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All this time and I didn't realize where Shadow's eyes were (FF6)
- Thread starter Trojita
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People really are terrible at understanding those sprites, huh? I've always saw Agahnim as intended, and this one with Shadow's eyes is even more absurd to me. Even if you didn't understand the sprite at first, you can see how it's supposed to be in his portrait...
Metapod confusion also doesn't make sense to me.
Metapod confusion also doesn't make sense to me.
Or even the in-game version.
Yeah, come on people. It's right there. His picture is right there on the menu. How could you not know?
Shadow_FFVI
Member
Yeah, seems pretty obvious to me.
Wait, that's supposed to be the PAL cover? My PAL version has the US boxart posted above (German version). Do the covers also vary by country?
I feel the same way about the Agahnim misperception. Everyone apparently thought they were facing the terrifying wizard Andy Capp.
Pyrrhus
Member
Secret of Mana, Watts:
Still don't know...
Yeah, doesn't exactly look like the guy in the screenshot. The thing to remember is that Mana started off as a spin-off of Final Fantasy, so the Watts sprite is based on the style of the dwarves in FFs of the same era. These guys:
So a big horned helmet with eyes shining out from the dark, like a black mage, and a big bushy beard below that.
.... What? WOW. I'd never even imagine such a thing, haha.
Shadows eyes are in a similar place as to where the eyes are on the rest of the cast. He'd have a hella-weird shaped face if the bobbles were up where the pupils of his eyes were suppose to be.
Aghanim also has a very classic anime style "Jeweled circlet" look to him, that fits with a lot of the armor designs of the time. Shadowy eyes are also a common design style for animations of the time. Though I can see this one a bit more, if one isn't familiar with anime styles back then (Reminds me of something from Voltron or Mazinger Z, armor wise.)
This is a pretty interesting window into misinterpretation, though. I'd... never see most of these in such a way. But I guess I'm deeply invested in the art styles from that era, and pixel art, so I just find it shocking, haha.
I've seen this one before, but still, pretty funny.
Shadows eyes are in a similar place as to where the eyes are on the rest of the cast. He'd have a hella-weird shaped face if the bobbles were up where the pupils of his eyes were suppose to be.
Aghanim also has a very classic anime style "Jeweled circlet" look to him, that fits with a lot of the armor designs of the time. Shadowy eyes are also a common design style for animations of the time. Though I can see this one a bit more, if one isn't familiar with anime styles back then (Reminds me of something from Voltron or Mazinger Z, armor wise.)
This is a pretty interesting window into misinterpretation, though. I'd... never see most of these in such a way. But I guess I'm deeply invested in the art styles from that era, and pixel art, so I just find it shocking, haha.
I've seen this one before, but still, pretty funny.
mgs2master2
Banned
Great thread. Mind blown all around
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
Shit, I only played FF6 first last summer and I totally saw the black guy with shades. I guess the portrait was just willful cognitive dissonance. It's cooler when Shadow's black and you read all his lines like he's Shaft.
I don't blame you. Them 16-bit graphics confused a lot of people back in the day.
So some of you guys were seeing a wizard version of Porky?
Alcoholikaust
Member
Did you not play the game? Theres a close up of him in the game-
Barrylocke
Member
I think Shadow confused me at first until I saw his portrait, which makes it pretty obvious.
I kinda get how some people got the Agahnim one wrong, but I personally never did.
As for me, I'll quote (heheh) my biggest sprite mistake.
I kinda get how some people got the Agahnim one wrong, but I personally never did.
As for me, I'll quote (heheh) my biggest sprite mistake.
It wasn't until their were pictures floating of Quote in the Wiiware update of Cave Story that I realized that Quote is not facing the side of the screen, but is actually facing the player at a slight angle.
That green pixel line on the right is not his nose, it's his other antennae, and that blue pixel line on the left is not his ear, it's his right eye (left from our view).
And I think I thought the other antennae on the left was a pony tail thing.
TBH, I've always preferred how I used to see him, his original sprite looks REALLY derpy to me now that I'm looking at it correctly.
DeadlyBunny
Member
Oh man that's hilarious... I can't unsee it now... You've ruined that cover for me forever now.
I mean I saw it as something far more demonic, Evil Dead looking. I saw it as more of a scrawled 2D image with a hollow eye socket and a large chin rather than the more human looking zombie with an eyeball and defined jawline and neck.
Yup, that's the PAL otherwise.
Or even the in-game version.
I feel like this should have cleared up any misconceptions with his sprite immediately. I mean, it's right there.
I can only wish to one day have such a keen sense of pixel awareness.
Pyrrhus
Member
I can't see the "wrong" way. What do people imagine it looks like?
I think people think it is a crescent moon facing away from you?
Aces&Eights
Member
Can't unsee, goddamnit!
Secret of Mana, Watts:
Still don't know...
Hooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooly crap
I'm sorry, it's something you're born with.
I'm just saying that it's funny/weird to me, I didn't know that so many people saw things "the wrong way".
I am always amused by this as I never had a problem with the sprites in question (shadow or agahim) hahaha but I can see why some people think that way
oh 1 more example of misleading faces. The dark shine knight from Seiken Densetsu 3
you can see a menacing blue eyed knight or a happy old knight with a blue mustache
Holy shit I can see both! LOL!
Pyrrhus
Member
You weren't kidding. Seems like more people think Metapod is a fiercely angry yet strangely ineffectual crescent moon with a pharaoh beard than a cocoon.
Shadow was easy for me, the one my dumb child brain took forever to process was Owzer.
So... he looks like a little frog man sitting on a beanbag and wearing a tiny beret or perhaps a fez. Is this wrong?
Wtf. So much learning in this thread.
That picture kind of makes the confusion easier to understand. The "goggles" are still completely incomprehensible as to what it represents, and it also seems to fit perfectly over the uncovered portion. Like he just slid the goggles up off his eyes before having that photo taken.
Vampirolol
Member
I think that maybe that beanbag could look like his arms.
I always saw him the Andy Capp way. That's the thing, even as a kid I knew Ganon had to be the real villain so I never took Agahnim seriously. In that context his goofy appearance fit.
I'm sorry, it's something you're born with.
I'm just saying that it's funny/weird to me, I didn't know that so many people saw things "the wrong way".
Well, let's not forget most of us were 8-10 years old playing on our knees in front of a shitty SD tube TV and never bothered to give it a second glance.
PHOENIXZERO
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Had the manual and later the strategy guide so never had that issue with FFIII/VI.
Blackthorn
"hello?" "this is vagina"
It's both. That's why it's a clever design.
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Jotamide
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blankempathy
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but then whats that dark area under the so called goggles with the two bright blue dots?
Can't unsee!So some of you guys were seeing a wizard version of Porky?
theechrisfox
Member
This thread is just reminding me how different the sprites look compared to Amano's artwork. Some characters are way more different than Shadow even.
