Hrmm not that bad.
IM startting to see more and more of these. LIke rise of the mk and a bucnh of others. I think thats where evry one is getting this whole army of koopas thing from. Anyways I like it and the story. Woot ! All my 5 r belong to this!
for your first Flash movie, this is great!
I love all these darker Mario movies, and this one had a slightly different spin. No Mario or Bowser or Luigi...nice touch. Though the basic idea of a big huge battle between 2 different forces is getting a tad tired now. But I can't wait for the next part.
Cool spriteness!
Man, that was pretty dope. You've created a different slant on the whole Mario sprite idea, and made it look damned good! Like you, I hope it is the first from many. Couple of points - you might want to make the text at the bottom of the initial scenes a bit larger, it wasn't immediately obvious and I missed a couple of things, and you could do with increasing the volume a bit. But I can't fault the action - it's at the upper end of the sprite movies I've seen. Continue this!
Pretty good
Maybe a bit too much like other flash toons seen around here... but this is pretty good for the beginning of what could be a great series. The story sounds original enough. I hope future episodes are a bit more original and longer. This one seemed kinda short.
Have I seen this before?
Actually, putting the plot in the future, after Mario and Bowser are gone saves your movie from being a rip-off of the other guys' films... sort of. Your style is generally the same as their's, however, which makes you seem like such a copycat.
Suggestions: Try going easy on the music and implementing some more sound effects. Or use some real Mario music, for a change. Yes, you might think that the original Mario music is not "dark" enough, but if you get creative with it, I'm sure you could fit some old Mario tunes into your films. If you count all the Mario games in existence, you've got some two or three-hundred tunes to choose from. Trying to remember a particularly dark one? Try the 'castle' music from Super Mario World.
If you do try some using Mario music, consider using it mostly in the background. Dark Mario films so far have been too much like silently reading an illustrated book while playing some overly dramatic music as a background to the reading. Real movies are generally not like that. Real movies try to draw us in through dialogue, acting, special effects, etc. Experiment with some of these thinigs for added spice.