ANYWAY
57: Mario/Bowser vs X/Zero
Pic 1
Why did Zero get pukish yellow-green for his color? Also another thing I don't get is the VS being mirrored as A2. It's a reflection, right? So shouldn't like X and Zero be upside-down or something. I dunno, it bugs me, it was the first thing I noticed.
But I really like the gridish feel, I like the texturing here, I like that it seems almost kinda washed out and blurry, but I don't really like the Bowser picture. It came out too dark, I think. I also like the thin line of separation, which is just another good example of how to split your pics without a bevel!
Overall: 8/10, excuse my whining
Pic 2
Goddamn this pic is a mess. "Imma cram as much as I can into the top pic, but keep the bottom pic relatively simple!" 8 Marios vs 4 Bowsers, huh? Couldn't at least make it 4 on 4? Mario just has so much good art, huh? All that good art that we've seen before. There's no demand to see these pics again. Now the top is a goddamn mess and the bottom is something we could've seen in round 1 but without names and two sprites in an incredibly awkward pose at the bottom. LET US GINGERLY TOUCH OUR TIPS comes to mind. Also, Sigma. ...Because Sigma. And ugly Zero as drawn by the awkward kid in high school.
Goddamn.
Overall: 2.5/10
Pic 3
Bowser looks fine but the other three look kinda blurry. What happened there? Anyway, this is a pretty cool pic. I like the heavy shadows, it makes it pretty stylized; you usually don't see much drop shadow on sprites. I like the multicolored boxes behind the portraits (ALSO BOWER'S PORTRAIT BORDER LOOKS DIFFERENT AND IT BOTHERS ME) and the layout is nice and the pics in the center are dynamic. It looks like there's a spot for names but it was abandoned, which is fine. Also using a white color overlay to fade the middle backgrounds is pretty classic; KP and I used to do that all the time. Good times, man.
Overall: 8/10
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~Zen