First of all this is to congratulate all other participant for the contest. Making a balance original phobie is tough and comparing your art to other can be depressing. But what matter is that you did your best without using cheat and that you get feedback on your work.
Give your honest opinion on these following Questions(you can give multiple answer):
For you which had the best design
Is the most original idea(in terms of Ability for instance)
I’ll start, sorry for not including everyone this is my subjective opinions. If your not in there doesn’t mean you don’t have a chance to win the compet
Gato From Jabbowary(response n372) love the Phobie style with the toxic vibe; Letumaris from 1091675088(response 317) and Petunia from Oarzius(response 148) both give out a Dark soul vibe that I’m fond of. And Cauliflower from JillisloveJillislife resp 278
For the most original Idea the title goes for MachinKing and all 3 of his guys my favorit being Spirouette(response 212) although i find them a bit too original for me
Viscosis and gloomstare from Dusk02 both also belong the best design love the art and design. Beautiful hand drawing of MrSandman from Azrael(resp130) Honorable mention of Dark84 with his pixel art(response 355). And also ComedianteXD with Coco(response n53) and B-Husk of Moonicoo(188)
Personally Dusk02 has secured himself a place in the top. Bayest with his Majesthick probably first place and steampunk from creepslime in 2nd.
However those that I’d rather have are balanced phobies quite cheap like Imp of Azrael or Troll from Civalit1 response n39 despite his goofy design his death ability could be fun to use if we consider reducing his cost to 2
This is a really difficult question to answer; so I’m just going to list some designs I liked (I’m going to go off Phobie name because I don’t remember most of the IGNs). Mr. Sandman and Johnny, especially Mr. Sandman, have really cool designs. Sandman I definitely think is a cut above the rest. The ability also matches well, although it’s a weird ability to implement because Freeze already is a thing. All of MachineKing’s Phobies had solid designs, my favourite being Sonny Boy. I also liked Ol’ Mac and Steampunk. I also really liked Zolly (the zombie squirrel), and all of Irig’s Phobies had good designs. As for your Phobies, SoRXaM, I really like Khepri. It has a lovely design, which reminds me of a game I play called Beastieball (about animals playing sports), however, it feels too cute to me to be a Phobie. I also think TicTac has a good design that fits more, but I think its ability is too strong to exist in Phobies. Popeye’s design was alright, and I really liked his mechanics, although I think his stats are too low (compared to Maestro).
Sonny Boy. It has a crazy unique mechanic which I think has a lot of strategic depth. And the concept also stands out a lot.
Dusk02’s Phobies all are very well rendered artistically; outside of that I think the Phobie mechanics are weak, unneeded, or redundant. And they are poorly balanced, especially Gravepound, which is extremely OP.
Sonny Boy.
Sonny Boy.
I think I did a decent job with my Phobies. Although they lack mechanics as wholly unique and extravagant as others; most of them have “new” abilities, but they’re more like variations and combinations of existing effects. I’m very happy with their designs though, especially Squeeker and Cauliflower. On that note, I’m glad to hear that you like her design. I tried my best to be original but keep true to the game’s style at the same time, which can be very difficult!
All in all, I enjoyed competing with you all. I’ve actually competed in a different contest hosted by Ryukzk previously, and that was fun as well, but being a part of an official competition was even more fun. Hopefully I’ll get to do it again!
I think Mr Sandman has a real cool ability actually, Maybe should heal more, because it gaves the player the choice to either heal ur guy in urgent case but not use him for 2 turns or instead unable an enemy phobie like an undead so that he doesn’t benefit from the heal. Further more making him not freeze means that there’s no way to remove it with fire.
Also thank u for u comment on Popeye. I really like the base design I made with a tentacle parasite(or anemone whatever) for mustache, a coral beard, and the pincer. But I really failed the on-card design. Doesn’t suit the art still
Oh yeah you’re right. I didn’t realize you could use it on allies. That is interesting. But the heal is definitely too weak to be worth it though, especially considering how bad Sandman’s stats are. If it was better he could be an interesting Poison counter but he would need much more Health and attack since his ability is a trade-off. So as he is right now he just seems like a really strong freeze phobie (except fire doesn’t affect it). But yeah, his stats are TERRIBLE, like worse than pre-buff Fleshcrawler; so he might end up having similar problems to Rocketman where he can’t really do much after he freezes cauae his stats are so weak. And dw about Popeye, he’ still cool, but I definitely think his strong point is his ability, would be very nice to have in-game.
the on-card design. Doesn’t suit the art still