I make my own sprites and battlers as well as panorama but i do use the regular sprite for my NPC so far but when my game will be mostly finish i will sure redo everything that is not from my own hand to be able to have a full original game of my own
but yeah for the 10 first rpg it's for sure less a burden to simply use all the great resource available over the web
Keep it up ;)b
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