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[Pol's Voice]

ZC-Ninja's is probably the best, but I have a soft spot in my heart for Mystic Quest. Now, pelt the sucker with a Life spell and he'll be down for the count in no time!

[Jonathan]

Anderson333-average,not much to say but not much to hate

Dark Lord Magus-heheh evil is about to strike good from behind

Linkus Mastii-nice shot,originallity wins for me -votes-

Mighty Darknut-looks like pokemon,alot like it,but if you were trying for the look youd have done better with a complete rip from the game

Sylph

Watch out Link! Those Octoroks mean business!

Link HELP save me from the octoroks
the caption is humorous but thats all the shots got goin for it

XdragonSB-a nice shot with good placement

ZC-Ninja-are you sure thats not a drunken angel on the right?hes got a halo and everything.
anyway great shot id have voted for it just out of originality had i not seen your pub tiles before.

[Siguy]

I voted for linkus mastii. It seemed the most calm and organized. Not too chaotic.

[attaxofdoom]

ZC Ninja.....yesss......very excellent, i think it's all been said already, but i agree, the atmosphere is perfect. I like the addition of FF sprites. It lends a feeling of diversity to the pub inhabitants. The clock on the top seems a little akward, though, I agree. Maybe darken it a little, I don't know.

Slyph- I like it. It's balanced, and shows experience. Nothing breathtaking, though.

XdragonSB- Another good shot, in my opinion. I like the way the plants/trees were done and the cliffs.

Linkus Mastii- Again, good, but nothing fantastic. I like how the grass was done, though.

Dark Lord Magus- It certaintly stands out, being the only shot of a dungeon/boss battle. It's detailed and interesting. I hope you didn't just copy it from something...as ZC-Ninja says....

Anderson333- Good shot! Maybe I'm partial to lava scenes, but I thoroughly enjoy this one. The lava lacks prominence, though. In my opinion it should be brighter and more fiery.

Mighty Darknut- Interesting choice of colors, but not necessarily bad. All it lacks is a little detail! I don't know if i like the boxes a lot, but it shows room for improvement, right?

[Zemious]

Dark Lord Magnus and ZC_Ninja are the ones that caught my eye but Final Fantasy wins.

Good job DLM.

[Linkus]

Huh. My pic's darker... It gives me an idea on a new Cset though. With that, I'll see if I can get the set to the real palette that should be shown.
Anyway, yes, the shot definitely needs sprites (in which I have none at the time I released the shot, for that it is a new tileset in progress). More to come soon--maybe an indoor shot, a dungeon shot, and maybe some new sprites. I have to say though, sprite palettes can be tricky--So many enemies use one Cset, along with NPCs, items, actions, and such.

Back to judging-

Anderson333- Nice, but many of the tiles are just old to see nowadays. Nice Gossip Stone, though.

Dark Lord Magus- Eh, Mystic Quest tiles. Not much detail, but an okay setting.

-Me-- Brillant! Fantastic! Et cetera, et cetera... Move along!

Mighty Darknut- Good mountains, flowers, character, and fences, but that's it. However, I hope to see more work into this tileset.

Slyph- to me, this is just one of those shots in Pure. The string, although, brings up funny thoughts.

XDragonSB- Um, what's up with the green eyes in that tree in the back?
Green... And brown. That's all I see except the roof of the house. Nice sprites, though.

ZC-Ninja- Vice versa to what you said to me-- If I lose, I'd rather lose to you, and it looks like it's going in your favor. A lot of activity in this pub--musicians(why is the Edward sprite playing the orciana?), bystanders, customers, employees, people of different types, EVEN a murder! Wow. Now that's one chaotic pub.

[Lemon]

Dark Lord Magus- It certaintly stands out, being the only shot of a dungeon/boss battle. It's detailed and interesting. I hope you didn't just copy it from something...as ZC-Ninja says....

I think you misunderstood what I said.. DLM dident copy the image, but ripped the screen (via la emulator) and used them in the shot as to what my memory tells me in the exact same way that FFMystic Quest has them.

Linkus Mastii- Theres still 5 days left for the poll to turn sides, and quite frankly, it is pretty close

[Linkus]

I hear what you're saying, ZC-Ninja. It'll be close in the end, perhaps.

You know, all those tiles took me only 9 days--4 days of work and 5 days of staring at it to see if it's right(it's an artist thing)

[Anthus]

Anderson333:
It's an alrigt shot, but the SD3 lava clashes with the other GB graphics...

Dark Lord Magus:
Nice shot Strange, that everything looks cool, but the enemy sprite looks a little off. Despite that, I do like it and it looks like an intersting boss battle. Third place from me.

Linkus Mastii:
Nice. I really like the small trees, and the house, but the dirt and big trees aren't doing a whole lot for me...

Mighty Darknut:
I really love those mountain tiles. I think that is your strongest point. But the trees look like paper cut outs next to everything else. I guess I mean the look extra 2D. But this shot gets second place from me

Slyph:
Nice overworld design, but I gotta say it ain't SotW winning material. Mix up the trees a bit. It is still a nice pure shot though

XdragonSB:
Nice shot, but the fact that it was taken in ZC, and the fact that we can't see the shot in action kinda bothers me. It doesn't look like a real shot from a game. It looks more like a test shot of you working on your screen design, which has gotten better. Promo shots, and shots from ZC aren't my thing since we don't know if they are as good as the're cracked up to be...

ZC-Ninja:
This is the winner IMO. It is the most eye pleasing, and detailed. I like the variety of tiles and different characters you have. It really is the pubbiest pub there ever was

[Johan]

I vote ZC-Ninja. I have never seen so much variety in one shot! Great!

Oh yeah. Other shots are nice too. But nowhere near close Ninja's quality.


edit: 100 posts! Finally

Edited by Johan, 08 March 2006 - 11:25 AM.

[IaN]

I voted for Linkus Mastii. It's just great all around shot, I really liked it.

[Dark Lord Magus]

ZC-Ninja Posted Yesterday, 06:11 PM
  QUOTE(attaxofdoom @ Mar 6 2006, 09:06 PM)
Dark Lord Magus- It certaintly stands out, being the only shot of a dungeon/boss battle. It's detailed and interesting. I hope you didn't just copy it from something...as ZC-Ninja says.... 





I think you misunderstood what I said.. DLM dident copy the image, but ripped the screen (via la emulator) and used them in the shot as to what my memory tells me in the exact same way that FFMystic Quest has them.

Honestly, I didn't even RIP the tiles from the game.. I took screenshots and drew them all by hand.. they just look ugly ripped. Then I started by makeing the final boss battle of MQ at the beginning of my game.

FYI, the colors are way off from snes graphics, it uses similar pallet to the ones used in DoR tileset. The eyeballs aren't round enough to be Mystic Quest, Ben doesnt have a shield in MQ, and the "starfield" backround has a heavy ( 3tile) stone, a smaller (2tile) and an even smaller 1 tile and even 1 pixel sprite that all cycles directly down-left diagnal style with no halting and constant repeating.
On top of this, my icy-like ground tiles are way too dark to be mystic quest, as they are much brighter and Zquest pallets are so limited. Another Zquest pallet/color error is Dark King's blue under-robes... in Mystic Quest they are purple.
Take a look for yourself:

[Lemon]

^I was mostly talking about layout, but I am impressed that you went through all the trouble of just looking at them and drawing them... Its been about 5 years since I beat that game, so I was pretty much just remebering that scene (Mainly because I loved the music they played in it)

[Dark Lord Magus]

Yeah, I would've just ripped them if I could've.. But makeing the Screenshots on my high-res windowmode screen made the tiles way way way to large to be ripped or even scaled down to put in Zquest.

But I digress.
I also noticed your shot is very FF-like. I was going to suggest to you before to add the dancer's sprite from FF3/6 and have her spinning around on the stage ( would have added more of a spirited pub theme ) But I failed to mention it

[Mikado]

My vote went to ZCNinja...his bar scene pwns mine. Nice work!