Score: 9

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submission: The Lizard Vortex

date: April 22, 2007

... although not as laugh-out-loud (and I mean that literally, not merely as lol) as previous chapters of the Gooseman saga (if one may call these cartoons a saga), but still excelent! Your overall skill in animation and drawing is reallly high and quite stylish too, I've enjoyed the way your cartoons are animated. The voice acting is, as always, spot on and excelent and the music was quite possibly even better than in previous episodes!
The only thing lacking, slightly, was the humour. But in all honestly, that's only because your previous movies were so brilhantly funny that this one may seem a little less, well, good in this aspect only and only in comparison! What I really like in your humour is the excelent timing you have in putting non-sequituers and general wackiness.
So, in short, great movie.

Score: 10

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submission: Mr Coo #4

date: April 17, 2007

... well, keeping up with the other Mr Coo cartoons, that was simply excelent! Very imaginitive (although in manner that, well, was slightly similar to the past two cartoons), brilhantly drawn and animated (in which you are, no doubt, among the best on the whole internet) with great music and very good use of sound effects. It also lasted just the right amount of time and was punctuated by some very clever and funny scenes.

All in all, I really can't say how one could improve this, except by being even more zany and weird! Top notch work, so big kudos and cheers!

Score: 9

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submission: Ivan Drago!

date: December 23, 2006

... another great game from I-Mockery! You've done it again RoG, this is worthy of your other great classic, Domo-Kun (which is one heck of a complement, considering how brilliant that game is)! The idea for the game in itself was very creative and the "story" quite funny too. The graphics were really good with, in particular, the sprites you used being really well done and, unlike other games that use modified sprites, I honestly couldn't tell if they were completely original (in which case, you deserve extra kudos!) or "just" modified.

The gameplay, although simple, was really well-implemented and quite fun (especially with the secret characters), although a little more variety in attacks would have been nicefor Ivan. On the other hand, the enemies were quite creative and interesting (especially the Segway).

The music was pretty good, but the sound effects were a bit limited, i.e. repetitive and simple and the voice samples used were really bad (but that may have been intentional). So, all in all, this was a great Christmas present from I-Mockery! Now, if I can play the epic that will be Pickleman, the game, any time soon, my life will finally be complete! Bid cheers and kudos for this!

Score: 9

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submission: Portal of the Damned

date: November 1, 2006

... you've got a real knack for drawing Pico, as can be seen all the way back on the TimeTrial series finale. You, above anyone else, have captured the spirit of Pico and has taken up his legacy (until Tom finally decides on making Pico II). This time, the movie was as good as always, the only thing lacking was the traditional violence associated with Pico, which was very tame this time around.

Still, great FPF animation, excellent drawings, a good pace throughout the movie, interesting cameos, good choice of music... What else could a person want for a movie? Cheers for a very good movie!

Score: 8

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submission: Insurance Storm Rising

date: October 24, 2006

... good flash, (possibly) horrible message. What do I mean by that? Well, let's start with the "good flash" part first. The technical aspects of this flash were pretty good, it had nice animation and was pretty well drawn, the overall use of sound and music was great (nice choice of retro-cartoon-music-of-doom, by the way), with the voice acting being particulary good. It was the right length too, neither too short that it dosen't get out is message, nor too long that it becomes boring. All in all, it managed to acomplish it's purpose really well!

But, and here comes the down part, not all is roses with this flash. Now, I don't want to get in a debate here, since the space available is small and I can't reply to you anyway and, most importantly, I'll openly admit that my knowlegde on the subject is pretty small (basicly an article in the Economist).

Nether-the-less, if I understood the message presented here (and I may have got it wrong, in which case I apolagise profusly for all this), this candidate belives that insurance companies are increasing premiuns and discounts in the Florida area and that state legislation should intervene to help them out.

If (and only if) that's what he belives, then, quite frankly, he's wrong. For years now, resident's in Florida have been subsidied by the rest of the USA by paying less on their insurance than they should, because they live in a catastrophe area and state legislation regulates the amount they pay on their insurance. This has encouraged overbuilding and overpopulation in the region, far more than should have happend, meaning that in the case of a disaster, not only are more people affected, but also the insurance companies have less cash to hand out to pay their costumers. That means someone has to pay the bill afterwards, usually the federal goverment (so that the rest of the US picks up the bill).

So, if insurance companies are finally increasing (one way or another) the amount of money people have to pay for their insurance in the region, that's actually a good thing, as it will help correct the current situation by making it more expensive. Now, of course, this raises costs to those already living in Florida considerably and it's more that reasonable that people feel it's an injustice unto them that this is hapenning and feel the need for goverment intervention.

But any goverment intervention should not maintain the problems of incentives that currently exist (as the candidate seems to be proposing), else when the next big hurricane strikes, almost every one (including the rest of the US) will be worse off, except the lucky people in Florida that aren't (deeply) affected by the hurricane.

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As I said, I'm making quite a lot of assumptions here, so if they are wrong, please feel free to correct me (and, in such case, I once again apoligize). And I probably wrote more than I should in any case (after all, I don't even live in the US!) and I'm acutally favourable of more independent candidates running in the US anyway. So cheers for a well made and pretty good (except-for-the-message part) movie!

Score: 9

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submission: Night Trap

date: October 24, 2006

... very, very impressive indeed! It's very well done, nicely animated and drawn with pretty nifty voice acting, even if they were off synch most of the time (but it's no big deal). It's the sheer effort that impresses the most, since it does have quite a bit going, but I did feel that the overall length was a bit too short... but considering all the work that must have gone to make this movie, complaining would be nitpicking and unjust.

I guess the only real thing that could have really added to the game / movie is a map of the house, which would help out a bit in the beginning. Finally, the humor (making fun of Night Trap) was pretty funny. All it needed was more gratuitous nudity! <joke>

All in all, top notch work, so cheers and kudos for a great movie / game, you deserve acolades for it.

Score: 8

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submission: Draw-Play

date: October 11, 2006

... an excellent example oh how to take a good idea (if not wholly original) and implement it very well! Technically, the drawings were simple but perfectly adequate (with the bonus of making it smooth, very important in a game like this) and the music was quite catchy and non-irritating after the hearing it for the Xth time.

The gameplay, however, is where this game really shines! It's very simple (and, indeed, "relatively" easy to implement), but you got pretty much everything spot on, so that the jump height, the speed movement, the obstacles sizes... were in all well combined. So cheers and kudos for a really neat game!

Score: 10

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submission: Xombie: Chapter 8

date: October 9, 2006

... well, the normal rating system here at Newgrounds simply fails when your movies come out, because anything less than an 10 would constitute a gross error. Only Adam Phillips can manage something similar.

And technically, the movie is as good as always, with superb animation and drawings, excellent voice acting, good rhythm and pacing... all in all, top notch work! It's no wonder every one of your movies enters the top 50 when they arrive and stays there (well, for a good time, at least). My only complaint is one you'll probably share with me, that is the small length of the movie, but sadly, unless you succeed in raising sufficient money (and sincerely hope you do) that is the fate the Xombie series will always suffer.

But having read your "donation" page, I'm baffled as to why studios don't want to take a chance with your great series. "Animation is for kids?" "Zombies aren't good guys?". Honestly, I don't know which cliché is worst... It&#8217;s as if adult swim didn&#8217;t exist!

Best of luck with your great series, I'm really hoping you succeed!

Score: 9

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submission: The Hernando Show

date: August 30, 2006

... what can I say, except that you've fast become one of my favorite flash artists here on Newgrounds! So much, that I&#8217;ve added you to my favorite authors list!

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Well, after saying that you're probably going to look up my profile and see that although that last statement was true, there are quite a few authors (well, 34 to be precise) before you come up. So, to respond to the inevitable why:
with great power comes great responsibility; because absolute power corrupts absolutely; and knowledge = power = energy = mass = particle = wave (via the wave-particle duality) = hand movement = secret handshakes = Masonic power = John Howard = Howard the Duck = George Lucas = Yoda = knowledge <whew>;
You can logically conclude that if I put you before other authors, which would cause a nucler explosion (similar to a nuclear one, but without some many &#8220;a&#8221;&#8217;s) that would destroy Perth, Canberra and Hobart. Since I imagine you're a big fan of all these cities, I could only put you in 34.

On a more serious note, top notch work as always (i.e. Sweet Nectar and Angry Dog). The movie was very well animated and drawn with good lip synching, the humor was good (but no so spontaneous as in other movies), the voice acting was really good (indeed, the voices lend much of you brand of humor) and the style of the movie was, err, stylish? I kind of ran out of positive adjectives&#8230;

Well, in any case, kudos and congrats on a excellent series.

Score: 10

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submission: Aqua Slug

date: August 23, 2006

... this is a really, really good game! I mean, c'mon, who wouldn't want a non-violent Metal Slug game? The graphics, whilst obviously based on the Metal Slug sprites are creative and very well drawn, the animation is superb and the whole game oozes style. The sound effects however, were "only" adequate (but really, it couldn't be much better in any case) and the music, although good, extremely appropriate and well selected, was a bit repetitive... almost inevitable in a game like this.
The gameplay was, however, flawless (albeit a bit slow, but that may have just been my computer), the level design was very creative (although the narrow corridors are a bit of a cheap death, no way to jump out of the way) with the same going for the enemies and weapons design. Or better yet, they were Very creative! This is really, really good stuff, extremely well made and it the effort really shows. Congrats and kudos for a truly excellent game!
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