@Meirdent: It looks nice overall, but also completely lifeless, which clashes badly with the upbeat Yoshi's Island music. Speaking of music, the sudden sample shift between the YI grassland theme and KSS' Marshmallow Castle theme is jarring, you might want to change that (maybe use the YI cave music?? I don't know).
The sprites (especially the player's) could use smoother animations; their expressions could be varied a bit more, too (even with the overall mischevious smile motif).
@aj: Ya it looks way better now.
@SRH:
Originally posted by S.R.H.
Can I please not get ignored this time?
Sure:
The lighting on the eyes of the big hill looks really bad, "eye lighting" (I just came up with that name btw) doesn't follow a gradient, it's white pixels, a black space and optional dark-colored pixels (which would represent the iris color or whatever), the locations of the white and dark pixels may vary. Also, since the hills are background elements (and the mushroom stem, for that matter), giving them black outlines is a bad mistake. Gameboy games are great examples of how to use outlines in a
very limited palette space, Kirby is an amazing series so the developers always do their shit the right way,
look at the "background" on Whispy's battle arena, the further back the decorations are, the lighter the outine color is.
The "minimalistic" shading actually looks pretty lame and almost looks like a light occurrence of
p̴̸͠i̢̕l̕͟lo̢w ̶͘͠s̛͘h̢̀̕ąd̡i̧ng͜. Either replace that with anti-aliasing or thicken it by one or two pixels.
The way the dithered lighting on the grass looks on the x-flipped tiles is really bothersome to
me (I'm pretty sure most people don't mind it, but that's one of my pet peeves :V), you could use a different tile or leave it like that, it's not too major. As it's been already pointed out, the lighting on the slope looks shit so you'd better fix that
The "outside" anti-aliasing could use some work, too (brighter (and longer, on some very specific parts) pixels would do the job I guess).
Too lazy to comment on other people's stuff
don't judge me ;_;
E: the spooky scary pillow shading text was orange instead of red...