How?! He would be looking up instead of forward
Used to think the big red ears on this wererat from FFVI as eyes. The eyes are actually yellow dots just above the mouth.
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Old school sprites that you misinterpreted
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Figured he was just mutated and ugly and red eyes seemed appropriate.
The ticking of my clock is in perfect synq with that gif.WarCraft ||
Played Xenogears last year and I couldn't take Grahf seriously because of this. I knew what he was supposed to look like but my brain just couldn't process this sprite as anything other than a dorky goblin every time he showed up.
*Edit: Grahf from Xenogears.
Always thought Grahf's design is just bad in general. Look at his "neck". He can't even turn his head to the sides lol. Reminds me of Batman 1989.
Thought this was a laundry detergent pod for the longest time:
I still cant unsee the fucking moon with a nose, Im convinced they did this on purpose.
The official anime artwork had it the other way 'round
Which Yellow borrowed
It's hard to tell just how deliberate it was though, or if it was just a mistake on this artist's part. Gen 1 wasn't really set in stone for a while.
I could definitely see that if he always looked that way, but once you get into his walking animation you see his hair flowing behind him.Not white hair, but actually a cowl to protect him from sunlight:
This one still trips me up not gonna lie.
I still cant unsee the fucking moon with a nose, Im convinced they did this on purpose.
We could have a whole thread just for the shitty Red/Blue (sometimes Yellow!) character art.The official anime artwork had it the other way 'round
Which Yellow borrowed
It's hard to tell just how deliberate it was though, or if it was just a mistake on this artist's part. Gen 1 wasn't really set in stone for a while.
Charmeleon's back sprite is probably one of the most infamously bad:
OP
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We could have a whole thread just for the shitty Red/Blue (sometimes Yellow!) character art.
Charmeleon's back sprite is probably one of the most infamously bad:
Lol, I forgot about this one. He's so chunky and cute
When I first saw Shadow in FFVI I thought his headband thing was like a mask he looked through.
OH SHITWHAT I SAW
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yep lol
Still to this day
Grahf is lowkey one of the all-time worst character designs. I had no idea what I was looking at every time his portrait showed up.
*Edit: Grahf from Xenogears.
Whew! Glad to know I wasn't alone. LOL Even knowing what it is today, it still throws me off when I replay it because the colors are so close. :)
These threads don't usually surprise me since I tend to interpret sprites correctly most of the time. But this one got me. The top one is exactly how I always perceived this characterWHAT I SAW
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this is hilarious, and I honestly don't know what the correct interpretation is supposed to be. Is there a proper way to read this?
*Edit: Grahf from Xenogears.
I'm sure it helped that I first watched Star Wars around the same time, but the thought of it being a tower never crossed my mind. Surprised how many interpreted it that other way, though I guess only people who did would be likely to comment.
Holy shit yes, same! I thought they were bulbous huge red eyes.. It was actually the VI mobile port that lets me finally see the enemy art up close and in hi-res.
Used to think the big red ears on this wererat from FFVI as eyes. The eyes are actually yellow dots just above the mouth.
I actually always thought that the upper part of Vile's helmet constituted his full head. Not the T-shape eye visor, which I saw as being part of his chest.
I always thought that Vile's shoulder canon was a weird, beak-like nose.
Also the giant Hammer Koopa or however he's called, I thought his eye was the big white circle at the side of his head
And it took me years to notice that his eyes are the small dots at the front
And it took me years to notice that his eyes are the small dots at the front
Link's "dead" sprite from the GBC Zelda games looks like he suddenly transformed into chibi Doomslayer.
dont you do this to me
Wasn't till I got older that I realised he's wearing a hat.
Link's sprite in Zelda 2.
It's SUPPOSED to be a sword (in his right hand?!), but it looks like he's holding his shield out in front of him.
Someone drew the Zelda 2 sprites as 16-bit sprites to make it more obvious what it's supposed to be:
It's SUPPOSED to be a sword (in his right hand?!), but it looks like he's holding his shield out in front of him.
Someone drew the Zelda 2 sprites as 16-bit sprites to make it more obvious what it's supposed to be:
I think it doesn't have a real face of any kind and can just turn its eyes in both directionsThe official anime artwork had it the other way 'round
Which Yellow borrowed
It's hard to tell just how deliberate it was though, or if it was just a mistake on this artist's part. Gen 1 wasn't really set in stone for a while.
its basically because i would not imagine it not facing the camera at all, i mean, everything on the game is facing camera, why the hell would not? haha
Used to think the big red ears on this wererat from FFVI as eyes. The eyes are actually yellow dots just above the mouth.
Wait
THOSE ARE EARS.
I THOUGHT IT WAS A HAT/CROWN OR SOME WEIRD HEAD-THING ATTACHED.
Oh my god.
To be fair, you really can't blame people for the confusion when the animation of the Omen's destruction looks like this:
True.To be fair, you really can't blame people for the confusion when the animation of the Omen's destruction looks like this:
Plus, at this point you've gotten through Magus' tower, which looks like this.
As well as the floating islands of Zeal.
So of course in my mind I'm like, "Oh another tower, but this one floats. Makes sense".
I had that same experience! Made Vile look like this diminutive little punk compared to X's size
Same. He'll always have a fez hat/crown thing in my mind.
Y'all gotta remember a lot of us were kids looking at these on our shit-ass second hand CRT TVs through RF video (sometimes composite if we were lucky). Our minds filled in the blanks.
This one is destroying me because I can only see half of it. The long head with the butt chin, okay. And then going down to the mouth line, I guess you saw it as the bottom of the nose, which I can't force my brain to do but I can at least see how it might look elevated. But then between the mouth and the chest you have a flesh coloured line. What is that supposed to be? He's missing his bottom lip?WHAT I SAW
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The first X'd out image beside Drake is exactly how I pictured it. I'm glad so many others saw it the same way. Given the verticality of other structures on the world map, I think it's perfectly correct to read it as a tower. Sorry not sorry. Gonna stick to my own impressions on this one. :( lol
The Black Omen from Chrono Trigger looks like some sort of tower, but it's actually a Star Destroyer
This
Never knew that was supposed to be Tawna in Crash 1. Always thought it was a bear.
Mario is holding his suspenders.
For the longest time I thought he was just keeping his arms horizontal and his fists closed as if he was preparing to run
Here's one that I only figured out just now. For the longest time I thought that Kuros' sprite in Wizards & Warriors 2: Ironsword was supposed to have these giant goofy eyeballs bulging out of the helmet, when in fact it's meant to be the visor with the "eyeballs" in fact being a shoddy representation of the bars.. I will never be able to interpret it as anything else no matter how hard I try though.
I blame B.O.B for this.
Oh yeah, this was totally me too.
I blame B.O.B for this.
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For years as a kid I thought it was a female Orc with one eye shut with like a smirk or smile from the horn
Oh yeah, this was totally me too.
There are bound to be some really obvious ones but I can't remember them at the moment... I think I'll say... Legend of Mana for the PS 1. I just thought everything, including the protagonist, was some amorphous fantasy creature. It took me whole decades to see the main character as a human in super baggy clothing with a colossal quiff.
šI also can't help but see this as anything else. What the hell were they even going for?
I love that Square played on this in FFXIV by adding a Gestahl minion.
