Thank you! I definitely have a soft spot for top down action adventures and try to pick a colorful palette that lets me represent everything I want to without just being monochrome. I see people do beautiful things with monochrome palettes but I just don't have the interest in it I guess.
I did everything but the music and sfx, our bgm composer (Sal) was pretty busy and only had time for the two tracks. Originally I was going to have different biomes be different screens, and they actually commented a few days before the end that they wished they could do more themes for each biome.
I'm glad you like the pirate, she was tricky to sprite, I'm still getting used to character art haha.