Happy PMD day everyone! ^vv^

I obviously wouldn't be working on Monster Mystery if I never played Explorers of Darkness >vv< last year I had no idea this day existed so I totally missed it, but I was reminded about it and so, here you go! ^vv^ Had to post today to give updates on the project anyway!! I decided to draw my team I had when I finally beat Explorers alongside my first team from Monster Mystery :3

I actually don't have a lot of experience with the MD series- the only games I've actually played myself have been the aforementioned PMD Explorers of Darkness and Shiren:Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate on steam lol >vv< I have obviously watched and consumed a lot of PMD-specific stuff from videos and streams to the wiki pages to try and grab inspiration from their more unique and quality-of-life changes. At least, the changes that don't completely destroy the gameplay since I've done my best to make Monster Mystery feel like Explorers >vv< And while PMD Explorers will obviously be my favorite story, I will say that no matter the MD game, from Pokemon or otherwise, Spike Chunsoft seems to always do a phenomenal job of capturing the franchise they're making it for- including their own. I hope I can do that with my stupid little fan project too ^vv^

Ironically this shares a month with the day Monster Mystery had its demo drop- the project was first playable by you all on the 25th of August last year... (*has flashbacks of all the bugs people were coming across*) eughghghgh-- but we've come a long way!
Thanks Mystery Dungeon, and thanks Monster Hunter!- sorry I missed your 20th anniversary, I shoulda made something!! <vv< I still feel guilty about that lol

Anyway, onto the updates with the project- I spent the last two weeks making portraits for a few monsters that Zeocin made sprites for (Basarios, Crystal Basarios, and Cephadrome), and adding the UI to the Burrow scene- so.. you know.. you can open the pause menu! (kinda important lol) Also I implemented the music and ambience effects for the times of day and all that >vv< I think that's all I did? I can't fully remember to be honest ^vv^ Zeo has also been continuing to make awesome soundfont covers to mh music, even referencing games I doubt a lot of you have even heard of, much less played >vv> I am very excited for you to hear it!
Anyway, more updates to come soon, thanks for reading, I know this desc was way too long!!

Have a great weekend everyone! ^vv^/
Link to all my Monster Mystery project's stuffs