I like the feel of this peice. Please AA the around the characters, for jaggedness, to also improve reason for black background. KUTGW
I'm with Dex! Even thoug this looks great I think that if you would spend more time on details this would look much better. Would like to see some quality, wich you can produce.
I've seen you do Marios other places, and you always stylize Mario like this. Why never a nose? Why never a stache'? He just looks like a guy with a red hat :/
The spriting is good, but I definitely know you have the skill to do something more interesting!
i like the mario but it could use a bit more shadows.
the brown thing, never remember their names, could use some more detailing and shadowing, for all i understadn here is that it has only 1 eye.
also the fireball could use some better fire.
other than that cool idea.