Trying something new-
Sanosuke - Aside from being kind of blurry, there is something else wrong with your screens. It feels like the ground, rocks, and buildings are a flat photo with the other stuff stuck on top. The background elements use one perspective (give or take, the arch looks flat as hell, if hell happened to be located in Utah), the trees use a different one, and the sprite yet another. It is almost like an MC Escher piece.
I understand what you're trying to accomplish, but some of your elements just aren't mixing that well.
Then again, I am the guy who just posted a screen that was roughly 78% empty black with perspective issues of its own...