As a retro gamer, I loved this cartoon. It felt like one big cutscene from a game of the NES days. All the cameos, animation, custom sprites, use of music... all of that is excellent.
However, as a cartoon viewer, this was okay-ish. It seems to me that there is a very big story in your, let's call it cartoon universe, but you decided to focus on dog's story, which is great, but it is not an interesting story. Maybe you were going for a "randomness" story where anything can happen, but here it didn't work. The pacing of the story is really, really slow and the conclusion is weak. The dog did nothing interesting. The only thing he actually did was getting his ass kicked, a lot.
But, despite all the bad stuff in the cartoon, the good stuff balances it nicely.
I would really like to see your next cartoon. I have no doubt that it will be visually impressive as this one, but I suggest you improve in storytelling.
Reviews for "Super Duck Hunt"
Well,
This was quite the epic adventure starring the famous Duck Hunt dog.
Although, the storyline was a bit messed up and this didn't even have a conclusion.
So Shane, are you planning to continue this or what?
Nice animation but a little to random. The whole thing didn't seem to follow any consistant plot line other then following the dog's point of view, which even at times the story strayed from that. Absolutely stunning animation and custom sprites but I wished you would have fined tuned the story more. There was no need to pause for a credit scene/inspiration mid-way through if you have another one at the end. I almost turned the video off because of that and was dumbfounded how the file was 12 mb long, then to my dismay, there was another half left to go. I'm glad I watched the whole animation, the whole animation was visually pleasing with the custom sprites and the audio compliments it well. I look forward to the next installment if you plan on continuing the animation.
Hmm.
What to say?
First off, a lot of effort went into this, I can tell. And for that, you gain mega points.
Points for music, sound effects, characters, everything.
Everything but plot. I mean, the story was alright, just poorly executed in my opinion. It DID seem to drag, a lot, which took the gleam off of this for me. I mean, too much was going on at one time and the viewer is thrown about trying to keep up with it.
I really on kept watching because of the effort that was put into this. I do feel like a douchebag saying this cause of the effort but, it really didn't hold my interest.
Dog should have died ten times over I mean, the Hammer Bros chunked him and he got blown up how many times? In that respect, it kinda killed it for me. But hey, he's the hero, he can't die right? I get that, just don't make him invincible like ya did!
Bits just seemed... totally random, and where I'm an advocate for all things random; there's random, and then there's pointless.
Needle injection? Bacteria things hitting up his organs?? Unless that plays a part in the next part, I really didn't see the point.
Anyway, the music was great, and to see all the Nintendo related things was great, nostalgia ect, but that's pretty much it man.
Still, GREAT work, and I mean that. I do look forward to the next part, because I respect this piece cause of the effort you've put in. That really impressed me.
G'job Bro.
I gotta say, that ending annoyed the Hell out of me. This was as long as a goddamn episode of Night Court. The next time you spend 9 years on a single animation, you might want to set aside a day or two for plot.
That having been said, it was beautiful. And the music was my absolute favorite part. Man, I was jazzed to hear the TNMT and Rivercity tunes.