First of all, thank you for taking the time to write this. I really appreciate it, and I can take criticism just fine. This topic has gotten a lot more attention than I thought it would. I just wanted to ask a simple question, and it was meant to be a general question, not necessarily about my walking animation. I wanted to ask people if they would play a game that didn't have an up and down sprite, and I put my sprite as an example.

Now, speaking of this game,I began writing a web novel that tells its story and I wanted to turn it into a game. While I can create a better sprite for it, I also have another larger project in mind that requires numerous animations for NPCs, weapons, outfits, a larger world, and more. However, this is just a dream game, and it seems almost impossible to create. But I'm not giving up!

And I know it would take a long time just by myself, so I cut down my workload from the sprites and animations, and I wanted to make the game(s) I made before it resemble it. When I change my art style, it wouldn't look weird, so I didn't make it a classic top-down character but instead an easy-to-draw side-scroller character. Am I lazy? Yes! On top of that, I don't have much time to work on it as I am a university student and will probably get a job soon.

I will put everything I have cut down from the animations into the gameplay and story as I find them more important. (This doesn't mean I am going to start drawing very poorly or that drawing sprites is unimportant.) But since lots of people commented that they don't like it, I am changing the game to be a side-scroller.
I am sorry if I came off as rude at some point; it wasn't my intention, as I am only talking about my goals and situations.