The lack of a good environment, stuffty colorset and no anti aliasing really brings it down, It's small, simple and looks a lot like a "I'm bored, let's just throw some stuff together in 10 minutes" kind of project.
I forgot to mention, why is there a dock at a tiny useless island with no house/cave/settlement in sight?
I kind of feel like people are sucking conan's richard just because he made that terrain tutorial.