Reviews for Mario Brothers - Part V

[Spoom]

Well...

That was possibly the most depressing series I've ever seen on Newgrounds.

You definitely have a sense of drama, which works for you mostly. The one thing I've noticed throughout the series is that it seems to go way too slowly; several times I've wondered why it was taking so long. Don't get me wrong, you do know how to tell a story, but I think if you mixed in a little more upbeat action or humour every once in a while it would do the series a world of good. Graphically, very nice, especially with the background layers during battle scenes. Could perhaps have used some more sound effects. All in all, a good series, and I look forward to seeing more from you.

[Memories]

MY GOD

DID IT HAVE TO END THAT WAY? COULDNT SHE BE SAVED!? GOUDLNT COULDNT THE LIVE TOGETHER IN PEACE?

MY GOD WHAT AN ENDING!

OHHHHH HOW IVE LONGED TO WATCH THE FINALY! ive been waiting for you, your growth, your talent, and the finality of today.

Amazing

[MarioInSpace]

Very interesting.

It is really neat how you have managed to take something like the original Super Mario Bros. and transform it into an epic story with Mario being a tragic hero. I'll give my honest opinion, I thought that most of the music used in this series was over the top even though it fit the scene perfectly. You don't have to use LOTR musical selections to show how serious your story is. I could play a Seasame Street song during Mario & Luigi's fight with Bowser and it would still come off as a serious scene. Don't get me wrong though, the FF8 music was a fun and appropriate thing to put as the background music during that battle. I am merely just saying that you don't have to have a powerful orchestra heavy score in your movies to obtain a dramatic effect. In the end it worked, but I think you were being more serious than you needed to be. The graphics really stayed true to theme and the sprite work was remarkable. I think given a Super Mario Bros. 3 sprite theme, your worlds would be artistic marvels. You did very well with an underdeveloped Mario Bros. World. You used the ugliest version of Princess Peach, the most simplistic structures in Mario Bros. history, and the oldest and plainest enemies of the series and made it all a masterpiece. Your work is easily superior to ROTMK for those very reasons. In fact, it would be an insult to put ROTMK in the same sentence as a series that is actually a masterpiece instead of just another troll through cheap humor and kung-fu action scenes with an occasional mix of music from various matrix and super hero movies. Hold your head high Phantasmagoria_crow, you did Newgrounds a big favor by making the Mario Brothers series.

[fauckincritics]

nice

lord_kagato is a fag who doesn't understand true flash
i liked this flash a lot man keep it up!

[Lord-Kagato]

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This is what happens when Emos do flash. Thay kill everyone off in the end and make it as horribly depressing as possible.

Yeah. Rise of the Mushroom Kingdom is better. Go back to slashing your wrists and writing in your blog about how depressing life is. Meanwhile, I'm gonna go find something I can smile at.