Winter Zone (Please help)

[Paraemon]

Grid Shading.

Another thing I realised earlier was how content in Sonic 2 was reliant on all four palette lines (excluding Sonic and Tails, and a few other things in relation to the amount of content in the game). While you've attempted to achieve that, I must highlight that each palette line cannot overlap with another for a sprite, and that if you want to use colors from two palette lines, you basically have to dissect the object in question into pieces that can be easily assembled so as to show the difference in color source.

Now, I'm saying this in the nicest possible way, I hope you haven't submitted that version of the sheet.

There's a library of Sonic 2 backgrounds, both the final version and the prototypes, on this page; I ripped them. There is no excuse to not look at them to see how the formulate your own background. Now there's the thing I've come across for the Winter Zone: "Winter Zone, created by Brenda Ross was to recycle graphics from the above desert stage but with a suitable winter palette[6]. Cacti would have been replaced with Christmas trees". A quick scroll up from that paragraph in the link will show you the Dust Hill Zone images.

Inspired by mine as it may be, the snowman is a far cry from the demonstration I posted. It looks like a prototype object for Sonic 1, but before even the earliest graphics we know of for Sonic 1 from all the magazine scans.

To put it simply, the graphic style you've got for the background fit in better with an old house-and-calendar game I played on a school computer in 1994. Sonic 2 has a very distinct style that puts it at odds with its predecessor and successor. Without trying to repeat myself yet again, please just analyse the Sonic 2 graphics, and practice with something so it fits in with that style. I don't want to keep saying it, but until that minimum criterion is met, you're only going to keep posting up a sheet and asking for help. I keep saying what to do, and somehow the end result is in a wholly different direction every time. I'm at a loss on what else I can possibly say at this point.

I want you to do well with this, but please acknowledge that I've helped as much and as far as I can, and at this point all I can do is repeat myself.