Overrated.
Valhalla Knights is another example of a great flash author wasting his talent. Whilst your animation skills are undoubtedly impressive, the characters are two dimensial, scripting is poor and voice acting is god awful.
Graphically this piece was very nicely executed. The animation, for the most part, was smooth although at times could be a little choppy and relied on tweening. The backgrounds and characters all seemed to fit in together nicely, although the mixed use of pseudo 3-D effects and 2-D characters didn't really seem to suite the animation at all. You have a very good concept of perception and interesting screenplay techniques with the movement and possitioning of your 'camera'. Deffinately the strong point of your animation.
Style wise, the piece was very dissapointing. The scripting was rather poor and predictable, as were the characters personalities. The use of anime style really didn't make matters any better, lowering the originality rating of this animation even more so. Sorry to be so harsh, but good graphics don't make a good animation and neither does anime (although I know many Newgrounders have an orgasm over it). You really need to concentrate on your script work, characters and plotline as it is currently.
The sound was very mixed. Whilst the music was excellently chosen and suited each scene particularly well (tops to you in that respect) the voice acting was simply awful. I would suggest recasting as soon as possible for the next installment as the entire time I just felt embarassed for the voice actors. Keep up the good work with your music and just improve on that voice acting to get this area up to an eight or nine.
The violence used was tasteful. Fighting sequences were dynamic and interesting to watch, unlike a lot of other animations in which we are given a fixed possition on a rather repetative fight filled with unecessary gore (Bunny Kill, Madness etc). Not much else to say. Good job here.
Overall, this submission was decent but certainly not as good as it could be. The graphics were very impressive and for the most part smooth. The music was very well chosen, adding to the aesthetics of each scene, however the voice acting was painful to listen to. Make some improvements to your scripting, voice acting, characters and plotline and then this flash animation will be vastly improved.
< By the way Newgrounders, just because you like this work, doesn't mean everyone has to. I have given reasoning behind my score and a well thought out constructive review so don't keep marking it as 'abusive' or 'unhelpful'. >
Overall: 5/10
--GodsMistakeStudios