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[Frieren fights the heat]

Yeah it'll take Frieren 50 years to realize this; considering how long it took her to figure out Himmel knew what the lotus ring meant... I don't want to spoil anything but if you know, you know.

[Salad Fingers 13]

I grew up with Salad Fingers and I just don't feel the same way as I did when I was younger. Maybe consuming too much media ruined stuff like this for me but this is just, mild in terms of weirdness.

Idk; maybe I grew out of watching this, that's not to say it's bad, just that I'm not likely the correct person to judge this.

I will say this at least; as tame for it's weirdness it is an actual arc unlike other weird stories. It follows a set of logic already established in the show for Salad Fingers but at the same time that's kind of what hurts it, weird horror having consistent rules/ logic makes it feel// seem less weird.

It becomes less weird/ horror the more you do the same thing again and again. Like how Horror films of bringing the same horror character like Jason back over and over just kills the horror of Jason.

Using Salad fingers and the tropes of Salad fingers over and over again kind of kills the weirdness when all you can do is try to up the ante for how weird it is instead of seeing how you can use the weirdness in a new/ different way.

I rate this a 3 out of 5 because it's not bad, I don't consider it better than your older works and consider this decent. It's like potato chips, having it here and there isn't harmful.

The other thing is; there being no straight man against the weird; it's just weirdness leaning up against weirdness, when everything is weird then nothing is weird. When everything is horror and creepy; nothing is, nothing stands out because of it.

Every character written so far is weird and "out of place" but nothing conflicts, just matches in the environment. It's not jarring and look; people who already like Salad Fingers will like this and people who already like your work will like this but if someone else did something similar with a similar idea and set up then sure as hell, it wouldn't work.

It feels like it's trying to expand the lore/ branch out for it's setting which is good; you're bringing in more questions because you brought in answers, the more you answer, the less weird it is, the more questions you bring in, the weirder it gets.

In my opinion, you answered too much versus the amount of weirdness you've used. For a normal show; I would rate this differently in this regard but for weird horror/ creepy horror I have a different set of standards and the same goes for fantasy.

[black hole sun]

I don't remember where you stole this music from.

[fight between 2 men of different ethnic backgrounds]

The mods aren't removing it; it's auto removed once it's score is too low 0.5 rated by the audience on here. If your content is rated too low.

Keep in mind you're on a niche of a niche of a site, getting a 0.5 means you're appealing to a niche of a niche if that.

ZabuJard responds:

i wish that was the case, also seriously a 0 score? ur cringe.

it was removed by a mod for violating hate speech for the swatstika and title i was told by a mod.

[Manly Mexican cartoon man]

Some of the sound effects do not match BUT I love this to death, it is very well animated and I wish more kids cartoons were animated like this.

The-Vlah responds:

Many thanks for the kind words, much appreciated. You're absolutely right about the sfx, sound isn't my strong side when it comes to making cartoons.

[There's always HOPE]

A good beginner project but personally I just think it's "meh".

ESousa responds:

Fair, thanks for the criticism

[Why Tails matters]

This is just a bunch of text.

[Peppino vs Cheese monster gal]

Man I was hoping for Peppino to style on Cheese Monster gal.

[Retep meets Peter]

lazy, uninspired, lazy sprite swap, lazy writing, lazy dialogue; no animation at all.

Edit: You know what, I'll give some useful criticism, no need for my feedback to be lazy as your video afterall.

Writing; rules of 3 for writing when it comes to jokes.

Dialogue should be snappy or match the character, be line, something that's gone with a flow, improv has a flow of "yes and" approach. Slow drawn out Marvel humor of dialogue isn't funny.

Jokes should be act, react; not Marvel style humor where it's very one sided or a joke repeating or having no actual weight.

The color pallets being swapped isn't clever and has been a million times from lazy Sonic OCs to this. Some creative ways you could do the same trope of the "swapped character looks, woah!' is instead give actual physical looks and behaviors.

Uninspired because you didn't do anything new; anything and I mean ANYTHING different than the million times it's been done before. Just some twist on the tropes.

Is that useful enough feedback.

Sonicfan113 responds:

ok, thank you for the criticism. if I make more, I'll try to not do what you complained



by the way, it kinda was. but you didn't need to insult my video in the process. I get it, you don't like it and think it's lazy, no need to say it more times.

[Moushley's Drama]

I love this too much.