Real solid from the start !
I had a great time with your game, the chibi characters and weapon designs are so cool, i really digged the sword, but both weapons are cool and their introductions even more so :o
if i really had to nitpick i'd say my main issues were that i didn't really understand at first what i had to do to save the instructor but managed to do so in the end, and the vertically moving enemies were a bit of a pain to deal with before you get the sword, but like i said nitpicks not real big issues.
Now i like my sci - fi and space wizards so i really had a blast, especially with these very Unreal sounding like music tracks.
Congrats, great entry :)