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Reviews for "Parallel Memories: Teaser"

Just get rid of this idea.

you need to take some writing classes. Also, read a few books about writing.
also, create characters that are not recolors.
I can already tell that this is a bad idea rapped up with decent sprite animation with a bit of star power (omahdon) and that is about it.
As Ethernia said before, "nothing to new or interesting"

I found myself forgetting the characters even 10 seconds after I had watched the video. Mostly because I can already tell even by looking at the character descriptions that calling these characters card bored will probably be an insult to the packaging materiel.

So far all the heroes are directly following the stereotypes and cliches. There is nothing new here. Only old stuff that I can already say will be submitted to the portal, raved about because it has Mario and sonic in it. Then forgotten in the hoards of other stuff exactly like it.

Here's what you need to do. You need to forget about this series. Forget about all the plans you had for it. Call it off. Spend your summer doing something original. Take a creative writing class. Do something that doesn't involve Mario or Sonic or some other character or series that has been done to death.

I know you are probably thinking, "but I have some original ideas that would probably be good". Yes you do. But not involving Sonic. You probably could come up with something amazing if you tried. But first you have to grow out of this "Sonic and Mario" stage. Make something original!

Kick this crap to the curb. You've grown up, your a better animator then this. I don't know how many animators on this site that have so much talent, waist their time on stuff like this. You are not going to revolutionize anything or set the world on fire with yet another alternate version of a segaXnintento world. If you look at the movie industry... hell if you look at any creative industry, there are billions of clones when something gets popular, and that's what your creating. A clone, weather it be a clone of dragon ball z, or a clone of sonic, it's a clone. It's copypasta, it's UNORIGINAL.

anyone can do sonic! ANYONE! look at the billion of sonic fan made videos and Mario series around you. do you really want to swim in this sea of mediocrity? and even if your video stands above the rest and you actually achieve something, what then? it's still just a crappy spin on Mario and Sonic. While stuff like Waterlollies and Metropolitan circuit are standing above the rest. Things like Xombie and Mastermind and Tankmen! original stuff that we all compare everyone else's stuff to.

if you created something original it could have the chance to become iconic like these characters. If you created an original story, with a pleasing ascetic and likable characters then you would have accomplished something instead of creating a story of the likes a 12 year old boy could have shat out.
I suppose the TL; DR version of this would be:

Please for the love of god man, don't waist your talents on something so unoriginal and trivial, Newgrounds has enough stuff like this. Make something original! and even if it's crap and you think you could have done better with the idea you had for Mario and Sonic, know that the next idea you execute will be better! and that the path to originality, while being a difficult one, is much more rewarding in the end. You don't see Alvin Earthworm or Johnbro gaining the iconic status of Egoraptor, or TheSwain or Adam Phillips do you?

Also please note that, I am not, I am simply saying you can do better and that this is a horrible idea. the Constructive criticism being me telling you to pursue something original. Also, if you are going to come back with the whole "this is just practice" Bologna, i say Bullshit. You are never going to go anywhere just practicing. If people in the army just practiced and never actually fought the enemies, people would lose all the wars that they were ever involved in.

So, if you actually read this review, I hope my long winded criticism has given you something... lol had to laugh at myself there, you're not going to take this seriously

Pienkaito responds:

Of course, I won't take this seriously.
Nobody in Newgrounds is serious about anything. =)
In case you wonder, I did read the whole thing. Was kinda bored. =P

This is original, it's has nothing with Mario and Sonic anymore...*cough* *cough* ´v´
Okay, it will but that's not the main point here. It will appear TOO MANY other characters in the series, so that you won't even know, from which game/anime they are coming from. XD

The main thing is, have you ever watched a decent fan-character based movie with sprites and a somewhat-original storyline?

I did watched one or two here. They were good...at their times (2000 or something)

Nowadays there aren't any of these, so why not?
Also, where is Mario and Sonic here anyway?
If you tell me Mario or Sonic are in this, then you should really go to a doctor.

Anyway, nobody can stop me of doing the series.
I can't even do that, It's already in progress now. =P
And I can see, that I reached a good animating level myself. So I'm going to pack it into this series.

This has got somewhat-ORIGINAL characters with a somewhat-ORIGINAL plot.
LMAO XD

Nothing too new or interesting

I understand how important it is to create a character with emotions, likes, dislikes and other background informations, but I felt like watching something that would fit better in a "Extras" section of a submission.

I know that the characters must be really important to the story, but I believe your submission didn't showed enough. In my opinion, a Teaser should complete the sentence "This series is about...".

In example, imagine that you are a fan of a specific movie, and your friend never heard of it before. The first thing you tell him about are the details of the main characters, or the story plot?

Well, hope my english is good enough to understand. And I hope this review is helpful to you. And oh, since you're gonna use voice-acting, could you include an optional subtitles in the series? That would help a lot!

Pienkaito responds:

But the purpose of a teaser is showing little to nothing of the actual series.
I should have put a link to the summary of PM. >_>

Thanks for spending your time writing that review.

Oh and I will add subtitles, maybe two different languages. =P

For a trailer... looks good but...

Looks great, but holy shit... make that god damn intro shorter...
I wanted to close it due to the extremely length info scene, but just cuz it looked good, I watched the rest...

Please do take that to mind.

Pienkaito responds:

Intro?
Oh...

Difficult to review..

Really, it is.

Pienkaito responds:

Just say your opinion.
According to your score, you would say "It's bad. Do something original".

Oh, don't mention it. lol

wow look at tha ppl!

well it was boring but the characters, and the reviews were funny!

Pienkaito responds:

You think?
I find my responses funnier. I've totally changed over the years and I laugh my ass off everytime I read my arrogance from the past years.