Loading screen is awesome, feel like watching a real DVD.
Reviews for "Parallel Memories: Ep 1-1"
Pienkaito responds:
That's all you can say? XD
The preloader must have been the best thing you've ever seen then.
Thanks for the comment either way.
Really good sprite animation and I like the ambience of the settings. Something I'm trying to work on myself. A few things I didn't like, the first you touched on yourself in that the last fight scene made no sense. Don't use up all your video game references at once (that being said, I don't think you need any SMBZ references). Do people watch for the story? Well I do and this left me a little empty. Okay, you've got a good start. Boy from real world sent to video game land. So is this series going to be like Captain N where he goes to different video games to help out? If so, keep throwing in custom characters, that'll make it more interesting.
I guess my last two things is that some of the scenes dragged on a bit to where I was saying "Okay I get it. Let's move on." And I would have liked some inkling to the series main conflict. Who's the villain going to be? What's the threat? You don't have to reveal it all at once, but maybe have had May make a comment or something. Like "Things aren't good. The world's aren't safe anymore. Etc." Okay, I'm done for now. Looking forward to more.
Pienkaito responds:
The thing is, I wanted to showcase my skills in animation and design. Hence why part 1 hasn't revealed a lot of the story yet.
Thank Ran-Cossack for stopping me from going over-the-top. I bet that the series would go totally out of control if he didn't bring back to sanity.
Don't worry. The development took me more than a year, so everything is more or less planned out.
Part 2 will go more into detail to the story.
I want to thank you for the constructive review and I hope, you will stay tuned for the conclusion of episode 1.
Well I found this to be rather long. If I remember correctly this sprite video is now tied with that one bizarre stick flash for longest videos on Newgrounds. Congratulations on doing that!
The story seemed rather weird since it starts with that guy in a tube who makes me think of Ness a bit being experimented on to fuse Pokemon and humans together as one. It succeeds but blasts him far off into a galaxy light years away where video games and animes are real. Makes think very interesting.
Once arriving "Marichu" meets Mary and she asks him to go to a scrapyard where the script suddenly feels like it was tossed to the side since Marichu suddenly has a lot of power and just blows the planet in half which renders the series null until the one director comes in and chews you out for doing so.
I do have to agree with him though, I was enjoying the plot of the video until the junkyard battle took place. Hopefully part 2 will still have battles but they won't consume so much time and take away from the plot.
The music heard was incredibly nice and diverse. The voice acting was also good, although for Mary, I kind of picture her with a bit lower pitched voice for some reason.
Overall, very interesting and looking forward to what part 2 brings to the series.
Review Request Club
Pienkaito responds:
I hope, I didn't overwelm you with the lengthiness of the episode. But it seems that you still liked it.
Great summary you wrote there, but the female character is called "May" and not "Mary".
Part 2 will mainly focus on the story, so there won't be any action scenes. I'll also try my best to keep it short and limit the runtime a bit.
Thanks for the well-written review, which was expected from the RRC crew.
All around incredible stuff that still holds up today. Some of the events, especially the last scene makes this seem more like a pilot than an official first episode.
Well... well... WELLLLLL!!!!!
I guess the first thing to touch on is the length. I mean by my clock it went for like 40+ minutes, which to me is way WAY too long. I will mention the fact that you put alot of care into the sprite animation and the action sequences because it really does show, but as teejay said the whole thing story wise was too thin. I found the fight with that little bird thing extremely confusing too, I dunno if I missed something or what but then the random characters popping in got a bit annoying, and I didn't know whether to laugh because it was making fun of itself or if these characters were part of the story somehow and it was just confusing.
I see potential with this series, thus I implore that you DO NOT use SMBZ/DBZ styled fights in the series. It's overused and hurts the experience I think, I appreciated the fact you used different sound effects for the punches and kicks too. Also voice acting instead of text boxes is always a big plus, and I thought the voices were pretty good.
Overall I will admit I found it interesting, and the use of sprites was exceptonally good and I am interested to see what happens next. Remember anyone can do sprite fights, but only those with REAL talent can write a good story so you should focus on making that. Go for a bit shorter next time, maybe around 15-20 minutes maximum? Apart from that, keep it up.
Pienkaito responds:
First of all, thanks a ton in acceptin' my request.
Yep, a few mentioned that it's a very lengthy flash animation. I'll try my best NOT to overdo the animation next time and keep it straight-forward.
The story continues in episode 1-2 for real, so it's no big deal.
About the junkyard scene, don't crack your brain about it. It's like commanding a banana to be a melon.
There's no sense to it in any way and has absolutely nothing to do with the plot.
Don't worry, I'm a guy who tries to be unique. I can assure you that I'll try not to mimic any animation style, since it's really not my type.
Thanks for praising the VA by the way. Even though I'm pretty bad at it.
And again thank you for taking your time and writing this helpful review, which is very helpful.
Did I mention that it's helpful?