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[The Many Faces Of Psyguy]

What's next? Psyese the Chao or Psyg the Cat?

Hello, this is HaroFreak, another frequent visitor of Fireball20xl reviewing one of many crazy works made by Psyguy!

Generalising the overall animation... Well... more like Picture show with narration, is a "What would happen if Psyguy Merged with <Insert Official Sega Character here>?". The result? The contents of this crazy movie! Who would've known better than to introduce Psynic, Scream, Knucho, etc...?

Anyways, it would be wrong of me to carry on rambling. And now, the detailed analysis!

The graphics are what is to be expected from the webcomic genius. Donning the talents used for "That's My Sonic 2!" (also known as TMS2), Dirty Power and various other comics, pictures, etc, Psyguy again proves to us viewers is that animation cannot exist as a standalone without content and a plot. The still images are hillarious, funny and crazy end results of Psyguy + Sega Character! So kudos for that!

The music playing the background for the majority of the animation was Traverse Town from Square.Enix/Disney's game Kingdom Hearts (Or Final Mix). And the voices are self-recorded. The voices were very clear and overtweaked which made it high pitched, insane and plain freaky (BLRORJHKDHORMBLO etc... (Sails' Voice)); all which fit each psycho respectively, including the narrator's voice of course.

Allowing downloading of the voice files and the basic pre-loader and play buttons made it all the better in terms of user-friendliness. Nothing else.

Style... Ah yes... Who would've done such a psychotic thing... Which makes it another perk for being Psyguy by having the creativity to make a simple show such an enjoyment for both fans and random viewers! Hats off to Psycho!

The humour is the core of the animation. I just gotta love the voices, the script written for each character's introduction and so forth. The narration helped a lot too as it was very clear to hear and understand (Assuming that the viewer is not laughing his/her ass off). Well done indeed!

In summary, this is another Psyguy classic NOT to be missed!

This is HaroFreak, Andrew Yau, signing off.

[Kerri's Big Invention]

Congratulations all over again!

Hello there! HaroFreak here again to review another movie.

First; The Brief Part.
This animation is about the characters of LegendaryFrog's original list. They include Ark, Kerrigan, Sal and Senya; all of these characters have been super-deformed and put into another "Cuteness" movie instead of the dark and serious original plot.

This movie mainly consists of two co-existing plots; Kerrigan's ambition to invent something revolutionary, and Ark trying to free himself from the mind-bending Chinese Finger Trap. "It's like Satan reincarnated into a cardboard tube!" being Ark's personal description of the finger trap.

Now onto the serious and in-depth bit.

Your graphics in general are amazing, stylish and cute. From simple arm and leg joint movements to voice synching, mouth movement and effective real-ish motion. This kind of animation is something indeed worth watching again, and again, and AGAIN! I have only one thing to point out: In some joint spaces, there seems to be the absence of the out-lining partly due to the symbol limitations. But since the animation and the small detail is hard to be identified anyway, so this movie deserves the BIG 10.

Your voice recording was very clear and noiseless, it's very well recorded. The voice acting is great with the different accents from your peers. The voice synchronisation with the mouth movement is very good, It's a very rare occurance to experience such an animation with so much effort put into it.

Your style here is very cute. Ranging from irony before discovering that Ark has trapped his fingers in the finger trap to remaking a battle scene of Soul Calibur with Senya against Knightmare. Beautifully done again, I had no idea that Knightmare's sword can be so... super-deformed in such a way...

Your humour has long been an "Ears of the Beholder" kind of jokes. Some of your jokes might be referenced as "Overused" by some people, but that's because that those who say so do not realise the actual feel of the movie, or have terrible workstations that they are watching this animation from. Your jokes, paired up with your cute actions, drawings and comparison to serious situations ("Snake: Ow ow ow ow ow" is a humourous response to being shot).

As for your other factors, they are all a minority and as they are not the factor of this animation, they are not of any concern.

As my closing words; congratulations for making yet another beautifully made episode of "Ark and Kerrigan". I wish you good luck for your next project.

This is Andrew Yau, HaroFreak, signing off.

[Gundam: Part One]

Sloppy, unfinished and lazily done...

Hello there. I am HaroFreak and I am here to right the wrongs. Or in this case; review and criticise your movie.

Gundam Wing... a popular choice to make an animation of. First; you "ripped" the sprites from a famous Gundam-related Fighting game known as "Gundam Wing: Endless Duel" for the Super Famicom. The overall sprite ripping is decent but limited to only a few in an attempt to make smooth animations. That is not the right thing to do. Now for the in-depth analysis...

Your graphics in this flash movie is terrible. Not only that there is poor tweening shown in this movie, there is also very noticable lack of effort in the movie. Not only that the animation is unclear and sloppily drawn, most of the graphics were inaccurate. An example of this would be why Wing Gundam would become a Wing Zero during flight. That from the beginning is wrong as it is inaccurate to the original Animation with no explanation (e.g. If he transformed using Nano-Technology, fine. But if no reason provided, that is wrong). And most importantly, use more sprites.

The music chosen is "Rythm Emotion" performed by Two-Mix and the BGM that plays later on is from the OST of Gundam Wing. I dropped marks because it takes little skill to put in music. But to synchronise music and add sound effects are a different issue.

There is little style whatsoever, asides from some poor script rewrites from Gundam Wing. Asides from that, this movie is not what you expect good plot from.

The overall animation is... as much I hate insulting others but have no choice... TERRIBLE. But do not let this let you down. If you put your mind to it, you can make a better animation.

[Child's Play]

The old times from the modern perspective...

Hello and good evening, this is HaroFreak (a.k.a Andrew Yau) reviewing here.

First off, I congratulate you for this creative animation of the Old-School Games in the modern perspective. I am glad that someone has finally decided to publicise the Modern Day Person's view towards Old-School Gaming. Sure, some New Games are here to stay, but there would always, ALWAYS be a place for the Classic Games.

Now; onto the detailed analysis.

Your graphics were spot-on and clear. Most animations look odd when it mixes Game Sprites with Hand-Drawn images, but this animation is a big exception. Ranging from the two people's talking to Space Invaders and Donkey Kong! It doesn't get better than that, especially for a Classic-Gamer like me. Well done!

Your sound and voices are clear and crisp with very little Noise (Blurry sound). In fact; so little noise makes this movie so great! THe mouths and the sound effects synchronise with the animations very well. So kudos for that!

Your style is also very creative as mentioned earlier. Many people discuss the Old-School games but I'm suprised no one has made a movie of it... until you decided to. Well done indeed.

The humour is geared towards Classic Gamers and the modern gamers; this is a wide range of people who are in one of the categories. Thus making it appeal to many people, unlike "Classic Only" jokes.

As my closing sentence, congratulations for making this animation and I wish you luck on your next project.

This is HaroFreak; Andrew Yau; signing off.

[Megaman X's Adventure]

An improvment on your previous work...

Hello again, Mr. Spriter. This is HaroFreak at the reviewing booth again!

Firstly, I applaude your improvment involving using multiple sprites for actions. This has indeed been an improvement over your last piece of work.

Now onto the detailed analysis:

Your graphics have what I call a slight improvment from last time partly because you now use multiple sprites for your animations. Now that you also introduce more complex tweening I also applaude you for. On the other hand; some of the animation looks un-natural especially the running and some of the attacks. The back attack on Bass (a.k.a Forte in Japan) seems to be rather sudden but un-natural looking. I think it helps when you do Rockman doing some After-Images of his own as a confusing attack sequence to make it better Eye Candy. And one more thing about the beginning dialogue; I suggest that you
make the monitor which shows X and Forte larger for better visual experience. And check your spelling regularily. It helps the viewer a lot to understand what is going on.

Your sound is a nice choice. Some well synchronised sound effects make for a better viewing experience. A great leap from previously! The sound effects are mostly clear, so kudos for it!

You added a play and restart button for better user-friendliness. This is a good addition.

The style is a common one; A battle between two separate characters from different games/timelines... But unlike many our there, this one seems to have a plot brewing up. Espeically when Bass mentions about his "Master Plan". It's a decent cliffhanger, if it was not too over-used.

A bit of Robot Violence, mostly hits and explosions and no visible oil leakages...

Small fragments of humour, but that is it. As this is what seems to be a serious-type animation, so it is naturally low in humour.

In general, this has indeed been a great improvment on your last piece of work. Your primary field of improvment is to make the sprite movements more natural. Now that is something which would bump your animation rating up! Good luck with your next project.

This is HaroFreak; Andrew Yau; Signing off.

Spriter responds:

Your reviews are always the most informative, thanks! Im not continuing with this, but Im currently making a flash called Mario V Sonic Spriter Special (I used the file of VGDC for the competition, wich is long over, but hey, I can still use the file!)