Two Words, Ground Breaker
Every year i notice the bar of newgrounds animation raise little by little and the cumulation of the animation skills of the newgrounders always seems to be pico day, it seems to draw out the best of the best (along with the worst of the worst) and pits all flash animators against each other in one huge flash creation brawl. Even knowing this i was surprised at the quality of flash submitted for this years pico day, some of them are simply amazing, and this one takes the cake, Ive never seen a better pico flashed and am hard pressed to say this could be one of the best things on newgrounds, but enough of my rant, on to the scoring!
Graphics-Amazing, the anime style was great, that may be biased as its coming from an anime fan, but regardless it was smooth and well just amazing, while not the best ive seen, its close to the top!-9
Style-This is what really got me in this flash, not only do i love the idea of an all out newgrounds arena death match, but ive always had a thing for the original pico's school and (no offense tom) my only problem with it was its animation skill was not quite up to par, which i felt drug the whole thing down, but you come along and just make it absolutely stunning, by the way i LOVE the style you did cassandra in the boots especially, makes him look like a total badass, and alucard was also done very well i thought his outfit was amazing, the ninja was very cool too, loved the ninjitsu! Oh almost forgot anime tom=AWESOME! GREAT STYLE-10
Sound-Im glad you decided to use music from the portal the music was catchy and fit where it was used incredibly well, and because its from the portal it is just that much more incredibly badass! And hell even the credits had really good music!-9
Violence-It's a Pico flash so im sure we were all expecting much much violence, and being as it was an NG deathmatch there would obviously be that much more. Blood everywhere deaths upon deaths, pico's school remakes and P-bot only Tom Fulp could come out of it unscathed lol, let the blood bath commence!-10
Interactivity-I hate to give this flash a low score, but its a movie not a game, there for it cannot have a high interactivity, BUT it did feature a scene select a play button and a hidden way to access the extra art work ( by the way the pic of alucard cassandra and the ninja, awesome!) and that is more than alot of flash you'll find, so i had to give it at least a-3
Humor-Humor was definently not the focus of this submission, but it did have its points where they were there such as alien hominid (just being there was funny) and the little snow man dude, plus just seeing the kitty krew slaughtered by P-bot at the beginning of the flash made me laugh, P-bot gets points for that one! So again hate to give it another low score but at least its better than a 3 right?-4
Overall-Back in the day when i was first coming to newground, i use to throw out tens on scores like candy saying this is the best flash and that is the best flash, but now that im much more experianced in flash animation its rare that i give tens to a flash and even rarer i give them 5's in the blam/save score, but i can honestly say this is the BEST animation i have seen on newgrounds, everything about it is good, and it is definently worthy of a ten and five-10
Well there you have it thats my scoring of this im sure soon to be legendary flash animation, and i can honestly say it deserves every good thing being said about it, i hope you win the pico day award, im sure you will, i also believe this will land easily near the top of the top 50, maybe even number one. It would be if i had my way! and before i leave i would like to humbly request that you remake pico's school into a flash movie, i know its already being done (quite well i might ad) but no offense to the guy doing it, your animation style is in my opion alot better and your character design is great, and i think it would be easily one of the best things on newgrounds, much like this, well you have my thanks for this great flash, its goin to #1 of my favorites!