Kattlarv's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Jade vs Liun Kang Fatalit]

Was kind of okay, a little bland, and usual overproprotion but animation detail was good, and overall smooth and the like. It did have rather slow pacing as a whole however..

[ZTV News Short: Halloween]

You know, stuff coming around, it's been a while since this... but with recent stuff I came to think of this agian. And the fact that, for "her" goal, she's quite failing as they only include half the population of the world, so it wouldn't exactly count per se xP

And yeah, yeah, I know zone has a generally one sided content aim, bar from that ½ flash they made. But, just saying. Felt it was a little bland in that regard. Still rather interesting as a whole though. Plus, started to break some norms as said, which is a nice sign. But why knows, maybe they'll get around to the other side of the population some day. Know they could prolly never pull off reversed generic contents due to their fans, but eh. Just getting anything at all would be a nice change.

[ZTV News Episode 5]

Lets see how this episode fared then... actually had a long conversation today whether or not this was a decent series as a whole or no xP Was quite uncertain if zone tan ruined it or not xD Anyhow, that aside, lets give this a look. Been marginally impressive before, but usually at least had one amusing part when it wasn't too busy being full of itself. (get that some find that hilarious, but personally not a fan of the "snarky, self-righteous deal" nor the over the top or "I make the rules" gist, just too drawn out. Could at least conclude it wasn't entirely mary sue, so that's a plus. Trailing off here xP)

Hum... somehow Dave sounds different than before. Ah well, was ages since I watched anyhow. Dunno why I just noticed her eyeballs are a a movie clip. And do have to say zone tan's expressions during she read Tylers generally fit expression generally fit mine when I watch these xP

The art section was quite random, but somewhat amusing. A bit drawn out here and there, but all and all quite neat... didn't quite get the whole "le gasp" expression and act from zone tan. Felt just odd tbh... doesn't seem like her to flip-flop... even if zone tends to do that every now and then with flashes. Generally manage to be innovative and/or interesting though. But yeah, even if she technically doesn't have too much personality, that whole part still felt odd. And huh... odd, didn't expect to hear a sound pitch. That's a first. (for this show)

And hum... generally have above average hopes for zone content, (which is more than I can say for most) since despite being more or less the peak "base" for porn animations, it doesn't go half assed, solely one sided or too generic. (which for some reason seems like a aspiration to strive for many...) The latest couple of ones I've glanced at have been just... "meh". Especially that... dunno what it was from even, but those "tribal" tentacles. Know Zone isn't known for bothering too much with getting something barely IC or logical, but that was just too flat... like, didn't even make sense in porn context... ah well, but that's indirect to this.

But still, generally they manage to have some neat "thing" in them :P So yeah, it was watch-able. No segment was overly a bother, and it all and all worked out as a whole. Still, gotta say I'm a bit worried over the bioshock one though... ah well. Zone is still one of the animators that's surprised me the most content wise. And heck, they even was the first that began doing less monotone flashes, out of no-where to what I know. Using less cardboard was a huge step imo, so that they got a ton of respect for in my eyes.

[Pool Boy]

As a whole rather amusing, could've gone with a few more lingating indications, but guessing as a whole, the more generic porn norm+stereotype was used for the classic effect of well, people recognizing them heh. But yeah, all and all it was funny, a bit cliche, but not too much.

[The Leperchaun]

Overall rather amusing, and quite well made.
Though, was a little disssapoint there was no "Lepper Khan" :P

[ZTV News Episode 3]

Eh, these are decent imo. And they got some funny jokes. But as said on youtube, I don't entierly see the point of them. Certain parts feel dragged out and whatnot, and others seem pointless to include. Though, I guess it is a kinda "needed" thing to have something like this with how popular twitters, tumblrs and whatnot are currently. They've at least not become worse since they started... technically... or at least not from what I recall. There's always kind of a few things that vary in them.

Anyhow, as said. They're decent, they work. And I guess people into the content, type of jokes or what have you really like these, which is good, since if it manage to entertain people, it has fulfilled part of it's purpose :P In overall, I've honestly never been able to place Zone anywhere. You've had the terrible porn with awful sound effects and noises whom I wonder why the fuck they invented them. You got the average to good porn games that just kinda slide past or gets forgotten. Then some just odd/strange ones that can really vary in quality. Then there's the "regular" generic stuff that just pops up every now and then , not as bad as the "porn" (or whatever to call it) but it kinda just "is there". Then there's the rare stuff that is actually good, usually around 1-5 of these per year, these are the ones that get noticed and remember for at least a year. Then we lastly got "Zone"... it's quite hard to nail down, since it kinda slithers around. It doesn't do overly much in voice wise, but it doesn't have bad voices, most of them are actually even rather good (along with some bad), which as said, tends to be really rare for adult animation. Most seem to take after "irl" porn in the sense of constantly screaming like they're having orgasms all the time or making stupid comments and what have you.
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Prolly a bad idea to write a review at 05:55 in the morning, but eh. Likely won't be noticed anyhow with the tl:dr rule hehe. But anyhow, same goes for style. It looks "flashy", but still something is "off/different"... and zone is not alone with tentacles, yet they do it differently, and ofc, there's a lot of semi-first person stuff. But even that manages to be different to an extent. The sound effects could be questioned, but as said, they could be a lot worse, some even are good. And I know how hard it is to get decent freaking sound for porn. I still kinda wonder whom decided ejaculation has a sound... among other things. But yeah, Zone is Zone, it's imo it's own category. Might be partially since it'd been around for ages and is "done" in a certain style. Though, I will still admit to being flabbergasted over that they did a couple of "female focused" things. Such as having the girls in the flashes starting to get to orgasm as well. Along with that one long flash. Was a few things about it I was a bit "eh" about, but I know it's aimed at guys, so can't say much about that. But still, did not expect that at all. So yeah, they've managed to surprise me multiple times, which almost have been solely unique for Zone when it comes to porn animation. Both with content, type and genre... or whatever these things are called. They've always managed to make something new, even if just with a twist to something technically old. And they change content despite staying within the topic. And again, the fact it¨s too late shows up in my failing for the correct words xD

*Ahem* Anyhow. Do know this ain't a negative review or anything like that, I am just honestly curious and perplexed to see where Zone will be going in the nearest years. And while I wouldn't expect Zone to act on it, I wouldn't be surprised if they acknowledged that females actually also are interested in porn. (the already established male base is easier to target. But they seem to know at least, something overlooked/ignored by many.) In either case; curious to see what's next.
All and all, it is decent stuff as said. It could however do without a couple of the things in it imo. But that might be just what some of the fans like, so I dunno. They are the priority over all.