Wow, awesome tiling skills. I can't pick where one ends and the other begins

I think I'm just repeating everyone by saying that it looks like a lot of effort, so I won't. Hah! Oh, wait, I just did... Urgh, never mind. *rolls eyes*

I think the image isn't so much of messy, rather it's sort of... busy. There's dithering everywhere. Dithering's a good thing, but personally I think it should be used sparingly, otherwise the image ends up looking difficult to read.

The character design and the background is really good though! Although the character seems to blend into the background a little too much. Perhaps give the character a slightly darker outline for distinguishing? There's a whole lot of blue, and it gets a bit hard to see around the tongue and waist/leg area.

Holy crap, I love your use of colors. Especially that on the mecha, and on the Naruto chibi. ♥

Hi Camus,

I don't think I said that Sapphire's art was "marvellous" in anyway :| I only mentioned how much I really liked it. I know it's definitely not one of the best, seeing as there're other games like Sword of Mana and Metal Slug and whatnot, but Sapphire's simplistic style really appeals to me. While I don't intend to have all of my future pixel art coming out looking that way, I'd like to use it as a starting point, seeing as I haven't even grasped the concept of pixel art, and perhaps once I'm more familiar with the medium I'll develop a style of my own. =P

Still, thank you very much for the in-depth critiques on all the sprites, wow. I really appreciate it. =) Kittal was half-assed XD So I'm not too surprised by your comment.