This is a fun game and it's really enjoyable to play. I thought as first this game was too easy. With a bit of caution, brains and good reflexes, it doesn't take an enormous effort to get through this game. But I did go over some of the thingies at the start of the game again and it seems the swinging axes and the lava pits send you back pretty quickly. So good work on producing a very solid package.

Some good things about this:
-The control scheme. Very intuitive. The gravity and jumping was not bad, but there were one or two spots where you could do a double jump off a bump in the wall and clear an enemy.
-Sounds: good music, good voice acting, good sound effects, nice humorous dialogue.
-The level design wasn't too repetitive and it has a very nice classic platformer feel.

Some stuff that could be improved:
-The graphics were usually quite good but there were one or two points (the forest? the buildings?) where the graphics seemed a bit unfitting: dodgy thick lines or unstraight shapes/platforms. But they didn't influence the game's enjoyability of course, it's just that there's always room for improvement.

I did however, like the graphics of all of the characters and the weapon effects.

-The villains: The villains might have been a bit too easy to evade/kill. A lot of them needed only one hit really to kill. This is of course your choice though how hard the in-level enemies are. It does seem fair though with lack of save points after a certain point.

The bosses could've been more challenging.
The panda (was it a panda) in the beginning could be outranged by standing a long way away.
The helicopter boss has a clear spot on the right of the scientology building where you were sure to be safe, and all you had to do once you reached that point was jump straight up and shoot.

There was nice variance in attacks, and I liked the tank boss, but the last two bosses had clear spots where you could just rest and certainly not be hit.

I did however, find, the thingy surrounded by six clones by itself a bit harder. But once again you just had to time in a couple of stabs/super-hand things and then go out of the way.

Maybe a laser that tracks you and makes you move around the screen could make it a bit better. Making the player do more when he can't attack (instead of just sitting) might make it a bit more challenging.

One more thing is that the text for the dialogue seemed to be a bit unfitting or just a bit amateur-ish. Maybe a cool MGS-like display or something could give it a nice touch or even an avatar of the guy talking to you, but that's just me again.

And I really, really liked this. It certainly has areas to improve, but it shows with effort, determination and good planning, you can make a really enjoyable game. I'd take this any day over some flashy graphics with uninteresting gameplay.

Also, I died at the helicopter the first time and then came back to the page five minutes later (I wanted to finish the game) and I didn't get to pick up from my last save point. For future games do you want to program in some cache-data-y thingy?

Very fun.

There are a lot of good things to be said about the final package and I commend you for finishing such a big project. It was very entertaining, but not flawless.

Behind any musical cartoon thing, the music is a large driving factor behind the piece. And whilst the main song is pretty catchy, I think even as a musical, there were way too many musical items. The music should come with purpose after a character is inspired by a scene of dialogue (musicals never make that much sense anyway), but what was in this flash were way too many songs.

I think there are some songs that could have just been dialogue, or there were some parts that just needed a break between songs. The elf himself comments that it's too soon between songs when he comes into the bedroom - it's true. Pacing, pacing, pacing. If you ever write another musical or do continue this project please give the listener's ears a bit of a break between songs: it just really seemed like there were way too many songs than needed. A musical does not mean an entire story filled with music.

The singing certainly improved from the first one but it's still out of tune quite often. I do commend you for having the bravery to post your own voice up because it takes some balls, but because you've got so many musical items one after another, you just have to nail it. There is a youthful innocence in the slightly out singing, but having to endure this for so long makes it more cringeworthy than cute. And I'd imagine this is probably the biggest problem for the people who didn't like this flash.

The songwriting manages to stay relatively fresh throughout, and there's clearly a display of musical prowess in the songs, but once again, there just needs to be more non-musical space for the listener's ears to rest, especially because of the quality of the voice. I think there was probably way too much air time dedicated to singing about spider powers. We get it, yeah.

The script was well written and there were some great gags in there. I loved the Tim Allen/Jason Statham bits. I think length might have prevented me from enjoying it a bit more. I believe it could be refined by a few minutes, and a refined, smooth script makes it a much more enjoyable package.

The animation was quite good. Obviously there is room for improvement on the drawing style: some of it was well drawn, with nice shadowy things, but there were points where there wasn't really a union between the foreground and the background, for example the first scene with the sleigh... the lines on the sleigh felt out of place with the effect-filled background. When the elf and parker were standing on the bed, there were some things with lines, and some things without. It's decent drawing but there's often not a visual blend throughout every scene. But a lot of things were very nicely drawn.

The lip sync was well done, the JPG cut-outs were well done. I was disappointed with the lack of a walk cycle. Every other limb of the body seems to be moving properly so please just animate the feet. Just a little nitpick there.

Overall I was quite entertained and impressed by the work that was put into the package. There's some things that can be done for you to become a better animator and I hope we can see more from you.

I just watched the entire series that is Jerry, HotDiggedyDemon, and I can honestly say it's one of the best series of flash animations on Newgrounds. There are so many things I can praise about this series and the kudos or praise it should get cannot be fit within a 4096 character review.

Every single character in this series is captivating, and the way that you have constructed the narrative which can make us feel for each character within the story is brilliant. Great animation tells a story, and the greatest animation can tell a story without us even realising we're watching a bunch of drawings that someone conceived. Upon watching this flash, I have been put under the illusion that these characters are very real.

Normally I watch out for little nitpicks that I could talk about with the flash. The narrative was so captivating and enthralling that I was no longer looking at an animation, but rather the story you wanted to convey. A story that is far from heartwearming and conveys a sense of social realism, despite the very evident cartoon elements. All of the elements of the flash work together to create a deeply entertaining package.

There is such an amazing interlock between each flash when viewed in order, and through this series you have created a separate universe, a very real universe and a very captivating universe. This ending was well timed. I do not think there is much more to be depicted in this universe.

Every second of this animation is so captivating. Watching this series in order, or even a single episode brings the viewer on an emotional journey, and this is something that flash animation rarely achieves. Because of this i say bravo, bravo, bravo.

I used it in a submission. :D Not my sort of stuff, I thought around the beginning the melody wasn't going anywhere, but then it built up, and the result was a very good song. A very good song that can be used in a soundtrack, well done. :D

Very good, I really like. Maybe you went a bit overboard with trills in some parts.

The only part I wasn't sure about was in the middle, where you stayed on the same chord, but there wasn't enough variety in the melody to make it interesting, I found it just a very little bit dull.

But, overall, a very good job, good work. :)

A very catchy tune, at the start the melody was a bit out of rythym, but the rest was very good. I liked the left hand accompaniment, it was very origina and fitting, but there was no real overall melody, it sounded like a jam.

Oh well, very good effort. :)