Same here.  The bold diagonal is one of my favorite effects of the piece.

Budew I tried to edit, I really don't want to edit the face more than this, have tried multiple ways but out of all of them this is the best imo, budew's eyes are naturally curved, so it wouldn't look much like budew without it, hopefully this new one is somewhat more readable than before.

Looking at Budew's official art, his mouth is thinner than his eyes, but his eyes in your sprite are already one pixel wide.  The solution to this is to make the mouth a color to give off a more thinner appearance to it.

Anti-aliasing can be used to achieve certain angles and shapes in lines, such as what I did for his left eye here.

btw here's another great thread about selout http://www.wayofthepixel.net/pixelation/index.php?topic=2511.0

Wow.  Excellent thread.  Definitely adding to my favorites for further reference.

I like how it is discovered that selout is actually AA on certain backgrounds.  Instead of calling it selout when it's done poorly, should we just call it bad-AA then?

Your art is amazing, and this game looks beautiful.

My suggestion about the statues is that if they're going to be used as lives indicators, maybe have them be displayed only when you:

- Start the game or a level to show how many lives you currently have.
- Every time you die, which one breaks.
- If you collect an extra life, which then one reforms.

That way they'll still exist as a noticeable part of the game, but only during times where the information is relevant.

I think the character being such a silhouette-esque design makes him stand out, because he looks like a moving shadow in a detailed environment.