Being a big Zelda fan myself, I like this a lot.

This is awesome, dude. Would love to see more pixels in this style from you!

 Man, your stuff keeps getting more and more awesome.

I lack the composition step :P I know it's bad, but I mean... I'll mostly sketch it on paper to flesh out my ideas and then pixel with that as a reference.

I agree about Link(the Zelda guy), as I said it was my biggest problem with this. I honestly don't know what to do with him. The intention was to have him completely ignorant of what was lurking behind him, but he's also messing with the lighting. I may pull this from the gallery and head on over to pixelation to flesh that out and then resubmit it.

Good Job !

 Hey dusty :P getting into scenes? :D

That monster is really cool, like the palette especially. But that Zelda guy there ruins the awesome darkish feel to this. The preview looks great,  but this actual picture is ruined by that Zelda...

nice!! 

God damn your style is so good.  But your workflow is strange to me.  Why do you seemingly work in chunks?  How do you know how the composition and the colors will turn out?