The Reaper was one of the most fascinating enemies of the 7th Saga so I went to work tackling this challenge. I wanted to make a good sprite set that would be good enough to be used in a Tales of style battle system. You have an idle (which still looks cool which I think I did rather well), defend, hurt, knocked over (which he looks like a tendrilled beanbag but works for the character), recover, an attack, a unique spell casting (which I could have added the slime inside to wiggle from physics), sinking into the ground, shadow for moving beneath the surface, and then blasting out of the ground.