Thanks a lot for the kind words, I'm glad to see the overall opinion on the new sprites is positive.
I meant to say I tried to keep him slender in the devlog, but i guess it's the muscle memory (pun intended) from drawing a lot of really buff men that fucked me over. The game benefits from having some body type variety, so if I can make a small revision and make Nikos a little more slender (mainly making his forearms and biceps less pronounced) without a ton of effort, I'll give it a shot.
Maybe the new smug sprite should be kept for when Argos is wearing his pelt, and I can go back to the previous one in any other case. Expressions are pretty easy to tweak.