Since Mallet decided to say it's a very cheezy way to make signatures. And is a noob tactic. Since then, it has stuck.
This piece is my favourite from this new style, although its hard to make out that samus is samus. instead of posting the same comment in two places, i'll just criticize them both here. your halo one was sub-par imo, you've set the benchmark too high cause I've seen your potential http://www.forgehub.com/forum/graphics-arts/109691-h-l-o.html << the colours in this one don't work as well as they do in the samus one and it almost seems 'forced', much the same as when kids try to name things and end up with cheesy names, if you get what I mean. everything in the metroid tag seems to work rate well, kudos.
Slightly overly topaz'd. Topaz is better on a much lower scale, just enough to soften the image, at least that's what I think. Also, seeing all of these kinda makes me want to start doing this again. I'm probably completely out of practice.