i watched it twice...
...second time, fished it out of cache so i could watch it on the comp for minimum lag (and so everything got processed appropriately in my head). OK.....
The graphics have improved steadily from ep7 although theres plenty of room for improvement. Some of the hand animation in the scene before Angel Blue bugged me particularly. Aswell, I think you should go back to how Smite's style was in 7.
The style just continues to perfect. Im at a loss for words when theres nothing wrong so....yeah.
The music id say is a part of the style and you use them together to perfection creating gorgeous moments such as using the smb3 septor grab music during the building fall......delicious.
The voice work is the weakest of anything (ohshit im gonna be out of a job now!), the megaman and icarus voice being identical is not good and giving Link a voice at all will cause Buddha or whoever to deduct from your karma...and really i dont think this needs voices at all, the talking points seem to be distinctly separated from action scenes aswell as being well spaced out and short making reading a breeze and not distracting at all. The sporadic voice acting in my opinion adds to it...id have just left the intro and some of blue's lines voiced.
- Think about the voice acting like part of the music, together filling the emotional void of the images. -
STORY! The substance that makes the style worthwhile. Finally some payoff! The fact that it took 8 episodes to get to Blue's payoff i'd say would be a big part of the reason youre gonna have a hard time attracting new (real) fans...atleast in this medium... if this were a straight outta JP anime series youd be BIG.
Anyways....my train of thought is getting jumbled....its good shit, cant wait for BLUE VS SMITE!