Those are a slightly better fit, but they still don't match the style of the characters as well as that intro does. The intro used lineart and had a variable level of detail and just looked drawn with some wonkiness here and there just like the characters. These new backgrounds seem to just be photo/3D tracings with the over-perfection and over-detail that comes with that.
Backgrounds need to convey just enough for it to be clear what's happening, and no more than that, so that they don't distract from the foreground. Use that to your advantage. Use the photos/3D as a guide, but draw them by hand, and don't try to get every detail perfect.

It'll take more than just moving the features around, bodies look quite different from above. Imagine if the character had horizontal stripes tattooed on her. They'd just look like horizontal lines from the front. How would those stripes look from above? They wouldn't look like horizontal lines, would they? Clothing, etc gets deformed the same way. This example uses trees, but it should help convey what I mean:

The perspective on the character doesn't match that of your tiles. The tiles have a from above-ish view going on (two different ones even), but the character is viewed from the front. If your overworld has the same tile style as the room you've shown, you should probably remake the sprite to be seen more from above.
Tiny chibi sprites can often get ahead with nonsense perspective just because they're so small and distorted to begin with, but with a large sprite like this, inconsistencies are really obvious.

I agree that the health and energy bars should be horizontal. That is what I had in mind when making my post, I am sorry for not stating it outright.

Also, the +-shaped options worked better since they corresponded to the positions of the buttons on the controller. With them all in a row instead, the player has to think consciously about the buttons.