Something does seem off about the walking animation, though to me it doesn't really seem like he's walking backwards. His legs don't seem like they really have enough grip or push I guess. It doesn't really have any character or bounce to it either, though it's probably best to keep it at a fairly normal walk anyway given the tone of the game. I was trying to do the walking animation from a somewhat diagonal perspective, as it seems most games never do their side-facing animations from an exactly straight angle, but I might have gotten the perspective mixed up a bit.

Another thing that might be affecting the way I see it is that the way the animation is coded in the game, the body seems to be pushed backwards instead of the legs extending forward. I don't know, it's kind of hard to figure out exactly what's wrong with it.

I don't quite understand what you mean. Can you elaborate?

He was posting your image in normal scale. If you mean the "Head rotation in walk cycles is a sin" comment, that's just his signature. It's just a brief message people choose to put after all their posts. He didn't say anything to you aside from posting the image.

You need to choose your colors more carefully on your character. The grey blends in with the light green slightly so it is hard to make out the outline of the grey piece. The dark green cape blends with the dark grey legs so much that you can't see the design of the feet at all without looking very closely into it. The light grey on the gun is too similar to the grey of the (armor? I can't really tell what that light grey part is). Make sure that it's easy to tell what each part is from the distance they are going to be playing the game at, especially when you're making the character they're going to be playing for the whole game.

Hope your game turns out well.

I've got a title for it now...


Though "Shot" is a pretty lame name.
I tried a bit more fancy stuff with the shading this time, not just sticking to a couple of colors. The guy shooting I've messed around with to work a bit better, but the fundamental movements are still the same (which I think were flawed to begin with, so I'm going to need to find a way to do it better). Anyway, I might make a background too, but seeing as I'm not making this for a game, it kind of leaves me without a purpose making all this stuff. It's fun, anyway, and I might learn some more stuff about pixel art while making it.