I completely agree, I love Minish Caps tiles too (And along with that's it's my favourite Zelda game) However I just dislike that path, I'm not sure why.
That was just me loving Zelda Minish Cap tiles. One thing that I feel fits into a Pokemon game. But yeah, that was perhaps temporary, it's just hard to find a path that fits any theme I wanted (and oddly, Nintendo and Capcom seemed to predict that I would need a fitting tile)
Perfect. You're new tile replacements are really nice, and I see exactly what you mean by B/W esque.
One thing though, I'd change the piece in the middle of the path here; http://www.pokecommunity.com/picture...ictureid=64056