Cool effects
...but isn't that 9000 joke from Dragonball Z? If so why add it? Other than that everything was fine.
Reviews for "Super Mario bros Z ep 6 (old series)"
Here we go again...
Let me just start by saying that no matter how sick you probably are of hearing it, everyone who criticizes you for using stolen graphics is right. You didn't have to draw anything in this, which pretty much eliminates 80% of the work you'd have to do, and 100% of any artistic merit it could possibly have. But this flash wasn't made to be looked up to as the Da Vinci or Van Gogh of animation was it? It was made to be an entertaining cartoon about Mario and Sonic characters with a Dragonball Z twist. (Which probably ranks pretty low on the good idea-meter, but I digress.) Besides, its not like you made this overnight. You clearly have excellent... premade symbol manipulating skills... whatever that counts for.
Let's move onto the writing, which is quite possibly your biggest downfall. Whenever the sprites you've imported into flash aren't just flying around the screen, fighting each other, crashing into things and exploding, they just stand there spouting off contrived dialog and crappy exposition. (Just like the real Dragonball Z...) It's cliche and uninteresting, which is an opinion I'm clearly the minority of, but hey, everyone else clearly sees something extremely obvious that I just don't see.
With all that said, this isn't an effortless piece of trash as some of your critics seem see it. You clearly put a lot of time into making these, but it is still unoriginal, gimmicky, and in my opinion, undeserving of the level of praise it receives.
(By the way, if anyone's reading this and thought it was "the best flash ever", and are OUTRAGED that I gave it a critical review... the buttons for marking my review "unhelpful" are right down there.) VVV
SMBZ - General Conclusion for parts 1-6
*Sighs* well... where do I start *looks at everyone suspiciously* WHAT? Ah, yes... the review.... Actually I belive it's fine if I start with a lill whinin and agony at my soul, clearly this movie had something to do with this but let me start from the whole beginning.
For some time now NG community praise SMBZ like some kind of new God (which is sadly ok, since new religions are blooming out of nowhere recently) and so it bothers me - I mean, what series can stay fun after being torn with sequels... One of this 'decent' days (heavy rain crossing all my freaking city) I said "THIS IS IT, LET ME SEE!" and unfortunately this particular submission is not the series I mentioned above (actually I've been looking for some time now and found none, which probably gives you the idea that there is NO FUCKING WAY to keep decent style for so long).
Now that we are finished with explanations let me get to the very essence, which is...................................
..THE REVIEW!
Pulled a few links here and there and the movie [the SMBZ part 1 actually] was already on my hard drive waiting like a cute dog for his master, to be honest I couldn't wait for it any longer and so - double click, here we go!
The "Z" in the title already had something strange and gave me the feeling of being a lill kid again, watching my then-faved-series Dragon Ball. I must admit - a small tear appeared in my eye but as the movie continued the tear disappeared since this flash is not half as decent as DBZ was. I mean, try to get my point. When I was a brat DBZ was perfect for me, awesome fighting scenes, cool dialogs, nice characters personalities. And now, after all those years someone gives me a sprite movie, trying to make another DBZ. Of course it failed. The fighting scenes not half bad, but... the dialogs... honestly - if i wanted to hear dbz story shortened 1000 times I would recommend the flash but since it's not about it I can only say once again - FAIL!
Ok, great, I've been thru 1st part, let's say I give it 7 but it would be such 'shame' if I left it as it is, so i downloaded parts 2-6. Since part 1 prepared me for the impact, and for the fact that SMBZ is just another copy I wasn't hurt as hard as i should be after watching the rest of your 'story'.
Actually - how many episodes you've once said you want to make ? 20? Well judging how the quality level slipped to this particular episode I should assume that episode 20 would be 30 minutes long commercial spot with 10 secs of mario fighting.
Another thing - WHY MARIO, WHY? WHY IS THIS FUCKING PLUMBER SO POPULAR, WHY IS THIS OLD VIRGIN SO HILARIOUS TO EVERYONE, WHY DOES EVERYONE ENJOY LICKING HIS BALLS? FOR FUCK SAKE Alvin! Take a deep breath... take a deep breath... ok, so... Alvin - why not Dolly the Sheep, or Paulie - the Penis?! Why Mario and sonic, those two particular characters that should have nothing to do with dirty stuff like fighting?
Gee fucking weez.... Please Alvin, please stop doing SMBZ, to be perfectly clear - please stop making sprite animations. There seems to be amazing potential in you, why won't you use to do something creative, something not as long as 6 episodes. Maybe something not even longer than one epsode or two? Maybe not even a flash submission, try different stuff, sports, guitar playing - or if you so wa nt to make movies, buy a camera and bring us the most fucking awesome movie in whole fucking universe. But when you start do not forget - NO MARIO, NO DBZ-LIKE FIGHTING STYLE (which is fast showing 3-6 sprites repeating themselves to be honest). Maybe something deep? Maybe something really funny, a comedy perhaps?
The Universe is full of possibilities, flash isn't the only thing you can be praised for. So - good boy - GO OUT THERE, AND DO IT!
As my review (or actually "General Conclusion") comes to an end - I could make this a normal review, writing about the graphics or how well/bad it was animated, but I got this feeling it isn't necessary. If this PART 6 was some new movie, that has nothing to do with SMBZ.... The 5/10 is score for the whole series, c ya.
hmmm
i dont really like the idea or the series, but i must adnmit, what you do with pixels is amazing, ive done some pixel stuff and mine sucks, its really hard to get that certain look.
cool
i like it