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Not sure what you mean by before? I've compared the one from v1.0 with v0.25 and they're identical, unless there was an older sprite pre-0.25 which I don't know about?tbh it still doesn't look as good as before
I mean sure for photorealistic art it wouldn't necessarily be that bright, but for stylised art, even in non-pixel artstyles it's common for the inside of the mouth to be brighter than reality. Typically it just shows that you're seeing the tongue in its normal position, obscuring the deeper parts of the mouth like the throat. Take Erahunter for example:The inside of the mouth cannot get this much light. If it is this bright, it means there is something covering the mouth cavity that is reflecting light, the tongue. It's pixel art, difference of a few pixels changes things a lot. The artist is too good everywhere else to do this by mistake.

Her tongue isn't up against the roof of her mouth or anything, it's just that most of what you see is tongue because the tongue sits inside the mouth.
Now you could draw it one shade darker, like I've done here:

And maybe that's more what you're after? But I honestly like both this one and Walnusstinte's brighter version. I don't think it's a mistake, I think it's just an artistic choice of brightness / value contrast because it's pixel art.
Yes it's not a single tooth, but it's not the tongue. It's the highlight on the upper row of teeth.The bright pixel below the upper lip definitely isn't a single tooth either, it's the highlight of the rounded tongue.
Typically for most artstyles you don't draw teeth individually, but as a row, and add highlight where the light is going to reflect the most (in this case near Crystal's two front top teeth).