EZ games

There was a movie called Choose Or Die. LOL
The guy jumps way too high. Try to increase his jumped height or make the level wider. The characters are 16 bit and the level is 8 bit, that looks weird.

I'm pretty uncomfortable with the controls, you move around with A and D but you jump with Space Bar. That's not the problem sure, I can just have my right hand press Space, but the problem is that you're required to use the mouse to shoot lmao
other than that, nice designs and great music

update: this would be my personal preference. You can have the player jump with W instead and shoot with any keys for the right hand ex: K, L, P,... Also the Quit option at the start is tbh quite unnecessary

While the game has some promise and talent, it just doesn't go out well. First, there's no instructions on how to fight the enemies, which makes it hell to play the 2nd stage. Speaking of, it's way too easy, yet still complicated to go to stage 2, as the pitfall at the beginning has ample clearance to just press left and auto-win. However, the hitboxes are unforgiving when you're on a ledge, as they make it unable to jump off of the ledge.

As stated before, the game needs a bit of work. You've made it thus far, so use these little tidbits to further development. In the meantime, you can post on the Programming forums, in case you have no idea what you're doing.