Score: 9

"Good first episode"

submission: Adolf Hitler: ATWI80D 01

date: November 18, 2009

I'm not sure what Hitler was holding there. Looked like a simon says themed beach ball or something. That's not the first thing that comes to mind here when I think of Germany. Personally I was thinking of stuff like beer, bratwurst and Oktoberfest. They're also known here for digging holes on the beach, but I think that's a dutch people vs germans thing.

Anyway nice first episode although it could've used a few more items. Good location you picked though, in front of the Brandenburger Tor. I can't think of a better place for Hitler to start his journey.

Overall 9 out of 10.

~Auz

Score: 10

"Nice episode"

submission: Adolf Hitler: ATWI80D 06

date: November 18, 2009

Yeah the windmills, tulips and cheese represent my country quite well. A joint in Hitlers mouth would've been nice as well. I think the legal soft drugs policy is actually the thing a lot of people here are most proud of. With that perhaps you could've transformed Hitler a bit into the Frau Antje Haggard mentioned. It basically covers every stereotype about us dutch people.

Anyway, my only complaint is that the two items Hitler was holding were of very poor quality. I can't really read or see what's on the cheese and I wonder why those tulips were so white in color. I could just barely recognize they were tulips, mostly by the shape. You could've perhaps paid a bit more attention to that. But other than that, this was a nice episode.

Overall 10 out of 10, 5 out of 5.

~Auz

Score: 10

"A fantastic movie"

submission: Tarboy

date: November 11, 2009

This was a fantastic movie in my honest opinion. It was dramatic, violent, funny, dark and lighthearted all at the same time, making it very unique. I must say that I love your drawing style. Everything was drawn really well and your use of colors was simply amazing. I also loved your choices for music. It had a pretty wide variety of music genres (I think), giving the movie a very different atmosphere with each scene. The voice-acting was another good point. I especially liked the old man's voice. He sounded like a standard old man from cartoons, I thought that was very funny. For the rest it's nice that you added some extra's. They were pretty interesting as well.

The only complaint I can think of is that the animation came over a bit choppy at some points, but I think the main reason that happened is simply because my computer can't handle it. So it's not a big deal.

Overall 10 out of 10, 5 out of 5. It's been a long time since I've seen a movie this good. You did an excellent job and I can't wait to see more from you. Added this movie to my favorites, keep up the good work.

~Auz

Score: 8

"Nicely made"

submission: Zelda: Lean Link (VGDC)

date: November 9, 2009

This was a very nice little short. The audio you used from the commercial sounded kinda funny and the graphics and animation you added was well done. I liked the "Dear Link, WTF?"-letter, and since it was so high paced I'm sure I missed some other jokes in the movie.

Anyway, for such a short movie you really went overkill with the menu-screen. I mean, it looked really good with lots of options and stuff. It almost looks like you put as much effort in the menu as in the rest of the movie. Two menus with play buttons were a bit unnecessary though. It might've been better if you immediately get taken to the main menu from the preloader and then put the intro somewhere after you hit the play button there. But it's no big deal.

I found the easter egg as well by the way. It was again well made, but I'm still not quite sure what it was about. I could hardly see what those red things were. I suppose they were enemies of some kind, but whatever was happening at the end was left to the imagination :p Not sure what Toad was doing in those bushes either, but perhaps I shouldn't think too much about it.

Overall 8 out of 10, 4 out of 5. A very well done short in my opinion. Keep up the good work!

~Auz

Score: 9

"Very nice game"

submission: Super Stacker 2

date: October 27, 2009

This sure is a very fun and addicting game. First off, the sounds and music of this game were very good. I especially liked that catchy jazz tune you added at the beginning. I just had to replay it over and over again, I loved it. I liked the "boom" sounds the shapes make as well, it sounds kinda funny. Beside the sounds and music, the graphics were also pretty good. Everything looked very nice and colorful, yet very simple.

I thought this game had a very realistic physics engine as well. Except for when the really large shapes came in. For some reason all the shapes below the big shape start to shake out of control while the big shape would normally compress them, increasing the friction making it harder for them to move. So that could've been done better perhaps. But other than that, it was very good and felt very realistic in most levels.

Furthermore I thought the level designs were great. They got very challenging in the end and you really had to think and try a couple of times before you knew how to stack them up right. Then when you completed the game, the extra mode gave an even bigger challenge. I thought that was a very nice idea since it adds some replay value to the game.

Overall 9 out of 10, 5 out of 5. A very nice game like I said. Looking forward to a third version of this game. Keep up the excellent work.

~Auz

Score: 7

"Nice, but not so pretty"

submission: Melodies

date: September 8, 2009

I think the idea of this game was pretty good. It seems like a mix of several older concepts, but you managed to turn it into something fun and new. I think it´s nice that you made it focus on the music. I like the piano as an instrument and I really liked the music in this game.

What I think this game needs though is a serious graphical upgrade. The grey background, the white and black text and the black squares were a little simplistic. Those are also rather boring colors to use. On top of that I think the colored balls or notes actually looked a bit ugly with the white border around it. What I suggest is that you at least add some more color to the background. I think such a small thing could already make it look a whole lot prettier.

Overall 7 out of 10, 3 out of 5. Like I said, work on the graphics and I think you got a pretty good game here.

~Auz

Score: 9

"Nice work again"

submission: Epic Battle Fantasy 2

date: August 31, 2009

Very nice work again Matt. You added some interesting new things to the series.

I thought the ability choosing system was pretty good and interesting. Although I didn´t quite like how it seemed to be based on luck what abilities you could choose. Or at least, there were certain abilities that I liked to have early on in the game. But sometimes they appeared very late for some reason (randomness I assume). And sometimes you could only choose between a bunch of very crappy abilities while sometimes you got some really good ones while you only get to pick one of them.

Perhaps it would be nice if there was always a standard set of abilities for every level. Or maybe you could make it so that you could choose some sort of classpath for your character. Like you could perhaps turn the fighter guy into a paladin type warrior and turn the girl into a battle mage in the end if you only choose certain abilities. With that they could get new attacks and stuff. Like the Seiken ability the fighter already has.

I also didn´t like the new summons as much. Scanbot and Slimebunny were good additions for their abilities, but why remove Registeel and Catastrophe? I thought those were the coolest ones of the first game. And it´s kinda lame that the two best summons in this one could also do major damage to your own party. Because of that I didn´t use the summons for attacking at all because it was too dangerous or useless anyway.

Overall 9 out of 10, 5 out of 5. Like I said, good work again Matt. Except for a few small things it´s deffinatly an improvement of the first one. Looking forward to the third. Keep up the excellent work.

~Auz

Score: 8

"Good, but short"

submission: Link's Prize

date: August 22, 2009

This movie was pretty good. I was very amazed by the beautiful drawingstyle you used. I don´t think I´ve ever seen another submission on newgrounds that used your style. It reminds of some cartoons I see on TV occasionaly. I really loved it. And I think the graphics are the main reason why it got such a high score. For the rest it isn´t much special if you ask me. Sound effects were just good and the joke was not so original in my opinion. Or at least, I could see something like that coming. But it was well timed and well animated so it did make me laugh and that´s all that really matters.

I think the main bad point of this movie is that it was rather short. I would´ve loved to see some more nicely drawn scenes, more jokes, more of a plot perhaps etc. But you just kept it at one short scene which was a bit of dissapointment alas.

Overall 8 out of 10, 4 out of 5. All in all I think it was very good for your first submission. I would really love to see some more work from you. Although I´m not counting on it, looking at the date this was submitted and the fact that you haven´t submitted anything since. Anyway, keep up the good work and hopefully we´ll see another flash from you soon.

~Auz

Score: 9

"Excellent"

submission: LoL: Oh Yes And Spiders

date: August 13, 2009

As far as sprite movies can go, this was a very nice piece of work. I think you did an amazing job editing all those sprites for this flash. They looked very good most of the time. I especially liked the brownish pictures in the beginning. Best part graphicwise if you ask me.

As for the voice acting: I personally thought it was pretty good. I like how you used voices instead of plain text. All the actors who worked on this did a good job. I just thought Zelda sounded a bit old for some reason. She doesn´t quite have the voice I would imagine her to have in the original videogames. I mean, in most of the videogames I would assume her to be 16~20 and have a girlish voice, but I thought she sounded much older here. But then again, it´s probably hard enough already to find some decent voice-actors for a cartoon.

What I would recommend for next time though is that you add a bit more speed to the scenes. Sometimes I had a feeling the story dragged on slowly and this went at the cost of some of the jokes. Also 20 minutes (?) is a bit of a long sit. You might wanna split it up in two episodes next time. That will also double (your chances of) awards and will probably get you much more exposure in the end ;)

Oh and by the way, there were also a lot of spelling mistakes in the subtitles. Sometimes there were even words there that weren´t even spoken. It´s not such a big deal, but it looks a bit clumsy so you might wanna fix that.

Overall 9 out of 10, 5 out of 5. Like I said I thought this was a very good piece of work. Would love to see more, but I guess I´ll have to wait a long time before another episode comes out. Anyway, keep up the excellent work and good luck with any future projects.

~Auz

Score: 9

"Very nice"

submission: In My Dreams

date: July 22, 2009

"... doesn´t even come close to a Brackenwood movie"? Well I thought this was a really good attempt to be honest. For a moment there, I thought this might be one of A. Phillips older movies. But then I saw this was made by a 'follower' and I was pretty suprised that someone could come so close to the Brackenwood movies. Or at least when it comes to drawing style. Even the animation looked very similar and I loved the light effects. So you did a really good job here if you wanted to make it look like Adam Phillips movies.

But obviously it wasn´¨t perfect. I thought that sometimes the background looked really nice but some stuff on the foreground didn´t look so good. Especially the waterflow could´ve looked a bit better sometimes. So you still gotta work on that.

Overall 9 out of 10, 5 out of 5. This was a really good try like I already said. I would encourage you to keep using this style and try to get better and better with it. Of course you don´t have to become an A. Phillips clone, you could perhaps use a completely different way of storytelling or use much different themes in your movies? But keeping the same art style would be a good idea I think. Keep up the good work and good luck with your future projects.

~Auz