This is a tileset for my game. I'm using a slightly modified NES palette.
I'm mostly unsure about the trees, they are standing out a little too much.

Here's it with the character sprite and HUD

Agreeing with everything above. lose the Sword of Mana blue bouncelight, it makes no sense here, if it were used on all the tiles and the scene were a gloomy forest a la Henk Nieborg then it might work. Right now it doesn't. Honestly though I didn't notice it till Pix3M pointed it out, I was distracted by how tiny they were! Lots of little bonsai trees. Other than the blue lighting they'd looks great if your character were 8x8. though the two light browns in the trunk are too different in saturation and too close in lightness.

Decided to try going full zelda with the tree, and I think it matches the rest of the scenery wonderfuly

I see what you mean. One thing I forgot to mention is that this is supposed to be a forest biome inside an alien space ship. For this reason I was trying to go for smaller vegetation.

But nonetheless, I'll be still experimenting with other designs.

Edited by Ails - 27 March 2013 at 9:23pm

Personally I find it tends to look wierd when trees are overall brighter than the grass around them. My suggestions for you to play around with:

Either make the grass brighter (will get more upbeat feel) or the treetops darker (spookier). If you end up with trees and grass having a similar brightness, play with the hue, make either trees or gress more blueish (more magical) or brownish (grim).
Alternatively, if you want to keep it all green, make trees noticeably darker than the grass. Or combine brightness and hue contrast. You might run into trouble with the two grass shades, if that happens lower the contrast between them.

Maybe that helps, depending on what style you are aiming for.

Other than that, I agree with the others about the trees in the first pic looking to small compared to the character. They don't look like trees that are small, but like sprites with a different scale. If you want to keep small trees because of the space ship setting, the zelda style is the better choice. As was already said, they look more like bushest than trees, but because the shading hints at the leaf size, at least it feels more like it is in the same space.

Well, that's my two cents. Feel free to ignore any or all of them. :)

Thanks for all the suggestions, guys.
I decided to try making all blue instead, fits better with the alien forest theme, green was too bland.

This is a wip of what I'm doing for the trees now (ignore the lame flip in the middle)



Edited by Ails - 31 March 2013 at 6:27pm

I like these trees way better and blue is a good idea tho you might wanna tweak the palette towards the purple a bit or desaturate what you have.

I don't mind the leaf size since naturalistic trees are kinda impossible at this scale unless you're gonna go a route of not drawing any leaves at all. Well, completely omitting the leaves and focusing only on form would probably work.

The blue definitely has a very mysterious look :D