Okage Shadow King ROUGH (Patreon)

Ah, rough doodles, my old friend.

One of the things I love about actually playing games I demake, especially new ones, is that they're so fresh in mind, I still make mistakes! Haha.

So the rat boss bottom left is the first big main boss you fight and, get this, you can't have Big Bull as a party member at that point. Doh! To be honest part of my mistake of putting Big Bull in there is just because, can we just take a moment to appreciate the design. Has real Oda/One Piece vibes and I am 100% a sucker for party members that are not human. Seriously, need more all monster JRPGs.

Not pictured here is the 20 or so attempts at making a straight forward, top down, JRPG style view of Ari and co. It felt very much like cramming a very unconventional JRPG peg into a standardised JRPG shaped hole. I say straight forward/standard because they are tried and true views and they make a lot more sense on a tile based system. But that's just not Okage, it's odd! It's weird! Hence I went for a more Paper Mario/beat-em-uppy style view!