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Impact Impact

It's stuff like this that makes for the hardest critiques simply because it doesn't feel right trying to analyze it from a critical standpoint and having just so much to work with. If I like something, I can usually sum it up in one or two sentences and just leaving a comment is enough. If a critique is requested, I can usually elaborate on what I like, and analyze it further to find what sets it off. But with a piece of this sheer magnitude, I'm left clawing for the proper words to describe what I like specifically, and searching for even the slightest blip for me to offer any constructive criticism. My critiques usually take me 20-45 minutes... I've been looking at this for 37 minutes, and I have yet to begin writing about it.Zoomed out, I wasn't quite sure what to make of it. I could definitely tell that it was Equestria, or at least a part of it. The great castle (house? mechanism? thing?) in the center of town caught my attention first, and I honestly didn't know what to make of it. It wasn't until I zoomed in the first time that I could clearly see all the citizens and their stylistic attire. Steampunk... never was a huge fan - BUT this really impressed me. Some of my friends tell me that I just haven't seen steampunk done properly and, if this speaks for the steampunk style, I can see how they were right. The stylistic changes to Ponyville's structure and design go hand in hand with the appropriate details and colors. You can definitely tell that the artist had a vision that said, "Here's Ponyville: and THIS is Ponyville steampunk."When I zoomed in the second time you can really pick apart the characters and clearly see who's who and what's what in the town. Looking closer at some of the characters, part of me thought that they could stand a little more detail, given the immense detail to the rest of the land and buildings. But then I thought, "That's just it, you can't expect to have the clearest sight of the people from a panoramic view of the town, and zooming in can only do so much." Eventually you just have to take the whole sight for what it is worth, and this is worth quite a lot.It's a beautiful and intense representation of one artist's view of an entire town. And even though his stylistic preferences might not be the same as mine, there is definitely a lot of skill and a lot of heart put into this. I can only imagine how much time it took.One of my favorites, I can honestly say. You can bet I will be watching you in the future.Very well done,--Michael