So I tried lightening the colors a little
I also am using link to the past for a lot of references, so I have placed some versions against two different link to the past backgrounds
The sprites are in the order:
Previous post (no color change), Some lighter colors, some lighter colors with a lighter outline (based off of link)
and the second row is just link from the game
Personally I don't think the original is too bad with the background, but I also think the lighter version looks better in general
So do you think that I should go lighter?
also now that I'm seeing him next to link he seems too tall, but by himself doesn't seem too bad