myk
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udderdude said:
Actually, it looks embarrasingly amature.
That's subjective (thus not really "actually"). But to me it's just a monster sprite for a game addon, not a design for a professional portfolio, so I'm not anal in that sense.
It's not a slight tweak, it's a poorly done copy-paste job.
Even a "poorly done copy/paste" is a tweak. And we know it's a Baron's body and an old Lost soul (and we can thus think of each as a separate thing), but that skull sprite does make sense as a monster's head, and I don't think it was really necessary to do more than attach it and adjust the pixels a bit. That they made it gray made the modification easier (and still more or less seinsible), though recoloring wouldn't have been hard, and could have improved it.
And KDIZD allready has other new Baron monsters, so it's really just redundant and pointless.
The Hell knight was, if anything, especially considering its silly mechanic sounding death shriek. Perhaps the Hells Fury should have been a bit more powerful, though, it seemed about as tough as a Baron of hell, yet a bit spookier.
Examples of monsters that looked out of place were the chaingun dude, because it was an evident redoing of the original, yet looked like something taken from another game, and the brown machinegun guy, which died like the marine, grabbing its throat. That's bad because that death sequence is meant to give the player a more human and pain sensitive death. Demoniac zombies don't grab their thoats as they die, they grunt insanely and fall. Even if these were less "amateur" that the copy/paste, they fit less smoothly, regardless of any particular artistic merit (which there was).
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06-12-07 00:45 
