Always loved this series, Your a great animator Kirb and I only wish you success.
Reviews for "TOME Episode 08"
Great episode but you could you upload the videos with the new ng vid player? It's a lot easier than scene selecting.
The only complaints I have apply to the series as a whole, really.
Here's what I liked:
-The voice acting was very good.
-The sound effects were also good.
-The music was also good.
-The audio as a whole was great.
-The overall presentation (menu screen, camera angles, transitions and such) was done very well.
-The length was long enough to tell an effective story without overstaying its welcome.
-8 episodes, I really admire that you're keeping at it.
-Impressive that you had so many characters with speaking parts.
Here's what I didn't:
-Rockoon came back. Normally I would love seeing him violently skewered, but there are two characters in this series I hate even more than Rockoon. One of them is...
-Kirbopher is a total whiny emo bitch. I don't know if there's some sort of Crybaby Event Horizon trope but if there is this character should be listed. He's passed the point of redemption for me. He could heroically fight 30 ninjas to save a school bus of toddlers and I would still see him as nothing more than a self-pitying attention whore who needs a diaper change. Since he shares a name with the artist I doubt he'll be killed off anytime soon, but he's tied for "TOME character I'd most like to see die a slow, violent, painful death" with...
-Nylocke, as he has been since his first appearance, is painfully irritating. I literally have a headache now and I choose to blame it on the burning hatred that flares up every time I see, hear, or think about Nylocke. This character has no redeeming qualities, brings nothing beneficial to the team, and is endlessly annoying.
-The double team move is a bit hokey and cliche. I like it better when two people use their own particular abilities and make them synergize somehow, creating a third effect that neither could achieve alone (like someone with sand power and someone with heat power creating a giant magnifying glass to concentrate sun rays into a death beam), or at the very least their powers compliment each other really well (like someone with water power flooding an area so someone with electricity power can hit multiple targets easily), but in this case it was just the two of them have airsex and headbutt people. Felt a little lazy.
-Speaking of lazy, I hate any part that has looping mouth animations.
-I was disappointed that the archer didn't get to do more. I was hoping he'd reveal he was actually a badass in combat in contrast with his personality. Half of me was hoping the archer would be a dark horse and carry the team, becoming an awesome new central character in the cast that I could look forward to seeing. Half of me was hoping Kirbopher would lose, hard. The end result of the battle disappointed both halves of me.
-Again addressing the most disappointing battle of the episode, why did Rockoon throw away his partner? Why, when he had Kirbopher pinned and defeated, did he choose to back away, jump a mile in the air, and announce his attack rather than using fury swipes? Rockoon used an incredible amount of plot magic to assist a whiny baby who throws his next match.
-In fact, why did Kirbopher even battle Rockoon? He clearly wasn't out to win the tournament so why not just jump off the edge?
-Why didn't Kirbopher not enter the tournament in the first place? The archer could have found a teammate that didn't suck.
-Did Kirbopher enter the tournament JUST so he could be around the rest of the cast and be emo? Even tracking down a partner who he has nothing in common with, no desire to be friends with, and sees no potential for victory. That's taking attention whore status to a whole new level. "The guys are going to forget about my pity party for a day. I'll risk my own demise just so they'll have to pay attention to my tears." Such a sad, sad individual. I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that the REAL Kirbopher would not be such a self-important attention whore, but please have the CHARACTER Kirbopher decide he's done with TOME and he's going to go play WoW instead or something. His whinings aren't benefitting the series at all.
-Not a major issue, but in the first fight with smogbunny the guy she was fighting reminded me of air man. It looked like he had a fan on his chest. So when the field filled with smoke and he did nothing about it I was thoroughly confused.
-I assume it will be addressed in an upcoming episode, but the bunny's presence (and for that matter, the bunny's teammate's presence) in the tournament at all currently seems unnecessary. She could have just as easily watched from the stands and swiped Alpha. She did grab a shield, however since she could buy/find/probably forge a shield like that with ease I'm hoping something will be explained about why this particular shield is important enough that she needed to enter the tournament... Or why she couldn't swipe it BEFORE the tournament when she DIDN'T have hundreds of eyes on her. Hmm... This must be one fantastic shield.
Overall, this is arguably the best TOME so far. You're improving each time and you picked a perfect spot to end the episode at. I just wish some characters didn't have to stick around for the journey.
Still love seeing the new episodes when I spot them. The main thing you need to work on to make this better would be if you could keep Zeto's arms consistent (not sure if other characters have same issue he just stands out). Only bad habit I see is the arms randomly flip back and forth for which side they are on. Other then that I am thoroughly enjoying the retelling of your old story.
Ive been waiting so long for this episode it was so exiting. I love the plot so far and i want to know whats going to happen next plese upload another on soon.