GANONFROG'S PROFILE

I have some mixed feelings about the way this screenshot looks. On one hand, I kind of like the odd photo-realistic style the tileset is done in, but on the other, some parts of it look bad in 2-D. For example, I like the bushes, grass, and stone walls, all things that are relatively flat in real life, but the trees look like awkward paper cutouts. I also see some floating pixel noise on the edges of the path.

I also feel like the confused 2-D/realism look is made all the more thrown off by the solid colored, cartoony character sprite.

All and all, I like the idea of it, but my eyes can't quite make sense of what they're looking at.

I started up the game, but I found myself stuck after the first cave dungeon. I got out into a field with a moogle, and couldn't find any clear ways forward.

I did, however, find a hidden transport event under a tree that brought me inside a building, invisible. From there, I was completely stuck.

Somehow I missed that. I'll blame the distracting huge picture.

While, in general, you have a pretty nice looking sprite there, for the fire bird, a couple of issues are standing out to me a little. The main one being the varied directions of it's wing and tail flames. Flames usually flicker in a certain direction, either reacting to the wind, or simply flicking upwards in the absence of any other outside forces. As it is right now, it just looks somewhat rough and zig-zag-y. It also doesn't make much sense for there to be any shadowing on the one side of the twist above the tail. The fire is making it's own light, so it won't be affected by normal shadowing rules.

The composition of it's design, however, is nice. I really like how it's body is formed.