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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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Which ones?
I struggle to see most of the ones people post.
Except for dog-man Gestahl. Dem floppy ears and dog nose.
MrCunningham
Member
Yep...
Quick sketch, but for the longest time, I thought he looked like this:
Like he was wearing some sort of Ninja scuba gear.
This is actually the number six.
In no way affiliated with my avatar....
Pegasus Actual
Member
So.. Shadow's not a black ninja? Way to be retroactively not inclusive Square 
Paper Lion
Neo Member
Yep...
I was sitting here agonizing over still not seeing it. Thanks for the drawing, friend.
Scrooge McDuck
Member
Yep...
This Shadow also has a beer belly.
Jinfash
needs 2 extra inches
Dog-man Gestahl, dot-eyed Lucca, and strangely enough Agahnim as a long haired with bangs covering her eyes.
PumpkinPie
Banned
I was looking through the thread thinking to myself "how stupid can kids get?" and then I saw this...
What.
Always thought that was his hair.
What.
Earthpainting
Member
There's a very neatly hidden subplot about Shadow's past in the game, which shows what he looked like without his get-up. The low fidelity of the sprites does leave stuff to the imagination. Shadow's in-game skin-colour isn't very different from General Leo's and Leo was black. Eventhough the PS1 FMVs and iOS port contradict it, Shadow is still a brother in my heart.So.. Shadow's not a black ninja? Way to be retroactively not inclusive Square
I still can't see it, just a dragon.
I think the only one of these I actually misinterpreted was the angry Metapod, but I knew better by the second gen.
Agent Gibbs
Member
Its obvious some of you are reaching now to make it seem more hilarious some people have terrible perception especially with shadow and his portrait in the menu clearly showing how his face was - what did people think he lifted up his goggles just for the menu?
the more i read the more this is a crazygaf thread
the more i read the more this is a crazygaf thread
BumblebeeCody
Member
Thought the moustache was a mouth until the 3ds remake.
Wait so what did you think it was opening when you entered the Deku Tree?
Hyperactivity
Banned
in the same vein Ruto's real eyes are on the side of her head
OH MY GOD
She somehow became creepier
Always thought that was his hair.
It is
Don't believe anything else
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
This might be stupid but it took me almost 15 ears to realise that Talon and Basil in Ocarina of Time are basically Mario and Luigi.
Large, skinny guy with mustache wearing white/green, smaller rounder guy with mustache wearing blue/red. And they are wearing a Bowser Amulette for Christ's sake.
I only realised that while playing Ocarina of Time 3D
Large, skinny guy with mustache wearing white/green, smaller rounder guy with mustache wearing blue/red. And they are wearing a Bowser Amulette for Christ's sake.
I only realised that while playing Ocarina of Time 3D
E-Cat
Member
As a kid goomba's in SMB always looked like bird heads to me;
I knew there was a reason why I was calling them "owls".
To me it looks like a seahorse giving head to a dinosaur.
I always though the nose was a mouth.
Whoa. It isn't? I had to look really hard to make it out, even after the fact.
Fattony12000
Member
sephiroth7x
Member
I don't blame you. Them 16-bit graphics confused a lot of people back in the day.
I honest to god didn't know that... Always thought it looked weird and it never did... it was just me!!
Sephiroth87
Member
Never had any of the issues mentioned in the thread, however I did have one from FF6 as well.
For whatever reason, my brain registered Emperor Gestahl as a dog-man for the longest time. I saw a snout and big floppy doggy ears. It wasn't a huge stretch to me, since previous FF games had furry peeps before. It wasn't until I saw artwork of him much later that I was able to un-see my initial take.
You are lying, he's a dog
Guilty as charged on both Shadow and Agahnim. I also had one of these with the icon for the orc peon in Warcraft 2... Really weird. Must have been thanks to the perspective and how tiny the right eye is. Basically the left tusk looked like some kind of beak/mouth, and the left ear looked more like a closed eyelid as if he was winking or something.
To me it looks like a seahorse giving head to a dinosaur.
It's a giraffe standing on his hind legs, with his front legs resting on the back of a lady who's bent over at a 90° angle to give him oral pleasure. Her hands are placed on her kneecaps.
Shin Kojima
Banned
Couldn't play Bioshock 2 because of this.
sixteen-bit
Member
Yeah, got my wires crossed
Polioliolio
Member
Just makes no sense in the sprite. If that's just a hat, why does it have tufts of hair falling over the head band all around the head?
Clearly that 3DS shot is retconning or making more clear the original intent for that hat to be a fake head of hair. It's definitely supposed to have looked like hair I'm sure, but was too convincing? You know, like all the cool kids are wearing hats that look like messy white hair. Wait.. I just realized.. The person who made the sprite probably also thought it was supposed to be hair. I mean, look at the 3DS model. That shit is 100 percent hat.. None of the confusing hair details as in the sprite are there anymore.
Davey Cakes
Member
The Agahnim one got me for years, but I always knew where Shadow's eyes were.
Polioliolio
Member
Shadow was easy for me, the one my dumb child brain took forever to process was Owzer.
It's a Mr. Toad, cameo. Right?
Trojita
Rapid Response Threadmaker
I always used to think that Poliwag's little pink mouth was actually its nose, and its stomach-swirl-thing (actually its organs) was its mouth somehow.
Now I don't know how I saw it the other way. I guess the evolutions not having mouths helped.
Oh fuck
This totally isn't true, but I can't unsee it even when looking at the anime version.
You can see it a hat in offical art
Polioliolio
Member
But maybe the person who designed the sprite didn't.
Can you explain the breaks in the headband design that are on all sides of the headband?
I mean, clearly that isn't happening at all in the 3DS version. Like they realized.. 'oh, that wasn't hair?', okay, it's totally a hat now.
If you look closely at the sprite you can see the hair.
i dont think this one
there are anine cutscenes in the game that show his face from head on. did no one watch those? lol
itzknickknac
Member
Lol, that's hilarious.
Speaking of this game, I always thought the AK-47 was a pencil. Like a black color pencil.
Bloodworth
Member
c'mon man, how many of those illustrations had legitimate differences in hair color, accessories, etc? Even in the portraits, you get a sense that Shadow has dark skin, and the headpiece doesn't overshadow his face.
I always thought those were her ears. But yeah, her front face is probably an avatar to show expression, either that or she uses both sets as eyes, with the others for seeing underwater or behind her.in the same vein Ruto's real eyes are on the side of her head
This is actually the number six.
That thing looks like a shrimp giving head to a giraffe.
SEGAvangelist
Member
Mind = Officially Blown
I can't deal with this Shadow stuff...
I can't deal with this Shadow stuff...
backflip10019
Member
Nice try but no.
Xenogears is my favorite game and I still always saw the smiling Grahf. I just assumed it was some super deformed mask or something. It's not like he would have been the only super deformed-type thing in that game so I didn't think much of it.
I mean, look how long Big Joe's chin is!!!
I mean, look how long Big Joe's chin is!!!
CloudyTuba
Member
Today's literally the first time I didn't see it as a derpy guy with a big schnoz.
I tried for a really long time to see the derpy guy you guys are seeing and I just cannot do it. I only see the dragon.
The one I've seen and still does confuse people are pugils in FF11, they appear to have no eyes but they do, just look along their snout, their eyes are right where what looks like nostrils.
Though it doesn't seem to help them much as they detect by sound.
Fuck.
th4tguy
Member
Xenogears is my favorite game and I still always saw the smiling Grahf. I just assumed it was some super deformed mask or something. It's not like he would have been the only super deformed-type thing in that game so I didn't think much of it.
I mean, look how long Big Joe's chin is!!!
Love this game sooo much
Polioliolio
Member
Definitely uses both sets.
People just seem pleasantly weirded out by the concept of a face or eyes being fake.
But they look just as real as Link's and considering she has all those other seemingly functional face parts, we have no reason to believe the eyes are completely artificial.
This is one I always saw as a child. The legs are a side view, so you can see the tip of its left leg. The rest of the left leg is covered by the right leg. [OC]
As I've gotten older,it's becoming harder and harder to see it.
Anyone care to try and explain this better? I've been staring at this picture trying to understand but I just don't get it.
I also had one of these with the icon for the orc peon in Warcraft 2... Really weird. Must have been thanks to the perspective and how tiny the right eye is. Basically the left tusk looked like some kind of beak/mouth, and the left ear looked more like a closed eyelid as if he was winking or something.
To this day, that's still how my brain first interprets it.