Nicolas, you can do alot better then that revamp, and you know that :p
It's a mistake to just recouler a revamp, and fix around the shading abit.
You could have easily done some edits and play around with his shape abit.
But this revamp is better then most revampers here, I give you that.
I like your apple, it's simple still very nice, much detail.
Might suggest you give it one little highlight for some shine effect, but other then that I like it :)
Keep it up :)
In my revamps, sometimes I just arrange the original parts and wham! A revamp ready to go
but I sometimes do revamps from the original GSC sprite, directly revamping it or revamping it by adding parts and changing the outline
about the apple, expect few sprites about that 8-bit image :P
~thanks
---EDIT na, UPDATE pa (it's an edit, with an update)---
before I submit this Angellean OW for Life of Guardians, I'll post it here :P

Left: original game OW color Right: battle sprite color
---EDIT---
here's the final(maybe) sprite of Falkner...