i'd suggest moving on to your next piece as this one has served its purpose. The latest version very much feels like a summarization of what has been shown and thats cool, but starting something fresh is a better way to judge yourself what you could get out this discussion here. And most importantly, work on something for you to like, not for the others

thanks pypebros and zez, two great pieces of advice 
i suppose my brother is probably aware of a few ways of bypassing dimesional restrictions, it just wasn't much of a priority in getting the test-playable build done yet. I think i remember one main character sheet taking up 17 odd mb at its current maxed out (and almost used up) size. So we'd have to check and see how much graphics card memory is used in a relatively loaded level and after some first dabbling in post-processing thingamabobs without neglecting weaker platforms like netbooks all too much.

Jumpiness will have to stay until we change something about the max sprite sheet size, same goes for the arm synch, that would double the framecount.

Not in the mood for words much, here's a more circular version of the bounce:



And here's three sillies I made yesterday in an attempt to think of a proper way of doing it eventually:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBUv_cMeK6Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRFzSgkcfCA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwpJqwaW3CI

Stratto: I'm afraid I'll have to disappear first for a while to be able to answer that as soon as we have adequate material to properly give an impression

Ok, here goes. Three versions, one that stays true to the color scheme, a personal palette and an 7+1-color version to demonstrate that you can make the style work without gimmicky shading:



And yes, obviously it is a pretty remote departure from what the original feels like, setting priorities in the visuals that you might not care about, chrispy.

Cheers, hope this helps in some way