Even the coloring doesn't remind me that much of Cave Story. The sprites in that game used more saturated colors (plus flat areas with a single shade, minimal AA). Your forms could also use a bit of definition.
Yay i can comment! it seems intermittent.
Yes, i should have specified more explicitly that i was going for the coloring style, not the drawing style.
Though i've studied that too. I'd have to really stuff an image with things for me to consider submitting a drawing in that style. Otherwise it's potential-for-perfectionism is critically low and cannot achieve display velocity :)
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