Less visual priority on the cyan-colored bottom of our utopia, perhaps?

I would hate to see a good piece overlook that quirky choice for a focal point, unintended or otherwise.

I am aware of 'dumb' practices like drawing individual tiles instead of drawing a scene over a grid. I have no idea if there are other dumb practices I am not aware of.

It is extremely obvious that this world is made of tiles. That would not be a bad thing if the tile grid is part of the game, but otherwise I don't see much benefit from showing the tile grid. Is the tile grid part of the game, like push block puzzles that snap to a grid? 

Screen size may also be innapropriately large. As far as I have observed, 320x240 with a 16x16 character is already pushing it too large unless our character moves fast or can shoot.

I feel knowing how this (hypothetical?) game works can help give more info to critique with. Game graphics are supposed to compliment the game play.

Intersesting photo reference. It doesn't even fit in one photo. 

I'll save that somewhere in my dropbox for times I wanna try my hand at something with lots of gears.

Looks a lot more solid but don't forget to polish up your pixels. There are a lot of jagged edges especially on the ear and... whatever that tan-colored object is.

Also don't overlook that it's good to have readable sprites - meaning that you can tell what you're looking at. I'm having a bit of difficulty knowing what the tan objects are in the bag. Well, if you can't make it clear what those bagged objects are you can instead have a drawing of our hero in a much bigger view... like a splash screen before the game starts.

Plus I'm kinda intrigued by the eyes pointing at two different directions.