Awesome Submission
Graphics: The graphics are sprites which isn't bad, I appreciate sprite animation, but it's hard to give a full 10 when much of the graphics are drawn from elsewhere. On a sidenote though you made everything VERY fluid and you did do alot of editing on the sprites, so it was still awesome.
Style: You bring multiple genres and themes together and make it all work in a grand storyline, doesn't get much better than that.
Sound: The sound was very crisp and there was very little scratching noise you get from recorders or bad transition and loss of Hz.
Violence: While the fight scene was only a small segment of the overall flash, it was well thoughtout and put together. It also should be understood that you're trying to explain a large portion of Sonic's background in this episode, so there's going to be some talking, big deal.
Interactivity: It's nice that you give control of the subtitles to the user but that makes it harder for you add voice. However, in this sort of style of animation, voice isn't a large factor and as a matter in fact a lack of voice is a good thing, it keeps consistancy within the sidescrolling type of animation.
Humor: I understand that humor isn't a large focus in this episode but you made a good choice by setting Luigi as the comical relief throughout your Super Mario Z episodes.
Overall: It was an impressive display of sprite animation and should be appreciated, even if all it takes is point A to point B. So to all you folks bashing sprite animation, until you've done one yourself that's better than this, please shut up.