Garl Eye Sprite Bug

[Neco the Sergal]

There's no 'Bug Report section' but I already found it weird how I have to inform the devs that Garl is generally always not missing his eye in his sprite? Left and Right eye either are both present in the overmap or gameplay or just his 'bad eye' constantly swaps from left to right eye like combat flips/mirrors sprites.

Silly for this not to have been noticed by devs.

[Koby]

Originally posted by Neco the Sergal:

There's no 'Bug Report section' but I already found it weird how I have to inform the devs that Garl is generally always not missing his eye in his sprite? Left and Right eye either are both present in the overmap or gameplay or just his 'bad eye' constantly swaps from left to right eye like combat flips/mirrors sprites.

Silly for this not to have been noticed by devs.

It's not a bug. It's simply the typical fashion of sprite-based games. The sprite is just flipped when facing the alternate way rather than redrawn.

[KieranCarden]

It's intentional. There was a lengthy thread here that ended with someone sharing what the devs said when asked about it. As Koby mentioned it's just the nature of sprite-based games as well.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1244090/discussions/0/3827550902580532895/?ctp=3#c3817418065218930930

[Neco the Sergal]

Originally posted by Koby:

Originally posted by Neco the Sergal:

There's no 'Bug Report section' but I already found it weird how I have to inform the devs that Garl is generally always not missing his eye in his sprite? Left and Right eye either are both present in the overmap or gameplay or just his 'bad eye' constantly swaps from left to right eye like combat flips/mirrors sprites.

Silly for this not to have been noticed by devs.

It's not a bug. It's simply the typical fashion of sprite-based games. The sprite is just flipped when facing the alternate way rather than redrawn.

What? No, how you make a sprite is you animate its idle/movement types and map them out in each direction typically. If the sprites were made by hand for left/right/up/down positions, then Left and Right perspectives should differ. I've played tons of RPGMaker games that don't have the same issue.

[Neco the Sergal]

Originally posted by KieranCarden:

It's intentional. There was a lengthy thread here that ended with someone sharing what the devs said when asked about it. As Koby mentioned it's just the nature of sprite-based games as well.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1244090/discussions/0/3827550902580532895/?ctp=3#c3817418065218930930

Well, its true enough that they admit to it. Though I don't see why they'd just go "the visual inconsistency stays cause we're not going to fix it' - or, that due to how they developed the game, they can't and over-used mirroring techniques to try to reduce the workload.

Oh well, guess that's that.