[Kojiro Highwind]

1. Athena/ Megaman style would be good for this.

Only other thing i would suggest is maybe throw in some metroid type mechanics or maybe even throw in some rpg elements and make it metroidvania-ish.

At first i was gonna say lemmie try somme spriting but i seem to drop the ball with the touhoumon project as i kept of forgetting taht i was helping with that X_X.. Most I can probably do is character concepts.