>>36593298Kinda lost me there pal. I'm glad you're still in the prototyping phase. If you want your hack to be "good" the starter town has to be at least New Bark or Pallet tier with the others being bigger and having unique fun stuff to do.
I don't like having strength boulders right next to water. You usually get Surf and Strength very close together. It's a situation where you have two equally good solutions to the passage problem, when the player usually perceives the goal of the game maker to only create one gate. Maybe other anons are less autistic about it, but for me it just screams "the dev didn't think this through".
You have okay map flow though so I think the right cornet won't be a problem despite the two paths towards the same route. And since you're posting the stuff here you can improve before release, I like that.
I was thinking of making the picture the original New Bark with trainers, but I found a good tileswap by some rando on google. This is exactly what the Tsumugo link I posted teaches you. With simple strategies like dithering you can create very interesting and fresh looking sprites even on limited tech!
