The character design look quite a bit like Gyossait to meEDIT: oh, you posted a spriting tutorial made by the guy that made this game, so it's not a coincidence It do seems you put quite a bit of work into this game, pretty promising.
Well hey! At first i saw this and went "you stealing sonava--" but the more I look at this the more I'm just curious to see where you go with this!! there's a TON of awesome detail in this!! I want to see where this goes, and even if you've taken a page from the same place I found Gyossait. Show us something creepy and good!!