The dialogue is mostly incomprehensible.

The acting is sub-par to grade-school play quality.

The art lacks variety.

The 'story' goes nowhere.

I clicked it off half way though.

I don't see how this ever got a daily reward or front page, I gave it a 0.

Finally after I don't know how long, this thing finally debutes on NG.

I don't want to be all negative, so I will say that, for the most part, the animation was on par with the better NG submissions of the past. I think if we all knew we would have that much more time we could have made resounding improvements - I know I could have.

The music, for what it is, fits the AFD idiom, but perhaps not the animation. There are points where it clicks with the animation, but those instances are rare and sublimate the music to background noise.

The sound effects are far more rare than I was expecting. Many parts either had no sounds at all, or very few (and they were usually drowned out by the music). I took the time to mix together accompanying sound effects (even creating a few I didn't have) for my series, and I was sad to see that time go to waste.

Graphically is probably where this stands out. The motions are slick, the art is at least decent in all cases, the gore and effects are complimentary, and overall it isn't overdone. Some pieces could have used more polish - which could have been done had they realized the release would come so late.

I suppose it suffered from the downsizing required to fit the flash on NG, but the interactivity was lacking. The main menu looks nice, but is pretty boring without the accompanying music. There's no scene selections, and no nav bar while you're watching.

Upon perusing the reviews, one comment stands out in my mind - the humor. My particular part had no real punchline (except that somehow Snake is breathing fine standing on an atmosphere-less asteroid, falling toward Jupiter) and no planned comic moment. Prime's face floating by at the end used to be funnier before I added AFD5 to the asteroid - it stole the show. Dr Fuji ftw with the bombed eggs, the castle crashers clip is all mabout comic timing, and Rad24's tankman scene is well-placed for a laugh, but few others are intentionally funny. However, The entire concept of AFD is funny, and the irony is prevalent, so there's an echo of humor even without it being directed at you.

As far as style goes, it's an unfair question. Everyone here is imitating someone else's style, so the best you're going to get is a similar style to the original, but not an original style (you might have to read that a few times before it makes sense). I will say that the way in which most of these characters are executed each has its own styling, so that's where the 8 for style comes from.

Overall I'm happy I got an IM out of the blue in the middle of July - or August, whatever - asking if I'd make a part for some AFD series I'd never heard of, seen or given a damn about, really... I got to kill Optimus Prime finally (he is SO overused on NG), and I only killed Snake because it wouldn't have made sense not to - he was airless and falling toward a gas giant... I don't think there's anyone he can CODEC call to get out of that.

Anyway, peace people. I have a lv 56 paladin to level...

There's a fair amount of good talent in this collab, but some of it seems rushed (I know that sounds insane with a 7 month production schedule). There were a lot of clips that didn't seem to make sense with the lyrics, or that seemed to have been tossed in near the end to get it released. There also seemed to be no continuity in the flow of the video because some animators followed the fast pace of the song -- using intense, fast moving imagery -- while others took a more lethargic approach -- a sphynx, and a man sharing lyrics (with poor lip movement animation, no less) for what seemed like an eternity.

Artistically, it's an interesting clash of styles. I know that's really not intentional with a collab like this because when you have all those different contributors you get all kinds of styles, but most of them convey the intended message fairly well.

The sound seems to have a few hiccups in it. I don't think it was lag, but there were a few instances where the sound cuts out or is replaced with white noise for a second -- something I know isn't in the original recording of BYOB. It may be a bum sound file or something minor like that.

My only real problem is all the artists seem to have taken one side of the road with the song's meanings. Nobody explored the duality in the lyrics, that the song could be about either side of a war. When I was looking to join this collab, that was the big issue I had against joining -- and I'm glad I didn't because my clip would never have fit in.

All in all it's fairly well made. I wish there was an authors section to look at rather than a fast credit roll, but I'm curious like that.

As a final note: HELP -Hellraiser- FINISH THE VIOLENT PORNOGRAPHY COLLAB! I wanna see, I wanna see!

In LoD... I wish they did more with that lore...

I think originally this song was much more foreboding and dark. Lots of the music was that way, but this one in particular seemed to resonate the thousands of years Rose spent killing the Moonchild. This version is a bit less dark, but I like it.

Shiny Entertainment could have made this generation of games much more interesting...

As for the song, I don't remember exactly how it went in the game, but this is a catchy incarnation. I think this was the final boss theme, but you kinda made it sound like an 'exploring a cave' song... at least... a cave in the EWJ universe o.O

I like it with the ambiance better, personally. This is essentially just the instrumental part of the song which is nice, but doesn't have the same impact nor tell quite the same story as with the ambiance.

Sometimes I wish i could play piano so I could recreate this king of stuff.