(ignore the first one, that one's just a year old sprite for comparison)

Now because it's the cool and hip thing to do, I decided to go on with colour reduction, because it's cool and hip; and personally I like the one with reduced colours, however then there are people who go "why make the sprite worse by applying a colour limit that's not even there?"

and it all got me very confused because neither really feels worse than the other;

some comments on if the colour reduction really did harm to the sprite would be nice, thanks.