EGORAPTER IS WRITTEN ALL OVER this...

Very good animation but plenty of room for improvement.

Bumming the palette off of Erin exceptionally helped convey a parody
feeling and was an awesome idea. Very easy to tell the link.

I was impressed by the level you were willing to create the scene,
especially the buzz of the freezers. It really established the setting
well.

ALTHOUGH...

Even for comedic effect, it sorta looked like you half-assed slowpoke,
and I wouldn't recommend drawing things badly to be funny unless
it is very different comparatively to the rest of your animation. This
wasn't.

The text jitter that was going on really fucked up the zooms and the
panning and I hope you find a way to solve it.

Some of the out of focus/bokeh/blurred shots felt awkward, was
this a virtual cam's work or did you blur the layers yourself?
In either case you should work on improving that.

I enjoyed this and will be waiting for more, good job.
-Squidy

Such a beautiful rendition of the audio. Smooth animation, great style, and you even added you own beat as well! Such a score. Maybe next time do a little more lip-sync and inbetweens but otherwise this is set.

3 (and a half 'cuz I'm nice).
But why?

Let's go positive first:
-Looks good
-The game is fluid
-Randomization of levels and pursuit for time warps lead to constantly changing game difficulty and fun
-Simple controls
-Intuitive. If someone doesn't understand the game then they aren't paying attention and if they are, they can improve easily.

Now the negative:
-The game design is very deceitful whether or not it was on purpose.
1. You can't actually go up with your rocket boots at all. This may seem minor but it does have an impact on player control and movement as well as c'mon man they are rocket boots. If the game was only going to be slowing down your character then ditch the rocket boots and have him in a squirrel suit or something.
2. The warning arrows/items show up on and way too close to the bottom! It gives players the false impression that there is space to collect these items and land as well. There have been plenty of times where I wasn't even able to see the balloons/coins by the time I was landing. Coding for the warnings to stop if the balloons are unreachable/it can't spawn a full rack of coins AND/OR the spawns to stop if the balloons are past the ground/it can't spawn an entire rack of coins is necessary to help the player have an intuitive feeling of where the ground is. It is because a lot of playing this game is intuitive that you are doing the players a disservice by having this problem.
-The game rewards player failure/ error.
1. 500 fatalities metal. Metals like these make me feel like games haven't been play tested at all. I got all of the other metals AND boosted deaths for a good 10-15 minutes AND I still don't have this metal. If you are going to reward player failure (which I wouldn't recommend anyways) WHY would you make it unobtainable through normal play? Playing this game to fail isn't fun so don't incentivize players to do so. All of my disappoints.
2. Time jumping even if you are ballooned. This doesn't just doesn't make sense. You are preventing a player who failed to try again and you are rewarding them with extra points. This is especially confusing to those new to the game who haven't quite figured out all the mechanics of the game yet. A few solutions to this include but are not limited to: disabling time warp for ballooned players, allowing ballooned players to regain control after time warp (even though I don't like it, this one makes the most sense for consistency because you are going back in time!), and having a reset/instant death button, not just q to quit to main screen (wouldn't recommend because it interferes with fluidity of the game but it works. ) I sincerely believe this game would be 4+ if you fix(ed) this. Hope that you do.
-No indicator for approaching time warp. This would help player decisions regarding when to slow down and if they want to land.

And finally a few neutral items:
-Not much change in the background (But it does stay true to the title "A Pair Of Rocket Boots In A Clear Blue Sky")
-Instructions in the description (Boooo!)
-Music choice fits whimsical flying mood but wouldn't an option for some intense action music work as well?

Thanks for the game!
-Squid

Music was uninspiring but did have a unique off kilter air about it. Somewhat nice polish to the art but gameplay is pretty off with the spike in difficulty. Fatal game error on level four after dying too fast. Won't respawn me. Nothing really stands out to me but the music, which unfortunately gets very repetitive very fast. Wish I could give you more mate but this is a solid 2.

The part where you broke from the rhythm was honestly my favorite part. As some of the elements of the song became repetitive you pushed the song along to a new path. Loved the progressions in the latter part of the song that you brought back from the beginning.

The only things that really stopped me from giving you a higher score were the seeming lack of crescendo/decrescendo. You have so much change in the song without volume change that it ends up making the sound seem flat. Way too much change to be ambient music but then feels so flat that it doesn't feel dynamic. Maybe that's what you were going for, but relaxed/ ambient songs don't usually have so much change, so fast. It's like a dance song that has ambient elements? I don't even know.

Good song anyways ;]
4/5
-Squidy

Language is meaningless.
Words have no meaning.
Newgrounds reviews don't post.
Humans are deterministic.
And other contradictory things.

I gave this a 4 because your dithering is beautiful.
But what does this have to do with holiday joy?

Fun piece! Would the game be of you actually running?