss, meet my ultimate cannon of infinite energy. One massive energy volley later, and the remaining things on the area were a few stragglers.

So yeah, it depends on luck later on.

Score: 9

"Nice, but..."

submission: Brawl Royale

date: July 11, 2009

It's pretty simple. The animation and art are great. The music is great. And the idea of the game is pretty simple. However, the last enemies were seriously annoying.

The hard part doesn't really start until Lazarus (the red eyed, brown haired dude), but he's still easy to those with good reflexes. The REAL hard part starts witht the Mecha, which is still doable, but requires very good reflexes.

Next comes Natalie (2nd red head). Dunno, but I always attacked her before she could attack me, but given that she is 3rd to last...

The restart fest starts with Lord Canti (2nd robot). The dude is super quick to draw his Gibson and smash it into your face. Unless you have reflexes fast quick enough to react on cue to the sound the "GO!" cue gives, then you'll be stuck here. Like I currently am.

Haven't got to Goku yet. You can bet it will be a nightmare.

Good, short game overall. The harshness of the last enemies lowers it score slightly, but given how short and fast paced it is, it's only a slight drawback (or major, for those tottally set on the medas).

A few things before I finish this:

1. The secret medal consists of playing a 2 player match. Simple.

2. Poor Matt ( I think the Hero is Matt, at least...). Stupid Yoko, should have followed Natalie's example and submit to the one with the skillz. Falcon Punch to the face, Cpt. Falcon would be proud of.

Score: 8

"Oh, a kindred spirit."

submission: Steve Erwins Quest

date: June 13, 2009

Yes, I seriously don't care either he's dead. I mean yeah, tragic and all that, but he's dead. End of story. Almost never bothered to see him on TV nor did I find myself particulary interestef on his show.

And for someone who actually gave a comment a litle on the rude side, I must say, this movie was actually pretty good. Fruit of your hard work indeed. Acceptable art style and impressive animation were the best in this movie. The VA was passable.

Loved it when the hunter went -_- and pulled out his gun. HEADSHOT. Ha!

Score: 2

"Didn't fit here."

submission: Sonic Sez anti-drug PSA

date: June 12, 2009

Last time I checked, this site was named "Newgrounds", not "YouTube". If you wanted to post a direct copy from an original work (the Satm Sonic show) with minimal personal input, then you should have posted this on YouTube, NOT Newgrounds.

There's a clear difference in a site where you simply post videos, wether they contain directly copied or altered work of varying degrees (with the appropriate disclaimers) or original work composed after a variable amount of effort-laden time period (YouTube)...

...and a site where you post MOVIES, GAMES and MUSIC, where the appropriates are ORIGINAL or borrowed with permission from the author or with a disclaimer, and where they all were composed and worked on, with a variable amount of effort, but where are of their own invension.

Basically, if you just wanted to show off this idea of yours, which fit the former category btw, then you should have posted it in YouTube, not Newgrounds. They both have the same basic idea of letting one express oneself on the internet, but by different means, and, generally speaking, YouTube is a lot more oriented to merely exposing and/or allowing access to certain material (music, shows, anime, walkthroughs, documentaries, etc) than Newgrounds, which focuses more on acting as a "testing grounds" of sorts for all manners of ideas and concepts, as well as the ideal place to express oneself in one's work.

Phew... Well, that's the gist of it.

Score: 7

"You had something good going here..."

submission: Swordsman [2007]

date: June 12, 2009

Seriously, apart from some rather "stiff" movements here and there, you had a respectable movie going.

Too bad that you couldn't finish it. That hurts the score. However, even unfinished, it still garners merit.

Score: 7

"Looks promising..."

submission: Legend Of Dragons Preview

date: June 12, 2009

...although the art style looks rather... inferior... or something related in comparison to the idea.

Well, let's just hope that you don't dissapoing, eh?

But I must say, the choice of the instrumental of "Breaking the Habit" REALLY fit this preview, in fact, made it stand out.

Not much else to say... Other than I would reccomend that you help define the "main characters" from the "grunts" with features other than hair and better swords.