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[Black Mages 2: SE]

Too over the top.

Okay it was an improvement on the original episode 2, the starting sequence, which was basically an exact copy from episode 2 just with the thief in it as well, was so much better than before, it's amazing what a little bit of music can do, you picked the wrong piece of music though, it didn't seem to fit in all that well with the action that was taking place, I'm sure you could have found a better fitting piece. Again I liked how they took damage from even the slightest touch, as it wasn't expected and it made it funny. The humour in this one again was poor, the only good humour was the same jokes that were in the original second episode, the rest was just far too over the top and it got a bit stupid to be honest and i just didn't find it funny at all. Again just like with the original episode 2 you also needed to show the action from further away at times, as it didn't look too good that you were right up close to them the whole way through as it didn't let you get involved with the action. Instead of just extending the second episode with more completely random over the top events you should have actually revealed the background story, as again this just seemed to be a pointless episode within the series as it didn't offer anything towards it.

Peace Out, Afro Stud

1/5

[Black Mages 2]

Hmm, really disappointing.

After having just watched the first, I have to say this was really dissappointing, it didn't seem to continue on too much with the story in the first one, okay yeah the same plot was there, but this seemed more like an individual movie than part of a series. You needed to make this longer and have more eventful, interesting stuff taking place as to be honest this was just really boring. You needed to have some music as well as the sound effects as there was nothing to create any sort of atmosphere and it's the music that normally pulls you into a movie, this having none meant that there was nothing to pull you into it, which made it seem even worse than it actually was. Again I liked how they took damage from even the slightest touch, as it wasn't expected and it made it funny. The humour in this one seemed fairly poor, there were some good jokes amongst it and I laughed when the fighter pulled out the massive sword, but most of the jokes weren't really very interesting and they just weren't at all funny. You also needed to show the action from furthe away at times, as it didn't look too good that you were right up in their faces the whole way through and it didn't let you get involved with the action. This episode should have been revealing all the background story, but instead it was just a pointless, eventless, short sequence that offered nothing to the series.

Peace Out, Afro Stud

0/5

[Black Mages]

That was pretty good.

Well that was pretty good, it was fairly entertaining throughout and there was never really a dull moment in it. I liked how you had the numbers coming up showing how much damage they'd taken, even when it was only for a small thing such as when two of the characters fell over, you didn't have to do it and most people wouldn't have done, which is why it was good and it was pretty funny to see. The story was pretty good, although perhaps it would have been nice if you'd had some background story in it as well, explaining why the Black Mages were attacking and who the group fighting them were, but hopefully that will be explained in the next episode. The fights were fun to watch, which is hard to do with a sprite movie, it's very rarely that people make sprite fights that are consistently interesting. One question I have though, when the white mage brought the soldier back to life, why didn't she bring her dad back as well? Surely that would have been the first thing she'd done, it didn't really make sense. I don't really have any complaints about this other than the lack of background story, but then that's normally explained in the second episode of a series, so it's not really a complaint as such. Anyway, well done, good job, keep up the good work.

Peace Out, Afro Stud

3/5

[Star Wars Christmas Songs]

Funny but it needed more songs.

What you had was funny, I liked what i saw, but there was just one problem with it, there weren't very many songs and it just made the movie far too short, as only having three just wasn't enough. If you'd had had more songs it would have added more to it and the whole thing would just have been much better as they'd have been more to enjoy. My favourite song had to be the Darth Vader one and it was funny to see the Emperor in the background with a stormtrooper on his knee. The animation for Jabba the Hutt could have been better, as the moving limbs didn't look too good, as they just looked completely seperate from the body, which just didn't look right at all.

Peace Out, Afro Stud

2/5

[AQUAFiA]

It needed more to it.

At first it seemed like it was going to be alright, the idea of sea animals in a mafia seemed like an interesting one and it could have had a good story to it, but the truth is that you just didn't do much to it and nothing really happened. It was basically a political compaign against ocean sewage dumpage but you just didn't do it evry interestingly, you should have shown more of the story as all you showed was just a few shots. If you'd had brought more story into it, it would have been much more interesting. You also should have found some sound that fitted in better with the movie as the one you chose didn't seem to fit all that well. You also needed to add some sound effects into it as you only used a sound effect once and the movie just seemed really odd without sound effects. The sound effect you did use though, was fairly poor, as it was supposed to be guns firing but it just sounded far too quiet, I know the setting was supposed to be underwater, but it still should have been louder.

Peace Out, Afro Stud

0/5

[Live and Let Dive 2]

Not that good.

I didn't like the 1st 3 lemmings deaths as each one was practically the same, it wasn't very interesting to start with and repeating it just made it even worse. OK on the 2nd and 3rd you had the lemmings do some gymnastics on top of the fan, but that still wasn't very interesting. I wasn't too keen on the dialogue from the lemmings before they killed themselves either, as it was just really random and it wasn't really that funny. I did like how all 3 of the judges gave the same score each time though.

I liked the next death, it was funny to see the lemming jump up to go through the fan and for it to end up missing and hitting the middle bit and then it was even better when it ended up getting sliced up anyway. I also liked how two of the judges finally gave different scores but how the other one still gave the same.

I also liked the next death, as the lemming had a sword driven through it instead of jumping through the fan and it was nice to see something different. I also liked how the lemming said that the gay judges head was going to explode and how the gay judge ended up being a different one from the one you thought it would be. I didn't like the farting lesbian penguins joke, it just really wasn't at all funny and to be honest it was rather childish and wasn't at all necessary. Another part of this sequence that I did like though was how the judges used the score cards for the countdown, although it was a little out of time as the head blew up as the '1' card as being raised, really his head should have blown up as the '1' card had been fully risen, as it would have just looked much better if it had actually been in time.

I also enjoyed the next death with the lemming jumping to go through the fan but ending up getting caught on the intestines, it was also nice when the other lemming got dragged into the fan blades as a result. You could have done this better though, you should have had the lemming that got caught go through the fan as well and it should have dragged the intestines in with it and then the other lemming could have been dragged in, slicing up all its inner organs before slicing up what was left of its body. You should have had this sequence really gory as it would just have been much funnier. The dialogue between the judges should have been better too as it just wasn't very funny and to be honest it was kinda boring.

I didn't like the next death at all, as it was just really boring to watch a lemming with a sword through it's head standing there speaking gibberish before finally falling to the floor dead, perhaps you should have added something else to it to make it more interesting. Not much happened with the judges either, their sequence was too short and nothing particularly interesting was said.

I enjoyed the next death, I liked how the lemming threw the sword through the air then ran forward to try to get impaled by the sword. You made it look like the lemming was going to just stand there and have the sword go through it, which just made it even better when the lemming jumped up and went through the fan after having the sword go through it as well. I also enjoyed the judges part here, as it was funny how one of the judges didn't realise he was a penguin and you had some funny lines to go with it.

Overall it wasn't that good a movie, ok there were good parts in it, but the only problem was that there were boring parts to it as well, particularly at the start where you used practically the same thing 3 times in a row. Those poor aspects of the movie just really let it down. The sound was fairly poor at times, most of the time it was fine, but there were moments when it was poor and there appeared to be some sort of echo noise to some pieces and sometimes you could hear the static noise from when a sound clip begins and ends. There were also times when the animation could have been better as it didn't seem very fluid, these moments were when the lemming at the start was moving its hands and when the lemmings were doing their gymnastics on the mat.

Peace Out, Afro Stud

1/5

[John Rocker's P.S.A.]

Well that was pointless.

It was just completely pointless, you just used a pasted image of John Rocker and had a black oval over his mouth and had a sound clip playing to try and make it look like he was saying it. If you were going to make a movie to that sound clip you should ahve drawn everything in it yourself and had something visually interesting taking place on screen so that they'd have been some sort of point to it. The sound clip was also of a fairly poor quality which didn't help matters and it was also too short, as the movie ended not long after it had started.

Peace Out, Afro Stud

0/5