I think I needed a bit of history to understand a little more, but that is if you have looked very good with the abilities of the sprites in this animation!!!
Author Comments
After two years away from Flash, this is my returning effort. And in my opinion, it's my best yet by a country mile.
A lot's happened over the past two years. I've grown up in many ways. I know now that there is no point making Flash content for the sake of awards and recognition (take a look at my submissions and you'll see that really didn't work out); it should be about enjoying the creation and the satisfaction of the end product. This means I won't be churning out half-baked submissions with sketchy tweens and crude bitmaps. If I see a problem, I'll fix it, even if it means dumping and rebuilding part of my library. This actually happened twice while making this.
The actual idea of a dark, serious Mario movie was inspired by the efforts of D-Sun, Alvin-Earthworm, Psycosis, VGDC etc. The actual idea of using Shadow Mario as a villain has been in my head for years; you may remember the (awful) Mario vs. Shadow Mario that I released in 2007. I've since developed this idea into an effort with a proper story, and I hope this is something you'll enjoy; it's certainly been a lot of fun to make, through hard times and, er, harder times...
Anyway, I'll stop rambling. Kudos if you actually read this far.
Enjoy the movie!
Pretty epic stuff but needed some backstory to keep the viewer entertained but good sprite skills nonetheless
Great
good, smooth, I really enjoyed it. Epics,
Can't wait for the next ep.
Nice work!
I still don't understand how some ppl can do flash just to become famous...
Very good flash, i liked it.
not bad
i typically don't like sprite-based flash movies. they are either just fight sequences with no substance or originality or lazy parodies, but it seems like you at least spent a great deal of time organizing and crafting a story here. it was fairly slow moving and not all that much happened. I feel like it would have been better to leave the backstory about Shadow and the Erebus Machine until a later episode further into the series so that there would be some mystery to keep the viewer interested. i feel like this is just the setup for episode 2 instead of an episode in its own right. also, there were a couple of spelling errors. "civilisation" and "mobilise" should be civilization and mobilize. These are the ones I caught, there could be more. In any case, keep up the good work and hope to see an even more robust 2nd ep.
R3DPhoenix responds:
Actually, in England, we spell them with an 's'. Sorry for the confusion.