Wow, it's been like a month without any posts here! Let's change that.
"The first piece of the puzzle..."
Perspective is off. Do you see how link looks to be laying on his belly? or how the trees look as if their looking up Or crawling up the wall?
Those wall are meant for top down, while the rest is for top back view.
Actually if you were to remove the trees from the bridge, it would look as if link was climbing a fortress.
Thanks for the feedback. I tried out some different things with the floor on the upper parts of the walls and ended up with this:
I like this. Soft colors and improved perspective
Oh, have I missed DoR!
DoR is nice, but the repetitive dirt tiles need a few variations. Nor am I fan fan of DoR palette