Been a long time since the last episode! So long I'm starting to doubt if I've seen it, though the name seems familiar... plot doesn't make much sense at first, but in the end the randomness seems like a natural ingredient. Dialog seemed excessive at first, but it is packed with entertainment... "violence the solution to everything" lmao. Though animation comes second, it wasn't as ungraphically gratifying as I thought it'd be.
At the start, after the narrated part, I was expecting narration/voicing for everything, but it seems to be only occasional voicing. I guess it'd be difficult to have voices move the pace of the viewer though. The transition on that dialog box starts to feel a bit too long after a while, repeated after even the shortest remarks as it is, but overall this fun watching err reading. Script's where most entertainment lies after all. Hope the next episode won't be three years off? :P
What happened to the first ten episodes btw? Do they exist? Keep up the good work!
I'm glad to hear that you liked this episode, especially the writing (since a lot of work went into crafting that writing). I'm sorry to hear that some of the dialogue confused you, which was probably due to there being a ton of call backs in this episode to things that happened long ago in the series. If you had forgotten what was going on so far, then it's largely our own fault for being so late this time around.
Thankfully the next episode should be out much sooner than three years from now. Unlike this episode - that had last second preproduction issues out the whazoo, with one person even taking over a year to turn in anything at all - all of the material for the next episode has been done for years, so that won't be a problem here.
The next episode is a very special episode that we've been slowly building up to since sometime after Episode 11's debut, and thus we've had a lot of time to get all of our ducks in a row for this next part. From Crono's stated fear of Zombies back in Episode 12, to Lucca saying she spent all night repairing Gato in Episode 14, to Crono discovering that he had an 11th toe during Episode 19, and even learning that this toe came from a left over Gato part in Episode 21, and finally having Crono forget to pick his sword back up in Episode 23, we've spent a long time setting up the events that lead into something very special happening in Episode 25.
Some might even say that it'll be a "Thriller".
As for Episodes 1-10, they're actually still up on Newgrounds. They were made by a man named Cryokenetic, and are still freely available on his personal Newgrounds account (that said, I may soon be uploading special fully voiced editions of those earlier episodes to my own account). He eventually handed over production of CTU to me beginning with Episode 11, but stayed on for the longest time afterwards as the series' writer. This is why Episodes 11-23 all credit him in some manner.
However, recent Newgrounds rules have changed how you may credit other people that helped with a movie. It used to be that I could list anyone on a movie that I was friends with, now I can only list people if they personally confirm that they helped out on their end. Since Cryokenetic permanently disappeared sometime back in 2010, with Episode 23 being the last thing he wrote before disappearing, it's currently impossible for him to confirm the co-creator credit request that I sent him.
I do hope that Cryokenetic is okay (he's suffered from numerous grim health issues over the years), and that he one day shows up again.
A strange scientific encounter... an invasion of tenctacle-wielding critters from some outer place. :O So random, and entertaining, and Einstein's genius. Keep it going!
An awesome fight, even though there's not much of a challenge in it for Gaara! I like how the scene sweeps into view at the start, and the sound effects/voices, they add a lot. Also, a character combo I probably haven't seen before, nice work!
Now that was awesome! Hilariously hairy, voraciously voiced and talentedly twisted, with an ominous promise after that ackward ending. XD Keep it going!
I wonder how accurately captured this conversation is, inspired by or conveyed in its uncensored entirety? It's a both disturbing and entertaining conversation, but the fact that it's based upon a real bunch of people... some people. O_o Nice work animating it! Style fits the scenario.
Thanks for your comments :) To answer your question it's about 70% accurate. I had listened to about an hour of the real men talking and took notes. I wrote a script off of the notes I had then had the actors improvise off of it a bit to make it feel natural. I have some of the audio for when they went much too off script and I think I'll have to share that at some point...