Custom RPG Sprites; Critique and Walk Cycle Help!

[Toastfighter]

These are some custom RPG sprites that I made, as the name implies, and they are (hopefully) going to be put into a game a friend and I are trying to create (if we don't lose interest... again.)

Anyway, I put them here to be critiqued and to ask anyone if they could give me advice on walk cycles. Every time I seem to make them they end up looking less like walking motions, and more like the characters identical twin brother who's torso sprouted off from their thigh at birth. Like so:

[Toastfighter]

Did I say something wrong? I'm a bit concerned considering how my post has been viewed 70 times and not once has someone replied.

[Cobalt Blue]

it would help if you actually posted an animation of what you have "tried", rather than a single frame.