I see that this is super early, but this sort of game embodies everything about why 2d sprite based games are geting a bad rap right now. Some of the design completely baffles me (like the whole ordeal around sprinting being a power up), the keyboard controls look and feel like you've done it up that way just to be a special snowlake or your trying to emulate the PC version of MGS2, and the art is down right awfull.
The music is pretty 'jammin, but the rest of the game is most certainly not.