honestly I think the image is just too flat, I think you should chose a different position to make it look more interesting
maybe somewhat like this? though you're going to have to use your imagination for the japanese part

This is an interesting topic because it's often neglected, even in professional games.

I hate panhandle cameras (where the camera rigidly follows the player with pixel precision) and I also get annoyed by cameras that constantly sweep around to adjust to your direction. The best option in my humble opinion is to just set the camera to (player position * 0.9) or thereabouts.

I'm probably just being dumb but what do you mean by *0.9?

So I've started making  a platformer game! Actually I started like a year ago...
Anyways I wanted to know what everyone thinks would be the best kind of camera for the game? Like cavestory or Metroid.
The game plays with a combat system based on supersmash brothers, but it's one player

Okay I redid an animation using bens sprite as a refference
It sort of seems like he does a windmill with his arms which I'll fix later

I'm not really sure why it does the flashing thing?

Okay this is the character I am attempting to do an animation for:

And here's my attempt at walking/dashing

I really need some pointers, so any help would be appreciated
also I used this for a refference for the position of the legs in the animation:
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