hey !
After countless years browsing pixeljoint, i finnaly post something here.

So here is my first project here:
A dark soul 1 demake, trying to focus on thinking about a slow paced beat em all, sugest game mechanics, but remains illustrative (i want to avoid tiles and sprites, a street fighter kinda look).

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Any feedback would be great, my eyes are bleeding right now...

looks super good.

Looks super awesome fantastic good.

You've surely chosen an awesome project for your first PJ post!
Welcome :D

Yes it is great. Now for the feedback:

The sword looks bad. Why does it have a second cross guard? Also, this kind of shading creates not so pretty banding. More importantly, the pose, how is he supposed to carry his heavy sword in this position? Even if he could hold it up, it is a weak position that is not threatening at all. Rather have it up straight for example.

The GUI bars seems boring. It is annoying how it distracts the eyes from the battlefield with its extreme values, and the bars could perhaps use some more fantasy.

What is the green thing in the bottom right corner going to be?

It is hard to understand the form of the floor. Around the knight sprite it is fine with the subtle texture, but behind him it seems to elevate, and randomly spots are very bright or dark compared to their surroundings.

Speaking of form, some of the skulls are very nice, but the bottom and right one are very flat..
Sword design is really awesome btw! But since the bones do not seem highly reflective the extreme red reflection of the fire seems overdone. On the skulls it works much better!

Well, those are some of my ideas, feel free to use or ignore them :)
Good luck!

My 2 cents I think the scale of your hero to Nito is wrong make the hero smaller it'd make the battle look more epic. The hero makes the cave seem dwarfed, which that arena is anything but. There is another Dark Souls remake on the web which would make for great reference.

Edited by 8 Bit Dreams - 31 January 2015 at 4:28pm