Sigh.
A cartoon that is bad to Legendary Frog proportions.
Bland simplistic character design. Characters that are tweened line-tool-drawn symbols that look and move like they are puppets. And some teenagers recording themselves into a microphone.
I mean, the concept is good. But the execution is not. The moment I heard "Smegol Loves Stimpack" I actually cringed. Not only because, up to that point the voice acting had no emotion and effort, but also because it was just a horrible smeagol impression.
Some of the shading on the characters and backrounds was nice. But overall this is yet another average "hey look how original we are its a video game parody please laugh at it" flash.
I wish people would just find better ways of animating characters. Honestly. Putting lots of symbols on a layer and tweening them about looks like crap. It just does. It makes your characters look dead. Legs and arms dont just swing around on hinges.
There's a reason why artists like Andrew Kepple's and Adam Phillip's and Weebl's cartoons look so nice visually. Its because rather than simply building a character out of parts and peices, they actually study the way a person moves and acts and exaggerate it for their animation, which makes it look like the characters are alive.
On another note, I realize humor is relative. But really, if whoever wrote the script cant come up with anything more creative than cliched obvious references to Lord of the Rings, and video games, then he/she is really a lost cause. It IS possible to make a cartoon funny without resorting to referencing things people are familiar with or parodising something people goof all the time. But then, I doubt you care or understand.
Heck, If you even know who Chuck Jones or Genndy Tartakovsky are I'd be mighty surprised. As this flash shows all the signs of someone who hasnt ever seen a cartoon in their life.
And that, is my review. Good day.