Score: 8

"Nice"

submission: Saving Lily

date: February 6, 2008

Some very nicely used effects- reflections, breathing, glowing etc.

Nice atmosphere. Nice music.
Went on a bit too long, was getting a bit boring and far-fetched.

Hard to read the last bit of credits.

Score: 7

"interesting, skilful"

submission: Black Sundown

date: February 6, 2008

Very good art, good animation. Good sound and music.

It would, of course be much better with voices. It is difficult to follow the story through only sub-titles, especially since the punctuation is not that clear, which makes it difficult to follow and the right hand side fades to dark so the words dissappear.
I didn't entirely follow the story, I think you have it clear in your head, as you explained in the notes, but we should not need the notes to understand it.
For example, the idea of the General and this vengeance arrives from nowhere at the end of the story.
I think you need to work with some more people who DON'T know what is going on as beta testers before submitting.
Its good work. Work on it. I look forward to the sequel

Score: 5

"Its OK"

submission: Sonic alpha episode 4.2

date: February 5, 2008

As a far as I can see it all works OK. The sound, action etc.

I don't want to be too negative because I knew it was one of these sprite things and they are not much my cup of tea. However, for what its worth, here goes:

It is rather difficult to see what part of this is actually new, original work. Certainly it seems generally much like many other Sonic etc submissions I have seen here. It seems more like a game than a movie, as far as I can see and its very boring fighting over and over again to work down the HP. Perhaps I am biassed by the fact that I lost! As a game I can hardly understand the appeal of this kind of thing, however, thats just me. Personally I never have understood this Japanese style of fighting where people stand there and let others give it their best shot, as in so many stories.

Obviously, there is a demand for this kind of thing and you have provided lots of episodes of it- Finishing what you started unlike so many people on NG, so well done :)
I hope you will continue to submit plenty of work here in the future if this is really the end of this story.

Score: 3

"Not much to it."

submission: New Super Mario Bloopers

date: February 1, 2008

Three is not much in a set of bloopers, especially Mario bloopers which are two-a -penny anyway. I didn't understand the first one at all and the third was pretty unexciting. that left only the middle one, which was not bad, but could probabbly have used a funnier sound associated with the slide down.
Still, it all worked OK, I suppose, tho the sound wasn't great, as you said. Sorry I can't help you with that.

Score: 8

"All looks very good"

submission: "IF"

date: January 31, 2008

but I don't understand it.

Was that supposed to be a British accent?

Score: 9

"Ha Ha Ha!"

submission: End of the Row

date: January 31, 2008

You have to go and see OxSox's Fairy Future Mother-

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view /421207

it is such an amusing comparison. This is very good. It has some lovely details, like the wierd chairs and the bug on his back.
All good art, sound, music.

Score: 6

"well yes"

submission: LSCCE

date: January 31, 2008

its all very good of its type. Stickmen fighting- some good ideas and images; all done properly, I suppose.

Can't say I am very excited about seeing stick men fighting, tho- The better ones usually have some hint of plot, zoom-in or personality in there.

Score: 6

"Its Bigger Fish game only different!"

submission: Birdy by Netstupidity

date: January 30, 2008

Its good. Unlike the usual fish which is tolerable if it looks and works all right, this one uses gravity to make it more different, the birds get larger as you do and there is a certain other surprise waiting for the unwary!

Looks good, sounds good and plays well.

What is the bit across the top if its not an advert? If it advertises something its an advert, surely?

Score: 7

"this is a nice, cute game"

submission: My cute pets

date: January 28, 2008

Its WAY too hard for me. I didn't last a minute, but thats my problem.

Its got good art, sound and plenty to do. It works fine, as far as I could get!

Score: 4

"Looks pretty good"

submission: Rita's Ship

date: January 28, 2008

As an animation, it doesn't do all that much and there isn't much of what you could call story or personality- it could be said that this is just a little bit of a test/preview or whatever and belongs in the Alphas.
However, it looks good enough, its fairly original and its got good, appropriate music.
Why is the background red? Is it just so that the black ship shows up more?
It might look more menacing if it didn't show up quite so well, maybe a darker background. Perhaps a dark grey background with reddish coloured gas swirls in it.

The credits could do with being a little less bland. - Perhaps more colourful or something. You could put links in it, such as a link to the music credits