2 Souls' Tale (An 8-bit Metroidvania Adventure!)[[HELP WANTED]]

[Ton]

Shinryu looks amazing!

[SmithyGCN]

Here's a pre-finalized sprite of Legion:



If you have any constructive criticism, now's the time to give it for this boss monster.

[Ton]

Is is a skull face? If so, some of the features need a bit of refining.

[SmithyGCN]

Okay, I wasn't happy with the way the skull was positioned anyhow, so I took your advice and changed the pose of the skull to get this:



Any better?

[Jaharl]

It looks a lot better because the first one look kinda of blurry.

[Ton]

MUCH better! Please tell me it's gonna cry bodies or something.

[Kelvin]

Am I the only one seeing a partial trollface in the first Legion?

The second one is a definite improvement. The screaming skull makes it look like Legion is in terror or agony, which kinda makes it scarier in a way, sort of like the corrupted innocence one would see in Aria of Sorrow's Legion with the demonic fetus look it took on.

[SmithyGCN]

I actually used that Legion as reference for body positioning. Also, yeah, now that you mention it, it DOES look like it has a troll face.

[Lexou Duck]

i'd recommend using more heavy black areas around the bottom
so that it seems more like a 3D sphere than just a bunch of bodies slabbed on a black disc

(also, you guys keep calling it legion, wasn't it called granfalloon or something ??)

[TomGuycott]

Granfallon was a cheeky English retranslation. In a book by Kurt Vonegaut (I forget how to spell his name) it was a nonsense word that meant something to the effect of a mass of people piling on top of each other.

Every other game called it a Legion.

[Deathbringer]

MUCH better! Please tell me it's gonna cry bodies or something.

I second that but in a more literal sense, having the bodies coming out of the "eye-sockets" like tears.

[Garamonde]

Dear lordy these sprites are sexy

Keep going, don't get discouraged! I love how all this art is coming along.

[SmithyGCN]

Lexou has a point, so I went and made it darker near the bottom.

[Vipershark]

The actual skull portion of it seems pretty... thin.
You might wanna try to widen it to more realistic proportions if you're able to still keep some of the bodies on the sides.

[SmithyGCN]

Well, I would, Vipershark, but the skull isn't exactly human. The pointed cheekbones are kind of an indicator of that.