Reviews for 4 Swords Misadventures 6

[Neko-Arle]

Humor and drawback.

As an opener, I would like to state that I have been watchin' this series before Episode Four was released. I was rather excited to see a new installemt and while there were laughs to be had, I can't find myself able to shake the feelin' that the humor was off it's usual mark of quality.

This isn't to say all the jokes were bad, however, some of them, especially the 300 joke, simply came out as too predictable and while that was even addressed within the movie itself, it just does change the fact that it was ANOTHER "This is X" joke usin' the same dialogue, save for the location name. There was a fair degree of cleverness to be had, Zelda's interrogation, for example and the moments like that kept this movie aloft. However, again, the fact that many jokes were either low in quality or just poorly presented hurt this piece a fair deal.

This also brings up a bit of a tangental note. In Episode 2.2, while ye had conciously made a Burly Brawl joke, ye actively avoided the obvious step of mass combat. In yer We Are The Champions video author note, ye stated that Bohemian Rhapsody had been done to death, and as such, would not make a music video of it. To me, this told me that ye were above makin' poor design and humor decisions simpley because of something bein' popular or a fad, as ye recognized this would have an overall detrimental effect on the quality of the production. To this end, I have to say I felt a bit of a sting when ye actually went through with the aforementioned 300 joke without some kind of a twist.

Further, the length of the video also caused it to drag at points, dampenin' the overall experience. What I'd enjoyed about previous installments (such as Episode 3, my personal favorite) was the rapid-fire succession of jokes and gags within the approximately five to six minute time frame most of them had. While the numbers might not add up to it, this one felt like it had the same number of jokes, but over triple the time span and once again, some of the jokes came across flat.

All of this said, I know ye're capable of significantly better and I can understand circumstances occurin' that can cause one to miss their mark, even by a large margin, thus I look forward to Four Swords Misadventures 7 and hope that ye get back on track with the most important part, the humor.

Good Luck.

VicHD responds:

The reason behind why I didn't decide to make a Bohemian Rhapsody Music video out of Four Swords was simply because back then I wanted to experiment with other ideas at the time. My intention in making those 4 swords videos was to find a Queen song and relate it to Zelda. When it came to BoRhap, I simply didn't find a lyrical connection with Zelda, which is why I didn't use it. though I did make subtle references to it in Princes of the universe.

As for the main story, It's a whole different Idea. Besides coming up with original jokes, I noticed that during the time I spent on youtube, most of the fans prefer random humor and occasional memes. I tend to experiment with a lot of things in & out of the Zelda games and I simply went crazy with this one.

I'm aware that not everyone has the same taste and there's no such thing as a "perfect" episode in a series, I'm only doing what I can to tell an amusing story, even if it means being oversaturated with old, yet popular, gags.

You will see more cleverness in future installments if I take this series in the right direction. Believe me.

Thanks for the constructive criticism. I'll keep that in mind.

[Colombianfire]

The only thing redeeming was the anime throwbacks.

Whilst your animation prowess and target audience is nice and sturdy, the dialogue is so ridiculously vanilla, i would expect you would find this sort of thing on saturday morning cartoons. If this was the feel you were aiming for, great job on overshooting it.

[Deadeye101]

Sad...

when such a great series falls back to Chuck Norris, "THIS IS SPARTA", and Metal Gear Awesome ripoffs you know its gone off the deep end... this series used to be fairly original and really funny, now its just a montage of over used jokes.

[Beetroot3]

crap

The jokes were ripped from Monty Python and other good films, and it made Zelda look bad. The animation was good though, I gave it 5 for that and the occasional original joke.

[mrDizznat]

I had to say it

This was really, ultimately, totally, super duper lame. I liked all the episodes up until this one, when I first saw this way back when, I thought it was just some kind of teaser thing....idk. The parodies don't go well in this series, the humor needs to be casual and unpredictable instead of the same crap we've seen over, and over, AND over again. Before this series looked like it was made by 12 year olds, last episode, THEN it was funny, now it's boring and retarded. Try to go back to the way it used to be, I don't want another episode like this.

VicHD responds:

Most of the people who reviewed this seem to say the opposite of what you actually think.

If you weren't impressed with this one, let me just say that ,whether it's good or bad, there's no such thing as a perfect episode. Everyone has their own opinions and I understand that.
I can't please everyone...