It is the animations.
Your resting pose is too rigid looking; like the feet are locked together.
The characters walking appear detached from the world, as the walk cycle is not synchronized with the speed at which they slide across the ground.
NPCs do not appear to animate much. How about have them walking while idle?
More animations beyond feet walking would be great. Those wings look like they should flap!
I think animations play a huge role in interaction, as well. There doesn't need to be an "interact" button, but subtle touches with the animation that occur at specific intervals (NPCs waving at you?) could go a long way.
I do really like the idea behind your artwork, and in action you definitely catch the dreamy effect (could be with more graphical bang, but it's completely reasonable), and that music in your video is excellent. Animations look like the one weak point!
My suggestion (though I have definitely not tried this myself), is to come up with a system so you can easily add subtle animations that occur on various conditions, then give yourself a good bit of time just adding movement to liven this up.
Your resting pose is too rigid looking; like the feet are locked together.
The characters walking appear detached from the world, as the walk cycle is not synchronized with the speed at which they slide across the ground.
NPCs do not appear to animate much. How about have them walking while idle?
More animations beyond feet walking would be great. Those wings look like they should flap!
I think animations play a huge role in interaction, as well. There doesn't need to be an "interact" button, but subtle touches with the animation that occur at specific intervals (NPCs waving at you?) could go a long way.
I do really like the idea behind your artwork, and in action you definitely catch the dreamy effect (could be with more graphical bang, but it's completely reasonable), and that music in your video is excellent. Animations look like the one weak point!
My suggestion (though I have definitely not tried this myself), is to come up with a system so you can easily add subtle animations that occur on various conditions, then give yourself a good bit of time just adding movement to liven this up.