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[Slash Presents: Liz <3]

How are you still alive?!?!

I'm glad Liz has a sense of humour- had I made something like this for many of my female friends I wouldn't be alive to see the next day!

Anyway, the usual rundown...

The graphics were good for you, although the random pictures got a bit stale towards the end of the flash (when they first popped up I thought it was hilarious). There was some solid animation in there (:O), and everything drawn in the usual style.

The style of the flash was much like your others, although it lacked much of the epic side that some of them had. Imagining your friend beating you to within an inch of your life made up for it though :D

Sound was perfect for this submission- really there is no other alternative that I can think of.

And it was as funny as ever, but I would expect nothing less. Shame we missed out on the gratuitous sex scene though- get those animation skills up to scratch damn it!!! :P

3/5 overall

SlashFirestorm responds:

If I had made the gratuitous sex scene, I assure you, no matter how well-drawn it was, I would be sans-testicles right now. :-/

This was my first major project (the first one I actually put effort in), and I think it was pretty good, too, hehe.

If only she really had some weed...

[Slash's Clock Day!]

Should have been in the clock day 06 collection :(

Once again I am late to the party, and watching this months after the event (in 2 and a half years on NG I'm yet to witness a clock day). It should have made the collection, but never mind.

The graphics are the best I have seen from you, and there was some genuinely nice animation in the middle there. It's a shame you couldn't animate the fight, but the fact you couldn't and admitted as much was funny enough to make up for it :D

These older submissions of yours have a style I really like. A combination of your great artwork, and some hilarious dialog and epic music to go with it. More submissions like this would be great :)

The music was good, although again I didn't recognise the tracks you used. It was a good choice for the submission anyway.

Plenty of violence, and crazy gun wielding grannies are always good for a laugh.

The humor was top notch, with a good parody of airports (something I have seen far too much of with all my travelling in the last year), and some fantastic writing. Also the 'Nooooooooooo' at the end was brilliant :D.

I confess I didn't watch to the end of the credits, so if there was more after that I'm sorry- I'm hungry and wanted to write this review before getting food!

4/5 overall, and the best flash I have seen from you. It deserves to be your highest mark, even though part of that is due to the mark inflation on clock day.

SlashFirestorm responds:

This flash is still my most time-consuming work...took me a week (lol). It just BARELY was ready in time for Clock Day, too.

ZOMG YOU NEED TO BE THERE NEXT CLOCK DAY. It was fucking CRAZY, man. Over 1000 submissions...damn damn damn.

Despite the fact that nearly EVERYTHING passes on Clock Day, I still made this my bestest work, heh.

The only thing after the credits was me shouting at the listener to go the fuck away. XD

The music was "Rising Will To Fight" and "Ryuusei", both Naruto music.

BELIEVE IT

[SlashClassic0: Xiaolin]

Not your best work

I guess I didn't get parts of that as I've never watched Xiaolin and indeed have no clue what it is, but there is still plenty of comedy gold in there amongst the distorted voices.

The graphics weren't good, and I can't really give them any marks, but it was in a style that you have made your own, and so you get points for originality (a rare thing on NG these days).

The sound drove me crazy after a while- I never have liked those voices, but it was a part of what made it funny so again you gain a few marks.

The humor is (as usual) where you get all your marks. It has a similar comedy style to the character 'Vicky Pollard' on the British comedy show Little Britain (if you haven't seen it then find a way to as it is full of the crude kind of humor I'm sure you will love). By that I mean that often you can't quite catch what is being said (especially in the faster parts), but you just hear the odd profanity or something really gross pop out every now and again that has you rolling around laughing.

2/5, not your best, but still good enough :)

SlashFirestorm responds:

Xiaolin Showdown is a show about a bunch of underage losers dicking around with magical sacred objects. The two sides race to each artifact as they are revealed, and then must fight for the right to keep it in a "Xiaolin Showdown".

In this exciting episode, the Dildo of the Hydra was revealed; the forces of good and evil converged upon the mystical relic, and fought for it in a huge big gay orgy.

There's a female character, but NO GIRLZ ALOUD LOLOL

Heheh, yes. Huge bouts of random gay sex are amusing. Glad you enjoyed, heheh.

[Slash Returns: Kloris?]

A good message put in an... interesting way :P

Firstly, the message you put across in this flash is one that has driven me crazy for years, both on NG and the real world. I've never understood how the word 'gay' was an acceptable or clever way to put someone down, and I still don't. Some of my best friends are gay, and some of the greatest guys you could ever hope to meet. Frankly being called gay is more of a compliment than anything when you know people like this. I completely agree that anyone that does use it as an insult is probably unsure of their own sexuality, and as such sees homosexuality as a bad thing, when in reality it is nothing of the sort.

Anyway, to the flash itself...

Not much in the way of animation, and not nearly enough of your art work in here, so the graphics mark is pretty low. Again there is a lot of text, although you are a good enough writer to make up for it, and once again it was hilarious. The Latin names and feeling of stalking some wild species was brilliant, giving it a real nature documentary feel.

I didn't like the music choices as much as some of your other flash work, but that is personal preference more than anything. I'm not an anime fan, so the first track meant nothing to me, and I don't think anyone likes that awful Barbie song *shudders*. Still, it was appropriate for the message you were trying to convey, although YMCA would have been even better :D.

A solid 3/5. Shame I missed the review from Kloris :(

SlashFirestorm responds:

YOU WRITE LONG REVIEWS

Heheh, yes. This flash is a warning to losers...you use 'gay' as a derogatory warning, and I see it, and I'm in a bad mood...YOU GET FLASH-RAPED. Heheheh.

I like Barbie Girl. I love to put it in my soundtracks in GTA: Vice City, and laugh as I shoot down innocent people to the sounds of Aqua.

Heh, yes, the review was good...he tried to make a claim that gay people are the ones causing trouble, and not the hoards of uneducated hicks who harass and beat them. I also believe he made some claim about how gay people cause diseases or something...needless to say, it was abusive, and was cut, heh.

You know what I love, is when I say something...unusual...and some newbie goes "ARE YOU GAY, LOL?" and I say "no, I'm bi...handsome" and then proceed to make them question their own sexuality. :evil laugh:

[Slash Returns]

'bitchin' it most certainly was

I'd never seen this submission before as you sent it when I was inactive over the summer.

Once again it was an epic piece of work, although it was lacking in your usual artistic style for much of it. Maybe a few more pictures would have been nice to break up all the text (although some things are most definitely best left to the imagination!).

As such the graphics mark suffered, but you more than made up for it with an awesome song choice (I could listen to that all day, even after seeing the protect movie as many times as I have), and some fantastically funny dialog. It started off as a powerful story, but finished up leaving me in stitches- you can't ask for more than that from a flash :D.

And once again Slash has returned to help his brethren in the Barracks, and all shall rejoice at his second/third/whatever coming :).

3/5

You should remake some of these old submissions with your improved animation ability- this could be even better with more pictures and a bit of animation in it.

SlashFirestorm responds:

This was the first flash I ever got to pass without any co-authors (although I added some later, when they joined the loosely-organized Slash Returns team). :-D

I made this in like, thirty minutes, totally throwing it together with NO expectation to see it pass, but it DID, rofl.

The song IS good...I should've pumped up the quality, though...the file size wouldn't have suffered too much. But back then, I didn't know how to, sigh.

I can totally see a Slash Returns Remake series coming soon. XD

Glad you enjoyed!

[Slash Returns: Ascension]

Epic

One of your older pieces, and I guess the lack of even the tiniest amount of animation proves that...

...but your drawing style, the choice of music, and the well written dialog more than make up for that. It wasn't funny like a lot of your other flash work, but it was certainly epic, and there was a great story running throughout (especially for a glorified 'I ranked up' flash :P). The music was perfect for this animation and really added to the whole feeling.

Your drawing style is really unique as well, with a kind of crude style that actually comes across really well. Especially the crazy blood effects.

Some of your more recent work has included some simple animation as well, and maybe this would have benefited from that extra skill that you have developed, but this is still a solid piece, so 3/5 from me.

SlashFirestorm responds:

I miss ranking up. Gave me an excuse to flash...

Looking back on this flash, I'm like, 4325234 times better now, heh. I've learned so many little tricks since then...completely abandoned MS Paint, the little line-bend thing, gradients and lasso and blah blah blah. One day, I might remake the original Slash Returns movies. XD

[Slash Returns: ramagi]

My eyes have been opened

Wow, I had no idea. I may have to put on hold my current e-crush in persuit of this goddess of which you speak. I'm sure BigBadRon won't mind...

*ahem*

Another ridiculous flash from you, all be it a little different from the secret episodes. For a start it is better drawn, with half decent graphics, even if it is lacking animation. And no, a fapping stick figure does not count :P

Also a great choice of song, and a pretty clever progression as the flash goes on, especially as Slash rises up through the ranks. One small complaint was that it got a little dull towards the end, with fairly repetitive pictures.

And it was funny. Really, really funny. I hope Ramagi reviews it, as I would love to see what she has to say.

So a solid 3/5 for this one- with some better animation skills you would be getting some great scores, but then they wouldn't be Slash animations, so I'm not complaining :D

SlashFirestorm responds:

Who DOESN'T fall for ramagi? Hell, my entire quest for super B/P power is to impress the Blam Queen. :-D

Heh, yes. I was considering making a secret episode for her...sure would have been faster and easier...but eh, she's been such an influence on me ever since I joined up (I remember seeing her having that sexy badge and Deity Whistle, and deciding to go for both, heh)...I wanted to put some effort into this, lol.

FIREHOUSE WINS FOREVER

Yeah, I kinda did get lazy near the end. The characters may seem easy to draw, but once you draw them that many times, your arm starts hurting...especially when you have a shitty mouse and a bitchy computer, lol.

She's gonna review it, which rocks. Can't wait. ^_^

Yep...if I really wanted to, I could make some good flash. But that's not me...I prefer speed and humor over time and graphics. Hell, I've slacked off all my life, doing the bare minimum, whether in school (proved to all them IB teachers that you CAN pass the program without trying) or work (which I got fired from, rofl...not totally for the reason in Slash Returns, but it did play a part) or flash (obviously).

HAIL TO THE BLAM QUEEN

[EggClock's Lie]

One of the best clock animations I've seen

Well your reward for all your hard work (besides all that satisfaction, good score etc nonsense) is a rare review from me- consider yourself lucky!

I'm not a great fan of clock animations, but as they go that was one of the best that I have seen. So here comes the break down:

Graphics: minimal and fairly standard for a clock animation. They were certainly pretty and colorful, but with minimal animation involved it is hard to give them a high score. I realize this is largely due to the constraints of the clock animation style, and perhaps in future you could work on more going on in the background etc. to keep the viewer entertained with what he is looking at rather than simply the witty dialogue (more about that later). Of course I have no clue how hard that would be, what with my non-existent animation skills, and believe me even a waggling line is way beyond my capability, but I'd like to see a little more going on in future projects.

Style: clock animation, so loses points on the originality front. Having said that it is more colorful than most that I have seen, and is certainly well drawn, with a nice, clean, simple look.

Sound: Again, same old voices seen in far too many movies, but I can't mark you down too much for that as it is part and parcel of a clock movie. The music was great though, and always appropriate for the scene being shown, and on the whole it was very nicely synched together.

Violence: None really, but you got a few marks for making a clock piss himself :)

Interactivity: None- enough said.

Humor: Now here is where this movie really set itself above most other clock movies out there. It was a good plot with plenty of witty lines and it certainly got a few laughs out of me. Excellent comic use of the word 'shit' and I never thought a crudely drawn yellow 'piss circle' could make me laugh so much. A bit random in places, but you didn't let the jokes drag on too long and on the whole it was just the right length to keep me entertained right up to the end.

So pretty damn good for a clock movie, and a solid 7/10 from me. Some better graphics and something a tad more original with your obvious sense of humor and you'll be getting even higher marks in future :)

PenguinLink responds:

This is serioulsy the best review I have ever received from any of the flash animations I have ever made. I agree with all the points you made about the graphics, and about how it isn't that quite original since it is a Clock animation. I am very pleased you found my sense of humor amusing, since it was one of the factors I was quite afraid of because probably users wouldn't find it as funny as you did.

I really wasn't expecting a review from you, and it really came as a surprise. This review means a whole lot to me and I much thankful for it. Thanks a lot for the constructive criticism, the kind words, and the overall effort you made in writing out this review. Again, thanks a whole lot and I hope you'll enjoy my next installments as you did with this one. :)

[Duke Episode 3]

It needs speeding up a little

That was a pretty good piece on the whole. The graphics were excellent (good lip synching is always a good sign), as was the style of drawing, and there can be no criticism for the sounds and music at all. Generally a very solid and professional looking flash.

My only complaints are that it was very slow moving, although I realise that is part of the joke. It just drags on after a while and leaves you feeling a little bored by the time the punch line comes around. As for the joke itself, it is reasonable, but not exactly laugh out loud funny. It is good enough to base the flash around, but this is the kind of movie that I feel would really benefit from some extra comedy going on in the background while the main joke unfolds. As your attention isn't overly taken up by the main characters a bit of comical relief at the back would make the whole thing move faster and become a lot funnier.

As it is this is a very decent piece of work and more than worthy of the score that it has, but with a few minor improvements it can become a real classic. I look forward to more flash from you, and I'll be sure to check out your past entries.

4/5

[The Saga Beginz]

Not bad

First up well done for 'animating' the whole song- far too many music video style flashes don't do that and it really ruins the effect. Plus it is a long (and great) song, so good effort there.

As for the flash itself, obviously the sound is fantastic, and that really helps for the comedy value as well. The big problem is the animation, or rather the lack of it. Each character is fairly well drawn- far from great, but passable. Keep practising the animation skills though, as without them it is only a little better than a slide show of pictures. As you say you've improved a lot since doing this I trust that won't be a problem in the future!

So enough to pass, but only just. I hope that your future projects show the marked improvement you claim, and keep picking such good backing music!

2/5