Holy shit, Vince!
I'm utterly astonished here! Usually, the only drawback with your flashes is the sprite movement, but you've fixed up every problem you had in previous animations! The attacks and the magic looked like it belonged in the game, the timing of each character's movement was nearly flawless, and reaction shots (especially Locke's) were downright great! On top of all that, the the plot was very well written as well. My jaw actually dropped when Shadow...... almost let a little spoiler slip there..... heh..... Anyway, to get back on track here, the music and sound effects were excellent and several parts of the flash had me laughing like a moron..... which is my normal laugh.....
This is definitely your best flash yet, Vince! You've obviously put a helluva lot of work into this. Any person that wants to start making flash should definitely watch this series first! It's almost a perfect slideshow of a sprite animator building up skill with each successive volume. If I watched Part 1 right now, there's no way I would have thought it was done by the same animator as this! Great work.
I'll be looking forward to the finale, Vince. While I didn't like waiting over a month for this to come out, the quality of the animation was definitely worth the wait. Here's hoping that you keep making flash animations after this series is done!
p.s: I keep getting the feeling that something bad's going to happen to Locke. I've been thinking that since Part 7 or 8, and now I'm almost positive about it! Of course, don't respond to the the post script. No need to give away spoilers for you next work.