Reviews for Black Knights episode 4

[Fickludd]

Swell fantasy

Hio!

First: personal reflection. I've really enjoyed this series of your's and perhaps the most fascinating thing about it is that it shows how you evolve in your flash making. This truly is the best yet so pat yourself on the head or back or whereever you feel comfortable with and say how good you are.

Pros:
Man I love those backgrounds :D. Simply can't believe how much effort you put into the manual shading (ie. not gradient). Must've been 7 och 8 layers in places. Also some fantastic graphical cycles (the horse from under the cart in particular). Generally very good art, chars & effects too.

Tips:
Dunno what to write here... Once in a while the voiceacting was a little hard to make out (when he awakens the master of the earth there's soo much reverb ^^), but I know it's a bitch to do those so I didn't mind.

Ooh, did you look at synj vs. horrid some for the guardian? Some inspiration from Bitey of Brackenwood for the waterspell? It's totally cool if so, just thought I kinda recognised them :D.
Uhm, did that horse gallop btw? Cool, continue the series, you're getting soo good.
Peace.

[mauwzaa]

Outstanding!!!

Artwork was outstanding, and very nice blend between FBF and tweens, which is also the sign of a great NG artist.

I loved the characters, and the voice acting was pretty good in my book. I liked some of the slow initial scenes, because it gave me a chance to appreciate the artwork. The clousin the the distance were great!!

Fight scene was well choreographed. I really like your use of the
top down camera shots, which you don't often see in regular movies, but are very effective. Newgrounds really needs more
epic stories like this.

If I had to nitpick... you spelled 'voice' wrong in the credits :^)..
not that it really matters!!

If you really really want me to critique this in more detail I can if you email me at mauwzaa_at_ yahoo _dot_ com., but honestly its really awesome, and very hard to find anything negative to say about it!

Easily top 50 material!!

[Luke-NG]

Nice Job

This is another nice addition to the series you are building. The animations were beautiful and the sounds quality was improved a great amount over the previous episodes. Keep up the good work.

[PrinceAshitaka]

One of the best movies iv seen..

damn man.. that was awesome! the fighting scenes in this were awesome.. and the animation wasnt bad at all.. i seen alot of animations with like... very little animation.. and its just stupid.. if you actually took the time to make the animation better moving and stuff.. that would be awesome! its fine right now but that would be better ;) ... and the sound.. the sound was fine but the explosions.. they were kinda bad.. like fake sounding, some of the explosions were just like BOOM.. just didnt sound good.. kinda cheesey sounding.. some others were kinda bad but i dont remember :P.. but the whole movie was just really good.. so awesome job man!! <3

[GringoJago]

Don't let the slow beginning put u off!

Okay, I nearly stopped watching this from frustration in the first couple of minutes, BUT once the first fight started I was totally hooked, it was awesome from there on!

PROS:
-the fight scenes were outstanding
-the fight FX (magic & such) were top notch!
-Graphics and animation style were totally enjoyable
-Has a plot (if a little stereotyped)

CONS:
-The voice acting is dodgy at times, especially the other 2 mages (the red one is pretty OK, though at times his voice goes TOO low, the bad dude was fine)
-the vocal sound quality was poor at times
-the early scenes are dragged out for too long, beautiful animation cycles and backgrounds, but we can only look at them for so long.
-at some points in the beginning it seemed obvious that you were holding a shot, just so you could cheat your way out of having to do any lip syncing.

Anyway, awesome work.