Battle Images

Oh look, there's more! These are battle scenes and a couple of status screen images. I thought I would add those too. This is not an exciting blurb.

This is Alys and Chaz down in the Academy Basement. Animation wise the attacks aren't half bad for a pirate game like this. I think the slashers looked particularly nice.

Ditto on the swords.

Battle in the Bioplant. The whistler type enemies look good. The back of Gryz's battle sprite annoys me. It looks like he's been rolling naked in mud.

This is one of the enemies unique to this version of the game. I don't know if this snake is original or was ripped from something else. But there were a trio of snake enemies on Phantasy Star 2 that this could be a reference too. If they actually thought that far. The inclusion could just be a random one.

This is Juza. as you can see they just ripped the original sprite, whose palette end up unavoidably corrupted in the process. They didn't bother to fix this. Since he is not all that important I guess it really didn't matter. Poor Juza. Totally outshined by his boss.

Who isn't looking himself lately. Guess that Black Energy infection has really spread. Now he looks like an insectoid alien. Never mind the fact that Dark Force looks like Rudolph the Red Nosed Harbinger of Doom. But other than that he's nicely rendered. So we can kinda let that go. At least Zio has an ok looking palette compared to Juza.

The first Dark Force that you fight aboard Kuran. He actually looks pretty frightening here. Very Nightmarish. Good job Waixing Computer & Technology.

The Xe-A-Thouls from the Air Castle. Just like in the original you cannot get to Lashiec without defeating them. Unfortunately there's no healing tile on the floor beyond them. So if you need to heal you will have to return to the spaceport.

Lashiec. They've given him a weird face. But I guess it's hard to get that undead look here. They get points for trying. At least he looks kind of scary.

Dark Force 3.0 at Soldiers' Temple. I didn't take a screenshot of Darkforce 2.0 due to the game not using the correct sprite. It uses a sprite from the Blauzen line for some bizarre reason. I'm wondering if the proper sprite exists in the data and just wasn't used due to some mistake? Anyway, this one looks pretty good. I's too back Dark Force 2.0 is the black spot on this otherwise nicely done trio.

First phase of the Profound Darkness. It looks pretty good.

Umm... Well... This is phase two. It's like a dragon head? That's what it looks like to me. I think the artist may have misinterpreted the original design a bit. But it's sort of planty and dragony at the same time and I'm not a huge fan of what it ended up looking like. But it could have been worse so I won't complain.

The final form of the Profound Darkness is a bit lackluster. She is missing a large amount of her sprite and instead has this energy field of some kind around her. To be fair the final form is gigantic and might have caused some technical issue. Maybe it wouldn't fit. But it just doesn't look all that good this way. Especially after two monstrous phases. Then we get a lady with some energy surrounding her. But at least she's got a competent palette. It's the wrong color. But at least it's not corrupted. And at least she isn't a Blauzen.

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