They do indeed look better. But shouldn't the hook shot drag people at you instead of the opposite?

cuuuuute

• That's how pretty much every RPG I've seen do it (think Pokemon).
• It's pretty unlikely that you would "accidentally" run into the door
• Less thinking for the player, more playing

Couple reasons why I think you should just be able to walk in:

• That's how pretty much every RPG I've seen do it (think Pokemon).
• It's pretty unlikely that you would "accidentally" run into the door
• Less thinking for the player, more playing

Also those graphics are gorgeous If I may offer a suggestion though, I'd add a space between the first dash and the I in "–Items–" in the menu header. There are two empty pixels between the s and the second dash, and only one between the first dash and the I

Little bug report:

Inventory:
- There's no message telling you whenever you received some stuff (bottles, ticks, pickaxes, ...)

Dialogues:
- Walking one window west there is that house - it got messed up text parts in the dialogue
- the first house in the forest (south, then east) has a bg in dialogue, too

- you should add a "back" bottom, too, if yu accidentally skipped one part of the dialogue

Walking:
- While walking around, enemies spawn. But they also keep spawning while walking against a wall (auto-level by pining down the key works!)
- you should force the player to release all keys before walking again after a battle (auto-level)

- could you probably deactivate this automated walking around / dodging of objects for all interactive stuff like switches? They're hard to target like that...

Fighting in general:
- there's no message telling you that you won, fighting screen just disappears
- Also no message what you got (won a dollar, got some EXP?)
- The LEVEL UP message is shown right above the attack loading bar - should move the text up like 5px...?
- After displaying the LEVEL UP you should add a forced break of at least 1 second... it sometimes isn't even shown if you keep pressing a button after fighting

Fighting the spider Boss:
- after having won there's no message telling you that, its just over...
- ! after having won the screen is not reset to display the forest - you still see the battle screen but see yourself walking around on it O.o (With colission stuff from forest active again). Only fixed when leaving the current screen by blindly trying to find that little forest path at the bottom...
- after having won and left the screen (and everything is back to normal) you can just walk back to the axe and fight again - the spider isn't gone

by the way I love the game