Topic: Simon's Quest Revamped version 1.1

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

I based a few moves off of X68000 and a few off of CV4.
However, the moves are for reference only and no frames were directly copied from other games' frames (though they are quite similar but my Simon is smaller than CV4 Simon and doesn't have the weird walk that Chronicles Simon has).

I'm particularly proud that I did a full spritesheet for Simon.
BTW, MetroidQuest does not use the full spriteset either as his game came out before my sprites were done and he started posting before I started.  In fact, I think the reason I made the spritesheet was because people were complaining to him that using a Red Richter was a cheap cop-out.

Here are all of the frames (from the Spritework thread):

[DarkPrinceAlucard]

but why purple gloves and boots?

Other than that, the Simon Sprite looks pretty great and close to how I would expect Simon to look in a updated Simon's Quest game.

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

Why?  Because of this:

[DarkPrinceAlucard]

Why?  Because of this:

That looks to be more of a shadow being cast on the white boots and gloves rather than actual purple gloves and boots.

Its kinda like what some other members told me about Trevor's sprite clothes in CVSOTN not being green but is instead yellow and only looks green because of the casted shadow on his clothes.
 
Other artwork and ingame sprites show that its white.

[X]

That looks to be more of a shadow being cast on the white boots and gloves rather than actual purple gloves and boots.

I'm with DarkPrinceAlucard on this. Simon's attire (boots/gloves) are indeed white. Everything looks dark or a different color due to variations of light and/or shadow. But the boots and gloves are definitely white as seen in-game and in the art.

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

Again, not making excuses here, but I pitched many colors to MetroidQuest including one with white/grayscale boots.
He chose this.

[DarkPrinceAlucard]

Again, not making excuses here, but I pitched many colors to MetroidQuest including one with white/grayscale boots.
He chose this.

Oh well, just trying to point it that I think it would have been more "authentic" to have him with white boots and gloves rather than purple.

Its not like its a deal breaker for me, I'm just happy to actually be able to play as SIMON rather than a RED RICHTER lol.

Just thought I would point out something I did not get which was the purple gloves and boots.

[Phoenix7786]

How's your play-through going, Dark? I'm so glad Metroid decided to clean up the dialogue, since you actually have a chance to beat the game without the Power, Nintendo Power!

Castlevania I and II In Brief

[TheouAegis]

You don't want white anyway. Historically, Castlevania games steered away from white. It detracts from the game atmosphere. A white sprite would stand out too much. Notice Leon's hair was a dark grey and not a bright grey. Notice Simon and Trevor had orange/yellow legs and booties. Notice the Vampire Killer was cream. Skeletons were blue and pink, as were the silver relics.

[Aridale]

what about cv2? it had straight up white all in it not just on Simon

[DarkPrinceAlucard]

what about cv2? it had straight up white all in it not just on Simon

exactly.

And this game IS based off of CV2 if I remember correctly lol.

You may have had a point if it weren't for that little fact TheouAegis.

White never distracted me in the original CV2.

And the original CVSOTN artwork shows Alucard with a white inner cape which is what a lot of people used when they got the Joeseph cloak ingame.

[Claimh Solais]

I think the reason Jorge's Simon boots/gloves look purple is because it's supposed to be accurate to the original artwork, but the color lighting is what changes it.

Note for example how Richter's white pants have blue-green on them. And in most video games in the 2D era, people wearing black had shades of blue to make up the black.

[DarkPrinceAlucard]

I think the reason Jorge's Simon boots/gloves look purple is because it's supposed to be accurate to the original artwork, but the color lighting is what changes it.

Uhhh, we discussed this earlier,

Its obviously the lighting on the boots and gloves rather than them actually being "purple".

Jorge obviously decided to make them the color they LOOKED which is purple when they are in fact actually white without a question.

[X]

Note for example how Richter's white pants have blue-green on them.

I hate to break it to you but Richter's pants aren't white. They are a light blue color in the art work. But his sprite does make some minute changes in the pallet. Like his garb having gray lining rather then red. And his hair is a dark blue rather then being brown and lastly his arm bracers are dark blue rather then being white wrappings.

[Aridale]

I had few min today before I start programmin to whip this up =D