[gnramires]

This is going to be a very personal opinion, so please don't hear too much into it, and keep doing what you think is best, what you're doing is awesome :)

That said, I absolutely love the pixel art, characters and animation. I think you should leave aside platforming for interactive pixel art rich environments. Kind of like an adventure game but extremely interactive? Say maybe you could pick up flasks and mix potions to do things, and the environment could be reactive as well. I think that would be much more interesting and unique (I'd love to play it anyways :) ).