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[Fairwell Ross]

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Though both contributions are very short I enjoyed them very much! You both managed to get your message through in this short time, so I guess you've done everything right on "story" aspects here.

I enjoyed Little-Rena's part a bit more, because it focused a bit more on Ross I think. The letter he left was nice to read (even though it could have been displayed a tad bit longer. I couldn't hardly finish reading it) and the fact that he wishes that his replacement is a little worse than him put a smile on my face.

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Little-Rena responds:

I think I remember displaying the letter for as long as it took me to read it, I'm often a slow reader so I thought it would be okay, but yeah sorry. I wanted to make the letter funny in a subtle way like that.

Thanks for the review :)

[VZ Series:Naruto V Sasuke]

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I don't know much about Naruto as I don't watch that show, so I can't tell how good your flash was compared to the anime. But I think you've done a very good job here.
The fight was quite interesting and you used some very nice effects here and there (like the explosions or when the fighters where "powering up").

Sometimes the font you chose was quite hard to read, so maybe you should use some different colours for the letters.
Also you should spellcheck the subtitles before you submit the flash. I noticed that nasty little "your"/"you're" spelling error once. It's very annoying to read "your" when you really mean "you're", as it can be so easily avoided...

The idea with the three different endings is a very good one, even though the endings where quite short. It's also a very good idea that you only jumped back to the "choice screen" when one presses the replay button. Otherwise it would be very boring to sit through the whole fight again, just to see a different ending.

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mortis5000 responds:

Thank You for the review...

[Chalk Adventure]

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This is a very nice movie. I especially like the part where you "pick up" the chalk box with your fingers. This looks very realistic!

Too bad some scenes go by so fast, maybe it would help if you turn down the FPS a bit (but then again it might look a bit choppy if you do that).

The music and the sound fx are great and fit very well into the movie.

I can imagine that those kind of movies are very hard work, but I sure do hope that you will make some more of this kind! :)

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Graeme responds:

Thanks, always glad to hear from you :D

I do plan to make another at some point in time.
They don't take as long as you think. It's just awkward putting aside time to work on one.

The bad thing, is you don't notice if a scene is too fast until after its done. And by then the only options are keep it, or do it over. So I just kept them.
For the next one I'll take my time with more inbetweens.

[Street Fighter Series pt2]

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The sprites are very well animated and the fight scenes are nice and very fluent. You also had a nice story to offer which is a big plus for you, as most "fighting flashes" I have watched only offered long boring fights.

The subtitels are a nice thing in general, as they tend to look much better that speech bubbles. You also made it very clear which character was saying which line due to the pictures and the color of the sub title bar. Nice!
However, the text went by a bit too fast. I guess it's very hard to find a good solution for this problem. If the text stays too long it get's boring really quick, if the text is gone too fast I can't follow the story. If you put in a "Next"-Button I can read at my own pace, but I have to click the button to advance the story, which too can be very annoying...
Still I think a small button would be the best solution here.

Then you should change the background colour of Sean's sub title bar to something darker. Sometimes I couldn't read the text, because the background was so bright.

The music was quite nice and really fits well into the flash. But you should try to compress the files a bit more. 8 MB is quite a hughe file size and usually is only reached if the flash either is very graphics intense or contains uncompressed sound and music files... maybe it would help if you cut down on the kbps-rate a bit (128 kbps or even 96kbps should be enough for a flash, in my opinion).

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mortis5000 responds:

Thank You.... I really enjoyed the review....