See, GameTrailers recently hyped Dead Fantasy III, a crossover between the women of the Dead or Alive games with the girls from Final Fantasy. Sounds interesting, right? Well, I decided to watch Episode 1 again and see what I remembered was true. It was at that point I realized that Oum is leeching off the popularity of other franchises and lacks a single original bone in his body.

If you've never heard of his work, let me show you Haloid, his first video way back in 2006-07.

A fighting crossover video between Master Chief and Samus Aran. Sounds pretty cool, right? Well, yeah, at the time it was. Despite loads of homages to The Matrix -- which even by this time was already stale like old milk -- it was a competent film to show off his animation talents.

Except he hasn't changed or improved since Haloid. Dead Fantasy does the same crap: Matrix homages and characters acting even LESS than they did in Haloid. At least Haloid had the references to some of the weapons, the Covenant and Zero Suit Samus. Now, I will admit I have little knowledge of both DOA and FF, but I'm pretty sure none of the characters in those games flew up in the air and did silly acrobatic fights and dodges like in an action movie. It would be like me making a crossover featuring Solid Snake and Sam Fisher in the style of a 1970s Kung-Fu movie, complete with crazy editing and film grain.

So, despite my dislike for his videos, I decided to watch Dead Fantasy III to see if he improved years later. Nope, he hasn't. It's the same damn Matrix homages and the same out-of-character concepts done to average animation. Matrix homages? Monty, stuff like that stopped being cool in 2003. It's 2009! Be original, for god's sake!

Now, I must say that this is not written out of jealousy -- I'm not even in the same line of work he's in -- this is written out of anger. Out of rage. This putz is cashing in on multiple properties to make average-quality animation out of existing properties. That's something you do as a college class project, not as a major production. I am just irritated at the fact that even two years later since I last watched this stuff, he hasn't changed and it's still ridiculous as ever.

I cannot be the only one who thinks this. I mean, yeah, that sort of crazy action was cool the first time around, but we've moved on, and he hasn't. I hope that people will eventually snap out of it and realize that there is much, much better quality animation out there.