this is very well crafted, i like the character a lot, and the levels are well paced. There are a couple difficulty spikes, but I found it was pretty fun trying to do trickery in order to speed up ( like blasting a charge shot backwards into a slide, was very satisfying to pull off ) I do think having to aim the gun with the same inputs as moving the character felt a little jank at times. It works in something like metroid but for something this fast paced even basic maneuvers can be pretty hard, which compounds difficulty when later levels ask you to do a lot of charge shot jumps in a row, screwing any of them up guarantees a loss. However pressing R lets you restart quicker, and the dialogue doesn't repeat, so its never a hassle to go again and again. Great job with this game, you should be proud of this one. put this sucker on newgrounds !!