am i crazy or does this look bad
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am i crazy or does this look bad
am i crazy or does this look bad
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like lich looks fine, the background is fine
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but the character sprites leave a lot to be desired
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also that font is horrendous
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maybe it's just that ffrk already has ffvi-style character sprites that remake the old ffi designs, and they look a lot better than this
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and also that this price point is outrageous
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but these new pixel remasters are definitely underwhelming me
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Yeah no the sprites look super weird
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plus despite everyone trashing the previous ports of v and vi, (personally i have no problem with the new sprites, though vi's ui change is bad, and i don't like that they made so many of faris' job outfits more feminine) i'm very skeptical that these ones will be better
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though i guess those got delisted so no one can buy them anymore, just the new ones
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which don't yet have a release date
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: i'm not sure if it's the outlines or what, but also all those angry eyebrows
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I think it’s both. Like I’m not super good at pixel art, but it feels like the outline is really thick and it flattens everything
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The eyebrows def tip it over the line.
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here's fighter and thief from record keeper to compare 
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the generic red mage doesn't have the white hair though, 
and they didn't use the classic monk design, i'm realizing
and they didn't use the classic monk design, i'm realizing
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you don't usually pay a lot of attention to the generic classes in ffrk because you usually use the actual characters from ff games instead
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one noticeable difference in the outlines here is they don't just use them on the outside, it bleeds in to help define some of the...inlines? and shading as well
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i think that's more the issue than thickness, since they look like they'd just be one pixel thick at the resolution those sprites must've been worked on
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i've never been good at pixel art either though, and it's been like twenty years since i've even tried
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though back then most of my goals were in trying to make stuff like 2d final fantasies, and outlines were also one of my weaknesses
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so making something that looks like what i might've made is a red flag
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It's not just you
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It's wild that Square's got this amazing library of games, very beloved, and they've done so many incredibly half-assed ports.
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it just keeps happening
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I picked up the SaGa Frontier remaster recently, only to discover they made a mobile port...
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and i'm still waiting on tactics to get ported to some modern platform other than mobile too
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...and then they ported the mobile port to Steam/Switch.
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And left in the mobile controls.
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so the same thing that happened with vi and chrono trigger, huh
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Yep.
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except it also made it to switch
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Yep!
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the old steam port of v was also a mobile port, but somehow it escaped all the ui struggles that vi and chrono trigger had
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like i was a little surprised how unfucked the ui was
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The fact that it's a pattern that's spanned years is just.
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it's bad
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they should be ashamed
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But they're not as they keep doing it.