I know its a gameboy game, but responsive is not how I would describe the controls. I feel like the dodge roll only works about half the time and I end up getting locked into a shooting direction cause there's a delay between firing and when the character can switch directions. Fun though, beat the Demo on the 2nd try.
For sure is subjective and relative to the system. Strafe shooting is really hard to make on a system like this, because the processing speed is very slow. Everything is on a que and has to complete before the next can go. You may notice when shooting (in strafe) once all the bullets are destroyed, the player unlocks.