User blog comment:Mystic Monkey/Halloween & Backgrounds/@comment-27387232-20161001172513/@comment-679780-20161003025134

I think I know my nostalgia skin issue.

I made both Classic Halloween skin and Modern Halloween Skin. The Classic Halloween skin was of course inspired by the Classic Default skin 20px that Supermorff made, I made all the classic skins back then based on Supermorffs default background. So I designed a Halloween skin that keeps as close in theme of both Sonic and SNN as I can. Instead of being a simple recolour I used for having a werehog version of the classic Sonic icon. The colours I chosen was purple because it can pass off as a Halloween colour while purple can also be regarded as Werehog Sonic's menu colour in Unleashed.. I made the actual icons in that background dark blue to match the werehogs fur colour and instead of a white boarder, I chose the colour gray to give it a more "dark" like vibe, for both Halloween and Werehog. The Halloween skin I made was perfect to represent Sonic himself for Halloween.

The Modern Halloween skin I made for MonoBook... is just modern Sonic icon on a jack-o'-lantern. It just seems rather, I dunno "Halloween cliché-ish". I made it to match the modern SNN background but it just seems more for the sake of Halloween than Sonic.

Now my Modern Christmas background I am satisfied with because like the Classic Christmas background  it's looks like wrapping paper and matches the red boarder we have for Christmas. But still I prefer the classic background because it is an effective and pleasing recolour of the original... which if you think about it is a rare commodity when it comes to recolouring Sonic. Point is effectiveness through simplicity.

I guess thats why I prefer the classic MonoBook skins because while they may look simple, my choices of colours and at times icons have deep meaning to bond the holiday theme withhe Sonic theme.

The very least the modern MoboBook skins would perhaps be better on on Oasis skin for being "modern",