Reviews for African Legend of Zelda

[MaestreSheik]

I'll translate the spanish commentary...

"me gusto la idea del zelda africano jaja pero...mmmm esta muy aburrido el video, aparte de ke le pusiste palabras ke te kedabas...keee ke dice hay....ya hasta al final pusiste lo ke significaba...mmmm y me gustaron los nombres africanos jajaja"

"i liked the idea of an african zelda haha but ummm the video its very boring, also you put words that can confuse you, and you only translated them at the very end. I also liked the african names."

Well in my own opinion it wasn't totally bad, but the talking was confusing, maybe if you did as in the fansubs of some animes (they put explanations on cultural references or so in a note on the top of the screen). I also think you should put the text in other place, is kinda annoying to read it like that. Also, in my opinion the idea of translating Zelda into an african version is not very good, after all, the plot of zelda has always been in a medieval/fantasy world. I hope you find my review helpful.

[Shintogoru]

Awesome Concept - Not So Awesome Final Product

I really like the concept of an African version of the Legend of Zelda and certainly understand the originality of such a concept. However, the dialogue is terrible primarily because the majority of the dialogue more closely resembles Ebonics rather than any native African dialect. Africans saying "Hyrula" and "Gandofu" is understandable and most likely accurate, but it is highly doubtful that Africans say "heya" instead of "here." The ending seems almost as though it was created seconds before the video was posted. I definitely think that this video is hilarious, but I think this video leaves much to be desired. Hopefully, this does not sound like I am completely bashing the video because I definitely like the idea and the storyline. It is just the dialogue and the ending that disappointed me.

[eota666]

Tsk tsk, where to begin...

First and foremost, the animation was... cute at best. Typical sprite-use, and that's fine. If you are going to use sprites for an animation, work on characterizing them a little better, make the dialogue more suited, a little easier to read...

You do have to be careful with using racial slurs and stereotypes. Personally, I'm not bothered by this, but TorTheSuperior was right. It could easily be misinterpreted as Racism. Which is bad. Very. Bad.

I get the idea of putting the glossary at the end to try to get people to watch it again, but it does make it difficult to understand on a first run, and with it being such, you may get more low votes than you deserve.

Please don't be so quick to misspell words for the sake of showing an accent without giving a warning somewhere. It makes you look ignorant.

So to review this review...
Animation acceptable.
Maybe add some voices.
ples spel purpoorly
Careful when entering racial territory.
Possibly find a less annoying loop in the music to end this with. I had to silence my computer in the first paragraph of this review.

Edge on, friend. Keep working on it!

[detco1412]

kinda hard to read...

maybe you should change the subs to a different color?

[X168]

NOT GOOD!! :(

Please don't do this. I don't want to see... that ever again. its not good. .....................................
.. just stop.