Loved the concept!
The speed of the combat is awesome, i love the megaman style. I like how you have to dodge very quickly to survive.
I think having a more noticeable queue when enemies are going to shoot would help. The brown dust flying by covered up the particle effect of them charging up. I couldn't figure out how to get to the upgrades menu or how to get my heat up. Overall I really liked it, brought me back to playing on my gameboy advanced.