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[Beautiful Pico Day]

It's one of the best one-frame things I've seen, b

Sorry dude. 1/5

Well, what's here?

A sentiment, some visuals, some sound.

The sound's cool. Happy vibe and good beats. But maybe having it loop would have worked better for this? But yeah - good sound.

The visuals - well... it's generally drawn fairly well. I'm not too keen on your style of drawing Pico, but like that you've not been afraid to reimagine him a bit. The cactuses and whatnot are well drawn... I like the blurred pico in the distance. Seeing multiple picos on-screen was kinda funny.

The parallax scrolling was well done too.

But really, there's just not enough visually for my eye to feast on.

It does, however, do enough to put forward a sentiment... a sentiment of... 'happy Pico Day'.

Wait, what? Pico Day isn't for a while! That's like saying, 'merry Christmas' as November is just finishing! I honestly don't understand why you submitted this now.

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I kinda enjoyed looking at it for a while, but the sentiment seems odd.

I think you should keep working on it if you want to submit this on April 30th, maybe introduce more elements as time goes on... there's a music video of scenery rushing past a train window, and every time there's a beat or an instrument, a new bridge or whatever comes along (different things for different beats). Maybe you could be inspired by that?

I think it's by Michel Gondry for a Fatboyslim song.

It's one of the best one-frame things I've seen, but it doesn't seem appropriate today.

ShortMonkey responds:

I know what you mean. Thanks for the long review. I don't think I'm gonna make anything more with Pico this year though.

[Korean Love Story]

An innocent romance that kinda made me smile.

You did well to capture the flavour.

I liked the graphics that were kinda precisely drawn shapes, but found them to be sloppy here and there. Specially when the boy is banging on the glass and going into the sunset.

The various scenes you show do indeed give a great flavour to the piece.

The backgrounds - specially the trees - are kinda sloppy. I think it'd have been good if you'd 'built' them of more precise shapes, to complement the look elsewhere.

The story is a tiny bit cheesy, but still got me to smile.

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An innocent romance that kinda made me smile. The messy graphics were at times kinda distracting though.

Kenzu responds:

I was in a huge time pressure. That's why it isn't perfect.

[DeathArena]

fun to watch, though a bit short

The characters may be just blobs, but at least they've got a fair sense of squash and stretch.

The arenas are a bit sloppy, but that's not too terrible. Just something to work on to further improve it.

What I reckon would really help take it to another level and not be too hard is if the commentary was vocalised. If you've got a good voice, shout it all into a mic. Or get someone from the VoiceActingClub to do it, like a proper presenter. That'd be cool.

What made this though, is the idea. It's been done before, but I suppose it's something with serious lasting appeal.

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Anyway, it was fun to watch, though a bit short.

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