<seriously neglected smiley. I demand more people use it.
Okay then. Where was I...? Oh yeah:
Now then, I love this.
(who is a guy, Xion, sorry ; 3; Girl heroes are TEH BEST but as it happens, this is a boy)
The lightrays in the wawa look way bright, methinks...unless you make some sort of thing where the water gets lighter near the bottom...! (I mean you've already got the walls & floor lighting up down there...)
And yes, the grass looks much much too messy. Might I suggest losing entirely the darkest green except on the edges (as you had it before) but just maybe adding some patches of grass and plants and flowers in the layer above the hero instead?
This would look sooo awesome with mad parallax scrolling among the trees...
Oh, who said something bad about the HUD, because I meant to state earlier that I completely and utterly disagree. It is wonderful.
The robot is t3h pwnage. Steampunk for the WIN, baby! Though I find the boiler tube[?] very dark and hard to spot. Might look otherwise on a different bg, but on this dark blue one...nyeh.
The face on the dude looks like this: ^_^...You see it? Like that "Oooh, so cute" or "I'm happy" face used in animes. I just find it odd that a hero would run through a big adventure with that look plastered on his face.
...naively serious about this project/concept...
Woohoo, that makes two of us!
Good call on the hue-shifting armors. I think I'll take that route with my "game" too.
edit: (By "woohoo, that makes two of us" I mean I'm naively serious about my own project, not yours.