Shadow-Blade's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Mario's Blocks]

Really good

This was pretty damned good. You stood out among the Mario Bloopers so that's an achievement. I like a lot of them, but there are some really lame ones out there. My favorite scene is the last one actually. Luigi pops in with his badass self and tries to show up Mario, only to die almost as horribly as he. Funny stuff. Chain Saw guy and Spike Block are good seconds. I was hoping the Fulp bot would crush Mario in a horribly bloody way but the end result was good too.

As for graphics: I'm glad you used sprites. I mean, the stuff you drew was good (except the shotgun, heh) but what better way is there to parody a videogame than with using the game's own graphics? A lot of the drawn stuff on this site is so bad they make me want to rip my eyes out. But the hybrid of both sprites and original drawn stuff you had made the flash more entertaining as a whole. Good work.

UberAoC responds:

Again, it's good to see another fan of the last scene! The finish should always be the best part of a flash, in my opinion. Getting eaten by a gigantic worm is a pretty miserable death!

I tried to curb the flash from getting TOO violent- it allows me to get my flash out to a wider audience. Too much gore detracts from the overall humor.

Ah, and the last shotgun comment I will hopefully recieve! I'm going to make a slight update and make that thing look better. I love the nostalgia of the old sprite graphics, and mixing that with my semi-decent artistic abilities gave the flash a unique flavor.

Thanks for the great review! I like to see how people thought a scene was going to end!

[Better Mario Z 2]

much better than the last

You improved quite a bit. My only real beef is the old nes graphics. You should do a revamp on your third one. Or if that isn't your final one, at least do it for that. Mario World graphics, Allstars, or even better, Mario & Luigi Superstar saga and Partners in Time sprites. I guess Super Mario Bros. Z spoiled me.

kliker responds:

My third part will be in All star graphics and will have better special effects like power up or power-ball than my previous part

[Smash Bros DX 8]

nice

I liked it. The action was better. The battle was better paced. I also liked the Linkin Park and Evanescence songs in there. The story portion is a lot better in this one. Focus on a good story and make the action faster paced. Maybe modify the sprites and effects a bit to make it more unique. Just my two cents. Overall good job.

BloodEagle responds:

thanks for yet another review :-) I am glad that you enjoyed htis one, Episode 9 is underway and I am working on it as we speak!

[Smash Bros DX 6]

you improved

You improved quite a bit. However, that fight scene with Shadow and Zero was boring. It was slow. It seemed like it'd take forever for one of them to do something and when they did, it was the same repetitive moves again. Like Zero hitting Shadow with the saber 800 times while Shadow lies there in that one animation. But I do give you props for improving.

BloodEagle responds:

I understand! I am one who learns as they go on with flash thnx for the review!

[Smash Bros DX 2]

Meh...

Well, the hits kept on going and going and go... you get the picture. Hitting them over and over with the same animation going for the same characters gets boring fast. Also, Ryu's sprite was way too jumpy. Though I'm glad he's in there.

BloodEagle responds:

I understand this is my worst flash movie, it was very repetitive, thanks for the review!

[Megaman: The Final Rape]

Needed some sound

Some music during the whole thing would've been good. The Superman thing was so random, lol. Funny stuff. We need more battle network spoofs.

Antareus responds:

Yeah i really wanted to add some more music from the original game, but the intro alone was very hard finding.
The reason i choose MMBN as my sprite animation project was just that, there arnt enough of them on newgrounds.
I also plan on making a couple more MMBN spoofs in the future :).
Thanks for the review,
-Antareus