One of the major charms of pixel art is that it is so poor at being "HD" that it doesn't get to express HD content. For instance, you can't look at Link's face

One of the major charms of pixel art is that it is so poor at being "HD" that it doesn't get to express HD content. For instance, you can't look at Link's face and tell what emotion he's feeling. This is good thing! This makes it easy for the player to imprint their own emotions on the character. He feels what you feel because the only feelings there are your own. But when you dig in with this excruciatingly detailed expressive pixel art style, you lose that charm. You're expressing what HD images already can express, and it feels like you've just made a pixelated HD image.