Thanks for playing. As for the controllers, it was mostly designed for d-pads and keyboard and not for analog sticks at all, that is why "up" is jump as i felt it a lot easier to control when using the keyboard and did not realize it was really bad on the analog stick.
Oh right. I didn't had any issues playing it like that but maybe I'm simply more used to this control scheme (which is inherited from Rush'n Attack, the game it is based of). But I will consider other control schemes in the future. Thanks for the feedback.