Superjustinbros' Custom/Edited Sprites

[Superjustinbros]

Okay so, the blocks outlined in blue need the contrast raised in the lightest shade, the ones lined in green need the contrast increased in the darkest shade, and the ones in red need the contrast upped in both the lightest and darkest shades. That's all I can see ATM.

Alright. I modified the blocks to make their color schemes not look so eye-grating. Let me know if there's anything else wonky about the sheet.

There's... really not much to say. It's a bunch of rectangles.

There's some contrast issues here and there, namely with the brightest blocks (basically the bright yellow through cyan blocks' colors are all eye-bleedingly bright, so all the shades look pretty much the same, making the shading completely pointless. The arrows at the bottom are okay, but certain angles are super unclear due to how fuzzy they look. I assume you used an automatic rotation thing.

As for the SPECIAL POWER blocks, I really don't know what to say; I can't accurately say how well they get the idea across if I don't know what the basic idea is. I don't know what those arrows are for, I don't know what that gold block with the green/red lights on it is for, I don't know what the red and blue triangle blocks are, etc. I assume the switches are for turning those translucent blocks on and off though, so I guess that's something.

For something that is apparently about otakus, there really isn't much otaku culture in there. I don't see any figurines, or references to Japanese pop culture, or anything really that strikes me as OTAKU. It just looks like Breakout. I mean, I guess you could use the blocks like sprites and make little anime pictures but that'd take a huge number of blocks to look good unless you're just going with
8 bit.
At the end of the day though, it's a game about rectangles. I don't think there's any SUPER IN-DEPTH analysis we can do when the subject matter is so simple.

What I can do, however, is review the Bleachpac sprites. Which I would've reviewed earlier had I noticed you edited your post to ask about.

Okay, first, I have no idea what you're doing with the size. I get it's Pac-man, but cramming that much detail in to such a tiny space is only going to make your sprite look weird. I mean, Ichigo looks like he has an orange afro, not spiky hair. I'd try upping the size if you want to accurately represent the characters.

Secondly, your use of colors is pretty bad. The skin tone and white look almost identical, which makes things like Ichigo's face look pretty bad. On sprites with larger white areas, like Hitsugaia (I don't really follow the series, the white hair guy)'s hair, the difference is a bit more noticeable, but the issue is still there. Some shading could probably help out a lot.

I guess you were trying to do some kind of half-assed 8-bit, without understanding what the actual limitations of the style are. This is only exasperates the messy quality caused by trying to cram so much detail into a small sprite.

To be frank, your food is sprited better than the characters. I mean, the characters are recognizable to people who know about them, but only in the same way that this is recognizable as Sonic the Hedgehog.

There are more issues, but I think these are probably the core ones.

In regards to Otaku-Ball, many of the level's backgrounds (at least, what I have planned) are based around something you'd see in both anime and casual Japanese life. Blocks in certain levels would be arranged to form stereotypes and cliches in Japanese culture (facial expressions being one of these), plus kanji in some instances. The game itself will be designed in 16bit.

I am soon planning on writing down what each special block's functions would be in a text file with pictures so it's easier to tell.

When it comes to Bleach Pac-Man, I don't have any plans on returning to developing the current sheet. However, since you bring up the size and shading, I'll see about making the next incarnation of the sprites be 16bit 32x32 pixel sprites, using the old sheet as skeleton references.