Arms still short, and I'd add a bit of wobble to it for the falling-down to loop through for longer falls. Simulate wind resistance, that kinda thing!

Like so?

I've also made the tail a bit longer. Does the curl it makes look alright?

I did make the arms longer, but do mind that I try to bring the right arm into the front at an angle, so it looks short since there's no foreshortening.

EDIT:



I've started colouring and figured maybe any of you'd like to see. Adding the outlines I've changed the tail and back arm (and probably some other things). Some things still need to be fixed (front arm mostly)

The cyan leg is because the blue I used before is a colour of the character itself.

I think the new torso is a step back - it now looks like 2 forms on top of each other. The new skin looks nicer to me, but I think the hair looked better with the lighter purple.

Otherwise a few thing I changed (beside the torso):

-Lightened some outlines on the leg plates - I really like what you did with the shoulder armour.
-His left arm was suddenly lit from the other side compared to the rest
-I don't think you should do the light shading inside of the sword - it's rather cramped. The light outline I did is somewhat inconsistent with the rest of the sprite but I do think it looks better.

By the way I don't think you're using the darkest purple in the hair. Is that on purpose? I don't think you'd really need it anywhere.

The only thing I really see as wrong is that the skirt is shaded as if it is a separate form. Mostly though the shading isn't giving me much sense of volume especially with the poncho - the entire shoulder/thorax area appears to be flat? The entire thing might benefit from shading more on par with the head.

I don't necessarily agree that it looks more like cat, but rather that it is a bit ambiguous since the beak (or whatever is there) is covered up. The head shape doesn't indicate much beyond "vaguely animal-like" to me.

The above is the same image in 3 different palettes

Your legs aren't quite following perspective and the back ones hadn't been updated to the broad design. I changed some detail to give you ideas otherwise. When changing the colours you forgot to update the lighter bit on the pelvis-analog.

You should also add some rubble or stuff in the foreground.

The left one is in the palette you use now. The middle is in your old palette (I personally think the brown/dark grey works better than the two greys, but both blend into the background) and the right one is in a different NES palette.

You're already using 5 colours with the grey for the checkered one. The white floor certainly wouldn't work with all the white outlines, but I think blue might.

Your colour choices are curious to me: there is always an unpleasant amount of contrast. The simplest way to fix that is to change the black, but you should also involve the red/blue more.