I stared at the screen, expecting something to drop down the wall or something. I began to hear the sound of a revving engine. Sarge starts yelling ‘shotgun’ at the nearby wall, confusing both Wash and me. I quickly caught up to Episode 3 Sarge had returned to Valhalla and former ally Washington had him at gunpoint. I was excited I mean Season 7 ended on such a cliffhanger. I immediately jumped to Rooster Teeth’s website and found three episodes were already up. I had just got back home after a long holiday when I remembered that Season 8 had started while I was gone. The comedy was still there, but it was apparent that RvB had become a very different show, and I loved it.Ĭut to the summer of 2010. Then about a year later, I found out there was a Season 6 and jumped straight in… only to be met with a surprisingly more serious tone. When it seemingly ended with Episode 100, I assumed that that was it and promptly stopped paying attention to the Rooster Teeth website. Though I wasn’t a fan of Halo, I loved it purely for how funny it was. I was a fan of RvB since midway through Season 5 after a friend introduced me to it (the same friend who showed me Dead Fantasy). It was around this point he kind of vanished (to me, at least) and I promptly forgot about him, assuming Dead Fantasy would be lost to the winds. I don’t know where Monty had planned to go with the rest of the series considering he introduced plot elements at the end of Episode 3 and there were teasers for future episodes but he had other priorities namely, a job at Namco Bandai where he worked as a Combat Designer/Animator for Afro Samurai. Who would fight who? How would they react to each other’s fighting styles? What would the other fighters be doing at the same time? How would teammates complement each other? How would the environment factor into it? How would the Final Fantasy ladies use their magic? Again, it’s very hard to put into words you have to witness it all for yourself, especially since each episode (yes, he did more than one) had something different about it.Įpisode 1 laid the foundation as to how the fights would work, Episode 2 involved a free-fall battle and ended with a whopping nine combatants, Episode 3 was a simple one-on-one between two of the hardest hitters, Hitomi and Tifa, Episode 4 saw an army of Kasumi’s take on Yuna’s many summons and Episode 5 was just brutal and bloody. With more than two fighters involved, it meant Monty had to get even more in-depth with the details. I’d say it was even better than Haloid the reason for that being how creative it was. There was no plot, no rhyme or reason as to why these two teams were duking it out. But could it be pulled off? Oh yes.ĭespite my lack of knowledge of either franchise, Dead Fantasy was just too exciting and engaging for that to worry me. And then keep adding more.ĭead Fantasy was, again, pretty much fanfic: take the female fighters of Dead or Alive and have them fight some of the female characters from Final Fantasy. But where do you go from a one-on-one fight? Simple. Haloid was awesome that’s pretty much fact. Haloid left its mark and pretty much made Monty’s name on the web, but little did we know he wasn’t done yet. It was just fun too, since the fight ended with the two teaming up to fight the Covenant and a surprise twist that I shan’t spoil in case you haven’t seen it yet. It was insane and my mind was blown on my first viewing. Monty took them at their strongest and just went all out in fact, he made them even more powerful with borderline superhuman feats. ![]() In their respective games, Master Chief and Samus were restricted to what they could do and how they could move. There have probably been several fanfics based on that, but there’s a huge difference between reading about a fight between two bad-ass space warriors and watching it, especially since Monty’s interpretation of this fight could not be put into words. The idea itself is a simple one – Master Chief VS Samus. ![]() I was barely familiar with either Metroid or Halo, but I don’t think I had ever seen anything like it. I can’t quite remember how I first found out about Haloid I think I just stumbled across it during my early days with the Internet. And if you’ve never seen his stuff before, prepare to be surprised. So, I hope you’ll all join me as I reminisce over some of Monty’s past work. I’ve been seeing a lot of tributes to him over the last few days (mostly artwork) so I thought that I should probably do something too. I never met him but it’s clear that he touched a lot of people the fact that even complete strangers on the Internet mourn his passing shows how much of an impact he left on his family, friends, co-workers, fans and anyone who was familiar with his work. His death was sudden and shocking even as I write this, I still find it hard to believe that he’s gone. Earlier this week on February 1 st, infamous online animator Monty Oum tragically passed away.
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