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[ToyStory4]

Just another pointless meme animation.

Quit acting retarded and release a decent product!
Not only was this a short piece of ridiculous eye candy/visual detail (the only decent element of the whole animation), but this IS extremely misleading, bar none.
Grow out of internet meme trash products. Idiots and meme lovers may enjoy this but it's definitely snuff (a bad animation) when a lot of positive and mature viewers see it!
I know this will be portal protected, and it makes absolute sense.

Carbonwater responds:

Not really trying to appeal to the meme audience.
Just came to the conclusion that these two franchises are both toys, so I made something short about them.
Simple as that.

[NoPUNintendo]

A decent product based on the animation quality. It's not considered wasted talent but you may become failures in the future (only respected by Idiotic fans). Either keep going to the lengths of possible failure or grow up and research before releasing a commited animation. (Read about 'Pac-Man' and 'Toy Story' characters below)

In the puns field, the only parts I found good were 'Weegee poking Mario', 'Guillotine Execution' and 'The Fans demanding to hear Metal Mario'.

A real-world story you may not get. Pac-man maybe a multi-platform videogame mascot now, but (you may already know this) the Pac-Man franchise is a trademark entity of Namco, not Nintendo. This and Pac-Man is Namco's official Mascot.
Your studio did this in another parody short. 'Buzz Lightyear' and 'Woody' are characters originally owned by 'Pixar'.

Flash related:
I can acknowledge one reason for the large animation size.
The audio was either set on 'Event' or 'Start'. The two specific 'Event' audio items I'm referring to are the city background from the 'Pac-Heist' scene, lasting around twice as long as the actual scene, and the crowds reaction from 'The Fans demanding to hear Metal Mario', lasting approximately 3 times longer than the actual scene. Certain sounds in that sense can occur unless inexperience or time constraints are strictly referenced.

Most flash forum websites have specific information about reducing/compressing size in flash productions.

Overall opinion:
Positives: Audio (in general)
Tandem (positives and negatives): Jokes throughout the animation - Some puns were decent and creative, others were just plain stupid and repulsive.
Audio (use of events) - Pause in the scenes mentioned in this review, and the point is more relevant to the overall file size.
Overall animation and visuals - Of course both were done at professional standards. The stupidity in some scenes lowered the bar in this animation.
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Of the reasons, I'm rating 6/10 on this product.
I deeply suggest that before you actually release a flash production, do research firsthand, and give credit to the companies who created the entities of any product.

TerminalMontage responds:

Thanks for the review! Yeah, I didn't credit Namco and Pixar, but I warranted their appearances because Pac Man and Woody/Buzz have been on Nintendo consoles, not all of the puns I will be doing will be only Nintendo franchises, but as long as it was on Nintendo I'll do it.

As for the sounds that are a smidgen longer than the animations, the animation could lag. I'm still learning how to optimize everything in the flash files, I figured the sounds should be a bit longer in case of lag, so for the few people that may experience that, they won't hear silence. I think having an extra 3 or so seconds wouldn't bring the file size over the top. And of course I set the sounds to stop at certain frames so when there is no lag they stop at the right spot. I'm not sure what you mean by sounds being set on 'event' or 'start' as I've really not done much with sound in Flash, so I'll look into that.

And you're right about puns, they're bad. I try to make sure I do the most awful puns I can with NoPUNintendo. Some people can laugh at something so absolutely terrible, and some can't!