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that ice cream looks bad imo, because you know it comes out straight from a hole, and the parson does the circular motion so it can pile up as a spiral. This spiral is not apparent in that ice cream, it looks like a 'solid' thing instead.

I agree there's some room for improvement, although I don't think emphasizing the spiralling shape is necessary. The sprite is a really stylized take on these kind of soft serves. I can definitely see some ways to improve it, which I'll probably do once I am back in the mood for pixeling.

furret's eye gets closer in the idle animation

I missed that

I suggest outiling tiles and objects in the Metroid mockup different from BG black so it can stand out more

The rocks in the background should probably be darker to blend in more, and the tiles themselves could use something to draw them out more but I don't know about the objects, I think they're bright enough to pop out compared to the background. If I had to fix it to pop them out more I might go with a lighter desaturated/low constrast background.

the Kamen riders look neat but the shooting animation looks a little stiff because the dude slides completely in the x-axis, wouldn't it look nicer if you changed his height by 1 pixel?

I'll give that a shot, that's a good suggestion!

the last dude's detail is impressive but maybe the grey shades could have more contrast?

I think the constrast is fine, which shade do you think should be changed?