I like the style and it's clear you put a lot of effort into this game but the controls make it so hard to play (for me at least). The space bar jumps and attacks at the same time so I had to switch to CRT to attack. The way the character controls is so important in games (more so than having a great level to explore) as if the person playing can't get to grips with the controls they won't want to play for long. Nice idea though and well done on the game, with a few tweaks you have a really nice game here.