So Dark

If I tint the screen and use the best nighttime background from QFG1 I get this.

Which would be an unusually dark and scary night methinks. Back to the drawing board. I've also noticed something weird about the original game. The sky is still slightly blue all night long. I looked at some of the palettes in the game database and they have ones with properly black sky, but for some reason they chose to use to use the blueish ones.

This is almost sunset in the original game:

And this is the middle of the night:

Sky still seems rather blue doesn't it?